Personnel
Front row left to right: Megan Roberts, Meg Gerrard, Elizabeth Pomery, Rick
Gibbons, Amy Houlihan.
Back row left to right: Chih-Yuan Weng,
John Kingsbury, Ross O’Hara.
Principal Investigators:
Dr. Meg Gerrard
Dr. Gerrard is one
of the principal investigators. She
received her Ph.D. from the University
of Texas at Austin in 1974. Dr. Gerrard is
interested in the way that perceptions of vulnerability, self-esteem, and other
health cognitions relate to risk behaviors.
E-mail: mgerrard@iastate.edu
Homepage: http://www.psychology.iastate.edu/faculty/mgerrard/
Dr. Frederick X. Gibbons
Dr. Gibbons is one of the principal
investigators. He received his Ph.D.
from the University
of Texas in social
psychology in 1976. Dr. Gibbons is
interested in the way that social comparison, prototypes (mental images), and
other health cognitions relate to risk behaviors. He also teaches Psych 101 here at ISU.
E-mail: fgibbons@iastate.edu
Homepage: http://www.psychology.iastate.edu/faculty/fgibbons/
Graduate Students:
Elizabeth is a seventh-year graduate student from Indiana. She received her B.A. in psychology, with
minors in sociology and philosophy, from Purdue University. She is interested in how contextual factors,
such as mood states, peers, and family members, influence young people’s risky
health cognitions and behaviors.
Amy is a fifth-year graduate student from Texas. She received her
B. A. St Edward’s University with a major in psychology and a minor in English,
and she received her M.S. in psychology here at Iowa State. Amy’s research includes studies that examine
how risk-information processing, stress, self-control, and self-concept relate
to sexual behaviors and/or substance use.
Her career plan is to work in academia.
As part of her duties as HBRP lab manager, Amy supervises the Psych 491
undergraduates.
Ross
O’Hara <rohara@iastate.edu>
Ross is a second-year graduate student
from Michigan. He received his B.A. from Albion College
in Albion, Michigan with a double major in Psychology
and English/Creative Writing. He is
interested in how loss of control and stress affect alcohol use. Ross plans on working in academia.
John
Kingsbury <jhk@iastate.edu>
John is a first-year graduate student from
North Dakota. He received his B.A. in psychology at the University of St. Thomas
in St. Paul, MN.
He plans on working for a health research institute.
Megan
Roberts <roberts@iastate.edu>
Megan is a first-year graduate student
from Massachusetts. She graduated this past spring from Cornell University, with a major in
psychology. Her research interests are
still fairly broad, but she hopes to pursue some cross-cultural work during her
time here.
Statistician:
Chih-Yuan is from Taiwan and is now ABD in sociology at
ISU with a stat minor. He is interested
in quantitative methods and a broad array of inequality issues, including
social determinants of health gradient, spatial differences in mortality and
working poor (especially female) rates, racial/gender segregation, and
racial/gender pay gap.
