Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Guest lecture or Invited talk
Description
Why do some athletes play by the rules and others break them without feeling remorse? Why do some athletes choose to compete clean, while others use prohibited substances to enhance their performance, thereby taking an unfair advantage over their opponents? How can we promote prosocial behaviour and reduce antisocial behaviour and the likelihood of doping in sport? These are some of the questions I will try to answer in this talk. Specifically, I will present research on social and psychological factors that facilitate or inhibit athletes’ moral behaviour, which is behaviour that can have positive or negative consequences for others’ rights and psychological and physical well-being. As well as discussing research that has examined psycho-social predictors of prosocial and antisocial behaviour and doping likelihood, I will present work on the development and evaluation of two evidence-based interventions aimed to prevent doping in sport in British and Greek athletes.