David W. Eccles, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Dr. Eccles is an Assistant Professor at the Learning Systems Institute and at the Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems, at Florida State University. He received his education at the University of Wales, Bangor, in the UK and at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, in the USA. Currently he studies the cognitive mechanisms underlying skill acquisition in real word domains.

Telephone: (850) 644-5465
Email: deccles@lsi.fsu.edu

Examples of recent publications.

1.  Eccles, D. W., & Johnson, M. B. (2009). Letting the social and cognitive merge: New concepts for an understanding of group functioning in sport. In S. J. Mellalieu & S. Hanton (Eds.),  Advances in applied sport psychology (pp. 281-316). New York: Routledge.

2. Eccles, D. W., Ward, P, & Woodman, T. (2009). Competition-specific preparation and expert performance. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 10, 96-107.

3. McRobert, A, Williams, A. M., Ward, P., & Eccles, D. W. (2009). Tracing the process of expertise in a simulated anticipation task. Ergonomics, 52, 474-483.

4. Eccles, D. W. (2008). The expert’s circumvention of natural human resource limitations: an example from sport. Military Psychology, 20, S103-S121.

5. Eccles, D. W., & Feltovich, P. J. (2008). Implications of domain-general “psychological support skills” for the transfer of skill and the acquisition of expertise. Performance Improvement Quarterly, 21, 43-60.

6. Tenenbaum, G., Edmonds, A., & Eccles, D. W. (2008). Affect-related performance zones. Military Psychology, 20, S11-S37.

7. Ward, P., Farrow, D., Harris, K. R., Williams, A. M., Eccles, D. W., & Ericsson, K. A. (2008). Training perceptual-cognitive skills: Can sport psychology research inform military decision training? Military Psychology, 20, S71-S102.

8. Williams, A. M., Ericsson, K. A., Ward, P., & Eccles, D. W. (2008). Research on expertise in sport: Implications for the military. Military Psychology, 20, S123-S145. 

K. Anders Ericsson, Ph.D., Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology

Dr. Ericsson is presently Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology, at Florida State University. He received his education at the University of Stockholm in Sweden and Carnegie Mellon University in the USA. Currently he studies the cognitive structure of expert performance in domains such as music, chess and sports, and how expert performers attain their superior performance by acquiring complex cognitive mechanisms and physiological adaptations through extended deliberate practice.

Telephone: (850) 644-9860
Email: ericsson@psy.fsu.edu

Examples of recent publications.

1. Bond, W., Kuhn, G., Binstadt, E., Quirk, M., Wu, T., Tews, M., Dev, P. & Ericsson, K.A. (2008). The use of simulation on the development of individual cognitive expertise in emergency medicine. Academic Emergency Medicine, 15, 1037-1045.

2. Ericsson, K.A. (2008). Deliberate practice and acquisition of expert performance: A general overview. Academic Emergency Medicine, 15, 988-994.

3. Ward, P., Farrow, D., Harris, K. R., Williams, A. M., Eccles, D. W., & Ericsson, K. A. (2008). Training perceptual-cognitive skills: Can sport psychology research inform military decision training? Military Psychology, 20, S71-S102.

4. Williams, A.M. & Ericsson, K.A. (2008). From the guest editors: How do experts learn? Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 30, 653-662.


5. Williams, A. M., Ericsson, K. A., Ward, P., & Eccles, D. W. (2008). Research on expertise in sport: Implications for the military. Military Psychology, 20, S123-S145.

Paul Ward, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Dr. Ward is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, and Learning Systems Institute, at Florida State University. He received his education at the University of Wolverhampton, Manchester Metropolitan University and Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. Currently he studies expert performance and the mechanisms responsible for expert superiority.

Telephone: (850) 645-7424
Email: pward@lsi.fsu.edu

Examples of recent publications.

1. Eccles, D., Ward, P., & Woodman, T. (2009). Competition-specific preparation and expert performance. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 10, 96-107.

2. McRobert, A. Williams, A. M., Ward, P., & Eccles, D. W. (2009). Tracing the process of expertise in a simulated anticipation task. Ergonomics, 52, 474-483.

3. North, J. S., Williams, A. M., Hodges, N. J., Ward, P. & Ericsson, K. A. (2009). Perceiving patterins in dynamic action sequences: The relationship between pattern recognition and anticipation skill. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23, 1-17.

4. Ward, P., Farrow, D., Harris, K. R., Williams, A. M., Eccles, D. W., & Ericsson, K. A. (2008). Training perceptual-cognitive skills: Can sport psychology research inform military decision training? Military Psychology, 20, S71-S102.

5. Williams, A. M., Ericsson, K. A., Ward, P., & Eccles, D. W. (2008). Research on expertise in sport: Implications for the military. Military Psychology, 20, S123-S145.

6. Williams, A. M., Ward, P., Ward, J., & Smeeton, N. J. (2008). Task specificity, position specificity, and expert performance. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 79, 428-433.

James Whyte IV, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Dr. Whyte is currently Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing at Florida State University. He received his education at Case Western Reserve University in the USA.  He currently studies the application of the expert performance approach to critical care nursing.

Telephone: (850) 644-5359
Email: jwhyte@nursing.fsu.edu

Examples of recent publications.

1. Whyte, J., Ward, P., & Eccles, D. W. (in press). The relationship between knowledge and clinical performance in novice and experienced critical care nurses: An application of the expert performance approach. Heart and Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care.

2. Davis, A., & Whyte, J. (2008). A community health nursing approach to the problem of
antibiotic over-prescribing. Journal of Community Health Nursing, 25, 161-174.

3. Ericsson, K.A., Whyte, J., & Ward, P. (2007). Expert performance in nursing: Reviewing research on expertise in nursing within the framework of the expert- performance, Advances in Nursing Science, 30(1), 58-71. (State of the science issue). 

4.  Whyte, J. (2007). The logic of prescribing limitations: Don’t tie NPs and Pas hands. The Clinical Advisor, A Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 10(6), 143.

5. Whyte, J. (2007). Beware-targets on our backs. The Clinical Advisor, A Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 10(2), 145.