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Linda D. Cameron is affiliated with the University of California, Merced, in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines including psychology, medicine, and social sciences, with a focus on applied psychology, general health professions, sociology and political science, social psychology, and physiology.

Their work primarily addresses behavioral health and interventions, smoking behavior and cessation, community health and development, health policy implementation science, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, media influence and health, and adolescent sexual and reproductive health.

Recent publications by Linda D. Cameron include:

  • Examining associations between COVID-19 stressors, intimate partner violence, health, and health behaviors (2021), Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
  • The role of incidental affective states in appetitive risk behavior: A meta-analysis (2020), Health Psychology
  • Evidence-based recommendations for communicating the impacts of climate change on health (2022), Translational Behavioral Medicine
  • Risk Ladder, Table, or Bulleted List? Identifying Formats That Effectively Communicate Personalized Risk and Risk Reduction Information for Multiple Diseases (2020), Medical Decision Making
  • What Happens at Work Comes Home (2020), Healthcare

Linda D. Cameron frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Sara E. Fleszar-Pavlović, Martin S. Hagger, Abriana M. Gresham, Brett J. Peters, and Gery C. Karantzas.

Their publications are commonly featured in venues such as:

  • Annals of Behavioral Medicine
  • Journal of Behavioral Medicine
  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
  • Health Psychology

Linda D. Cameron's research integrates interdisciplinary approaches spanning psychology and medicine, particularly emphasizing behavioral health aspects and intervention strategies. The range of topics covered in their work includes the behavioral dimensions of smoking cessation, the development of community health initiatives, analyses related to health policy implementation, and studies on vaccine coverage and hesitancy.

Their contributions also extend into examining the influence of media on health behaviors as well as adolescent sexual and reproductive health, reflecting a broad but interconnected spectrum of health-related social science research.

Best Publications

  • The Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R)

    Rona Moss-Morris;John Weinman;Keith J. Petrie;Robert Horne

  • Values and their Relationship to Environmental Concern and Conservation Behavior

    P. Wesley Schultz;Valdiney V. Gouveia;Linda D. Cameron;Geetika Tankha

  • The self-regulation of health and illness behaviour.

    Linda D. Cameron;Howard Leventhal

  • Changing illness perceptions after myocardial infarction: an early intervention randomized controlled trial.

    Keith J Petrie;Linda D Cameron;Chris J Ellis;Deanna Buick

  • Behavioral theories and the problem of compliance

    Howard Leventhal;Linda Cameron

  • Symptom representations and affect as determinants of care seeking in a community-dwelling, adult sample population.

    Linda Cameron;Elaine A. Leventhal;Howard Leventhal

  • Effects of Tamoxifen on Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Postmenopausal Women

    Richard R. Love;Donald A. Wiebe;Polly A. Newcomb;Linda Cameron

  • Risk factors for and prevention of human papillomaviruses (HPV), genital warts and cervical cancer.

    Carol Chelimo;Trecia A. Wouldes;Linda D. Cameron;J. Mark Elwood

  • Expression of stressful experiences through writing: effects of a self-regulation manipulation for pessimists and optimists.

    Linda D. Cameron;Gregory Nicholls

  • Symptoms associated with tamoxifen treatment in postmenopausal women.

    Richard R. Love;Linda Cameron;Brad L. Connell;Howard Leventhal

  • A Cross-Cultural Study of Environmental Motive Concerns and Their Implications for Proenvironmental Behavior:

    Taciano L. Milfont;John Duckitt;Linda D. Cameron

  • Illness representations and matching labels with symptoms.

    Linda J. Baumann;Linda D. Cameron;Rick S. Zimmerman;Howard Leventhal

  • The Handbook of Behaviour Change

    Martin S. Hagger;Linda D. Cameron;Kyra Hamilton;Nelli Elisa Hankonen

  • Seeking medical care in response to symptoms and life stress.

    Linda Cameron;Elaine A. Leventhal;Howard Leventhal

  • Social Value Orientations and Decisions to Take Proenvironmental Action1

    Linda D. Cameron;Paul M. Brown;Judith G. Chapman

  • Adolescent Males’ Awareness of and Willingness to Try Electronic Cigarettes

    Jessica K. Pepper;Paul L. Reiter;Annie Laurie McRee;Linda D. Cameron

  • Changes in emotion regulation and psychological adjustment following use of a group psychosocial support program for women recently diagnosed with breast cancer.

    Linda D. Cameron;Roger J. Booth;Melanie Schlatter;Danute Ziginskas

  • Emotion regulation interventions: a common-sense model approach.

    Linda D. Cameron;Lana Jago

  • Quality of life in venous disease

    Inez van Korlaar;Carla Vossen;Frits Rosendaal;Linda Cameron

  • Illness risk representations and motivations to engage in protective behavior: the case of skin cancer risk.

    Linda D Cameron

Frequent Co-Authors

Howard Leventhal
Howard Leventhal Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Keith J. Petrie
Keith J. Petrie University of Auckland
John Weinman
John Weinman King's College London
Elaine A. Leventhal
Elaine A. Leventhal Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Diana Harcourt
Diana Harcourt University of the West of England
William M. P. Klein
William M. P. Klein National Institutes of Health
Falko F. Sniehotta
Falko F. Sniehotta Newcastle University
Jamie Arndt
Jamie Arndt University of Missouri
Kyra Hamilton
Kyra Hamilton Griffith University
Rona Moss-Morris
Rona Moss-Morris King's College London

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