Dr. Geoffrey Schweizer

Veröffentlichungen in wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften
Schweizer, G., & Köppel, M. (2025). In search of the lost interaction: A theoretical and methodological framework for researching interactions. Europe’s Journal of Psychology, 21, 249-262. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.14957

Furley, P., Wunderlich, F., Großhaus, L., & Schweizer, G. (2025). Thin slice accuracy depends on the wisdom of crowds: Aggregate judgments outperform individual judgments when inferring athletic performance based on nonverbal behavior. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 49, 205-226. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-025-00481-4

Ennigkeit, F., Englert, C., Stehle, J., & Schweizer, G. (2023). Open Science in der deutschsprachigen Sportpsychologie: Eine empirische Analyse aktueller Forschungspraktiken. Zeitschrift für Sportpsychologie, 30, 146-155. https://doi.org/10.1026/1612-5010/a000404

Plessner, H., Ermark, F., Schütz, L.-M., & Schweizer, G. (2023). Sports performance judgments – an update from a social cognitive perspective. Asia Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 3, 13-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajsep.2023.01.002

Lillich, L., Schweizer, G., & Nießner, M. (2023). Searching for the effects of momentum in beach volleyball – an empirical comparison of different models. Zeitschrift für Sportpsychologie, 30, 64-74. https://doi.org/10.1026/1612-5010/a000393

Schütz, L.-M., Betsch, T., Plessner, H., & Schweizer, G. (2023). The impact of physical load on duration estimation in sport. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 65, 102368. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2022.102368

Furley, P., Schweizer, G., & Laborde, S. (2022). Emotional intelligence and drawing inferences from nonverbal cues in sports. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 20, 1617-1637. https://doi.org/10.1080/1612197X.2021.1993962

Schütz, L.-M., Schweizer, G., & Plessner, H. (2021). The impact of video speed on the estimation of time duration in sport. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 43, 419-429. https://doi.org/10.1123/jsep.2020-0248

Buenemann, S., & Schweizer, G. (2021). The reciprocal relationship between nonverbal behavior and sports performance in a Cross-Lagged Panel Model. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 55, 101956. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2021.101956

Englert, C., Dziuba, A., & Schweizer, G. (2021). Testing the effects of a preceding self-control task on decision making in soccer refereeing. Frontiers in Neuroscience, Decision Neuroscience, 15, 638652. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.638652

Englert, C., & Schweizer, G. (2020). „Are you telling the truth?” – Testing individuals’ ability to differentiate between truth and deceit in soccer. Frontiers in Psychology, Movement Science and Sport Psychology, 11, 1082. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01082

Schweizer, G., Furley, P., Rost, N., & Barth, K. (2020). Reliable measurement in sport psychology: The case of performance outcome measures. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 48, 101663. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2020.101663

Furley, P., Schweizer, G., & Wegner, M. (2019). The power motive as a predictor of receptiveness to nonverbal behavior in sport. Motivation and Emotion, 43, 917-928. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-019-09788-4

Labudek, S., Schweizer, G., Roth, A., Pizzera, A., Plessner, H., & Brand, R. (2019). REFS-D: Eine deutschsprachige Skala zur Erfassung der Schiedsrichterselbstwirksamkeit. Zeitschrift für Sportpsychologie, 26, 15-24. https://doi.org/10.1026/1612-5010/a000256

Furley, P., Schweizer, G., & Memmert, D. (2018). Thin slices of athletes’ nonverbal behavior give away game location: Testing the territoriality hypothesis of the home game advantage. Evolutionary Psychology, 2, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474704918776456

Seiler, K., Schweizer, G., & Seiler, R. (2018). Do the effects of nonverbal behaviour on team outcome confidence in team sports depend on the availability of additional performance information? Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 36, 29-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2017.12.007 

Furley, P., & Schweizer, G. (2016). Nonverbal communication of confidence in soccer referees: An experimental test of Darwin’s leakage hypothesis. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 38, 590-597. https://doi.org/10.1123/jsep.2016-0192

Schweizer, G., & Furley, P. (2016). Die Vertrauenskrise empirischer Forschung in der Psychologie: Ausgewählte Ursachen und exemplarische Lösungsvorschläge für die sportpsychologische Forschung. Zeitschrift für Sportpsychologie, 23, 77-83. https://doi.org/10.1026/1612-5010/a000171

Schweizer, G., & Furley, P. (2016). Reproducible research in sport and exercise psychology: The role of sample sizes. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 23, 114-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2015.11.005

Furley, P., & Schweizer, G. (2016). In a flash: Thin slice judgment accuracy of leading and trailing in sports. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 40, 83-100. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-015-0225-5

Furley, P., Schweizer, G., & Bertrams, A. (2015). The two modes of an athlete: Dual-process theories in the field of sport. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 8, 106-124. https://doi.org/10.1080/1750984X.2015.1022203

Brand, R., & Schweizer, G. (2015). Going to the gym or to the movies?
Situated decisions as a functional link connecting automatic and reflective evaluations of exercise with exercising behavior. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 37, 63-73.

Furley, P., & Schweizer, G. (2014). “I’m pretty sure that we will win!” The influence of score-related nonverbal behavioral changes on the confidence in winning a basketball game. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 35, 316-320.

Furley, P., & Schweizer, G. (2014). The expression of victory and loss: Estimating who's leading or trailing from nonverbal cues in sports. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 38, 13-29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-013-0168-7

Schweizer, G., Plessner, H., & Brand, R. (2013). Establishing standards for basketball elite referees’ decisions. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 25, 370-375. https://doi.org/10.1080/10413200.2012.741090

Schweizer, G., Plessner, H., Kahlert, D., & Brand, R. (2011). A video-based training method for improving soccer referees’ intuitive decision-making skills. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 23, 429-442. https://doi.org/10.1080/10413200.2011.555346

Bluemke, M., Brand, R., Schweizer, G., & Kahlert, D. (2010). Exercise might be good for me, but I don’t feel good about it. Do automatic associations predict exercise behavior? Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 32, 137-153.


Buchkapitel
Schweizer, G., Schneider, J., & Plessner, H. (2025). Videobasiertes Entscheidungstraining für Schiedsrichter*innen in unterschiedlichen Sportarten. In D. Memmert (Ed.), Digitalisierung und Innovation im Sport und in der Sportwissenschaft. Springer Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-68241-8_21-1

Buenemann, S., Schweizer, G., & Furley, P. (2024). Nonverbales Verhalten im Sport. In C. Englert, I. Pfeffer, K. Staufenbiel, & C. Vater (Eds.), Sportpsychologie: Grundlagen und Trends (pp. 83 - 96). UTB.

Schweizer, G., Plessner, H., & MacMahon, C. (2023). Judgment and decision-making. In J. Schüler, M. Wegner, H. Plessner, & R. C. Eklund (Eds.), Sport and exercise psychology – theory and application (pp. 93-116). Cham: Springer Nature.

Furley, P., & Schweizer, G. (2020). Body language in sport. In G. Tenenbaum & R. Eklund (Eds.), Handbook of sport psychology (pp. 1201-1219). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

Brand, R., & Schweizer, G. (2019). Sportpsychologie. Heidelberg: Springer.

Schweizer, G., & Plessner, H. (2019). Urteilen und Entscheiden. In J. Schüler, M. Wegner, & H. Plessner (Eds.), Lehrbuch Sportpsychologie – Theoretische Grundlagen und Anwendung (pp. 89-114). Heidelberg: Springer.

Schweizer, G., Plessner, H., & Brand, R. (2013). Training von Schiedsrichterentscheidungen. In K. Zentgraf & J. Munzert (Eds.), Kognitives Training im Sport (pp. 213-234). Göttingen: Hogrefe.

Schweizer, G., Plessner, H., & Brand, R. (2010). Studying experts’ intuitive decision making online using video stimuli. In C. Witteman & A. Glöckner (Eds.), Foundations for tracing intuition: Challenges and methods (pp. 106-122). London: Psychology Press.

Plessner, H., Schweizer, G., Brand, R., & O’Hare, D. (2009). A multiple-cue learning approach as the basis for understanding and improving soccer referees’ decision making. In M. Raab, J. Johnson & H. Heekeren (Eds.), Progress in brain research: Mind and motion: The bidirectional link between thought and action (pp. 151-158). Amsterdam: Elsevier Press.

Brand, R., Schweizer, G., & Plessner, H. (2009). Conceptual considerations about the development of a decision-making training method for expert soccer referees. In D. Araujo, H. Ripoll & M. Raab (Eds.), Perspectives on cognition and action in sport (pp. 181-190). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science.