CURRICULUM VITAE
Frederick Xavier Gibbons
(October, 2012)
ADDRESS (Office)
Department of Psychology
Bousfield Hall
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269
Phone: 860-486-5060
e-Mail: rick.gibbons@uconn.edu
EDUCATION
Colgate University, B.A., with Honors in Psychology, 1972
University of Texas, Ph.D., in Social Psychology, 1976
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Professor of Psychology, University of Connecticut (8/12 - present)
Affiliate, Center for Health Intervention and Prevention (CHIP), University of
Connecticut (8/12 – present)
Research Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences,
Dartmouth College (7/08 – 8/12)
Member, Cancer Control Research Program, Norris Cotton Cancer Center,
Dartmouth Medical School (7/08 – 8/12)
Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Iowa State University (7/07-7/08)
Professor of Psychology, Iowa State University (8/86 – 7/07)
Associate Professor of Psychology, Iowa State University (8/82-7/86)
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Iowa State University (8/80-7/82)
Visiting Scholar:
Oregon Research Institute (11/05 – 07/06)
University of California at San Diego (9/97 – 6/98)
University of California at Los Angeles (9/90 - 6/91)
NIMH Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Social Psychology, University of Kansas (8/788/80)
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Fellow, American Psychological Society
Member, Society of Experimental Social Psychology
Fellow, Society of Personality and Social Psychology
Associate Editor
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1991-1994
Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 1995-2001
Member Editorial Board
Psychology and Health, 2006 - present
Health Psychology, 2004 - 2006
Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 1983-1995
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1985-1986
Grant Proposal Reviewer for:
- National Science Foundation;
- Economic and Social Research Council (U.K.)
- Austrian Science Fund;
- Dutch AIDS Foundation
- Dutch Cancer Society;
- Cancer Research, UK
- The Netherlands Organization of Health, Research & Development
- The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada);
- Research Grants Council of Hong Kong
Grant Review Panels for NIH:
- NIMH (B-start Program)
- Adolescent Health Promotion 1993 (ad hoc)
- NIMH (ad hoc), 1994
- Health and Behavior (ad hoc), 1995
- Community Prevention and Control, 1997, 1998
- NIEHS (Health Disparities), 2003 (ad hoc)
- Social Psychology, Personality & Interpersonal Processes, 2003 (ad hoc)
- Behavioral Genetics and Epidemiology, 2003 (ad hoc)
- Risk, Prevention, & Health Behavior: Social Psychology, Personality,
and Interpersonal Processes, 2004 (ad hoc)
- NCI (Small Business Innovative Research), 2006 (ad hoc)
- Community Influences on Health Behavior; 2005, 2006, 2007 (ad hoc)
- Community Influences on Health Behavior; 2007 - 2010 (member)
NCI Consultant: Co-Chair, NCI Health Cognitions Advisory Group
(2000 – 2009; see webpage: http://dccps.nci.nih.gov/hcg/)
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EXTRAMURAL RESEARCH SUPPORT AND AWARDS
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences: A. W. Mellon Fellowship for
Summer Institute on Stigma and Interpersonal Relations (1982).
German Academic Exchange (DAAD) Visiting Scholars Fellowship (1984).
National Institute on Drug Abuse: A social learning analysis of smoking cessation clinics;
PI (7/86-6/87).
National Science Foundation: The impact of downward social comparison on selfperception; PI (8/88-2/90).
National Cancer Institute: Social comparison and coping with serious illness. NRSA
Senior Fellowship (8/90-11/91).
National Institute of Mental Health: Economic stress, perceived vulnerability, and risk
behaviors in rural adolescents; Co-PI (PI = M. Gerrard, 10/90-2/96). Grant was part of
the ISU Center for Family Research in Rural Mental Health Center Grant (Center
Director = R. Conger).
Iowa Science Foundation: Perceptions of smoking risk; PI (7/1/91-6/30/92).
American Heart Association: Social comparison and smoking cessation, PI (7/1/916/30/94).
National Institute on Drug Abuse: Psychological factors associated with smoking
relapse; PI (7/1/93-12/31/95).
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: Psychosocial predictors of rural
adolescent alcohol use; Co-PI (PI = M. Gerrard; 1/95 - 12/99).
National Institute of Mental Health: Psychosocial factors and health risk among low SES
children; PI (Co-PI = M. Gerrard; Co-I = Thomas Wills, 9/95-9/00).
National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute: Social comparison, risk images and health
behavior. NRSA Senior Fellowship (9/97-2/99).
National Science Foundation: Health Cognitions Conference IV; Co-PI (PI = M. Gerrard;
4/99 – 6/01).
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: Preventing alcohol use among
African American youths; Co-PI on ISU subcontract (PI = G. Brody, Univ. of Georgia); PI
on subcontract = M. Gerrard; 8/00 – 7/05).
Research Grants Council, Hong Kong; Social comparison theory and family caregivers
for elders with dementia; Co-PI (PI = N. W. Chow; 9/00 – 12/01).
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National Institute of Mental Health: Factors affecting African American youths’ health
behavior; PI (Co-PI = Meg Gerrard; Co-I = Thomas Wills; 8/01 –7/07; with
no-cost extension).
National Cancer Institute: Social Psychological Interventions for UV Protection;
Co-PI on ISU subcontract (PI = Heike Mahler, UCSD; PI on ISU Subcontract = Meg
Gerrard); 04/03 – 04/07.
National Cancer Institute: Risk perceptions and cancer behavior; Co-PI. (PI = M.
Gerrard; 06/03-06/06).
National Institute on Drug Abuse: Multi-Site Longitudinal Analysis: Psychiatric Risk of
SUD. PI on ISU Subcontract (Subcontract = PI on grant = E. Jane Costello, Duke
University Medical Center). 10/03 – 10/06.
Center for Disease Control: Sociocultural and community risk and protective factors for
child maltreatment and youth violence. PI on ISU subcontract (PI on Grant = Ronald
Simons, Univ. of Georgia). 08/04 – 08/08.
Stichting Aids Fonds: (Dutch AIDS Foundation): Sexual risk-taking as a result of social
reactivity: Assessment of non-intentional components of unprotected sexual intercourse
in Dutch MSM. Co-PI (PI = John de Wit); 07/04 – 07/06.
National Institute on Drug Abuse. A social cognitive model of adolescent substance use.
PI (Co-PI = Meg Gerrard); 09/04 – 09/10 (with no-cost extension).
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Preventing alcohol use among
African American adolescents (SAAF 2). Co-PI on ISU / Dartmouth subcontract (PI = G.
Brody, Univ. of Georgia); PI on ISU/ Dartmouth subcontract = M. Gerrard; ISU /
Dartmouth 06/05 – 05/10
National Cancer Institute. Visual media influences on adolescent smoking behavior. CoPI (PI = Jim Sargent, Dartmouth Medical School); 05/08 – 04/12.
National Institute of Mental Health. Risk, resilience, and disorder: African Americans
transitions to adulthood. Co-PI on subcontract to ISU (C. Cutrona, PI on Subcontract; R.
Simons PI); 08/07 – 07/12
National Institute on Drug Abuse. Factors influencing the health behaviors of young
African American adults. PI (Co-PI = Meg Gerrard); 03/08 – 12/12.
National Cancer Institute. Psychological and behavioral predictors of HPV vaccination in
African American women. PI (Co-PI = Meg Gerrard). Supplement to NIDA grant “Factors
influencing the health behaviors of young African American adults” 01/09 – 12/12
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Media influences on early onset
alcohol use. Co-PI (PI = Jim Sargent, Dartmouth Medical School). 10/08 – 07/12.
National Cancer Institute. Impact of mortality concerns on cancer risk. Co-PI (PI = Jamie
Arndt, Univ. of Missouri). 06/09 - 05/14.
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National Cancer Institute Self-control as a moderator for effects of mass media on
adolescent substance use PI (dual PI with Tom Wills, U. of Hawaii). 07/10 - 06/15.
National Center for Research Resources (NIH). SEPA Award: Connecting Classrooms
and Community with the Health Sciences. PI on subcontract to Dartmouth College; (PI
on SEPA Award = Montshire Museum, Norwich, VT.). 9/11 to 8/12.
Consultant on several ongoing NIH-funded projects: e.g., Early predictors of
adolescent substance use (NIDA), PI = Judy Andrews (Oregon Research Institute);
Metamorphosis: A smoking cessation intervention study. (NCI), PI = Carolyn Heckman
(Fox-Chase); Brief Integrative Alcohol Interventions for Adolescents (NIAAA), PI = Chad
Werch; A theoretical-based intervention for African American youth (NIDA), PI = G.
Brody (UGa); Center for Contextual Genetics and Prevention Science (P-30), PI = G.
Brody (UGa); plus several small grants and “K” awards.
PUBLICATIONS: JOURNAL ARTICLES
Gibbons, F. X., & Wicklund, R. A. (1976). Selective exposure to self. Journal of
Research in Personality, 10, 98-106.
Pryor, J. B., Gibbons, F. X., Wicklund, R. A., Fazio, R., & Hood, R. (1977). Self-focused
attention and self-report validity. Journal of Personality, 45, 513-527.
Gibbons, F. X. (1978). Sex guilt and reactions to pornography: Enhancing behavioral
consistency through self-focused attention. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 36, 976-987.
Carver, C. S., Gibbons, F. X., Stephan, W. G., Glass, D. C., & Katz, I. (1979).
Ambivalence and evaluations of stigmatized others. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society,
13, 50-52.
Gibbons, F. X., Carver, C. S., Scheier, M. F., & Hormuth, S. E. (1979). Self-focused
attention and the placebo effect: Fooling some of the people some of the time. Journal of
Experimental Social Psychology, 15, 263-274.
Gibbons, F. X., Sawin, L. S., & Gibbons, B. N. (1979). Evaluations of the retarded:
Sympathy or "patronization"? American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 83, 537-548.
Scheier, M. F., Carver, C. S., & Gibbons, F. X. (1979). Self-directed attention,
awareness of bodily states and suggestibility. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 37, 1576-1588.
Gibbons, F. X., & Gibbons, B. N. (1980). Effect of the institutional label on peer
assessments of EMR persons. American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 84, 602-609.
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Gibbons, F. X., Stephan, W. G., Stephenson, B., & Petty, C. R. (1980). Reactions to
stigmatized others: Response amplification vs. sympathy. Journal of Experimental Social
Psychology, 16, 591-605.
Kassin, S. M., Lowe, C. A., & Gibbons, F. X. (1980). Children's use of the discounting
principle: A perceptual approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 39, 719728.
Gibbons, F. X., Gibbons, B. N., & Kassin, S. M. (1981). Reactions to the criminal
behavior of retarded and nonretarded offenders. American Journal of Mental Deficiency,
86, 235-242.
Gibbons, F.X. (1981). Motivational factors in placebo responsivity.
Psychopharmacological Bulletin, 17, 77-79.
Gibbons, F. X., & Wright, R. A. (1981). Motivational biases in causal attributions of
arousal. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 40, 588-600.
Kassin, S. M., & Gibbons, F. X. (1981). Childrens' use of the discounting principle in their
perceptions of exertion. Child Development, 52, 741- 744.
Scheier, M. F., Carver, C. S., & Gibbons, F. X. (1981). Self-focused attention and
reactions to fear. Journal of Research in Personality, 15, 1-15.
Gibbons, F. X., & Kassin, S. M. (1982). Behavioral expectations of retarded and
nonretarded children. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 3, 85-104.
Gibbons, F. X., & Wicklund, R. A. (1982). Self-focused attention and helping behavior.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 43, 462-474.
Gerrard, M., & Gibbons, F. X. (1982). Sexual experience, sex guilt and sexual moral
reasoning. Journal of Personality, 50, 345-359.
Gibbons, F. X. (1983). Self-attention and self-report: The "veridicality" hypothesis.
Journal of Personality, 51, 517-542.
Gibbons, F. X., & Wright, R. A. (1983). Self-focused attention and reactions to conflicting
standards. Journal of Research in Personality, 17, 263- 273.
Gibbons, F. X., & Gaeddert, W. P. (1984). Focus of attention and placebo utility. Journal
of Experimental Social Psychology, 20, 159-176.
Gibbons, F. X. (1985). Social stigma perception: Social comparison among mentally
retarded persons. American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 90, 98-106.
Gibbons, F. X. (1985). Social psychological perspectives on developmental disability.
Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 3, 391-404.
Gibbons, F. X., Smith, T. W., Ingram, R. E., Brehm, S., Pearce, K., & Schroeder, D.
(1985). Self-awareness and self-confrontation: Effects of focus of attention on members
of a clinical population. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 48, 662-675.
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Gibbons, F. X. (1986). Social comparison and depression: Company's effect on misery.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, 140-148.
Lewis, R. J., Gibbons, F. X., & Gerrard, M. (1986). Sexual experience and recall of
sexual vs. non-sexual information. Journal of Personality, 54, 676-693.
Gibbons, F. X. (1987). Mild depression and self-disclosure intimacy: Self and others'
perceptions. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 11, 361-380.
Gibbons, F. X., & Kassin, S. M. (1987). Time of exposure, perceptual set and the mental
retardation "schema." Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 17, 808-825.
Goldfarb, L., Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F. X., & Plante, T. (1988). The effects of negative
emotional orientation to sex on the retention of birth control information. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 55, 634-641.
Gibbons, F. X. & Gerrard, M. (1989). Effects of upward and downward comparison on
mood states. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 8, 14-31.
Gibbons, F. X. (1990). Self-evaluation and self-perception: The role of attention in the
experience of anxiety. Anxiety Research, 2, 153-163.
Gerrard, M., Breda, C., & Gibbons, F. X. (1990). Gender effects in couples' decision
making and contraceptive use. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 20, 449-464.
Gibbons, F. X. (1990). Self-attention and behavior: A review and theoretical update. In
M. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology, Vol. 23 (pp. 249-303). San
Diego: Academic Press.
Gibbons, F. X., McGovern, P. G., & Lando, H. A. (1991). Relapse and risk perception
among members of a smoking cessation clinic. Health Psychology, 10, 42-45.
Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F. X., & Warner, T. D. (1991). Effect of reviewing risk-relevant
behaviors on perceptions of vulnerability among women Marines. Health Psychology,
10, 173-179.
Gibbons, F. X. & Gerrard, M., Lando, H., & McGovern, P. (1991). Smoking cessation
and social comparison: The role of the "typical smoker." Journal of Experimental Social
Psychology, 27, 239-258.
Gibbons, F. X., & Boney McCoy, S. (1991). Self-esteem, similarity and reactions to
active vs. passive downward comparison. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
60, 414-424.
Boney McCoy, S., Gibbons, F. X., Reis, T. J., Gerrard, M., Luus, C. A. E., & Sufka, A. V.
W. (1992). Perceptions of smoking risk as a function of smoking status. Journal of
Behavioral Medicine, 15 (5), 469-488.
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Reis, T. J., Gerrard, M., & Gibbons, F. X. (1993). Social comparison and the pill:
Reactions to others' contraceptive behaviors. Personality and Social Psychology
Bulletin, 19, 13-20.
Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F. X., & Boney McCoy, S. (1993). Emotional inhibition of effective
contraception. Anxiety, Stress and Coping, 6, 73-88.
Gibbons, F. X., Benbow, C. P., & Gerrard, M. (1994). From top dog to bottom half: Social
comparison strategies in response to poor performance. Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, 67, 638-652.
Reprinted in D. Stapel & H. Blanton (Eds.) Key Readings in Social Psychology:
Social Comparison Theories. (2006) New York: Psychology Press.
Gibbons, F. X., Gerrard, M., & Boney McCoy, S. (1995). Prototype perception predicts
(lack of) pregnancy prevention. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 21, 85-93.
Gibbons, F. X., Helweg-Larsen, M., & Gerrard, M. (1995). Prevalence estimates and
adolescent risk behavior: Cross-cultural differences in social influence. Journal of
Applied Psychology, 80, 107-121.
Gibbons, F. X., & Gerrard, M. (1995). Predicting young adults' health risk behavior.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 505-517.
Gerrard, M., Gibbons F. X., & Bushman, B. J. (1996). The relation between perceived
vulnerability to HIV and precautionary sexual behavior. Psychological Bulletin, 119, 390409.
Smith, G. E., Eggleston, T. J., Gerrard, M., & Gibbons, F. X. (1996). Sexual attitudes,
cognitive associative networks, and perceived vulnerability to unplanned pregnancy.
Journal of Research in Personality, 30, 88-102.
Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F. X., Benthin A., & Hessling, R. M. (1996). A longitudinal study of
the reciprocal nature of risk behaviors and cognitions in adolescents: What you do
shapes what you think and vice versa. Health Psychology, 15, 344-354.
Gibbons, F. X., & Eggleston, T. J. (1996). Smoker networks and the "typical smoker": A
prospective analysis of smoking cessation. Health Psychology, 15, 469-477.
Gibbons, F. X., Eggleston, T. J., & Benthin, A. (1997). Cognitive reactions to smoking
relapse: The reciprocal relation of dissonance and self-esteem. Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology, 72, 184-195.
Smith, G. E., Gerrard, M., & Gibbons, F. X. (1997). Self-esteem and the relation between
risk behavior and perceived vulnerability. Health Psychology, 16, 137-146.
Blanton, H., Gibbons, F. X., Gerrard, M., Conger, K. J., & Smith, G. E. (1997). The role
of family and peers in the development of prototypes associated with health risks.
Journal of Family Psychology, 11, 1-18.
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Gibbons, F. X., Gerrard, M., Ouellette, J. A., & Burzette, R. (1998). Cognitive
antecedents to adolescent health risk: Discriminating between behavioral intention and
behavioral willingness. Psychology and Health, 13, 319-339.
Gibbons, F. X., Gerrard, M., Blanton, H., & Russell, D. W. (1998). Reasoned action and
social reaction: Willingness and intention as independent predictors of health risk.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1164-1181.
(Also in A. Rothman & P. Salovey, Eds. [2003] Social Psychology of Health: Key
Readings. Brighton, NY: Psychology Press.)
Gibbons, F. X., & Buunk, B. P. (1999). Individual differences in social comparison:
Development and validation of a measure of social comparison orientation. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 129 - 142.
Gibbons, F. X. (1999). Social comparison as a mediator of response shift. Social
Science & Medicine, 48, 1517-1530.
Blanton, H., Buunk, B. P., Gibbons, F. X., & Kuyper, H. (1999). When better-than- others
compares upward: The independent effects of comparison choice and comparative
evaluation on academic performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76,
420 - 430.
Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F. X., Zhao, L., Russell, D. W., & Reis-Bergan, M. (1999). The
effect of peers' alcohol consumption on parental influence: A cognitive mediational
model. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 13, 32-44.
Boney McCoy, S., Gibbons, F. X., & Gerrard, M. (1999). Self-esteem, compensatory
self-enhancement and the consideration of health risk. Personality and Social
Psychology Bulletin, 25, 954-965.
Ouellette, J. A., Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F. X., & Reis-Bergan, M. (1999). Parents, peers,
and prototypes: Antecedents of adolescent alcohol expectancies, alcohol consumption,
and alcohol-related life problems. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 13, 183 – 197.
Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X., & Reis-Bergan, M. (1999). What do we know about the
effect of risk communication on risk perceptions: Significance of individual differences.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 25, 94-100.
Gibbons, F. X., Blanton, H., Gerrard, M., Buunk, B. P., & Eggleston, T. J. (2000). Does
social comparison make a difference? Optimism as a moderator of the impact of
comparison level on outcome. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 638-649.
Reis-Bergan, M., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., & Ybema, Jan F. (2000). The impact of
reminiscence on socially active elderly women's reactions to social comparisons. Basic
and Applied Social Psychology, 22, 223-234.
Wills, T. A., Gibbons, F. X., Gerrard, M., & Brody, G. H. (2000). Protection and
vulnerability processes relevant for early onset of substance use: A test among AfricanAmerican children. Health Psychology, 19, 253-263.
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Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X., & Reis-Bergan, M. (2000). Self-esteem, self-serving health
cognitions and health risk behavior. Journal of Personality, 68, 1177 - 2001.
Blanton, H., Vanden Eijnden, R. J., Buunk, B. P., Gibbons, F. X., Gerrard, M. & Bakker,
A. (2001). Accentuate the negative: Social images in the prediction and promotion of
condom use. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 31, 274 - 295.
Buunk, B. P., Ybema, J. F., Van der Zee, K., Ipenburg, M. L., Schaufeli, W. B., &
Gibbons, F. X. (2001). Affect generated by social comparisons among nurses high and
low in burnout. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 31, 1500 - 1520.
Brody, G. H., Ge, X., Conger, R., Gibbons, F. X., Murry, V. M., Gerrard, M., & Simons,
R. L. (2001). The influence of neighborhood disadvantage, collective socialization, and
parenting on African American children’s affiliation with deviant peers. Child
Development, 72, 1231 - 1246.
Buunk, B.P., Ybema, J.F., Gibbons, F.X., Ipenburg, M.L. (2001). The affective
consequences of social comparisons as related to professional burnout and social
comparison orientation. European Journal of Social Psychology, 31, 337 - 351.
Thornton, B., Gibbons, F. X., & Gerrard, M. (2002). Risk perception and prototype
perception: Independent processes predicting risk behavior. Personality and Social
Psychology Bulletin, 28, 986 - 999.
Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X. Vande Lune, L., Pexa, N.A. & Gano, M.L. (2002).
Adolescents’ substance-related risk perceptions: Antecedents, mediators, and
consequences. Risk Decision and Policy, 7, 175 - 191.
Buunk, A.P., Gibbons, F.X., & Visser, A. (2002). The relevance of social comparison
processes for prevention and health care. Patient Education and Counseling, 47, 1 - 3.
Gibbons, F.X., Lane, D.J., Gerrard, M., Reis-Bergan, M., Lautrup, C.L., Pexa, N., &
Blanton, H.* (2002). Comparison level preferences after performance: Is downward
comparison theory still useful? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 865 880.
Gibbons, F. X., Lane, D.J., Gerrard, M., Pomery, E.A., & Lautrup, C.L. (2002).
Drinking and Driving: A Prospective Assessment of the Relation between
Risk Cognitions and Risk Behavior. Risk Decision and Policy, 7, 267 - 283.
Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X., Reis-Bergan, M., Trudeau, L., Vande Lune, L., & Buunk, B.
(2002). Inhibitory effects of drinker and non-drinker prototypes on adolescent alcohol
consumption. Health Psychology, 21, 601 - 609.
Mahler, H.I.M., Kulik, J.A., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., & Harrell, J. (2003). Effects of
appearance based interventions on sun protection intentions and self-reported
behaviors. Health Psychology, 22, 199 - 209.
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Brody, G.H., Ge, X., Kim, S.Y., Murry, V.M., Simons, R.L., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., &
Conger, R.D. (2003). Neighborhood disadvantage moderates associations of parenting
and older sibling problem attitudes and behavior with conduct disorders in African
American children. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 71, 211 - 222.
Wills, T.A., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., Murry, V.M., & Brody, G.H. (2003). Family
communication and religiosity related to substance use and sexual behavior in early
adolescence: A test for pathways through self-control and prototype perceptions.
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 17, 312 – 323.
Ge, X., Kim, I.J., Brody, G.H., Conger, R.D., Simons, R.L., Gibbons, F.X., & Cutrona, C.
(2003). It’s all about timing and change: Pubertal transition effects on symptoms of
major depression among African American youths. Developmental Psychology, 39, 430439.
Kim, I.J., Ge, X., Brody, G.H., Conger, R.D., Simons, R.L., Gibbons, F.X., & Cutrona, C.
(2003). Parenting behaviors and changes in co-occurring depressive symptoms and
conduct problems among African American children. Journal of Family Psychology, 17,
571 – 583.
Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., Vande Lune, L.S., Wills, T.A., Brody, G., & Conger, R.D.
(2004). Context and cognition: Environmental risk, social influence, and adolescent
substance use. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1048 - 1061.
Luszczynska, A., Gibbons, F. X., Piko, B. F., & Tekozel, M. (2004). Self-regulatory
cognitions, social comparisons, and perceived peers' behaviors as predictors of nutrition
and physical activity: A comparison among adolescents in Hungary, Poland, Turkey and
USA. Psychology and Health, 19, 577-593.
Rankin, J. L., Lane, D. J., Gibbons, F. X., & Gerrard, M. (2004). Adolescent selfconsciousness: Longitudinal age changes and gender differences in two cohorts.
Journal of Research in Adolescence, 14, 1–21.
Brody, G.H., Murry, V.M., Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X., Molgaard, V., McNair, L., Brown,
A.C., Wills, T.A., Spoth, R.L., Luo, Z., Chen, Y., & Neubaum-Carlan, E. (2004). The
Strong African American Families Program: Translating research into prevention
programming. Child Development, 75, 900-917.
Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., Cleveland, M.J., Wills, T.A., & Brody, G.H. (2004). Perceived
discrimination and substance use in African American parents and their children: A panel
study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86, 517 - 529.
Brody, G.H., Murry, V.M., McNair, L., Chen, Y-F., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M. & Wills,
T.A. (2005). Linking Changes in Parenting to Youth Self-Control: The Strong African
American Families Program. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 15, 47 – 69.
Mahler, H.I.M., Kulik, J.A., Harrell, M.A., Correa, A., Gibbons, F.X., & Gerrard, M. (2005).
Effects of UV Photo, Photoaging Information, and Use of Sunless Tanning Lotion on Sun
Protection Behaviors. Archives of Dermatology, 141, 373 – 380.
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Ouellette, J.A., Hessling, R., Gibbons, F.X., Reis-Bergan, M.J., & Gerrard, M. (2005).
Using images to increase exercise behavior: Prototypes vs. possible selves. Personality
and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 610 – 620.
Murry, V.M., Brody, G.H., McNair, L.D., Lu, Z., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M. & Wills, T.A.
(2005). Parental involvement promotes rural African American youths’ self-pride and
sexual self-concepts. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 67, 627 – 642.
Cleveland, M.J.*, Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., Pomery, E.A., & Brody, G.H. (2005). The
impact of parenting on risk cognitions and risk behavior: A study of mediation and
moderation in a panel of African American adolescents. Child Development, 76, 900 916.
Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., Lane, D.J., Mahler, H.I.M., & Kulik, J.A. (2005). Using UV
photography to reduce use of tanning booths: A test of cognitive mediation. Health
Psychology, 24, 358 - 363.
Piko, B.F., Gibbons, F.X., Luszczynska, A., & Tekozel, M. (2005). A culture-based study
of personal and social influences of adolescent smoking. European Journal of Public
Health, 15, 393 – 398.
Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X., Stock (Gano), M.L., Vande Lune, L., & Cleveland, M. J.
(2005). Images of Smokers and Willingness to Smoke among African American Preadolescents: An Application of the Prototype/Willingness Model of Adolescent Health
Risk Behavior to Smoking Initiation. Pediatric Psychology, 30, 305 – 318.
Gerrard, M. Gibbons, F.X., & Lane, D.J. (2005). Smoking cessation: Social comparison
strategies predict success. Health Psychology, 24, 623 - 629.
Pomery, E.A., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., Cleveland, M.J., Brody, G.H., & Wills, T.A.
(2005). Families and risk: Prospective analyses of familial and social influences on
adolescent substance use. Journal of Family Psychology, 19, 560-570.
Buunk, B.P., Belmonte, J., Peiro, M., Zurriaga, R., & Gibbons, F.X. (2005). Diferencias
individuales en la comparaciocial: Propiedades de la escala espa de la orientaciacia la
comparaciocial. (Individual differences in social comparison: Properties of the Spanish
scale of social comparison orientation).Revista Latinoamericana de Psicologia, 37, 561 581.
Sargent, J.D., Wills, T.A., Stoolmiller, M., Gibson, J., & Gibbons, F.X. (2006). Alcohol
use in motion pictures and its relation with early onset teen drinking, Journal of Studies
on Alcohol, 67, 54 – 65.
Brody, G.H., Murry, V.M., Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X., Brown, A.C., Anderson, T., Chen,
Y-F., & Luo, Z. (2006). The Strong African American Families Program: Long-term
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effects on adolescent alcohol use and test of a mediational model. Journal of Consulting
and Clinical Psychology, 74, 356 – 366.
Brody, G.H., Murry, V.M., Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X., McNair, L., Brown, A.C.,
Wills,T.A., Molgaard, V., Spoth, R.L., Luo, Z., & Chen, Y. (2006). The Strong African
American Families Program: A cluster-randomized prevention trial of long-term effects
and a mediational model. Journal of Family Psychology, 20, 1-11.
Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X., Brody, G.H., Murry, V.M., Cleveland, M.J.*, & Wills, T.A.
(2006). A theory-based dual focus alcohol intervention for pre-adolescents: Social
cognitions in The Strong African American Families Program. Psychology of Addictive
Behaviors, 20, 185 - 195.
Brody, G.H. Chen,Y.F., Murry, V.M., Ge, X., Simons, R.L., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M. &
Cutrona, C.. (2006). Perceived Discrimination and the Adjustment of African American
Youths: A Five-Year Longitudinal Analysis with Contextual Moderation Effects. Child
Development, 77, 1170 – 1189.
Mahler, H.I.M., Kulik, J.A., Gerrard, & Gibbons, F.X (2006). Effects of two appearancebased interventions on the sun protection behaviors of southern California beach
patrons. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 28, 263 - 272.
Ge, X., Jin, R., Natsuaki M.N., Gibbons, F.X., Brody, G.H., Cutrona, C.E., & Simons,
R.L. (2006). Pubertal Maturation and Early Substance Use Risks in African American
Children. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 20, 404 - 414.
Simons, R.L., Simons, L.G., Drummond, H., Stewart, E., Gibbons, F.X., & Cutrona, C.E.
(2006). Supportive parenting moderates the effect of discrimination upon anger, hostile
view of relationships, and violence among African American boys. Journal of Health and
Social Behavior, 47, 373 - 389.
Buunk, B.P. & Gibbons, F.X. (2007). Social Comparison: The end of a theory and the
emergence of a field. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 102, 3 –
21.
Wills, T.A., Murry, V. M., Brody, G.H., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., & Walker, C. (2007).
Ethnic Pride and Self-Control Related to protective and Risk Factors: Test of the
Heuristic Model for the Strong African American Families Program. Health Psychology.
26, 50 – 59.
Brewer, N.T., Chapman, G.B., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., McCaul, K.D., & Weinstein,
N.D. (2007). A meta-analysis of the relationship between risk perception and vaccination
behavior. Health Psychology, 26, 136 – 145.
Weinstein, N.D., Kwitel, A., McCaul, K., Magnan, R., Gerrard, M., & Gibbons, F.X.
(2007). Risk perceptions: Assessment and relationship to influenza vaccination. Health
Psychology, 26, 146 - 151.
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Lane, D.J. & Gibbons, F.X., (2007). Social comparison and satisfaction: Students’
reactions after exam feedback predict future academic performance. Journal of Applied
Social Psychology, 37, 1363 – 1384.
Gibbons, F.X., Yeh, H., Gerrard, M. Cleveland, M.J., Cutrona, C. Simons, R.L., & Brody,
G.H. (2007). Early experience with discrimination and conduct disorder as predictors of
subsequent drug use: A critical period analysis. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 88, S27
– S37.
Mahler, H.I.M., Kulik, J.A., Gerrard, & Gibbons, F.X. (2007). Long-term effects of
appearance-based interventions on sun protection behaviors. Health Psychology, 26,
350 - 360.
Wills, T.A., Ainette, M.G., Mendoza, D., Gibbons, F.X., & Brody, G.H. (2007). Selfcontrol, symptomatology, and substance use precursors: Test of a theoretical model in a
community sample of 9-year old children. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 21, 205215.
Warner, L.M., Hohmann, C., Bohmer-Lasthaus, S., Luszczynska, A., Piko, B.F.,
Gibbons, F.X., & Tekozel, M. (2007). A 4-country study on sexual protection among
adolescents. Zeitschrift fur Gesundheitspsychologie, 15, 109-118.
Piko, B.F., Bak, J., & Gibbons, F.X. (2007). Prototype perception and smoking: Are
negative or positive social images more important in adolescence? Addictive Behaviors,
1728 – 1732.
Wills, T.A., Sargent, J.D., Gibbons, F.X., & Stoolmiller, M. (2007). Movie Exposure to
Smoking Cues and Adolescent Smoking Onset: A Test for Mediation through Peer
Affiliations, Health Psychology, 26(6), 769 – 776.
Lane, D.J. & Gibbons, F.X. (2007). Am I The Typical Student? Similarity to Prototypes
Predicts Success in College. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1380 1391.
Gibbons, F.X., Reimer, R.A., Gerrard, M., Yeh, H-C., Houlihan, A., Cutrona, C.E.,
Simons, R. L., & Brody, G.H. (2007) Rural – Urban differences in substance use among
African American adolescents. Journal of Rural Health, 23, 22 - 28.
Natsuaki, N. Ge, X. Brody, G. H., Simons, R. L., Gibbons, F. X., & Cutrona C. (2007).
American African children's depressive symptoms: Prospective effect of neighborhood
disorder, stressful life events, and parenting. American Journal of Community
Psychology, 39 (1-2), 163 - 176.
Sargent, J.D., Stoolmiller, M., Worth, K.A., Dal Cin, S., Wills, T.A., Gibbons, F.X.,
Gerrard, M., & Tanski, S. (2007). Exposure to smoking depiction in movies: Its
association with established adolescent smoking. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent
Medicine. 161: 849 – 856.
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Murry, V.M., Berkel, C., Brody, G.H., Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X. (2007). The Strong
African American Families Program: Longitudinal pathways to sexual risk reduction.
Journal of Adolescent Health, 41, 333-342.
Houlihan, A.E., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., Reimer, R. A., Yeh, H-C., & Murry, V.M.
(2008). Sex and the self: The impact of early sexual onset on the self-concept and
subsequent risky behavior of African American adolescents. Journal of Early
Adolescence, 28(1), 70 – 91.
Seaton, M., Marsh, H.W., Dumas, F., Huguet, P., Monteil, J-M., Regner, I., Blanton, H.,
Buunk, A.P., Gibbons, F.X., Kuyper, H., Wheeler, L., & Suls, J. (2008). In Search of the
Big Fish: Investigating the Coexistence of the Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect with the
Positive Effects of Upward Comparison. British Journal of Social Psychology, 47, 73 –
103.
Andrews, J.A., Hampson, S.E., Barckley, M., Gerrard, M., & Gibbons, F.X. (2008).
The effect of early cognitions on cigarette and alcohol use in adolescence. Psychology
of Addictive Behaviors, 22, 96 – 106.
Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X., & Houlihan, A.E., Stock, M.L., & Pomery, E.A. (2008). A
dual-process approach to health risk decision making: The prototype willingness model.
Developmental Review, 28, 29 – 61.
Murry, V.M., Harrell, A.W., Brody, G.H., Chen, Y-F. Simons, R.L., Black, A.R., Cutrona,
C.E., & Gibbons, F.X. (2008). Long-term effects of stressors on relationship well-being
and parenting among rural African American women. Family Relations (special issue),
57, 117-127.
Granberg, E., Simons, R.L., Gibbons, F.X., & Melby, J. (2008). The Relationship
between Body Size and Depressed Mood: Findings from a Sample of African American
Middle School Girls. Youth and Society, 39, 294 – 315.
Jin, R., Ge, X., Brody, G.H., Simons, R.L., Cutrona, C.E., & Gibbons, F.X. (2008).
Antecedents and Consequences of Psychiatric Disorders in African American
Adolescents. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 37(5), 439 - 505.
Wills, T.A., Sargent, J.D., Stoolmiller, M. Gibbons, F.X., & Gerrard, M. (2008). Movie
smoking exposure and smoking onset: A longitudinal study of mediation processes in a
representative sample of US adolescents. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 22, 269 277.
Piko, B.F. & Gibbons, F.X. (2008). Behavioral and psychosocial influences of risk
perception among Hungarian adolescents. International Journal of Public Health, 53,
131 – 138.
Simons, L.G., Brody, G.H., Murry, V.M., Granberg, E., Chen, Y., Simons, R.L.,Conger,
R.D., & Gibbons, F.X, (2008). Differences between European Americans and African
Americans in the Association between Child Obesity and Disrupted Parenting. Journal
Of Comparative Family Studies, 39 (2), 207-228.
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Kogan, S. M., Brody, G. H., Gibbons, F. X., Murry, V. M., Cutrona, C. E., Simons, R. L.,
Wingood, G. R., & DiClemente, R. (2008). The Influence of Role Status on Risky Sexual
Behavior among African Americans During the Transition to Adulthood. Journal of Black
Psychology, 34, 381-398.
Mahler, H.I.M., Kulik, J.A., Butler, H., Gerrard, M., & Gibbons, F.X. (2008). Social norms
information enhances the efficacy of an appearance-based sun protection intervention.
Social Science & Medicine, 67, 321-329.
Wills, T.A., Ainette, M.G., Stoolmiller, M., Gibbons, F.X., & Shinar, O. (2008). Good selfcontrol as a buffering agent for adolescent substance use: An investigation in early
adolescence with time-varying covariates. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 22, 459 471.
Murry, V.M., Brody, G.H., Simons, R.L., Cutrona, C.E., & Gibbons, F.X. (2008)
Disentangling ethnicity and context as predictors of parenting within rural African
American families. Applied Developmental Science, 12, 202 - 210.
Berkel, C., Murry, V. M., Hurt, T. R., Chen, Y.- F., Brody, G. H., Simons, R. L., Cutrona,
C., & Gibbons, F. X. (2009). It takes a village: Protecting rural African American youth in
the context of racism. Journal of Youth & Adolescence, 38, 175-188.
Wills, T.A., Sargent, J.D., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M. & Stoolmiller, M. (2009). Movie
exposure to alcohol cues and adolescent alcohol problems: A longitudinal analysis in a
national sample. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 23, 23-35.
Gibbons, F.X., Houlihan, A.E., & Gerrard, M. (2009). Reason and reaction: The utility of
a dual-focus, dual-processing perspective on promotion and prevention of adolescent
health risk behavior (special issue). British Journal of Health Psychology, 14, 231-248.
Pomery, E.A., Gibbons, F.X., Reis-Bergan, M., & Gerrard, M. (2009). From Willingness
to Intention: Experience moderates the shift from reactive to reasoned behavior.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 894 - 908.
Dal Cin, S., Worth, K.A., Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X., Stoolmiller, M., Wills, T.A., &
Sargent, J.D. (2009). Watching and drinking: Effects of exposure to alcohol use in
movies on adolescent drinking are mediated by expectancies, prototypes, and peer
affiliations. Health Psychology, 28, 473 – 483.
Wills, T.A. & Gibbons, F.X. (2009). Commentary on “Conceptualizing mental health
utilization using the Health Belief Model.” Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice;
invited commentary, 16, 440 – 444.
Spijkerman, R., Larsen, H., Gibbons, F.X., & Engels, R.C.M.E. (2010). Students’ Drinker
Prototypes and Alcohol Use in a Naturalistic Setting. Alcoholism: Clinical and
Experimental Research, 34, 64 – 71.
Piko, B., Skulteti, D., & Gibbons, F.X. (2010). Social orientation and adolescent health
behaviors in Hungary. International Journal of Psychology, 45, 12 - 20.
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Stoolmiller, M. Gerrard, M., Sargent, J.D., Worth, K.A., & Gibbons, F.X. (2010). R-rated
Movie Viewing, Growth in Sensation Seeking and Alcohol Initiation: Reciprocal and
Moderation Effects. Prevention Science, 11, 1 – 13.
Marsh, H., Seaton, M., Kuyper, H., Dumas, F., Huguet, P., Regner, I., Buunk, A.P.,
Monteil, J-M. & Gibbons, F.X. (2010). Phantom behavioral assimilation effects:
Systematic biases in social comparison choice studies. Journal of Personality, 78, 671710.
Roberts, M.E.,* Gerrard, M., Reimer, R. & Gibbons, F.X. (2010). Mother-daughter
communication and Human Pappillomavirus Vaccine uptake by college students.
Pediatrics, 125, 982 – 989.
Stock, M.L.*, Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X., Dykstra, J.L., Mahler, H.I.M., Walsh, L., &
Kulik, J.A. (2010). A sun protection intervention for highway workers: Long-term efficacy
of UV photography and skin cancer information on men’s protective cognitions and
behavior. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 38, 225-236.
Gibbons, F.X., Etcheverry, P.E., Stock, M.L., Gerrard, M., Weng, C.-Y., Kiviniemi, M., &
O’Hara, R.E. (2010). Exploring the link between racial discrimination and substance use.
What mediates? What buffers? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 99(5),785801.
Reimer, R.A.,* Gerrard, M., & Gibbons, F.X. (2010). Racial disparities in smoking
knowledge among current smokers: Data from the Health Information National Trends
Survey. Psychology and Health 25, 943-959.
Wills, T.A., Gibbons, F.X., Sargent, J.D., Gerrard, M., Lee, H-R., & Dal Cin, S. (2010).
Good self-control moderates the effect of mass media on adolescent tobacco and
alcohol use: Tests with studies of children and adolescents. Health Psychology 29, 539549.
Mahler, H.I.M., Kulik, J.A., Gerrard, M., & Gibbons, F.X. (2010). Effects of upward and
downward social comparison information on the efficacy of an appearance-based sun
protection intervention. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 33, 496 - 507.
Gerrits, J., O’Hara, R.E., Piko, B. Gibbons, F.X. de Ridder, D., Keresztes, N. Kamble, S.
V., & de Wit, J. (2010). Self-control, diet concerns and prototypes: Shared predictors of
adolescents’ unhealthy eating across cultures. Health Education Research, 6, 10311041.
Gibbons, F.X., Pomery, E.A., Gerrard, M., Sargent, J.D., Weng, C-Y., Wills, T.A.,
Kingsbury, J.H., Dal Cin, S., Worth, K.A., & Stoolmiller, M., Tanki, S.E. & Yeh, H-C.
(2010). Media as social influence: Racial differences in the effects of peers and media
on adolescent alcohol cognitions and consumption. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors,
24, 649 – 659.
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Landor, A., Simons, L.G., Simons, R.L., Brody, G.H., & Gibbons, F.X. (2011) The role of
religiosity in the relationship between parents, peers, and adolescent risky sexual
behavior. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 40, 296-309.
Kogan, S. Brody, G.H., Gibbons, F.X., Chen, Y., Grange, H.M., Simons, R., Gerrard, M.,
& Cutrona, C.E. (2011). Mechanisms of family impact on African American adolescents’
HIV-related behavior: A cascade model. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 21, 361 –
375.
Stock, M.L.,* Gibbons, F.X., Walsh, L. & Gerrard, M., (2011) Racial identification, racial
discrimination, and substance use vulnerability among African American young adults
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 1349 - 1361.
Lane, D.J., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., & O’hara, R.E. (2011). Standing out from the
crowd: How comparison with prototypes can decrease health risk behavior in young
adults. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 33, 228-238.
Gibbons, F.X., Kingsbury, J.H., Gerrard, M., & Wills, T.A. (2011) Two ways of thinking
about dual processing: A response to Hofmann, Friese, & Wiers (2008). Health
Psychology Review, 5, 158 - 161.
Martin, M.J., McCarthy, B., Conger, R.D., Gibbons, F.X., Simons, R.L., Cutrona, C.E., &
Brody, G.H. (2011). The enduring significance of racism: Discrimination and delinquency
among Black American youth. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 21, 662 - 676.
Murry, V.M., Berkel, C., Chen, Y.-F., Brody, G.H., Gibbons, F.X., & Gerrard, M. (2011).
Intervention induced changes on parenting practices, youth self-pride, and sexual norms
to reduce HIV-related behaviors among rural African American youths. Journal of Youth
and Adolescence, 40, 1147 - 1163.
Gibbons, F.X. Kingsbury, J.H., & Gerrard, M. (2011) Social-psychological theories and
adolescent health risk behavior. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 10, 1 - 14.
Roberts, M.E.,* Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., & Alert, M. (2011) Optimism and adolescent
perception of skin cancer risk. Health Psychology, 30, 810 - 813.
Simons, R.L., Lei, M.K., Brody, G.H., Beach, S.R.H., Philibert, R.A., & Gibbons, F.X.
(2011). Social environment, genes, and aggression: Evidence supporting the differential
susceptibility hypothesis. American Sociological Review, 76, 862 - 882.
Simons, R.L., Lei, M.-K., Beach, S.R.H., Brody, G., Philibert, R.A., & Gibbons, F.X.
(2012). Social adversity, genetic variation, street code, and aggression: A genetically
informed model of violent behavior. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 10, 2 – 24.
Roberts, M.E.*, Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., Weng, C.-Y., Murry, V.M., Simons, L.G.,
Simons, R.L., & Lorenz, F.O. (2012). From racial discrimination to risky sex: Prospective
relations involving peers and parents. Developmental Psychology, 48, 89 - 102.
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O’Hara, R.E.,* Gibbons, F.X., Weng, C-Y., Gerrard, M., & Simons, R.L. (2012) Perceived
racial discrimination as a barrier to college attendance for African Americans: Mediation
by academic orientation and expectations Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,
38, 77 – 89.
Gibbons, F.X., Roberts, M.E., Gerrard, M., Li, Z., Beach, S.R.H., Simons, R.L., Weng, CY., & Philibert, R.A. (2012). The impact of stress on the life history strategies of African
American adolescents: Cognitions, genetic moderation, and the role of discrimination.
Developmental Psychology, 48, 722 – 739 (special issue on evolutionary-developmental
psychology).
Gibbons, F.X., O’Hara, R.E., Stock, M.L., Gerrard, M., Weng, C-Y., Wills, T.A. (2012).
The erosive effects of racism: Reduced self-control mediates the relation between
perceived racial discrimination and substance use in African American adolescents.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102, 1089 – 1104.
Burt, C.H., Simons, R.L., & Gibbons, F.X. (2012). Racial discrimination, ethnic-racial
socialization and crime: A microsociological model of risk and resilience. American
Sociological Review, 77, 648 - 677.
O’Hara, R.E.,* Gibbons, F.X., Sargent, J.D., Gerrard, M., & Li, Z. (2012). Greater
exposure to Sexual Content in Popular Movies Predicts Earlier Sexual Debut and
Increased Sexual Risk-taking. Psychological Science, 23, 984 - 993.
Gerrard, M., Stock, M.L., Roberts, M.E., Gibbons, F.X., O’Hara, R.E., & Weng, C-Y.
(2012). Coping with racial discrimination: The role of substance use. Psychology of
Addictive Behaviors, 26, 550 - 560.
*Denotes current or recent student as first author on
publications (since 2010)
IN PRESS
Brody, G.H., Ge, X., Gibbons, F.X., Murry, V.M., Gerrard, M., & Simons, R.L. (in press).
Longitudinal, mediated pathways from parenting to African American youths’ substance
use intentions. (Journal of Marriage and Family).
Stock, M.L.,* Gibbons, F.X, Peterson, L.M., & Gerrard, M.(in press). The effects of racial
discrimination and general life stressors on the HIV-risk behaviors of Black adolescents
and young adults. (Health Psychology; special issue on social psychology theory and
health behavior).
Arndt, J., Goldenberg, J.A., Vail, K., Piasecki, T.L., & Gibbons, F.X. (in press). Effects of
mortality salience on smoking topography: Cancer cognitions and cancer control. (Health
Psychology; special issue on social psychology theory and health behavior).
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Stock, M.L.,* Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., Houlihan, A.E., Simons, R.L. & Weng, C.-Y. (in
press) Racial identification, integration, and substance use vulnerability among African
American adolescents. (Health Psychology).
Brody, G.H., Yu, T., Chen Y-F, Kogan, S.M., Evans, G.W., Windle, M., Gerrard, M.,
Gibbons, F.X., Simons, R.L., & Philibert, R.A. (in press). Supportive Family
Environments, Sensitivity Genes, and Allostatic Load Among Rural African American
Emerging Adults: A Prospective Analysis (Invited paper for special issue of Journal of
Family Psychology).
Philibert, R.A., Plume, J.M., Gibbons, F.X., Brody, G.H., & Beach, S.R.H (in press).
Dose dependent impact of recent alcohol use on genome wide DNA methylation
signatures. (Frontiers in Behavioral and Psychiatric Genetics).
Brody, G. H., Yu, T., Chen, Y.- F., Kogan, S. M., Evans, G. W., Beach, S. R. H., Windle,
M., Simons, R. L., Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F. X., & Philibert, R. A. (in press). Cumulative
socioeconomic status risk, allostatic load, and adjustment: A prospective latent profile
analysis with contextual and genetic protective factors. (Developmental Psychology).
Teunissen, H., Spijkerman, R., Larsen, H., Kremer, K., Kuntsche, E., Gibbons, F.X.,
Scholte, R. & Engels, R. (in press). Stereotypic Information about Drinkers and Students'
Observed Alcohol Intake: An Experimental Study on Prototype-Behavior Relations in
Males and Females in a Naturalistic Drinking Context. (Drug and Alcohol Dependence).
Granberg, E.M., Simons, R.L., Edmonds, M. & Gibbons, F.X. (in press). The
associations between racial socialization and depression: Testing direct and buffering
associations in a longitudinal cohort of young adult African Americans. (Mental Health
and Society).
Simons, R.L., Simons, L.G., Beach, S.R.H., Brody, G.H., Gibbons, F.X., & Philibert, R.A.
(in press). Genetic moderation of the impact of parenting on hostility toward romantic
partners. (Journal of Marriage and the Family).
Gibbons, F.X., Kingsbury, J.H., Weng, C.-Y., Gerrard, M., Cutrona, C.E., & Wills, T.A.
(under revision). The Effects of Racial Discrimination on Health Status and Health
Behavior: A Differential Mediation Hypothesis. (Health Psychology).
Zhylyevskyy, O., Jensen, H., Garasky, S. Cutrona, C.E., & Gibbons, F.X. (in press).
Effects of family, friends, and relative prices on fruit and vegetable consumption by
African Americans. (Southern Economic Journal).
BOOKS
Brehm, S. S., Kassin, S. M., & Gibbons, F. X. (Eds.). (1981). Developmental social
psychology: Theory and research. New York: Oxford University Press.
Buunk, B. & Gibbons, F. X. (Eds.) (1997). Health, coping and well-being: Perspectives
from social comparison theory. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum Associates.
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Krizan, Z. & Gibbons, F.X. (Eds.) (2012). Communal functions of social comparison.
New York: Cambridge University Press.
CHAPTERS
Gibbons, F. X. (1981). The stigma of mental retardation: What's in a label? In S. Brehm,
S. Kassin, & F. Gibbons (Eds.), Developmental social psychology: Theory and research
(pp. 249-270). New York: Oxford University Press.
Gibbons, F. X. (1985). Interdependence among physically and mentally handicapped
persons: A theoretical and empirical approach. In N. J. Salkind & A. Turnbull (Eds.),
Independent living. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press.
Gibbons, F. X. (1986). Stigma and social relationships. In S. A. Ainlay, G. Becker, & L.
Coleman (Eds.), The dilemma of difference (pp. 123-144). New York: Plenum Press.
Gibbons, F. X. (1990). Self-focus and embarrassment: Implications for the self-concept.
In R. Crozier (Ed.), Shyness and embarrassment: Perspectives from social psychology
(pp. 119-143). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Gibbons, F. X., & Gerrard, M. (1991). Downward comparison and coping with threat. In
J. M. Suls & T. A. Wills (Eds.), Social comparison: Theory and application (pp. 317-345).
Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Associates.
Gibbons, F. X. (1991). Attention and the experience of anxiety. In R. Schwarzer & R. A.
Wicklund (Eds.), Anxiety and self-related cognitions (pp. 15-26). New York: Harwood
Academic Publishers.
Gibbons, F. X. & Boney McCoy S. (1991). Self-perception and self-deception: The role
of attention in suggestibility processes. In J. F. Schumaker, (Ed.), Human suggestibility:
Advances in theory, research and practice (pp. 185-199). New York: Routledge, Inc.
Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F. X., & Warner, T. D. (1993). Perceived vulnerability to AIDS and
AIDS-preventive behavior: A critical review of the evidence. In J. Pryor & G. Reeder
(Eds.), The social psychology of HIV infection (pp 59-84). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Assoc.
Hedges, T. J., Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F. X., & Smith, G. E. (1995). Psychosocial factors
affecting rural adolescent alcohol abuse. In R. R. Watson (Ed.), Alcohol and drug abuse
during pregnancy and childhood (pp. 37-63). Totawa, NJ: The Humana Press.
Buunk, B., Gibbons, F. X., & Reis-Bergan, M. (1997). Social comparison in health and
illness. In B. Buunk & F. X. Gibbons (Eds.), Health, coping and well-being: Perspectives
from social comparison theory (pp. 1-23). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum Associates.
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Gibbons, F. X., & Gerrard, M. (1997). Health images and their effects on health
behavior. In B. Buunk & F. X. Gibbons (Eds), Health, coping and well-being:
Perspectives from social comparison theory (pp. 63-94). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum Assoc.
Eggleston, T. J., & Gibbons, F. X. (1999). The Marlboro Cowboy vs. the Surgeon
General: Who is winning the war on smoking? In L. T. Benjamin, B. F. Nodine, R. M.
Ernst, & C. B. Broeker (Eds.), Activities handbook for the teaching of psychology, Vol. 4
(pp. 336 - 342). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., Ouelette, J., & Burzette, B. (2000). Cognitive antecedents to
adolescent health risk: Behavioral intention vs. behavioral willingness. In P. Norman, C.
Abraham & M. Conner (Eds.), Understanding and changing health behaviour: From
health beliefs to self-regulation (pp. 137 – 164). Singapore: Harwood Publishers.
Buunk, B. P. & Gibbons, F. X. (2000). Toward an enlightenment in social comparison
theory. In J. Suls & L. Wheeler (Eds.) Handbook of social comparison theory and
research. New York: Plenum.
Lane, D.J., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., Blanton, H., & Buunk, B.P. (2002). Comparison
strategies in response to threat: When does social comparison make a difference? In S.
Shohov (Ed.), Advances in psychology research, 10 (pp. 71–97). Huntington, NY: Nova.
Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X., & Gano, M. (2003). Adolescents’ risk perceptions and
behavioral willingness: Implications for intervention. In D. Romer (Ed.) Reducing
Adolescent Risk: Toward an Integrated Approach. (pp. 75 – 81). Newbury, CA:
Sage Publications.
Gibbons, F. X., Gerrard, M. & Lane, D. J. (2003). A social-reaction model of adolescent
health risk. In J. M. Suls & K. A. Wallston (Eds.) Social Psychological Foundations of
Health and Illness, (pp 107 – 136). Oxford, England: Blackwell.
Gibbons, F. X., Gerrard, M., & Pomery, E.A. (2004). Risk and reactance: Applying
social psychological theory to the study of health behavior. In R. A. Wright, J.
Greenberg, & S. S. Brehm (Eds.), Motivational Analyses of Social Behavior (pp. 149-66).
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Gibbons, F. X., Gerrard, M., & Pomery, E. (2004). Social psychology. In A. Christensen,
R. Martin, & J. Smyth (Eds.) Health Psychology (pp. 278 – 280). New York: MacMillan.
Buunk, A.P. & Gibbons, F.X. (2005). Social comparison. In G. Davey (Ed.) The
Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Psychology (pp. 278 – 279). London: Hodder Education.
Buunk, A.P. & Gibbons, F.X. (2006) Social comparison orientation: A new perspective
on those who do and those who don’t compare with others. In S. Guimond (Ed.)
Interpersonal and intergroup comparisons., (pp. 15 – 32). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge
University Press.
Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., Reimer, R., & Pomery, E.A.* (2006) Health decision-making:
Reasoned vs. reactive responding. In D. de Ridder & J. de Wit (Eds.) Self-regulation in
health behaviour (pp. 45 – 70). W. Sussex, UK: Wiley and Sons, Inc.
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Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X., Stock, M.L., Dykstra, J., & Moses, A.E. (2006)
Temperament, self-regulation, and the prototype-willingness model of adolescent health
risk behavior. In D. de Ridder & J. de Wit (Eds.) Self-regulation in health behaviour (pp.
97 – 117). W. Sussex, UK: Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Gibbons, F.X. (2006). Proximal antecedents: Intentions, expectations, and willingness as
precursors of health behavior. In M. Gerrard & K. McCaul (Eds.) A web-based health
lexicon. National Cancer Institute.
Gibbons, F.X., Pomery, E., & Gerrard, M. (2008). Cognitive social influence:
Moderation, mediation, modification, and…The media. In M. Prinstein & K.A. Dodge
(Eds.) Understanding Peer Influence in Children and Adolescents. Duke Series in Child
Development and Public Policy. (pp. 45 – 71). NY: Guilford Press.
Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M. & Pomery, E.A. (2010). Racial discrimination and substance
abuse: Risk and protective factors in African American adolescents. In L. Scheier (Ed.)
Handbook of Drug etiology: Theory, Methods and Empirical Findings (pp. 341 – 361).
Washington, D.C.: APA Press.
Dijkstra, P., Gibbons, F.X., & Buunk, A.P., (2010). Social comparison theory. In J.E.
Maddux & J.P. Tangney (Eds.) Social Psychological Foundations of Clinical Psychology.
(pp. 195 – 211). NY: Guilford Press:
Pomery, E.A., Gibbons, F.X., & Stock, M.L. (2012). Social comparison. In V.S.
Ramachandran (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, 2nd Edition. (pp. 463 – 469).
Oxford: Elsevier
Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., Stock, M.L., & O’Hara, R.E. (in press). Probing the
Discrimination to Drug Use Link: A Psychosocial Perspective on Health Disparity. In Y.
Thomas, L. Price & A. V. Lybrand (Eds.) Trajectories of Drug Use among African
Americans. NY: Springer.
Simons, R.L., Lei, M.K., Beach, S.R.H., Brody, G.H., Philibert, R.A., Gibbons, F.X., &
Gerrard, M., (in press). Differential sensitivity to context: GABRG1 enhances the
acquisition of prototypes that serve as intermediate phenotypes for substance use. In J.
Mackillop & M.R. Munafo (Eds.) Genetic Influences on Addiction: An Intermediate
Phenotype Approach. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Krizan, Z. & Gibbons, F.X. (in press). Ties that bind, ties that divide: A perspective on the
interpersonal and intrapersonal functions of social comparison. In Z. Krizan, & F.X.
Gibbons (Eds.), Communal Functions of Social Comparison. New York: Cambridge
University Press.
Beach, S.R.H., Gerrard, M., Brody, G. H., Simons, R. L., Kogan, S. M., Gibbons, F. X., &
Philibert, R., A. (in press). Epigenetic intermediate phenotypes. In J. Mackillop & M.R.
Munafo (Eds.) Genetic Influences on Addiction: An Intermediate Phenotype Approach.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
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Wills, T.A. Forbes, M., & Gibbons, F.X. (in press). Parental and peer support: An
analysis of their relations to adolescent substance use. In W. Hansen, & L.M. Scheier
(Eds.) Parenting and Teen Drug Use. New York: Oxford Press.
INVITED TALKS, COLLOQUIA
Focus of attention and personal standards: Self-perception or self-deception? MPA,
1979. (Invited paper)
Focus of attention and reactions to helping values. University of Wisconsin, 1980.
A social psychological perspective on independent living. University of Kansas, 1981.
Defensiveness and causal attributions of arousal. Drake University, 1982.
Self-awareness theory: Clinical applications. Carleton College, 1983.
Self-focused attention and depression. University of Heidelberg, 1984.
Social comparison and mood change. Mannheim University, 1984.
Recent developments in the integration of clinical and social psychology. University of
Landau, 1984.
An application of social comparison theory to the study of depression. University of
Kansas, 1984.
Self-perception and self-disclosure. University of Giessen, 1986.
Self-awareness theory: Almost fifteen years later. University of Bielefeld, 1986.
Social distancing and smoking cessation. University of Minnesota, 1989.
Social comparison and health. North Dakota State University, 1989.
Social comparison and the self-concept. Society of Experimental Social Psychology,
Buffalo, 1990.
Risk perception and smoking status. UCLA, 1990.
Self-identity and self-change. UCLA, 1991.
Coping with and promoting self-change: The role of social comparison.
University of Southern California, 1991;
Claremont Graduate School, 1991.
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Social comparison and coping with threat: Distancing and accommodation. University of
Wisconsin, 1991.
Gerrard, M., & Gibbons, F. X. Economic and psychological predictors of adolescent
health risk behaviors and use of mental health services in rural America. SPSSI, 1992.
(Recipient of 1992 SPSSI Conference Research Award.)
Social comparison as a coping process. Nags Head Conf. on Social Comparison, 1992.
Gibbons, F.X. & Gerrard, M. Prototype perception and perilous behavior: A socialpsychological model of adolescent health risk. University of Arizona, 1993.
Downward shift: Cognitive comparisons and coping with stress. Kurt Lewin Conference;
Schiermonnikoog, The Netherlands, 1994.
Willingness and intention: Two (primrose) paths to health risk. University of Groningen;
Groningen, The Netherlands, 1994.
Gibbons, F.X. & Gerrard, M. Is social comparison an effective coping strategy? Society
of Experimental Social Psychology, Washington, DC., 1995.
Gerrard, M., & Gibbons, F. X. Tracing family influences on adolescent drinking: An
analysis of cognitive mediation. NIAAA Conference on "Alcohol and the Family:
Opportunities for Prevention," Washington, DC, 1996.
The impact of social comparison on the self: Affect and cognition. Harvard University,
1996.
Social comparison and health. Society of Behavioral Medicine, 1997.
Gerrard, M., & Gibbons, F. X. Health cognitions and sexual risk behavior. Invited
address; APA, 1997.
Health Cognitions: What does social psychology theory have to say about health
behavior? UC San Diego, 1997.
Examining the role of social comparison in health behavior. University of Groningen,
1997.
Social psychology and health risk: The Prototype/Willingness Model. The Free University
of Amsterdam, 1997.
Social comparison as a mediator (and moderator) of the link between socioeconomic
status and health. University of Michigan (School of Public Health), 1998.
Individual differences in social comparison tendencies. Self-preconference; Society of
Experimental Social Psychology; Lexington, KY, 1998.
Gerrard, M. & Gibbons, F.X. Barriers to understanding risk. Invited presentation,
National Cancer Institute Conference on Perceptions of Health Risk, 1998.
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What does a "designated drinker look like?" The effect of drinker and non-drinker images
on adolescent alcohol consumption. University of Connecticut, 1998.
Why do rural (Iowa) kids use drugs? Governor’s Conference on Rural Methamphetamine
Use; Boise, Idaho, 1999.
Risk images and risky behavior: Social comparison as a moderator. University of
Valencia, Spain, 1999.
The context of risk: A social psychological perspective on adolescent health risk. Rice
University, 2000.
Health Cognitions. American Psychological Society; Toronto, Canada; June, 2001 (chair,
invited symposium and presentation).
Altering risk perceptions; Fifth Annual Iowa Health Cognitions Conference (Presentation
and Co-host with M. Gerrard); Tyngsboro, MA, 2001.
Using risk images to reduce health risk. Invited presentation. European Society of Health
Psychology; London, UK, 2001.
Gibbons, F.X. & Gerrard, M. The social psychology of substance use: A prospective
analysis in African American families. Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, OR, 2002.
Perceived discrimination and substance use in African American families. Duke
University. 2003
The utility of a social-reaction model of health behavior. Society of Experimental Social
Psychology; Boston, MA; 2003.
A subrational approach to self-regulation in adolescents: Implications for health.
University of Utrecht; Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2004.
Setting standards: Comparison level and academic performance. University of
Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; 2004
Social influences on drug use among rural African American youth. NIDA Conference:
Drug abuse in rural America: Current research perspectives, 2004
Discrimination, attribution, and prevention: A social-cognitive approach to changing
social behaviors in African American adolescents. University of Georgia, 2005.
What effect does observing family members experiencing racial discrimination have on
African Americans’ mental and physical health? University of Nebraska, 2005.
Using social psychology theory to examine health behavior. Norris Cotton Cancer
Center, Dartmouth – Hitchcock Medical Center, 2005.
The willingness – intention distinction: Empirical tests of discriminant validity. University
of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, 2005
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Reactive vs. reasoned processing: Proven predictors or proximal proxies? European
Health Psychology Conference. Galway, Ireland, 2005 (abstracted in Psychology &
Health, 2005, 20, 93).
Dual processing and health: Implications for health risk and health promotion.
Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, 2005.
A social cognitive model of adolescent health behavior. University of Georgia, 2006.
Dual process and health cognition: Two ways of thinking about two ways of thinking.
Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, OR. 2006.
Social influence and adolescent substance use: Mediators and moderators. Sanford
Institute, Duke University. 2006.
Gerrard, M. & Gibbons, F.X. Trajectories of drug use among African American adults
and adolescents. NIDA conference on racial/ethnic differences in drug use and abuse.
2006.
A theory-based approach to health change. University of Florida. 2007.
Can social psychology help reduce cancer risk? Theory, research and application.
National Cancer Institute, Washington, D.C. 2008
Venues of research: From the lab, to the field, to the home. Colgate University. 2008.
Racial discrimination and health. Society of Personality and Social Psychology
Conference; Health Preconference. 2009.
Prospecting prejudice: What does social psychology have to say about discrimination
and health? University of North Carolina. 2009.
A social-psychological perspective on health behavior interventions: Applications to
cancer control. Yale University 2009.
New directions in reasoned and reactive thinking: A workshop on the prototype –
willingness model. Universiteit Nijmegen. 2009.
Discrimination and disease: Racial, ethnic and cultural differences in health cognitions
and health behavior. University of Hawaii. 2010.
A prospective look at discrimination and health: Anger in or anger out? University of
Florida, 2010.
Exploring the health consequences of racial discrimination. (Chair, invited symposium on
Health and Social Psychology Theory). Society of Experimental Social Psychology.
2010.
Discrimination, distress, and disparity: A psychosocial approach to the study of health
status and health risk. Yale University. 2011
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From mirrors to smoking: Bob Wicklund’s influence on the evolution of health-social
psychology. NYU. 2011
Discrimination, Distress and Disparity: Psychosocial factors and cancer vulnerability.
University of Connecticut. 2012
Racial discrimination as social exclusion: Acute and chronic effects on health status and
health behavior. University of Rome (Sapienza). 2012.
Social psychology, dual-processing, and health risk: A theoretical approach to
preventive-intervention in Black adolescents and other minorities. University of Arizona.
2013.
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