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Overview

Peter R. Harris is affiliated with the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with particular focus in subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Education, Applied Psychology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The main topics covered within their research include Social and Intergroup Psychology, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion, Communication in Education and Healthcare, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Health Disparities and Outcomes, and School Choice and Performance.

Recent publications by Peter R. Harris include:

  • "Roles of socioeconomic status, ethnicity and teacher beliefs in academic grading" (2022), published in British Journal of Educational Psychology
  • "Socioeconomic and gender inequalities in home learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: examining the roles of the home environment, parent supervision, and educational provisions" (2022), published in The Educational and Developmental Psychologist
  • "Self-affirmation theory in educational contexts" (2021), published in Journal of Social Issues
  • "Dynamic Norms and Food Choice: Reflections on a Failure of Minority Norm Information to Influence Motivation to Reduce Meat Consumption" (2021), published in Sustainability
  • "Neural mechanisms of self-affirmation's stress buffering effects" (2020), published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Harris has frequently co-authored work with Matthew J. Easterbrook, Eleanor Miles, Lewis Doyle, Rotem Perach, and Jennifer Rusted.

Their work has appeared repeatedly in several publication venues, including:

  • British Journal of Educational Psychology
  • Self and Identity
  • Journal of Research in Personality
  • Aging & Mental Health
  • Social Psychology of Education

Best Publications

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

    Paschal Sheeran;Peter R. Harris;Tracy Epton

  • How do patients evaluate and make use of online health information

    Elizabeth Sillence;Pam Briggs;Peter Richard Harris;Lesley Fishwick

  • Self-Affirmation and the Biased Processing of Threatening Health-Risk Information

    Peter R. Harris;Lucy Napper

  • Improving Employee Well-Being and Effectiveness: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Web-Based Psychological Interventions Delivered in the Workplace

    Stephany Carolan;Peter R Harris;Kate Cavanagh

  • Self-affirmation reduces smokers' defensiveness to graphic on-pack cigarette warning labels.

    Peter R. Harris;Kathryn Mayle;Lucy Mabbott;Lucy Napper

  • Sufficient grounds for optimism? The relationship between perceived controllability and optimistic bias

    Peter Harris

  • The Impact of Self-Affirmation on Health-Behavior Change: a Meta-Analysis

    Tracy Epton;Peter R. Harris;Rachel Kane;Guido M. van Koningsbruggen

  • Trust and mistrust of online health sites

    Elizabeth Sillence;Pam Briggs;Lesley Fishwick;Peter Harris

  • A framework for understanding trust factors in web-based health advice

    Elizabeth Sillence;Pam Briggs;Peter Harris;Lesley Fishwick

  • The illusion of control and optimism about health : on being less at risk but no more in control than others

    Peter Harris;Wendy Middleton

  • Adherence to an exercise prescription scheme: The role of expectations, self‐efficacy, stage of change and psychological well‐being

    Fiona. Jones;Peter. Harris;Hilary. Waller;Adrian. Coggins

  • Self-Affirmation Promotes Health Behavior Change

    Tracy Epton;Peter R. Harris

  • Risk Perceptions of Mobile Phone Use While Driving

    Matthew P. White;J. Richard Eiser;Peter R. Harris

  • The Impact of Self-Affirmation on Health Cognition, Health Behaviour and Other Health-Related Responses: A Narrative Review

    Peter R. Harris;Tracy Epton

  • Going online for health advice: Changes in usage and trust practices over the last five years

    Elizabeth Sillence;Pam Briggs;Peter Harris;Lesley Fishwick

  • Self-affirmation increases acceptance of health-risk information among UK adult smokers with low socioeconomic status.

    Christopher J. Armitage;Peter R. Harris;Gareth Hepton;Lucy Napper

  • Self-affirmation improves problem-solving under stress.

    J. David Creswell;Janine M. Dutcher;William M. P. Klein;Peter R. Harris

  • Evidence that self-affirmation reduces alcohol consumption: randomized exploratory trial with a new, brief means of self-affirming.

    Christopher J. Armitage;Peter R. Harris;Madelynne A. Arden

  • Developing and Testing a Self-affirmation Manipulation

    Lucy Napper;Peter R. Harris;Tracy Epton

  • Comparative optimism for environmental risks

    Sabine Pahl;P.R. Harris;Helen A. Todd;Derek R. Rutter

Frequent Co-Authors

William M. P. Klein
William M. P. Klein National Institutes of Health
Paschal Sheeran
Paschal Sheeran University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thomas L. Webb
Thomas L. Webb University of Sheffield
Benjamin Schüz
Benjamin Schüz University of Bremen
Richard Rowe
Richard Rowe University of Sheffield
Christopher J. Armitage
Christopher J. Armitage University of Manchester
Dale Griffin
Dale Griffin University of British Columbia
John M. Levine
John M. Levine University of Pittsburgh
Urte Scholz
Urte Scholz University of Zurich
Paul Sparks
Paul Sparks University of Sussex

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