Andrew Manley

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University

Objective: To assess the extent to which the title and font of participant information sheets (PISs) can influence pregnant women's and trainee midwives' perceptions of an antenatal intervention. Methods: Pregnant women (n=35) and trainee midwives (n=36) were randomly presented with one of four PISs where the title and font of the PIS had been m...

Background: Recent literature suggests that active video games (AVGs) may offer potential psychological benefits during the rehabilitation of musculoskeletal injuries and their corresponding deficiencies. Objectives: To review existing literature regarding the potential psychological benefits of AVGs within the context of rehabilitation from muscul...

The present study examined the impact of reputation information on athletes' behavioral responses to coaches within a naturalistic, field-based setting. Using a between-group design, male soccer players (n = 35) were assigned to one of three experimental conditions (i.e., experienced reputation, inexperienced reputation, no reputation) prior to tak...

The aim of this study was to examine the informational cues that students perceive to be influential when developing initial impressions and expectancies of a lecturer. Undergraduate university students (n = 452) were required to rate the extent to which 30 informational cues (e.g. gender, qualifications) influence their initial perceptions of a le...

The present studies explored the effect of reputational biases on judgments made of coach competence and the visual search patterns adopted by individuals when generating initial impressions and expectations of a target. In study 1, participants (n = 326) observed footage of two coaches prior to making competence judgments of them. All participants...

Objectives This study aimed to address voids in academic literature by exploring the consequences of performance expectations from the perspective of a retired athlete. Methodology An instrumental case study was used to capture the experiences of a retired female athlete who had been exposed to performance expectations throughout her career. Six c...

Evidence shows inactivity and obesity are a substantial global burden, economically and physiologically. Sedentary screen time strongly contributes to this burden. Sedentary screen time is often achieved through video game play. Active video games (AVGs) tried to solve the screen time problem. AVGs work, having small to moderate positive effects on...

Within sporting environments, it is inevitable that sports personnel (e.g., athletes, coaches, and officials) will continually find themselves developing expectations of others with whom they interact. With this in mind, the current study aimed to investigate how the informational cues of experience and the qualification pathway may affect both ath...

In order to make a good first impression, lecturers’ need to understand how students draw conclusions about what they can or do expect based on their initial impressions. While these first impressions are not unchangeable, creating a good first impression can be highly influential to the development of effective student-lecturer relationships. Thus...

Objective To examine the impact of acute classroom movement break (CMB) and physically active learning (PAL) interventions on physical activity (PA), cognition, academic performance and classroom behaviour. Design Systematic review. Data sources PubMed, EBSCO, Academic Search Complete, Education Resources Information Center, PsycINFO, SPORTDiscus...

The purpose of this study was to understand how performance expectations conveyed within print and digital media manifest and how these expectations are reported at specific time points (i.e., before, during, and after a major sporting event). A total of 9,236 media reports were analysed using inductive content analysis, each of which made referenc...

The purpose of this case study was to explore Postgraduate Sport and Exercise Psychology students’ and their lecturer’s experiences of PBL, and, its role in developing their employability skills. A focus group was conducted with four students (Mage = 22.75 years, SD = 0.96 years; n female = 2) and a conversational interview was conducted with the l...

Introduction: Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT) helicopters fly at altitudes of 3000 m in Afghanistan (9843 ft). Civilian hospitals and disaster-relief surgical teams may have to operate at such altitudes or even higher. Mild hypoxia has been seen to affect the performance of novel tasks at flight levels as low as 5000 ft. Aeromedical teams f...

An increase in the number of students entering higher education has intensified the need for targeted strategies to support a wider range of student requirements. Current research suggests that emotional intelligence (EI) may be associated with academic success, progression and retention in university students but the use of EI screening as a prosp...

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Unsurprisingly obese adolescents – who are likely to be inactive-often report deficits in an important facet of executive functioning, inhibition control. Acute bouts of exercise, in normal weight children, improve executive function (Hillman et al., 2009) To optimise the value of intervention programmes for obese young people, planners need to und...

The aim of this study was to examine the informational cues that male and female students perceive to be influential when developing initial impressions and expectancies of a lecturer. University students (n�752) rated the extent to which 30 informational cues influence their initial perceptions of a lecturer. Following exploratory factor analysis...

The primary aim of this study was to investigate elite rugby league players’ attitudes towards sport psychology consulting. A secondary aim was to understand the extent to which these attitudes might impact on the utilisation of psychological services in elite rugby league. A purposive sample of elite rugby league players (N=8) participated in a se...

Nelson (2002) proposed that ageism occurs as a result of the negative perceptions individuals have of older adults. This study examined whether information about an older person's exercise habits would influence such perceptions. Participants (N = 1,230) from 3 age categories (16-25, 26-55, and 56+ yr) read a description of a 65-year-old man or wom...

The aim of the present study was to examine the efficacy of Active Video Games (AVGs) in creating an effective learning experience for undergraduate students. Students enrolled on a Level 5 (i.e. Year 2) sport psychology module (N=74) participated in four practical seminars demonstrating the impact of four psychological factors (e.g. anxiety) on sp...

This study aimed to investigate the impact of coach reputation and gender on athletes' expectancies of coaching competency. Male and female athletes (n = 304) viewed a coach profile (i.e., photograph and brief description of the target coach) before being asked to rate their expectancies of the coach's competency. Gender and reputation (i.e., succe...

The aim of this study was to examine the impact of coach physical characteristics (build and clothing) on the impressions formed of them by male and female athletes and non-athletes. A total of ninety seven participants viewed four photographs that depicted different combinations of build and clothing (lean build and sport clothing, lean build and...

We examined the influence of order effects on assessments of sporting ability. Club-standard ultimate frisbee players (n = 240) viewed footage of a target player performing a series of ultimate frisbee skills. Participants viewed either a declining (successful to unsuccessful) pattern of performance or an ascending (unsuccessful to successful) patt...

The study aimed to identify the sources of information that athletes perceive as influential during their initial evaluation of coaching ability. University athletes (N = 538) were asked to indicate the influence of 31 informational cues (e.g., gender, body language or gestures, reputation) on the initial impression formed of a coach. Following exp...

This study examined whether information about an older person's exercise habits influences the impressions formed of them by others. British participants (N = 360) from three age categories (16-25 years old, 26-55 years old, and 56+ years old) were asked to read a description of a 65-year-old man or woman described as either an exerciser, a nonexer...