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Christopher Ring is a researcher affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their research spans across the fields of medicine and psychology, with notable focus on applied psychology, social psychology, orthopedics and sports medicine, sociology and political science, and complementary and alternative medicine.

The topics covered in their work include behavioral health and interventions, cardiovascular and exercise physiology, doping in sports, heart rate variability and autonomic control, motivation and self-concept in sports, sports performance and training, and hormonal and reproductive studies.

Christopher Ring has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Psychology of Sport and Exercise
  • Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
  • Psychophysiology
  • Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
  • Journal of Sports Sciences

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Christopher Ring include:

  • Measuring interoception: The phase adjustment task, 2021, Biological Psychology
  • A Moral Intervention Reduces Doping Likelihood in British and Greek Athletes: Evidence From a Cluster Randomized Control Trial, 2020, Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
  • Concurrent brain endurance training improves endurance exercise performance, 2020, Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
  • Cognitive tasks elicit mental fatigue and impair subsequent physical task endurance: Effects of task duration and type, 2022, Psychophysiology
  • Brain Endurance Training Improves Physical, Cognitive, and Multitasking Performance in Professional Football Players, 2022, International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance

Frequent collaborators in Christopher Ring's research include:

  • Maria Kavussanu
  • Philip Hurst
  • Neil Dallaway
  • Jesús Díaz-García
  • Tomás García-Calvo

Best Publications

  • Mortality and quality of life 12 months after myocardial infarction: effects of depression and anxiety.

    Lane D;Carroll D;Ring C;Beevers Dg

  • Towards a psychophysics of interoceptive processes: the measurement of heartbeat detection

    Jasper Brener;Christopher Ring

  • Stress and secretory immunity

    Jos A Bosch;Christopher Ring;Eco J C de Geus;Enno C I Veerman

  • The prevalence and persistence of depression and anxiety following myocardial infarction.

    Deirdre Lane;Douglas Carroll;Christopher Ring;D. Gareth Beevers

  • Effects of heartbeat feedback on beliefs about heart rate and heartbeat counting: a cautionary tale about interoceptive awareness.

    Christopher Ring;Jasper Brener;Kelley Knapp;Jennifer Mailloux

  • Preparation for action.

    Jean Requin;Jasper Brener;Christopher Ring

  • Blood pressure reactions to stress and the prediction of future blood pressure: effects of sex, age, and socioeconomic position.

    Douglas Carroll;Christopher Ring;Kate Hunt;Graeme Ford

  • Heartbeat counting is unrelated to heartbeat detection: A comparison of methods to quantify interoception

    Christopher Ring;Jasper Brener

  • Predictors of attendance at cardiac rehabilitation after myocardial infarction

    Deirdre Lane;Douglas Carroll;Christopher Ring;D.Gareth Beevers

  • Effects of depression and anxiety on mortality and quality-of-life 4 months after myocardial infarction

    Deirdre Lane;Douglas Carroll;Christopher Ring;D.Gareth Beevers

  • Quiet eye training expedites motor learning and aids performance under heightened anxiety: The roles of response programming and external attention

    Lee J. Moore;Samuel J. Vine;Andrew Cooke;Christopher Ring

  • Coaching Efficacy and Coaching Effectiveness: Examining Their Predictors and Comparing Coaches’ and Athletes’ Reports

    Maria Kavussanu;Ian David Boardley;Natalia Jutkiewicz;Samantha Vincent

  • Secretory immunoglobulin A and cardiovascular reactions to mental arithmetic and cold pressor

    Gonneke Willemsen;Christopher Ring;Douglas Carroll;Phil Evans

  • Acute stress exposure prior to influenza vaccination enhances antibody response in women

    Kate M. Edwards;Victoria E. Burns;Tracy Reynolds;Douglas Carroll

  • Athletes’ Perceptions of Coaching Effectiveness and Athlete-Related Outcomes in Rugby Union: An Investigation Based on the Coaching Efficacy Model

    Ian D Boardley;Maria Kavussanu;Christopher M Ring

  • Influence of beliefs about heart rate and actual heart rate on heartbeat counting.

    Christopher Ring;Jasper Brener

  • Catastrophizing is related to pain ratings, but not nociceptive flexion reflex threshold

    Mustafa al'Absi;Christopher Ring

  • Observed Prosocial and Antisocial Behaviors in Male and Female Soccer Players

    Maria Kavussanu;Rebecca Stamp;Geoff Slade;Christopher Ring

  • Perceived stress and psychological well-being are associated with antibody status after meningitis C conjugate vaccination.

    Victoria E. Burns;Mark Drayson;Christopher Ring;Douglas Carroll

  • Psychological, muscular and kinematic factors mediate performance under pressure

    Andrew Cooke;Maria Kavussanu;David McIntyre;Christopher Ring

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria Kavussanu
Maria Kavussanu University of Birmingham
Gonneke Willemsen
Gonneke Willemsen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Frank Hucklebridge
Frank Hucklebridge University of Westminster
Antonis Hatzigeorgiadis
Antonis Hatzigeorgiadis University Of Thessaly
Kim L. Lavoie
Kim L. Lavoie University of Quebec at Montreal
Samuel J. Vine
Samuel J. Vine University of Exeter
Angela Clow
Angela Clow University of Westminster
Mark R. Wilson
Mark R. Wilson University of Wollongong
Rich S. W. Masters
Rich S. W. Masters University of Waikato
E.J.C. de Geus
E.J.C. de Geus Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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