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Meg Gerrard
Researcher at University of Connecticut
Publications - 176
Citations - 18640
Meg Gerrard is an academic researcher from University of Connecticut. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 74, co-authored 171 publications receiving 17126 citations. Previous affiliations of Meg Gerrard include Albert Einstein College of Medicine & Iowa State University.
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Meta-analysis of the relationship between risk perception and health behavior: the example of vaccination.
Noel T. Brewer,Gretchen B. Chapman,Frederick X. Gibbons,Meg Gerrard,Kevin D. McCaul,Neil D. Weinstein +5 more
TL;DR: The consistent relationships between risk perceptions and behavior, larger than suggested by prior meta-analyses, suggest that risk perceptions are rightly placed as core concepts in theories of health behavior.
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Perceived Discrimination and the Adjustment of African American Youths: A Five-Year Longitudinal Analysis With Contextual Moderation Effects
Gene H. Brody,Yi Fu Chen,Velma McBride Murry,Xiaojia Ge,Ronald L. Simons,Frederick X. Gibbons,Meg Gerrard,Carolyn E. Cutrona +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the link between perceived racial discrimination and later conduct problems and depressive symptoms among 714 African American adolescents who were 10-12 years old at recruitment.
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A dual-process approach to health risk decision making: The prototype willingness model
TL;DR: The prototype willingness model of adolescent decision making as mentioned in this paper is a dual-process model designed specifically to address non-intentional but volitional adolescent risk behavior, and it has been applied to the study of adolescent risk behaviors.
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Reasoned action and social reaction: Willingness and intention as independent predictors of health risk.
TL;DR: Gibbons et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed the prototype/willingness (P/W) model to predict adolescents' smoking behavior and found that the model added significantly to behavioral expectation in predicting smoking behavior.
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Predicting young adults' health risk behavior.
Frederick X. Gibbons,Meg Gerrard +1 more
TL;DR: Results indicated that prototype perception was related to risk behavior in both a reactive and a prospective manner, which meant that perceptions changed as a function of change in behavior, and perceptions predicted those behavior changes as well.