Meghan O. Moriarty Gerrard

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Meghan O. Moriarty Gerrard's Degrees

PhD Communication University of California, Santa Barbara
Masters Communication University of California, Santa Barbara
Bachelors Communication University of California, Santa Barbara

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Meta-analysis of the relationship between risk perception and health behavior: the example of vaccination. (2007) (1579)
Reasoned action and social reaction: willingness and intention as independent predictors of health risk. (1998) (676)
Perceived discrimination and the adjustment of African American youths: a five-year longitudinal analysis with contextual moderation effects. (2006) (630)
A dual-process approach to health risk decision making: The prototype willingness model (2008) (626)
Predicting young adults' health risk behavior. (1995) (556)
The influence of neighborhood disadvantage, collective socialization, and parenting on African American children's affiliation with deviant peers. (2001) (539)
Perceived discrimination and substance use in African American parents and their children: a panel study. (2004) (496)
Risk perceptions: assessment and relationship to influenza vaccination. (2007) (420)
A longitudinal study of the reciprocal nature of risk behaviors and cognitions in adolescents: what you do shapes what you think, and vice versa. (1996) (367)
The Strong African American Families Program: translating research into prevention programming. (2004) (331)
A Social Reaction Model of Adolescent Health Risk (2009) (316)
Beyond group-mean differences: The concept of item bias. (1986) (289)
Relation between perceived vulnerability to HIV and precautionary sexual behavior. (1996) (263)
Family communication and religiosity related to substance use and sexual behavior in early adolescence: a test for pathways through self-control and prototype perceptions. (2003) (241)
Coordinated changes in AHRR methylation in lymphoblasts and pulmonary macrophages from smokers (2012) (237)
Using UV photography to reduce use of tanning booths: a test of cognitive mediation. (2005) (233)
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. (2005) (218)
A theory-based dual-focus alcohol intervention for preadolescents: the Strong African American Families Program. (2006) (214)
Exploring the link between racial discrimination and substance use: what mediates? What buffers? (2010) (211)
Inhibitory effects of drinker and nondrinker prototypes on adolescent alcohol consumption. (2002) (209)
Relation Between Perceived Vulnerability to HIV and Precautionary Sexual Behavior (1996) (204)
From Willingness to Intention: Experience Moderates the Shift From Reactive to Reasoned Behavior (2009) (198)
Using Images to Increase Exercise Behavior: Prototypes Versus Possible Selves (2005) (194)
Role of family and peers in the development of prototypes associated with substance use. (1997) (189)
Reason and reaction: the utility of a dual-focus, dual-processing perspective on promotion and prevention of adolescent health risk behaviour. (2009) (188)
Context and Cognitions: Environmental Risk, Social Influence, and Adolescent Substance Use (2004) (183)
Effects of upward and downward social comparison on mood states. (1989) (180)
Cognitive antecedents to adolescent health risk: Discriminating between behavioral intention and behavioral willingness (1998) (177)
Neighborhood disadvantage moderates associations of parenting and older sibling problem attitudes and behavior with conduct disorders in African American children. (2003) (173)
The erosive effects of racism: reduced self-control mediates the relation between perceived racial discrimination and substance use in African American adolescents. (2012) (170)
Characteristics associated with low self-esteem among US adolescents. (2010) (166)
Downward comparison and coping with threat. (1991) (161)
Natural helping systems: A survey of Red Cross volunteers (1981) (160)
Effects of appearance-based interventions on sun protection intentions and self-reported behaviors. (2003) (159)
Adolescent Self-Consciousness: Longitudinal Age Changes and Gender Differences in Two Cohorts (2004) (158)
Effects of UV photographs, photoaging information, and use of sunless tanning lotion on sun protection behaviors. (2005) (155)
Prototype Perception Predicts (Lack of) Pregnancy Prevention (1995) (151)
Long-term effects of appearance-based interventions on sun protection behaviors. (2007) (144)
Watching and drinking: expectancies, prototypes, and friends' alcohol use mediate the effect of exposure to alcohol use in movies on adolescent drinking. (2009) (143)
The impact of parenting on risk cognitions and risk behavior: a study of mediation and moderation in a panel of African American adolescents. (2005) (143)
Prevalence estimates and adolescent risk behavior: cross-cultural differences in social influence. (1995) (140)
Parents, peers, and prototypes : Antecedents of adolescent alcohol expectancies, alcohol consumption, and alcohol-related life problems in rural youth (1999) (136)
Coping with racial discrimination: the role of substance use. (2012) (136)
The effect of early cognitions on cigarette and alcohol use during adolescence. (2008) (130)
Premarital Sexual Behavior and Attitudes Toward Marriage and Divorce among Young Women as a Function of Their Mothers' Marital Status. (1986) (128)
Early experience with racial discrimination and conduct disorder as predictors of subsequent drug use: a critical period hypothesis. (2007) (127)
The strong African American families program: prevention of youths' high-risk behavior and a test of a model of change. (2006) (126)
Accentuate the negative : Social images in the prediction and promotion of condom use (2001) (126)
Mother-Daughter Communication and Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Uptake by College Students (2010) (124)
The Strong African American Families Program: a cluster-randomized prevention trial of long-term effects and a mediational model. (2006) (124)
Social norms information enhances the efficacy of an appearance-based sun protection intervention. (2008) (123)
Ethnic pride and self-control related to protective and risk factors: test of the theoretical model for the strong African American families program. (2007) (121)
Perceptions of smoking risk as a function of smoking status (1992) (119)
Linking Changes in Parenting to Parent–Child Relationship Quality and Youth Self‐Control: The Strong African American Families Program (2005) (111)
Cumulative socioeconomic status risk, allostatic load, and adjustment: a prospective latent profile analysis with contextual and genetic protective factors. (2013) (111)
Effect of sexual motivation on men's risk perception for sexually transmitted disease: there must be 50 ways to justify a lover. (1997) (110)
Self-esteem, self-serving cognitions, and health risk behavior. (2000) (106)
Social comparison and smoking cessation: The role of the “typical smoker” (1991) (104)
From racial discrimination to risky sex: prospective relations involving peers and parents. (2012) (102)
The Strong African American Families program: longitudinal pathways to sexual risk reduction. (2007) (100)
Greater Exposure to Sexual Content in Popular Movies Predicts Earlier Sexual Debut and Increased Sexual Risk Taking (2012) (96)
Self-esteem and the relation between risk behavior and perceptions of vulnerability to unplanned pregnancy in college women. (1997) (96)
Protection and vulnerability processes relevant for early onset of substance use: a test among African American children. (2000) (96)
Risk Perception and Prototype Perception: Independent Processes Predicting Risk Behavior (2002) (95)
Movie exposure to alcohol cues and adolescent alcohol problems: a longitudinal analysis in a national sample. (2009) (95)
From top dog to bottom half: social comparison strategies in response to poor performance. (1994) (92)
Exposure to smoking depictions in movies: its association with established adolescent smoking. (2007) (91)
Media as social influence: racial differences in the effects of peers and media on adolescent alcohol cognitions and consumption. (2010) (91)
The effect of peers' alcohol consumption on parental influence: a cognitive mediational model. (1999) (91)
Does Social Comparison Make a Difference? Optimism as a Moderator of the Relation between Comparison Level and Academic Performance (2000) (88)
The impact of stress on the life history strategies of African American adolescents: cognitions, genetic moderation, and the role of discrimination. (2012) (87)
The effect of risk communication on risk perceptions: the significance of individual differences. (1999) (85)
Effects of perceived racial discrimination on health status and health behavior: a differential mediation hypothesis. (2014) (84)
Judgments of Vulnerability to Pregnancy: The Role of Risk Factors and Individual Differences (1995) (84)
The pinney sexual satisfaction inventory (1987) (83)
Population-Based Assessment of Exposure to Risk Behaviors in Motion Pictures (2008) (80)
The effect of smoking on MAOA promoter methylation in DNA prepared from lymphoblasts and whole blood (2010) (79)
Effects of reviewing risk-relevant behavior on perceived vulnerability among women marines. (1991) (79)
Families and risk: prospective analyses of familial and social influences on adolescent substance use. (2005) (77)
Sun Protection Intervention for Highway Workers: Long-Term Efficacy of UV Photography and Skin Cancer Information on Men’s Protective Cognitions and Behavior (2009) (74)
Racial Identification, Racial Discrimination, and Substance Use Vulnerability Among African American Young Adults (2011) (73)
Parental Involvement Promotes Rural African American Youths’ Self-Pride and Sexual Self-Concepts (2005) (71)
Effects of upward and downward social comparison information on the efficacy of an appearance-based sun protection intervention: a randomized, controlled experiment (2010) (69)
Self-Esteem, Compensatory Self-Enhancement, and the Consideration of Health Risk (1999) (65)
Unintentional Behavior: A Subrational Approach to Health Risk (2008) (63)
Comparison-level preferences after performance: is downward comparison theory still useful? (2002) (63)
Smoking cessation: social comparison level predicts success for adult smokers. (2005) (63)
Sex, sex guilt, and contraceptive use. (1982) (62)
Intervention Induced Changes on Parenting Practices, Youth Self-Pride and Sexual Norms to Reduce HIV-Related Behaviors Among Rural African American Youths (2011) (61)
Movie smoking exposure and smoking onset: a longitudinal study of mediation processes in a representative sample of U.S. adolescents. (2008) (61)
Methylomic Aging as a Window onto the Influence of Lifestyle: Tobacco and Alcohol Use Alter the Rate of Biological Aging (2015) (60)
Social Comparison and the Pill: Reactions to Upward and Downward Comparison of Contraceptive Behavior (1993) (59)
Comparing media and family predictors of alcohol use: a cohort study of US adolescents (2012) (56)
Impact of child sex abuse on adult psychopathology: a genetically and epigenetically informed investigation. (2013) (55)
Ethnic and Gender Differences in HPV Knowledge, Awareness, and Vaccine Acceptability Among White and Hispanic Men and Women (2014) (55)
A quantitative epigenetic approach for the assessment of cigarette consumption (2015) (54)
Effects of Two Appearance-Based Interventions on the Sun Protection Behaviors of Southern California Beach Patrons (2006) (53)
Reversion of AHRR Demethylation Is a Quantitative Biomarker of Smoking Cessation (2016) (53)
Good self-control moderates the effect of mass media on adolescent tobacco and alcohol use: tests with studies of children and adolescents. (2010) (53)
Racial identification, racial composition, and substance use vulnerability among African American adolescents and young adults. (2013) (52)
Sex sex guilt and contraceptive use revisited: the 1980s. (1987) (50)
The effects of racial discrimination on the HIV-risk cognitions and behaviors of Black adolescents and young adults. (2013) (50)
Gender Effects in Couples' Sexual Decision Making and Contraceptive Use (1990) (48)
Predicting male and female contraceptive behavior: a discriminant analysis of groups high, moderate, and low in contraceptive effectiveness. (1984) (47)
Supportive family environments, genes that confer sensitivity, and allostatic load among rural African American emerging adults: a prospective analysis. (2013) (47)
Perceived Racial Discrimination as a Barrier to College Enrollment for African Americans (2012) (44)
Adolescents' Risk Perceptions and Behavioral Willingness: Implications for Intervention (2003) (43)
Social-Psychological Theories and Adolescent Health Risk Behavior (2012) (43)
Adolescents' substance-related risk perceptions: antecedents, mediators and consequences (2002) (42)
Drinking and driving: a prospective assessment of the relation between risk cognitions and risk behavior (2002) (41)
Moderation of the Association between Media Exposure and Youth Smoking Onset: Race/Ethnicity, and Parent Smoking (2011) (41)
R-rated Movie Viewing, Growth in Sensation Seeking and Alcohol Initiation: Reciprocal and Moderation Effects (2010) (39)
Self-esteem erotophobia and retention of contraceptive and AIDS information in the classroom. (1991) (35)
Racial disparities in smoking knowledge among current smokers: Data from the health information national trends surveys (2010) (35)
Effects of photoaging information and UV photo on sun protection intentions and behaviours: A cross-regional comparison (2013) (34)
Mechanisms of Family Impact on African American Adolescents' HIV-Related Behavior. (2011) (33)
Comparison of Marine and College Women's HIV/AIDS‐Relevant Sexual Behaviors1 (1994) (32)
The effects of social and health consequence framing on heavy drinking intentions among college students. (2015) (32)
Rural-urban differences in substance use among African-American adolescents. (2007) (32)
Specificity of early movie effects on adolescent sexual behavior and alcohol use. (2013) (32)
Harsh Environments, Life History Strategies, and Adjustment: A Longitudinal Study of Oregon Youth. (2016) (31)
Standing Out From the Crowd: How Comparison to Prototypes Can Decrease Health-Risk Behavior in Young Adults (2011) (30)
Sexual experience, sex guilt, and sexual moral reasoning. (1982) (29)
Sex and the Self (2008) (29)
Emotional inhibition of effective contraception (1993) (28)
Sex guilt and attitudes toward sex in sexually active and inactive female college students. (1980) (27)
Retesting in Selection: A Meta-Analysis of Practice Effects for Tests of Cognitive Ability (2006) (26)
Optimism and adolescent perception of skin cancer risk. (2011) (24)
An Evaluation of a Juvenile Education Program in a State Penitentiary (1986) (21)
Prevention of unwanted pregnancy (1983) (21)
Moderation of the effects of discrimination-induced affective responses on health outcomes (2018) (21)
Retention of contraceptive and AIDS information in the classroom (1989) (20)
Teen Motherhood and Pregnancy Prototypes: The Role of Social Context in Changing Young African American Mothers’ Risk Images and Contraceptive Expectations (2013) (20)
Attitudes toward sex, arousal, and the retention of contraceptive information. (1988) (19)
The etiology and treatment of primary dysmenorrhea: A review (1983) (19)
Women’s sun protection cognitions in response to UV photography: the role of age, cognition, and affect (2014) (18)
Impulsivity moderates the effects of movie alcohol portrayals on adolescents' willingness to drink. (2016) (16)
Array-Based Epigenetic Aging Indices May Be Racially Biased (2020) (15)
Saliva DNA Methylation Detects Nascent Smoking in Adolescents. (2019) (14)
Ethnic Differences in Predictors of HPV Vaccination: Comparisons of Predictors for Latina and Non-Latina White Women (2013) (14)
It only takes once: The absent-exempt heuristic and reactions to comparison-based sexual risk information. (2015) (14)
Two ways of thinking about dual processing: a response to Hofmann, Friese and Wiers (2008) (2011) (14)
Financial strain, inflammatory factors, and haemoglobin A1c levels in African American women. (2015) (14)
Sexual experience and recall of sexual vs nonsexual information (1986) (13)
Cognitive social influence: Moderation, mediation, modification, and...The media. (2008) (13)
Perception of Risk: Studies of Risk Attitudes, Perceptions and Definition. (1992) (13)
Reactions to the meta-analyses of the Prototype Willingness Model (2016) (12)
Refinement of cg05575921 demethylation response in nascent smoking (2020) (12)
Not intending but somewhat willing: the influence of visual primes on risky sex decisions. (2014) (12)
Childhood Antecedents of Adult Women's Masculinity, Femininity, and Career Role Choices (1985) (12)
The Impact of Reminiscence on Socially Active Elderly Women's Reactions to Social Comparisons (2000) (11)
Sexual Attitudes, Cognitive Associative Networks, and Perceived Vulnerability to Unplanned Pregnancy (1996) (11)
Racial (vs. self) affirmation as a protective mechanism against the effects of racial exclusion on negative affect and substance use vulnerability among black young adults (2018) (11)
Hair cortisol, perceived stress, and social support in mother–child dyads living in an urban neighborhood (2019) (11)
Prospecting Prejudice: An Examination of the Long-Term Effects of Perceived Racial Discrimination on the Health Behavior and Health Status of African Americans (2016) (10)
Graduate training in community psychology (1977) (10)
Temperament, Self‐Regulation, and the Prototype/Willingness Model of Adolescent Health Risk Behavior (2008) (9)
Threading the Needle in Health-Risk Communication: Increasing Vulnerability Salience While Promoting Self-Worth (2013) (9)
A Role for Epigenetics in Broadening the Scope of Pediatric Care in the Prevention of Adolescent Smoking. (2016) (8)
The antecedents and prevention of unwanted pregnancy. (1983) (8)
Gender-Related Personality Attributes and Reaction to Success/Failure: An Examination of Mediating Variables (1986) (8)
Reports of perceived racial discrimination among African American children predict negative affect and smoking behavior in adulthood: A sensitive period hypothesis (2018) (8)
Comparison strategies in response to threat: When does social comparison make a difference? (2002) (7)
A Tobacco Cessation Intervention with Rural, Medically Underserved, Blue-collar Employees: A Quasiexperimental Study (2016) (5)
The Effects of Mothers' Protective Parenting and Alcohol Use on Emerging Adults' Alcohol Use: Testing Indirect Effects Through Prototype Favorability Among African American Youth (2018) (5)
Childhood adversity predicts black young adults’ DNA methylation-based accelerated aging: A dual pathway model (2021) (5)
The impact of early racial discrimination on illegal behavior, arrest, and incarceration among African Americans. (2020) (5)
Antecedents of Pregnancy and Pregnancy Attrition in First Term Women Marines (1989) (4)
Individual Differences in Situation Awareness: Validation of the Situationism Scale (2015) (3)
Perceived racial discrimination and healthy behavior among African Americans. (2021) (3)
Racial centrality mediates the association between adolescent racial discrimination and adult cigarette smoking outcomes among Black Americans. (2022) (3)
Advances in Psychology Research. (2002) (3)
Digital methylation assessments of alcohol and cigarette consumption account for common variance in accelerated epigenetic ageing (2022) (3)
Global assignment effectiveness and leader development (2011) (3)
Association of non-cigarette tobacco advertisements and racial discrimination with non-cigarette tobacco product use among Black adults. (2022) (2)
Inflammation mediates the effect of discrimination, religiosity, and friendship network on expression of the Tp53 cancer suppressor gene (2019) (2)
Reasoned Action and Social Reaction Scale (2017) (2)
A simple, rapid, interpretable, actionable and implementable digital PCR based mortality index (2020) (2)
An Examination of Risk Factors for Tobacco and Cannabis Smoke Exposure in Adolescents Using an Epigenetic Biomarker (2021) (2)
The Prototype‐Willingness Model (2020) (2)
Erratum to: Sun Protection Intervention for Highway Workers: Long-Term Efficacy of UV Photography and Skin Cancer Information on Men’s Protective Cognitions and Behavior (2010) (2)
Epigenetic and Proteomic Biomarkers of Elevated Alcohol Use Predict Epigenetic Aging and Cell-Type variation Better Than Self-Report (2022) (1)
Psychosocial Factors Affecting Rural Adolescent Alcohol Use (1995) (1)
National Cancer Institute Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences Behavioral Research Program Toward Better Theories of Health Behavior Theories Projects Workshop 2002 (2002) (1)
Teen Motherhood and Pregnancy Prototypes: The Role of Social Context in Changing Young African American Mothers’ Risk Images and Contraceptive Expectations (2013) (0)
Life History Strategies--Behavior Scale (2012) (0)
Parental Investment Scales (2012) (0)
Risky Business: A Multidisciplinary Overview of Risk-Taking Research and Theory. (1993) (0)
Risky Sex Measure (2014) (0)
6.43 Epigenetic Evidence of Nascent Smoking Concentrated Among Low Income Youth (2017) (0)
2.7 EPIGENETIC DETECTION OF TOBACCO AND CANNABIS SMOKING IN A LONGITUDINAL SAMPLE OF HIGH-RISK ADOLESCENTS IN EASTERN IOWA (2019) (0)
Perceived Substance Use Vulnerability Scale (2012) (0)
Prototype Perception Scale (2017) (0)
Early Sexual Behaviors Impact on Self-concept and Risky Behavior: (588852007-001) (2013) (0)
The influence of positive and negative affect on health risk cognitions: (633942013-765) (2015) (0)
Early experience with discrimination predicts smoking and BMI in late adolescence: (578192014-720) (2015) (0)
Youth in Trouble: Problems, Issues and Programs in Texas, PRP 26 (1978) (0)
Impact of sexual risk status and social comparison processes on health cognitions: (633942013-759) (2015) (0)
Prototype Willingness Model (2020) (0)
Black Pride Scale (2014) (0)
Association of racial discrimination in health care settings and use of electronic cigarettes to quit smoking among Black adults. (2023) (0)
Racial differences in acceptance of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine: (634112013-764) (2014) (0)
Predicting Pregnancy and Pregnancy Attrition (1985) (0)
Do Loneliness and Per Capita Income Combine to Increase the Pace of Biological Aging for Black Adults across Late Middle Age? (2022) (0)
Refinement of cg05575921 demethylation response in nascent smoking (2020) (0)
Why the NHS watchdogs must stay alert. (1983) (0)
Life History Strategies--Cognitions Scale (2012) (0)
Correction to Beach et al. (2013). (2013) (0)
What Next? — Future Perspectives for CHCs (1979) (0)
'To CHCs who argue against an association I say: Watch and see what we do'. (1978) (0)

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Iowa State University
University of Kansas
University of Connecticut