Conférence - Pr Costas I. Karageorghis

Eurasport, salle de formation 1 - Le 23 juin 2026 à 15h

Biography
Professor Costas I. Karageorghis
Brunel University of London
England, United Kingdom

Professor Costas Karageorghis is a Chartered Psychologist, Chartered Scientist and Fellow of the British Psychological Society. He is also a double-accredited member and Fellow of the Chartered Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences. His main research interest is the psychological, psychophysiological and neurophysiological effects of music. His scientific output includes over 200 scholarly articles, 15 chapters in edited texts and two textbooks with Human Kinetics Publishers. He has been a keynote speaker at many international conferences, and, in recent years, his scientific work has been funded by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council.

Abstract
C'est bon pour le moral: Exploring the use of music through the lens of exercise hedonics
From the very dawn of human civilization, ancient cultures sought to combine sounds in a manner that influenced the human psyche. Given the recent advances in digital technologies, music applications have rapidly become de rigueur in the realm of exercise, physical activity and health. Ergonomically designed personal listening devices are considered by exercisers to be as essential as their running shoes, and music programmes are routinely streamed into public gymnasia by use of complex algorithms. In this interactive lecture, the speaker will explore the structured and systematic use of music as a means by which to improve the exercise experience through the lens of exercise hedonics. The notion of hedonics is important in exercise science given how a focus on positive in-the-moment feelings has the potential to promote exercise adherence (see e.g., Ekkekakis et al., 2020). A theoretical model that is heuristic in nature will serve as the lodestar for a series of empirical studies and associated music-related applications. Moreover, the neurophysiological mechanisms that underlie the effects of music will be expounded with reference to recent findings.