Objective: Goal setting is a common feature of behavior change interventions, but it is
unclear when goal setting is optimally effective. The aims of this systematic review and meta …

How can progress in research on health behavior change be accelerated? Experimental
medicine (EM) offers an approach that can help investigators specify the research questions …

The notion of “engagement,” which plays an important role in various domains of
psychology, is gaining increased currency as a concept that is critical to the success of …

One common obstacle to the audience's embracing the persuader's advocated action or
viewpoint is the audience's current attitudes, that is, the audience's general evaluations (of …

Self-regulation is one primary mechanism in interventions for health behavior change and
has been examined in numerous recent meta-analyses. This pre-registered meta-review …

Welcome to Health Psychology: Theory, Research and Practice (Seventh Edition). This
textbook provides an in-depth introduction to the growing field of health psychology. It is …

Self‐affirmation theory proposes that individuals possess a flexible self‐system, such that
they can respond to threats in one domain of life by affirming self‐worth in other domains. In …

For decades, poetry therapy has been formally recognized as a valuable form of treatment,
and it has been proven effective worldwide with a diverse group of clients. The second …

Objective: To identify scalable interventions for improving sexual minority mental health and
health-risk behavior, this study tested the efficacy of two self-guided online writing …

Abstract Eleven studies (N= 2,254; 2 preregistered) examined whether ostracism would
trigger suicidal thoughts and whether perceived meaning in life would account for this effect …