Keep up! We have the latest episodes of David’s podcasts, Sport and Exercise Psychology Book Club and Drag Race Psychology; podcast guest appearances; web series, Sport Psych N’ Stuff; published research; recent workshops; training drills; articles on Compete Sports Diversity and so much more!

Sport & Exercise Psychology Book Club and Podcast

Hosted by sport and exercise psychology professionals, we are your sport and exercise psychology book club. Every episode we will select, read, discuss, and rate books that are relevant to mental performance coaching and applied sport psychology. Our book shelf is full of autobiographies, technical books, research books, and easy reads, all of which are ready to crack open and discuss.

Drag Race Psychology Podcast

Drag Race Psychology is a podcast where we thrust ourselves deep into each season of Drag Race through the lens of sport psychology. We will untuck the psychological processes in the art of drag, the pressures of performance, and competition. Diving into the charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent to find out what it takes to be “America’s Next Drag Superstar”.

Speaking of Podcasts

Click Here for David’s guest appearances on various podcasts on sport science, sport psychology, sports diversity, strength and conditioning and more!

Workshops and Training Drills

Sport Psych N’ Stuff

Sport Psychology n’ Stuff is a mini-documentary video series by David “Dirk” Smith which covers various topics of Sport Psychology, Sport Science, Sport Sociology and other “Stuff”. The goal of Sport Psychology n’ Stuff is to inform and educate coaches, sports diversity leaders, athletes and anybody interested in these topics about important and useful things that can be applied toward improving individual and group performance in sports.

Published Research

Find more information and links to download the reseach papers on David’s ResearchGate profile

Smith, D., & Keegan, R. (2024). Chapter 13. Motivational Climate as a Complex Adaptive System. Social Psychology in Sport (2nd ed.). essay, Human Kinetics.

David Smith, Frank T.J.M. Zaal & Daniel Memmert (2022) Emergent Coordination of Heading in Soccer: Of Two Players and a Single Ball, Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, DOI: 10.1080/02701367.2022.2088674

Ackermann, S. P., Raab, M., Backschat, S., Smith, D. J. C., Javelle, F., & Laborde, S. (2022). The diving response and cardiac vagal activity: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychophysiology, 00, e14183. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14183

Matthew Watson, David Smith, Jack Fenton, Ismael Pedraza-Ramirez, Sylvain Laborde & Colum Cronin (2022) Introducing esports coaching to sport coaching (not as sport coaching), Sports Coaching Review, DOI: 10.1080/21640629.2022.2123960