Shane Murphy, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Psychology, Western Connecticut State University
 

Dr. Murphy is a licensed psychologist, and Associate Professor in Psychology at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, Connecticut, where he teaches sport, health, media and exercise psychology.

Dr. Murphy was sport psychologist for the U.S. Olympic Teams at the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul and the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville.
He was given the “Distinguished Professional Practice Award” by the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology (AAASP) in 2000.  He is a past-President of the Division of Sport and Exercise Psychology (Division 47) of the American Psychological Association and will be presented the Bruce Ogilvie Award for Outstanding Practitioner at the 2008 APA Annual Convention.  For seven years, Dr. Murphy was Head of the USOC's Sport Psychology Department, and from 1992 to 1994 he was Associate Director of its Division of Sport Science & Technology. He has also been sport psychologist to a number of U.S. national teams.

Dr. Murphy teaches the following courses at WCSU:

  • PSY 100 Introduction to Psychology
  • PSY 260 Health Psychology
  • PSY 262 Sport Psychology
  • PSY 241 Child Psychopathology
  • PSY 432 History of Psychology