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Dr. Selen Razon

Associate Professor

College of Health Sciences - Kinesiology

Bio

Dr. Selen Razon teaches both undergraduate and graduate level courses in the Exercise Science discipline. Her main research interests include affective responses to exercise, health behavior change, use of polysensory stimuli to reduce effort perception during exercise and psychophysiological determinants of exercise.

Razon has published in several peer-reviewed outlets including the Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology, Psychology of Sport and Exercise, and the Journal of Sport Sciences. She has authored and edited the textbooks: "Applied Exercise Psychology: The Challenging Journey from Motivation to Adherence” , and “Performance Excellence: Stories of Success from the Real World of Sport and Exercise Psychology”. Razon is a member of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) and the American College of Sport Medicine (ACSM).

Expertise

  • Exercise Tolerance
  • Exercise Adoption
  • Exercise Adherence
  • Exercise and Moods
  • Exercise and Brain Function

Education

  • B.S., Universite Paris-Sorbonne, 2001
  • M.S., University of Miami, 2005
  • Ph.D., Florida State University, 2012