#333 Dr Robin Owen and Prof Shuge Zhang - The Impact of Anxiety on Performance

I'm delighted to speak with Dr Robin Owen and Prof Shuge Zhang in this week's episode. Robin is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Psychology at Liverpool Hope University. His research aims to advance our understanding of anxiety, attentional focus, motor control, skill acquisition, statistical prediction, cognitive functioning, and talent identification/development. Shuge is currently a research Professor in Sport & Exercise Psychology at Hunan University of Technology in China. He previously lectured at the University of Derby. Shuge is a chartered psychologist of the British Psychological Society and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His research interest is the Person x Environment Interaction in performance and health contexts. In this episode, we discuss a fantastic paper Robin and Shuge contributed to which examined the impact of anxiety on performance in sports players.

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#333 Dr Robin Owen and Prof Shuge Zhang - The Impact of Anxiety on Performance is an episode from The Sport Psych Show by Dan Abrahams.

This episode is 47:43 long.

This episode was published on Dec 8, 2025.

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