56th Annual Conference of the asp in Berlin

Entitled "Diversity of methods: liveliness in theory and practice", the 56th Annual Conference of the German Society for Sport Psychology (May 9-11, 2024) was held in the German capital Berlin at the BSP Business & Law School (asp-tagung.de – ASP TagungExternal link).

The staff members of the Department for the Psychology of Human Movement and Sport were successfully represented with three talks in different symposia and a poster in the poster session (speakers or presenters are printed in bold).

• Talk: The impact of auditory information on spatial, temporal and spatiotemporal precision in tennis shot anticipation (Florian Müller, Ran Zheng, Rouwen Cañal-Bruland)
• Talk: Does fast, intuitive decision-making in sport depend on individual working memory capacity? (Oliver Seidel-Marzi, Rouwen Cañal-Bruland)
• Talk: Can motor performance of teams of two be predicted by their personality? The role of dyadic motive fit in a joint-action task (Norman Hüttner, Florian Müller, Rouwen Cañal-Bruland)
• Poster: The decoding of decision-making processes at a single trial level (Henrietta Weinberg, Florian Müller, Rouwen Cañal-Bruland)

Prior to the main conference, the asp young researchers' conference was held at the HMU Health and Medical University in Potsdam from 7 to 8 May 2024 (Nachwuchstagung (Wissenschaft) – asp-tagung.deExternal link). As part of this event, Henrietta Weinberg and Norman Hüttner presented the progress and results of their doctoral projects. During the discussion and beyond, they received diverse and helpful feedback from other doctoral students and experienced mentors from the field of sports psychology.

We send a big "Thank you" to the organising team of the BSP Business & Law School Berlin for planning and executing the asp-conference 2024 in Berlin.