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Paschal Sheeran is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with a strong focus on applied and experimental psychology as well as general health professions. The subfields that characterize their work include Applied Psychology, General Health Professions, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, and Physiology.

Sheeran's scholarly output reflects a broad engagement with topics related to health behavior and intervention science. Their main research interests are Behavioral Health and Interventions, Mental Health Research Topics, Health Policy Implementation Science, Community Health and Development, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Smoking Behavior and Cessation, and Pelvic Floor Disorders Treatments.

The scientist has published multiple papers in a range of academic venues. Frequent places of publication include UNC Libraries, Health Psychology, and the International Journal of Urological Nursing. Other notable venues where they have contributed include Nature Human Behaviour and Psychosomatic Medicine.

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Paschal Sheeran are the following:

  • "Interventions to reduce partisan animosity" (2022) in Nature Human Behaviour
  • "The operating conditions framework: Integrating mechanisms and moderators in health behavior interventions." (2020) in Health Psychology
  • "Predicting physical activity among cancer survivors: Meta-analytic path modeling of longitudinal studies." (2020) in Health Psychology
  • "Biobehavioral Aspects of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review" (2021) in Psychosomatic Medicine
  • "What Is Slowing Us Down? Six Challenges to Accelerating Advances in Health Behavior Change" (2020) in Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Collaboration has been a significant aspect of Sheeran's research activity. Frequent coauthors include Alexander J. Rothman, Peter A. Hall, Geoffrey T. Fong, Charissa S. L. Cheah, and Mark Oremus.

Best Publications

  • Intention–Behavior Relations: A Conceptual and Empirical Review

    Paschal J. Sheeran

  • Does changing behavioral intentions engender behavior change? A meta-analysis of the experimental evidence.

    Thomas L. Webb;Paschal Sheeran

  • Implementation intentions and goal achievement: A meta-analysis of effects and processes

    Peter M. Gollwitzer;Paschal Sheeran

  • Dealing with feeling: a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of strategies derived from the process model of emotion regulation.

    Thomas L. Webb;Eleanor Miles;Paschal J. Sheeran

  • The Intention–Behavior Gap

    Paschal Sheeran;Thomas L. Webb

  • Descriptive norms as an additional predictor in the theory of planned behaviour: A meta-analysis

    Amanda Rivis;Paschal Sheeran

  • Prediction and Intervention in Health-Related Behavior: A Meta-Analytic Review of Protection Motivation Theory

    Sarah Milne;Paschal Sheeran;Sheina Orbell

  • Psychosocial correlates of heterosexual condom use: a meta-analysis.

    Paschal Sheeran;Charles Abraham;Sheina Orbell

  • The Impact of Changing Attitudes, Norms, and Self-Efficacy on Health-Related Intentions and Behavior: A Meta-Analysis.

    Paschal Sheeran;Alexander Maki;Erika Montanaro;Aya Avishai-Yitshak

  • Does heightening risk appraisals change people's intentions and behavior? A meta-analysis of experimental studies.

    Paschal Sheeran;Peter R. Harris;Tracy Epton

  • Combining motivational and volitional interventions to promote exercise participation: Protection motivation theory and implementation intentions

    Sarah Milne;Sheina Orbell;Paschal Sheeran

  • Implementation Intentions and the Theory of Planned Behavior

    Sheina Orbell;Sarah Hodgkins;Paschal Sheeran

  • Nonconscious Processes and Health

    Paschal Sheeran;Peter M. Gollwitzer;John A. Bargh

  • Predicting intentions to use condoms: a meta-analysis and comparison of the theories of reasoned action and planned behavior.

    Paschal Sheeran;Steven Taylor

  • The Interplay Between Goal Intentions and Implementation Intentions

    Paschal Sheeran;Thomas L. Webb;Peter M. Gollwitzer

  • Implementation intentions and repeated behaviour: augmenting the predictive validity of the theory of planned behaviour

    Paschal J. Sheeran;Sheina Orbell

  • Can implementation intentions help to overcome ego-depletion?

    Thomas L. Webb;Paschal J. Sheeran

  • Evidence that perceived behavioural control is a multidimensional construct: Perceived control and perceived difficulty

    David Trafimow;Paschal Sheeran;Mark Conner;Krystina A. Finlay

  • Augmenting the Theory of Planned Behavior: Roles for Anticipated Regret and Descriptive Norms

    Paschal Sheeran;Sheina Orbell

  • Moderation of cognition-intention and cognition-behaviour relations: a meta-analysis of properties of variables from the theory of planned behaviour.

    Richard Cooke;Paschal J. Sheeran

  • The impact of changing attitudes, norms, and self-efficacy on health-related intentions and behavior: a meta-analysis

    P. Sheeran;A. Maki;E. Monanaro;A. Bryan

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas L. Webb
Thomas L. Webb University of Sheffield
Charles Abraham
Charles Abraham University of Exeter
Mark Conner
Mark Conner University of Leeds
Peter M. Gollwitzer
Peter M. Gollwitzer New York University
Sheina Orbell
Sheina Orbell University of Essex
Gaston Godin
Gaston Godin Université Laval
Peter R. Harris
Peter R. Harris University of Sussex
Dominic Abrams
Dominic Abrams University of Kent
Russell Spears
Russell Spears University of Groningen
Alexander J. Rothman
Alexander J. Rothman University of Minnesota

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