Theories to Explain Exercise Motivation and Physical Inactivity: Ways of Expanding Our Current Theoretical Perspective

Ralf Brand¹, Boris Cheval^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Sport and Exercise Psychology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.
² Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ Laboratory for the Study of Emotion Elicitation and Expression (E3Lab), Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

Ralf Brand et al. Front Psychol. 2019.

. 2019 May 21:10:1147.

doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01147. eCollection 2019.

Ralf Brand¹, Boris Cheval^{2

3}

¹ Sport and Exercise Psychology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.
² Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ Laboratory for the Study of Emotion Elicitation and Expression (E3Lab), Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

No abstract available

Keywords: affect; automaticity; exercise; motivation; physical inactivity.

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