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Overview

Meg Gerrard is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States and works primarily in the field of Medicine. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Molecular Biology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Physiology, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's work covers diverse topics with a strong focus on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Smoking Behavior and Cessation, Birth, Development, and Health, as well as Racial and Ethnic Identity Research. Other notable research interests include Behavioral Health and Interventions, Optimism, Hope, and Well-being, and Media Influence and Health.

Recent publications by Meg Gerrard include:

  • "The Prototype-Willingness Model", 2020, The Wiley Encyclopedia of Health Psychology
  • "Array-Based Epigenetic Aging Indices May Be Racially Biased", 2020, Genes
  • "Refinement of cg05575921 demethylation response in nascent smoking", 2020, Clinical Epigenetics
  • "Do Loneliness and Per Capita Income Combine to Increase the Pace of Biological Aging for Black Adults across Late Middle Age?", 2022, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "Racial centrality mediates the association between adolescent racial discrimination and adult cigarette smoking outcomes among Black Americans", 2022, Social Science & Medicine

Meg Gerrard frequently collaborates with several researchers in their field, including:

  • Frederick X. Gibbons
  • Robert A. Philibert
  • Steven R. H. Beach
  • Man-Kit Lei
  • Ronald L. Simons

The scientist has published multiple articles across a variety of academic journals. Among their most frequent publication venues are:

  • Journal of Applied Social Psychology
  • Genes
  • Epigenetics
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Clinical Epigenetics

Best Publications

  • Meta-analysis of the relationship between risk perception and health behavior: the example of vaccination.

    Noel T. Brewer;Gretchen B. Chapman;Frederick X. Gibbons;Meg Gerrard

  • A dual-process approach to health risk decision making: The prototype willingness model

    Meg Gerrard;Frederick X. Gibbons;Amy E. Houlihan;Michelle L. Stock

  • Perceived Discrimination and the Adjustment of African American Youths: A Five-Year Longitudinal Analysis With Contextual Moderation Effects

    Gene H. Brody;Yi Fu Chen;Velma McBride Murry;Xiaojia Ge

  • Reasoned action and social reaction: Willingness and intention as independent predictors of health risk.

    Frederick X. Gibbons;Meg Gerrard;Hart Blanton;Daniel W. Russell

  • Predicting young adults' health risk behavior.

    Frederick X. Gibbons;Meg Gerrard

  • The Influence of Neighborhood Disadvantage, Collective Socialization, and Parenting on African American Children's Affiliation with Deviant Peers

    Gene H Brody;Xiaojia Xiaojia Ge;Rand Conger;Frederick X Gibbons

  • Perceived Discrimination and Substance Use in African American Parents and Their Children: A Panel Study.

    Frederick X. Gibbons;Meg Gerrard;Michael J. Cleveland;Thomas A. Wills

  • Relation Between Perceived Vulnerability to HIV and Precautionary Sexual Behavior

    Meg Gerrard;Frederick X. Gibbons;Brad J. Bushman

  • Risk perceptions: assessment and relationship to influenza vaccination.

    Neil D. Weinstein;Abbie Kwitel;Kevin D. McCaul;Renee E. Magnan

  • A longitudinal study of the reciprocal nature of risk behaviors and cognitions in adolescents: what you do shapes what you think, and vice versa.

    Meg Gerrard;Frederick X. Gibbons;Alida C. Benthin;Robert M. Hessling

  • A Social Reaction Model of Adolescent Health Risk

    Frederick X. Gibbons;Meg Gerrard;David J. Lane

  • The Strong African American families program: Translating research into prevention programming

    Gene H. Brody;Velma McBride Murry;Meg Gerrard;Frederick X. Gibbons

  • Beyond group-mean differences: The concept of item bias.

    David Thissen;Lynne Steinberg;Meg Gerrard

  • Adolescent Self-Consciousness: Longitudinal Age Changes and Gender Differences in Two Cohorts

    Jane L. Rankin;David J. Lane;Frederick X. Gibbons;Meg Gerrard

  • Natural helping systems: A survey of Red Cross volunteers

    Michael B. Frisch;Meg Gerrard

  • Family communication and religiosity related to substance use and sexual behavior in early adolescence: a test for pathways through self-control and prototype perceptions.

    Thomas Ashby Wills;Frederick X. Gibbons;Meg Gerrard;Velma McBride Murry

  • Effects of upward and downward social comparison on mood states.

    Frederick X. Gibbons;Meg Gerrard

  • Downward comparison and coping with threat.

    Frederick X. Gibbons;Meg Gerrard

  • Using UV photography to reduce use of tanning booths: a test of cognitive mediation.

    Frederick X. Gibbons;Meg Gerrard;David J. Lane;Heike I. M. Mahler

  • Images of Smokers and Willingness to Smoke Among African American Pre-adolescents: An Application of the Prototype/Willingness Model of Adolescent Health Risk Behavior to Smoking Initiation

    Meg Gerrard;Frederick X. Gibbons;Michelle L. Stock;Linda S. Vande Lune

Frequent Co-Authors

Frederick X. Gibbons
Frederick X. Gibbons University of Connecticut
Gene H. Brody
Gene H. Brody University of Georgia
Ronald L. Simons
Ronald L. Simons University of Georgia
Thomas Ashby Wills
Thomas Ashby Wills University of Hawaii at Manoa
Steven R. H. Beach
Steven R. H. Beach University of Georgia
Velma McBride Murry
Velma McBride Murry Vanderbilt University
James A. Kulik
James A. Kulik University of California, San Diego
Hart Blanton
Hart Blanton Texas A&M University
Mike Stoolmiller
Mike Stoolmiller University of Oregon
Daniel W. Russell
Daniel W. Russell Iowa State University

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