Education

University of Texas, Ph.D., in Social Psychology, December, 1976

Colgate University, B.A., with Honors in Psychology, June, 1972

Academic Positions

Research Scientist, Institute for Social and Behavioral Research, Iowa State University (1992-present)

Visiting Scholar, University of California at San Diego (9/97 – 6/98)

Visiting Professor, University of California at Los Angeles (9/90-6/91)

Professor of Psychology, Iowa State University (8/86-present)

Visiting Scholar, University of Heidelberg (1984)

Associate Professor of Psychology, Iowa State University (8/82-7/86

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Iowa State University (9/80-7/82)

National Institute of Mental Health Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Social Psychology, University of Kansas (8/78-8/80)

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Southern California (9/77-8/78)

Extramural Research Support and Awards:

National Institute of Mental Health: Factors affecting African American youths’ health behavior; PI (Co-PI = Meg Gerrard; Co-I = Thomas Wills; 8/01 –7/07; with no-cost extension; competing continuation pending).

National Institute on Drug Abuse: Vulnerability and protective factors for early onset;

Co-I (PI = Thomas Wills; 4/02 – 3/07).

National Cancer Institute: Social Psychological Interventions for UV Protection;

Co-PI on ISU subcontract (PI = Heike Mahler, UCSD; PI on Subcontract = Meg

Gerrard; 04/03 – 04/07).

Center for Disease Control: Sociocultural and community risk and protective factors for child maltreatment and youth violence. PI on ISU subcontract (PI on Grant = Ronald Simons, Univ. of Georgia; 08/04 – 08/08).

National Institute on Drug Abuse. A social cognitive model of adolescent substance use. PI (Co-PI = Meg Gerrard; 09/04 – 09/09).

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Preventing alcohol use among African American adolescents (SAAF 2). Co-PI on ISU subcontract (PI = G. Brody, Univ. of Georgia); PI on ISU subcontract = M. Gerrard); 06/05 – 05/10.

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Visual media influences on adolescent smoking behavior. Co-PI (PI = Jim Sargent, Dartmouth Medical School). 05/07-04/12.

Consultant on the following projects: Early predictors of adolescent substance use (NIDA), PI = Judy Andrews (Oregon Research Institute); Media influences on early onset alcohol use, (NIAAA), PI = Jim Sargent (Dartmouth); Metamorphosis: A smoking cessation intervention study. (NCI), PI = Carolyn Heckman (VCU); A theoretical-based intervention for African American youth (NIDA), PI = G. Brody (UGa); Temperament underlies problematic behaviors (NIDA), PI = Thomas Wills (Einstein); plus several small grants and “K” awards.

Selected Publications:

JOURNAL ARTICLES (since 1995) :

	Gibbons, F. X., Gerrard, M., & Boney McCoy, S. (1995). Prototype perception predicts (lack of) pregnancy prevention. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 21, 85-93.
	Gibbons, F. X., Helweg-Larsen, M., & Gerrard, M. (1995). Prevalence estimates and adolescent risk behavior: Cross-cultural differences in social influence. Journal of Applied Psychology, 80, 107-121.
	Gibbons, F. X., & Gerrard, M. (1995). Predicting young adults' health risk behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 505-517.
	Gerrard, M., Gibbons F. X., & Bushman, B. J. (1996). The relation between perceived vulnerability to HIV and precautionary sexual behavior. Psychological Bulletin, 119, 390-409.
	Smith, G. E., Eggleston, T. J., Gerrard, M., & Gibbons, F. X. (1996). Sexual attitudes, cognitive associative networks, and perceived vulnerability to unplanned pregnancy. Journal of Research in Personality, 30, 88-102.
	Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F. X., Benthin A., & Hessling, R. M. (1996). A longitudinal study of the reciprocal nature of risk behaviors and cognitions in adolescents: What you do shapes what you think and vice versa. Health Psychology, 15, 344-354.
	Gibbons, F. X., & Eggleston, T. J. (1996). Smoker networks and the "typical smoker": A prospective analysis of smoking cessation. Health Psychology, 15, 469-477.
	Gibbons, F. X., Eggleston, T. J., & Benthin, A. (1997). Cognitive reactions to smoking relapse: The reciprocal relation of dissonance and self-esteem. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 184-195.
	Smith, G. E., Gerrard, M., & Gibbons, F. X. (1997). Self-esteem and the relation between risk behavior and perceived vulnerability. Health Psychology, 16, 137-146.
	Blanton, H., Gibbons, F. X., Gerrard, M., Conger, K. J., & Smith, G. E. (1997). The role of family and peers in the development of prototypes associated with health risks. Journal of Family Psychology, 11, 1-18.
	Gibbons, F. X., Gerrard, M., Ouellette, J. A., & Burzette, R. (1998). Cognitive antecedents to adolescent health risk: Discriminating between behavioral intention and behavioral willingness. Psychology and Health, 13, 319-339.
	Gibbons, F. X., Gerrard, M., Blanton, H., & Russell, D. W. (1998). Reasoned action and social reaction: Willingness and intention as independent predictors of health risk. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1164-1181.
	Gibbons, F. X., & Buunk, B. P. (1999). Individual differences in social comparison: Development and validation of a measure of social comparison orientation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 129 - 142.
	Gibbons, F. X. (1999). Social comparison as a mediator of response shift. Social Science & Medicine, 48, 1517-1530.
	Blanton, H., Buunk, B. P., Gibbons, F. X., & Kuyper, H. (1999). When better-than- others compares upward: The independent effects of comparison choice and comparative evaluation on academic performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 420 - 430.
	Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F. X., Zhao, L., Russell, D. W., & Reis-Bergan, M. (1999). The effect of peers' alcohol consumption on parental influence: A cognitive mediational model. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 13, 32-44.
	Boney McCoy, S., Gibbons, F. X., & Gerrard, M. (1999). Self-esteem, compensatory self-enhancement and the consideration of health risk. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 954-965.
	Ouellette, J. A., Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F. X., & Reis-Bergan, M. (1999). Parents, peers, and prototypes: Antecedents of adolescent alcohol expectancies, alcohol consumption, and alcohol-related life problems. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 13, 183 – 197.
	Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X., & Reis-Bergan, M. (1999). What do we know about the effect of risk communication on risk perceptions: Significance of individual differences. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 25, 94-100. Gibbons, F. X., Blanton, H., Gerrard, M., Buunk, B. P., & Eggleston, T. J. (2000). Does social comparison make a difference? Optimism as a moderator of the impact of comparison level on outcome. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 638-649. Reis-Bergen, M., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., & Ybema, Jan F. (2000). The impace of reminiscence on socially active elderly women’s reactions to social comparisons. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 22, 223-234.
	Wills, T. A., Gibbons, F. X., Gerrard, M., & Brody, G. H. (2000). Protection and vulnerability processes relevant for early onset of substance use: A test among African-American children. Health Psychology, 19, 253-263.
	Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X., & Reis-Bergan, M. (2000). Self-esteem, self-serving health cognitions and health risk behavior, Journal of Personality, 68, 1177 - 2001.
	Blanton, H., Vanden Eijnden, R. J., Buunk, B. P., Gibbons, F. X., Gerrard, M. & Bakker, A. (2001). Negatively-framed and positively-framed prototypes in the prediction and prevention of unsafe sex. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 31, 274 – 295.
	Buunk, B. P., Ybema, J. F., Van der Zee, K., Ipenburg, M. L., Schaufeli, W. B., & Gibbons, F. X. (2001). Affect generated by social comparisons among nurses high and low in burnout. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 31, 1500 - 1520.
	Brody, G. H., Ge, X., Conger, R., Gibbons, F. X., Murry, V. M., Gerrard, M., & Simons, R. L. (2001). The influence of neighborhood disadvantage, collective socialization, and parenting on African American children’s affiliation with deviant peers. Child Development, 72, 1231 - 1246.
	Buunk, B.P., Ybema, J.F., Gibbons, F.X., Ipenburg, M.L. (2001). The affective consequences of social comparisons as related to professional burnout and social comparison orientation. European Journal of Social Psychology, 31, 337 - 351.
	Thornton, B., Gibbons, F. X., & Gerrard, M. (2002). Risk perception and prototype perception: Independent processes predicting risk behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 986 - 999.
	Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X. Vande Lune, L., Pexa, N.A. & Gano, M.L. (2002). Adolescents’ substance-related risk perceptions: Antecedents, mediators, and consequences. Risk Decision and Policy, 7, 175 - 191.
	Buunk, A.P., Gibbons, F.X., & Visser, A. (2002). The relevance of social comparison processes for prevention and health care. Patient Education and Counseling, 47, 1 - 3.
	Gibbons, F.X., Lane, D.J., Gerrard, M., Reis-Bergan, M., Lautrup, C.L., Pexa, N., & Blanton, H. (2002). Comparison level preferences after performance: Is downward comparison theory still useful? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 865 - 880.
	Gibbons, F. X., Lane, D.J., Gerrard, M., Pomery, E.A., & Lautrup, C.L. (2002). Drinking and driving: A prospective assessment of the relation between risk cognitions and risk behavior. Risk Decision and Policy, 7, 267-283.
	Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X., Reis-Bergan, M., Trudeau, L., Vande Lune, L., & Buunk, B. (2002). Health cognitions and adolescent alcohol consumption: Inhibitor effects of drinker and non-drinker prototypes. Health Psychology, 21, 601 - 609.
	Mahler, H.I.M., Kulik, J.A., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., & Harrell, J. (2003). Effects of appearance based interventions on sun protection intentions and self-reported behaviors. Health Psychology, 22, 199 - 209.
	Brody, G.H., Ge, X., Kim, S.Y., Murry, V.M., Simons, R.L., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., & Conger, R.D. (2003). Neighborhood disadvantage moderates associations of parenting and older sibling problem attitudes and behavior with conduct disorders in African American children. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 71, 211 - 222.
	Wills, T.A., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., Murry, V.M., & Brody, G.H. (2003). Family communication and religiosity related to substance use and sexual behavior in early adolescence: A test for pathways through self-control and prototype perceptions. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 17, 312 – 323.
	Ge, X., Kim, I.J., Brody, G.H., Conger, R.D., Simons, R.L., Gibbons, F.X., & Cutrona, C. (2003). It’s all about timing and change: Pubertal transition effects on symptoms of major depression among African American youths. Developmental Psychology, 39, 430-439.
	Kim, I.J., Ge, X., Brody, G.H., Conger, R.D., Simons, R.L., Gibbons, F.X., & Cutrona, C. (2003). Parenting behaviors and changes in co-occurring depressive symptoms and conduct problems among African American children. Journal of Family Psychology, 17, 571 – 583.
	Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., Cleveland, M.J., Wills, T.A., & Brody, G.H. (2004). Perceived discrimination and substance use in African American parents and their children: A panel study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86, 517 - 529.
	Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., Vande Lune, L.S., Wills, T.A., Brody, G., & Conger, R.D. (2004). Context and cognition: Environmental risk, social influence, and adolescent substance use. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1048 - 1061.
	Luszczynska, A., Gibbons, F.X., Piko, B.F., & Tekozel, M. (2004). Self-regulatory cognitions, social comparisons, and perceived peers’ behaviors as predictors of nutrition and physical activity: A comparison among adolescents in Hungary, Poland, Turkey, and USA. Psychology and Health, 19, 577-593.
	Rankin, J. L., Lane, D. J., Gibbons, F. X., & Gerrard, M. (2004). Adolescent self-consciousness: Longitudinal age changes and gender differences in two cohorts. Journal of Research in Adolescence, 14, 1-21.
	Brody, G.H., Murry, V.M., Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X., Molgaard, V., McNair, L., Brown, A.C., Wills, T.A., Spoth, R.L., Luo, Z., Chen, Y., & Neubaum-Carlan, E. (2004). The Strong African American Families Program: Translating research into prevention programming. Child Development, 75, 900-917.
	Brody, G.H., Murry, V.M., McNair, L., Chen, Y-F., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M. & Wills, T.A. (2005). Linking Changes in Parenting to Youth Self-Control: The Strong African American Families Program. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 15, 47 – 69.
	Mahler, H.I.M., Kulik, J.A., Harrell, M.A., Correa, A., Gibbons, F.X., & Gerrard, M. (2005). A Randomized Trial Examining the Effects of UV Photo, Photoaging Information, and Use of Sunless Tanning Lotion on Sun Protection Behaviors of Young Adults. Archives of Dermatology, 141, 373 – 380.
	Ouellette, J.A., Hessling, R., Gibbons, F.X., Reis-Bergan, M.J., & Gerrard, M. (2005). Using images to increase exercise behavior: Prototypes vs. possible selves. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 610 – 620.
	Murry, V.M., Brody, G.H., McNair, L.D., Lu, Z., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M. & Wills, T.A. (2005). Promoting self-pride and sexual self-concept among rural African American pre-adolescents through the Strong African American Families Program. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 67, 627 – 642.
	Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X., Stock, M.L., Vande Lune, L., & Cleveland, M. J. (2005). 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. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 30, 305 – 318.
	Piko, B.F., Gibbons, F.X., Luszczynska, A., & Tekozel, M. (2005). Adolescents’ health behavior from a cross-cultural perspective: Does a coherent lifestyle exist? European Journal of Public Health, 15, 393 – 398.
	Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., Lane, D.J., Mahler, H.I.M., & Kulik, J.A. (2005). Using UV photography to reduce use of tanning booths: A test of cognitive mediation. Health Psychology, 24, 358 - 363. Buunk, B.P., Belmonte, J., Peir,.M., Zurriaga, R., & Gibbons, F.X. (2005). Diferencias individuales en la comparaciocial: Propiedades de la escala espa de la orientaciacia la comparaciocial. (Individual differences in social comparison: Properties of the Spanish scale of social comparison orientation).Revista Latinoamericana de Psicologia, 37, 561-581.
	Gerrard, M. Gibbons, F.X., Lane, D.J., & Stock, M.L. (2005). Social comparison and smoking cessation: Comparison level predicts success. Health Psychology, 24, 623 - 629.

	Cleveland, M.J., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., Pomery, E.A., & Brody, G.H. (2005). The impact of parenting on risk cognitions and risk behavior: A study of mediation and moderation in a panel of African American adolescents. Child Development, 76, 900 - 916.
	Pomery, E.A., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., Cleveland, M.J., Brody, G.H., & Wills, T.A. (2005). Families and risk: Prospective analyses of familial and social influences on adolescent substance use. Journal of Family Psychology, 19, 560-570. Sargent, J.D., Wills, T.A., Stoolmiller, M., Gibson, J., & Gibbons, F.X. (2006). Alcohol use in motion pictures and its relation with early onset teen drinking, Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 67, 54 – 65. Brody, G.H., Murry, V.M., Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X., Brown, A.C., Anderson, T., Chen, Y-F., & Luo, Z. (2006). The Strong African American Families Program: Long-term effects on adolescent alcohol use and test of a mediational model. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 74, 356-366. Brody, G.H., Murry, V.M., Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X., McNair, L., Brown, A.C., Wills, T.A., Molgaard, V., Spoth, R.L., Luo, Z., & Chen, Y. (2006). The Strong African American Families Program: Prevention of Youths’ High-Risk Behavior and a Test of a Model of Change. Journal of Family Psychology, 20, 1-11. Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X., Brody, G.H., Murry, V.M., Cleveland, M.J., & Wills, T.A. (2006). A theory-based dual focus alcohol intervention for pre-adolescents: Social cognitions in The Strong African American Families Program. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 20, 185-195. Brody, G.H. Chen,Y.F., Murry, V.M., Ge, X., Simons, R.L., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M. & Cutrona, C.. (2006). Perceived Discrimination and the Adjustment of African American Youths: A Five-Year Longitudinal Analysis with Contextual Moderation Effects. Child Development, 74, 1170-1189. Mahler, H.I.M., Kulik, J.A., Gerrard, & Gibbons, F.X (2006). Effects of two appearance-based interventions on the sun protection behaviors of southern California beach patrons. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 28, 263-272.
	Buunk, B.P. & Gibbons, F.X. (2007). Social Comparison: The end of a theory and the emergence of a field. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 102, 3-21. Wills, T.A., Murry, V. M., Brody, G.H., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., & Walker, C. (2007). Ethnic Pride and Self-Control Related to protective and Risk Factors: Test of the Heuristic Model for the Strong African-American Families Program. Health Psychology, 26, 50-59. Brody, G.H., Ge, X., Conger, R.D., Gibbons, F.X., Murry, V.M., Gerrard, M., & Simons, R.L. (in press). The influence of neighborhood disadvantage, collective socialization, and parenting on African American children’s affiliation with deviant peers. (Child Development). Ge, X., Jin, R., Natsuaki M.N., Gibbons, F.X., Brody, G.H., Cutrona, C.E., & Simons, R.L. (in press). Pubertal Maturation and Early Substance Use Risks in African American Children. (Psychology of Addictive Behaviors). Brewer, N.T., Chapman, G.B., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., McCaul, K.D., & Weinstein, N.D. (in press). A meta-analysis of the relationship between risk perception and vaccination behavior (Health Psychology). Weinstein, N.D., Kwitel, A., McCaul, K., Magnan, R., Gerrard, M., & Gibbons, F.X. (in press). Risk perceptions: Assessment and relationship to influenza vaccination. (Health Psychology). Mahler, H.I.M., Kulik, J.A., Gerrard, & Gibbons, F.X. (in press). Long-term effects of appearance-based interventions on sun protection behaviors. (Health Psychology). Simons, R.L., Simons, L.G., Drummond, H., Stewart, E., Gibbons, F.X., & Cutrona, C.E. (in press). Parenting Behaviors that Moderate the Association Between Racial Discrimination and Child Conduct Problems: A Longitudinal Investigation (Journal of Health and Social Behavior). Lane, D.J., Gibbons, F.X. (in press). Distancing and dissatisfaction: Comparison level and performance satisfaction as predictors of academic performance. (Journal of Applied Social Psychology). Gibbons, F.X., Yeh, H., Gerrard, M. Cleveland, M.J., Cutrona, C. Simons, R.L., & Brody, G.H. (In press). Early experience with discrimination and conduct disorder as predictors of subsequent drug use: A critical period analysis. (Drug and Alcohol Dependence). Gibbons, F.X., Reimer, R.A., Gerrard, M., Yek, H-C., Houlihan, A., Cutrona, C.E., Simons, R.L., & Brody, G.H. (in press). Rural-Urban differences in substance use among African American adolescents. (Journal of Rural Health). Natsuaki, N., Ge, X., Brody, G.H., Simons, R.L., Gibbons, F.X. (in pr