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Melissa A. Lewis is affiliated with the University of North Texas Health Science Center in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines including medicine, psychology, and health professions, with significant contributions across these fields.

The main fields of study for Lewis include:

  • Medicine
  • Psychology
  • Health Professions

Within these areas, their work further concentrates on subfields such as:

  • Epidemiology
  • General Health Professions
  • Applied Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Clinical Psychology

Research topics covered by Lewis include:

  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation

Lewis has contributed to various research articles, including the following recent publications:

  • Preventing College Sexual Victimization by Reducing Hookups: a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Personalized Normative Feedback Intervention (2020), published in Prevention Science
  • Injunctive and descriptive normative feedback for college drinking prevention: Is the whole greater than the sum of its parts? (2022), published in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
  • Maritime traffic trends around the southern tip of Africa - Did marine noise pollution contribute to the local penguins' collapse? (2022), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Correlates of STI Testing Among US Young Adults: Opportunities for Prevention (2020), published in Prevention Science
  • Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for Community College Students (BASICCS): Feasibility and preliminary efficacy of web-conferencing BASICCS and supporting automated text messages. (2021), published in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

Their scholarly work appears frequently in several publication venues, notably:

  • Addictive Behaviors
  • Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
  • Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
  • Substance Use & Misuse
  • Prevention Science

Lewis has collaborated extensively with various researchers, including:

  • D Litt
  • Anne M. Fairlie
  • Christine M. Lee
  • Zhengyang Zhou
  • Mary E. Larimer

Best Publications

  • Are social norms the best predictor of outcomes among heavy-drinking college students?

    Clayton Neighbors;Christine M. Lee;Melissa A. Lewis;Nicole Fossos

  • Targeting Misperceptions of Descriptive Drinking Norms: Efficacy of a Computer-Delivered Personalized Normative Feedback Intervention

    Clayton Neighbors;Mary E. Larimer;Melissa A. Lewis

  • Social norms approaches using descriptive drinking norms education: a review of the research on personalized normative feedback.

    Melissa A. Lewis;Clayton Neighbors

  • Gender-specific misperceptions of college student drinking norms.

    Melissa Ardelle Lewis;Clayton Neighbors

  • Normative misperceptions and temporal precedence of perceived norms and drinking

    Clayton Neighbors;Amanda J Dillard;Melissa A Lewis;Rochelle L Bergstrom

  • The relative impact of injunctive norms on college student drinking: the role of reference group.

    Clayton Neighbors;Roisin M. O'Connor;Melissa A. Lewis;Neharika Chawla

  • Group Identification as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Perceived Social Norms and Alcohol Consumption

    Clayton Neighbors;Joseph W. LaBrie;Justin F. Hummer;Melissa A. Lewis

  • Optimizing personalized normative feedback: the use of gender-specific referents.

    Melissa Ardelle Lewis;Clayton Neighbors

  • Being Controlled by Normative Influences: Self-Determination as a Moderator of a Normative Feedback Alcohol Intervention

    Clayton Neighbors;Melissa Ardelle Lewis;Rochelle L. Bergstrom;Mary E. Larimer

  • Effectiveness of social norms media marketing in reducing drinking and driving: a statewide campaign.

    H. Wesley Perkins;Jeffrey W. Linkenbach;Melissa A. Lewis;Clayton Neighbors

  • Predictors of hooking up sexual behaviors and emotional reactions among U.S. college students.

    Melissa A. Lewis;Hollie Granato;Jessica A. Blayney;Ty W. Lostutter

  • Efficacy of Web-Based Personalized Normative Feedback: A Two-Year Randomized Controlled Trial

    Clayton Neighbors;Melissa Ardelle Lewis;David C. Atkins;Megan M. Jensen

  • Social motives and the interaction between descriptive and injunctive norms in college student drinking.

    Christine M. Lee;Irene Markman Geisner;Melissa A. Lewis;Clayton Neighbors

  • Fitting in and feeling fine: Conformity and coping motives as mediators of the relationship between social anxiety and problematic drinking.

    Melissa A. Lewis;M. Christina Hove;Ursula Whiteside;Christine M. Lee

  • Internet-Based Personalized Feedback to Reduce 21st-Birthday Drinking: A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Event-Specific Prevention Intervention.

    Clayton Neighbors;Christine M. Lee;Melissa Ardelle Lewis;Nicole Fossos

  • Indicated prevention for incoming freshmen: personalized normative feedback and high-risk drinking.

    Melissa A. Lewis;Clayton Neighbors;Laura Oster-Aaland;Benjamin S. Kirkeby

  • Event-specific drinking among college students.

    Clayton Neighbors;David C. Atkins;Melissa Ardelle Lewis;Christine M. Lee

  • Self-Determination and the Use of Self-Presentation Strategies

    Melissa A. Lewis;Clayton Neighbors

  • Event- and Context-Specific Normative Misperceptions and High-Risk Drinking: 21st Birthday Celebrations and Football Tailgating

    Clayton Neighbors;Laura Oster-Aaland;Laura Oster-Aaland;Rochelle L. Bergstrom;Rochelle L. Bergstrom;Melissa A. Lewis

  • Gender-specific Normative Misperceptions of Risky Sexual Behavior and Alcohol-related Risky Sexual Behavior

    Melissa Ardelle Lewis;Christine M. Lee;Megan E. Patrick;Nicole Fossos

Frequent Co-Authors

Clayton Neighbors
Clayton Neighbors University of Houston
Christine M. Lee
Christine M. Lee University of Washington
Mary E. Larimer
Mary E. Larimer University of Washington
Debra Kaysen
Debra Kaysen Stanford University
Jason R. Kilmer
Jason R. Kilmer University of Washington
Megan E. Patrick
Megan E. Patrick University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David C. Atkins
David C. Atkins University of Washington
William H. George
William H. George University of Washington
Katie Witkiewitz
Katie Witkiewitz University of New Mexico
Joseph W. LaBrie
Joseph W. LaBrie Loyola Marymount University

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