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Julia Schüler is a professor for Sport Psychology at the Department of Sport Science at the University of Konstanz since 2016. Since 2022 she is a member of the Centre for Human | Society. She earned the Diploma on psychology in 1999 at the University of Wuppertal. In 2003 she received a doctorate with a thesis on motivation psychology, in 2011 she habilitated and obtained the venia legendi for psychology at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). She is a member of the permanent examination board for Sports Science and equal opportunity officer at her university. Her research focuses on self-regulatory processes for predicting athletic performance and physical activity. To this end, she uses a multi-method approach that includes the measurement of psychological (motivation, cognition, emotion) and physiological (cardiovascular, brain functions) subsystems and their interactions. Individual differences in the need for autonomy (self-determination theory), in motives and gender-specific differences are also taken into account.

Research-related publications

• Haufler A., Ditzen, B., & Schüler, J. (2022). Social Support as a Stress Buffer or Stress Amplifier and the Moderating Role of Implicit Motives: Protocol for a Randomized Study. JMIR Res Protoc., 11(8):e39509. doi:10.2196/39509.
• Schüler, J., Wegner, M., Assländer, L., Haufler, A., Krauss, K., Lang, M., Somhegyi. J., & Baumann, N. (2021). Moved to action? Gender differences in perceived effort and motor performance after video-based achievement motive arousal. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 57, 102046. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2021.102046
• Wolff, W., Bieleke, M., Stähler, J., & Schüler, J. (2020). Too Bored for Sports? Adaptive and non-adaptive latent personality profiles for exercise behavior. Psychology of Sport and Exercise. https://doi.org/10.31236/osf.io/tjw89
• Stadler, K.-M., Wolff, W., & Schüler, J. (2020). On your mark, get set, self-control, go: A differentiated view on the cortical hemodynamics of self-control during sprint start. Brain Sciences, 10, 494. doi:10.3390/brainsci10080494
• Schüler, J., & Wolff, W. (2020). What brings out the best and worst of people with a strong explicit achievement motive? The role of (lack of) achievement incentives for performance in an endurance task. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:932. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00932
• Schüler, J., Zimanyi, Z., & Wegner, M. (2019). Paved, graveled, and stony paths to high performance: Theoretical considerations on self-control demands of achievement goals based on implicit and explicit motives. Performance Enhancement & Health, 7, 100146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peh.2019.100146
• Schüler, J., Baumann, N., Chasiotis, A., Bender, M., & Baum, I. (2018). Implicit motives and basic psychological needs. Journal of Personality7,(3), 1-19. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12431
• Wolff, W., Bieleke, M., Hirsch, A., Wienbruch, C., Gollwitzer, P. M., & Schüler, J. (2018). Increase in prefrontal cortex oxygenation during static muscular endurance performance is modulated by self-regulation strategies. Scientific Reports, 8: 15756, doi:10.1038/s41598-018-34009-2
• Schüler, J., Sheldon, K. M., Prentice, M., & Halusic, M. (2015). Do some people need autonomy more than others? Implicit motive dispositions towards autonomy moderate the effects of felt autonomy on well-being. Journal of Personality, 84(1), 5-20. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12133
• Sheldon, K. M. & Schüler, J. (2011). Wanting, Having, and Needing: Integrating Motive Disposition Theory and Self-Determination Theory. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101(5), 1106 – 1123. doi: 10.1037/a0024952