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Overview

Sylvain Laborde is affiliated with the German Sport University Cologne in Germany. Their research spans primarily across psychology and medicine, with a strong focus on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, social psychology, clinical psychology, developmental and educational psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The main topics of Laborde's work include:

  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Sport Psychology and Performance
  • Cardiovascular and Exercise Physiology
  • Emotional Intelligence and Performance
  • Vagus Nerve Stimulation Research

Laborde has contributed to several frequent publication venues, such as:

  • International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

Some of the recent papers include:

  • "Effects of voluntary slow breathing on heart rate and heart rate variability: A systematic review and a meta-analysis," 2022, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Heart rate variability and slow-paced breathing: when coherence meets resonance," 2022, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "International Consensus Based Review and Recommendations for Minimum Reporting Standards in Research on Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation (Version 2020)," 2021, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • "Setting the scientific stage for esports psychology: a systematic review," 2020, International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology
  • "Attention, working-memory control, working-memory capacity, and sport performance: The moderating role of athletic expertise," 2020, European Journal of Sport Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Laborde are:

  • Uirassu Borges
  • Emma Mosley
  • Mark S. Allen
  • Markus Raab
  • Florian Javelle

Best Publications

  • Heart Rate Variability and Cardiac Vagal Tone in Psychophysiological Research - Recommendations for Experiment Planning, Data Analysis, and Data Reporting.

    Sylvain Laborde;Emma Mosley;Emma Mosley;Julian F. Thayer

  • Emotional intelligence in sport and exercise: A systematic review.

    Sylvain Laborde;Sylvain Laborde;F Dosseville;Mark S Allen

  • International Consensus Based Review and Recommendations for Minimum Reporting Standards in Research on Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation (Version 2020).

    Adam D. Farmer;Adam Strzelczyk;Alessandra Finisguerra;Alexander V. Gourine

  • Trait emotional intelligence in sports: A protective role against stress through heart rate variability?

    Sylvain Laborde;Anne Brüll;Julian Weber;Lena Sophie Anders

  • Vagal Tank Theory: The Three Rs of Cardiac Vagal Control Functioning - Resting, Reactivity, and Recovery.

    Sylvain Laborde;Emma Mosley;Emma Mosley;Alina Mertgen

  • Setting the scientific stage for esports psychology: a systematic review

    Ismael Pedraza-Ramirez;Lisa Musculus;Markus Raab;Sylvain Laborde

  • The Role of Personality in Sport and Physical Activity

    Mark S. Allen;Sylvain Laborde;Sylvain Laborde

  • The role of trait emotional intelligence in emotion regulation and performance under pressure

    Sylvain Laborde;Sylvain Laborde;Franziska Lautenbach;Mark S. Allen;Cornelia Herbert

  • Positive personality-trait-like individual differences in athletes from individual- and team sports and in non-athletes

    Sylvain Laborde;Sylvain Laborde;Félix Guillén;Emma Mosley

  • Validity of the trait emotional intelligence questionnaire in sports and its links with performance satisfaction

    Sylvain Laborde;Fabrice Dosseville;Félix Guillén;Enrique Chávez

  • When to blink and when to think: preference for intuitive decisions results in faster and better tactical choices.

    Markus Raab;Sylvain Laborde

  • Higher-order structure of mental toughness and the analysis of latent mean differences between athletes from 34 disciplines and non-athletes

    Félix Guillén;Sylvain Laborde;Sylvain Laborde

  • The contribution of coping-related variables and heart rate variability to visual search performance under pressure.

    Sylvain Laborde;Sylvain Laborde;Franziska Lautenbach;Mark S. Allen

  • The tale of hearts and reason: the influence of mood on decision making.

    Sylvain Laborde;Markus Raab

  • Construct and concurrent validity of the short- and long-form versions of the trait emotional intelligence questionnaire

    Sylvain Laborde;Sylvain Laborde;Mark S. Allen;Félix Guillén

  • Bidirectional associations between personality and physical activity in adulthood.

    Mark S. Allen;Christopher A. Magee;Stewart A. Vella;Sylvain Laborde

  • Trait emotional intelligence and preference for intuition and deliberation: Respective influence on academic performance

    Sylvain Laborde;Sylvain Laborde;Fabrice Dosseville;Nicolas Scelles

  • Culture, individual differences, and situation: Influence on coping in French and Chinese table tennis players

    Sylvain Laborde;Min You;Fabrice Dosseville;Agnès Salinas

  • The relationship between working memory, reinvestment, and heart rate variability.

    Sylvain Laborde;Sylvain Laborde;Philip Furley;Caroline Schempp

  • Influence of a 30-Day Slow-Paced Breathing Intervention Compared to Social Media Use on Subjective Sleep Quality and Cardiac Vagal Activity

    Sylvain Laborde;Thomas Hosang;Emma Mosley;Fabrice Dosseville

  • Health-related behaviour and personality trait development in adulthood

    Mark S. Allen;Stewart A. Vella;Sylvain Laborde;Sylvain Laborde

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Raab
Markus Raab German Sport University Cologne
Stewart A. Vella
Stewart A. Vella University of Wollongong
Daniel Quintana
Daniel Quintana University of Oslo
Michael Kaess
Michael Kaess University of Bern
Roberta Sellaro
Roberta Sellaro University of Padua
Julian F. Thayer
Julian F. Thayer University of California, Irvine
Rico Fischer
Rico Fischer University of Greifswald
Thomas Jacobsen
Thomas Jacobsen Helmut Schmidt University
Marc V. Jones
Marc V. Jones Manchester Metropolitan University
Peter Putman
Peter Putman Leiden University

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