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Dispositional motivations and message framing: a test of the congruency hypothesis in college studentsTraci Mann
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Health Psychol 23:330-4. 2004..Discussion centers on implications for health interventions and the route by which dispositional motivations affect health behaviors through message framing...
The implementation of the DHHS guidelines for the use of antiretroviral agents in HIV-infected adults: a pilot studyT Mann
UCLA Department of Psychology 90095 1563, USA
AIDS Care 12:187-92. 2000..No more than four of the 11 risk/benefit items were discussed with any patient, and four of the six risk items were never mentioned to any patient. Potential reasons why the guidelines are not being implemented are discussed...- Forbidden fruit: does thinking about a prohibited food lead to its consumption?T Mann
Department of Psychology, Franz Hall Box 951563, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Int J Eat Disord 29:319-27. 2001..quot; These two models are tested... - Medicare's search for effective obesity treatments: diets are not the answerTraci Mann
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Am Psychol 62:220-33. 2007..In sum, there is little support for the notion that diets lead to lasting weight loss or health benefits... - To eat or not to eat: implications of the attentional myopia model for restrained eatersTraci Mann
University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Psychology, Los Angeles, CA 19081 1397, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 113:90-8. 2004..Participants' responses to a thought-reporting measure also provided evidence for the role played by attentional myopia in the control of eating. Implications for a broad array of regulatory successes and failures are discussed... - Consumption after a diet violation: disinhibition or compensation?A Janet Tomiyama
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Psychol Sci 20:1275-81. 2009..These findings are in contrast with those of previous lab studies and dispel the widely held belief that diet violations lead to overeating in everyday life... - Improving oral health behavior: a social psychological approachDavid K Sherman
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Calif 93106, USA
J Am Dent Assoc 139:1382-7. 2008..The authors describe social psychological research that has found consistent beneficial effects of framing health messages to be congruent with personality factors in encouraging preventive oral health behaviors... - Discovery of meaning and adherence to medications in HIV-infected womenErika Westling
University of California, USA
J Health Psychol 12:627-35. 2007..Discovery of meaning may result in positive health outcomes by leading individuals to engage in healthier behaviors... - Friends don't let friends eat cookies: effects of restrictive eating norms on consumption among friendsMaryhope Howland
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55409, USA
Appetite 59:505-9. 2012..These findings may suggest mechanisms through which eating behaviors may spread through social networks, as well as an environmental factor that may be amenable to change... - Predicting persuasion-induced behavior change from the brainEmily B Falk
University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Psychology, Los Angeles, California 90095 1563, USA
J Neurosci 30:8421-4. 2010..Additionally, this is the first functional magnetic resonance imaging study to demonstrate that a neural signal can predict complex real world behavior days in advance... - From 'I Wish' to 'I Will': social-cognitive predictors of behavioral intentionsKelli Garcia
University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
J Health Psychol 8:347-60. 2003..Our results supported this prediction. The health action process approach was the best predictor of intentions to engage in both behaviors. Implications for selecting appropriate models on which to base interventions are discussed... 
Cultural factors in collegiate eating disorder pathology: when family culture clashes with individual cultureA Janet Tomiyama
Department of Psychology, The University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
J Am Coll Health 57:309-14. 2008....- Affirmation of personal values buffers neuroendocrine and psychological stress responsesJ David Creswell
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 90095, USA
Psychol Sci 16:846-51. 2005..These findings suggest that reflecting on personal values can keep neuroendocrine and psychological responses to stress at low levels. Implications for research on the self, stress processes, health, and interventions are discussed... - Are two interventions worse than none? Joint primary and secondary prevention of eating disorders in college femalesT Mann
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, California, USA
Health Psychol 16:215-25. 1997..The program may have been ineffective in preventing eating disorders because by reducing the stigma of these disorders (to encourage students with problems to seek help), the program may have inadvertently normalized them... - Number of pregnancies, outcome expectancies, and social norms among HIV-infected young womenD A Murphy
Department of Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, 90024, USA
Health Psychol 17:470-5. 1998..Suggestions for better methods of providing information to HIV+ young women are provided... - Barriers to antiretroviral medication adherence in HIV-infected womenK J Roberts
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
AIDS Care 12:377-86. 2000..Interventions that target women's unique barriers are needed to improve adherence to antiretroviral medication regimens... - Evaluation of a brief low-cost intervention to improve antiretroviral treatment decisionsO Grusky
Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles 90095, USA
AIDS Care 15:681-7. 2003..Providers reported that the intervention was useful in aiding and encouraging communication as well as conveying knowledge... - A street intercept survey to assess HIV-testing attitudes and behaviorsM J Rotheram-Borus
AIDS Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
AIDS Educ Prev 13:229-38. 2001..The street intercept survey appears to be a quick and feasible method to assess HIV testing in urban areas... - Health information processed under limited attention: is it better to be "hot" or "cool?"Sara J Parent
Department of Psychology, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19801, USA
Health Psychol 26:159-64. 2007..Mischel, 1999) suggests that cues designed to activate "hot" emotional systems will typically dominate attention and promote relevant behavior more than cues designed to activate "cool" cognitive systems... - Stepping up the pressure: arousal can be associated with a reduction in male aggressionAndrew Ward
Department of Psychology, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081, USA
Aggress Behav 34:584-92. 2008..Implications for interventions designed to reduce aggression are discussed... - Low calorie dieting increases cortisolA Janet Tomiyama
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94118, USA
Psychosom Med 72:357-64. 2010.... - When do ego threats lead to self-regulation failure? Negative consequences of defensive high self-esteemKathleen Hoffman Lambird
University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 32:1177-87. 2006..The results indicate that (a) only defensive HSE individuals are prone to self-regulation failure following ego threat and (b) measures of self-presentation bias and implicit self-esteem can both be used to detect defensiveness... - Adherence to antiretroviral medications in HIV/AIDS care: a narrative exploration of one woman's foray into intentional nonadherenceKathleen Johnston Roberts
Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095 1551, USA
Health Care Women Int 24:552-64. 2003..Results suggest that intentional nonadherence is emotionally trying for patients and that patients' adherence decisions are continually renegotiated, underscoring the need for routine provider-patient adherence communication... - Focusing on weight is not the answer to America's obesity epidemicA Janet Tomiyama
University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563, USA
Am Psychol 63:203-4. 2008 - Effects of future writing and optimism on health behaviors in HIV-infected womenT Mann
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 90095-1563, USA
Ann Behav Med 23:26-33. 2001..Results suggest that a future-oriented writing intervention may be apromising technique to increase medication adherence and decrease symptom distress in pessimistic individuals... - Triggers of eating in everyday lifeA Janet Tomiyama
University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Psychology, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, United States
Appetite 52:72-82. 2009..The relationships between these factors and eating among unrestrained eaters were closer to those found in laboratory settings. In conclusion, predictors of eating must be studied in everyday life to develop successful interventions... - Don't mind if I do: disinhibited eating under cognitive loadA Ward
Department of Psychology, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania 19081 1397, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 78:753-63. 2000..Results suggest that cognitive load may disinhibit consumption by preventing restrained eaters from monitoring the dietary consequences of their eating behavior. Implications for theories of self-regulation are discussed... - Ethnic differences in eating disorder symptoms among college students: the confounding role of body mass indexC A Arriaza
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
J Am Coll Health 49:309-15. 2001..Inconsistent findings in the ethnic-difference literature on eating disorders may result from systematic group differences in BMI. Implications for college health programs, counseling, and case finding are discussed... - Eating disorder symptoms and body image concerns in Iran: comparisons between Iranian women in Iran and in AmericaP Abdollahi
Department of Psychology, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095-1563, USA
Int J Eat Disord 30:259-68. 2001..DISCUSSION: Neither exposure to Western media nor acculturation to Western norms appeared to be related to symptoms of disordered eating and body image concerns in this sample...