Meg Gerrard, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry
Co-director, Cancer Control Research Program
Contact Information
Phone: (603) 653-9118
Email : Meg.Gerrard@dartmouth.edu
Postal Address
Dr. Meg Gerrard
Norris Cotton Cancer Center
DHMC
HB 7920
1 Medical Center Drive
Lebanon, NH 03756
Education
University of Texas, Austin, BA (1970)
University of Texas, Austin, PhD (1974)
Program Membership
Cancer Control Research Program
Department Membership
Psychiatry
Biography
1974 – 1978 Human Services Consultant, School of Social Work, University of Texas
1978 – 1985 Assistant to Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Kansas
1985 – Present Assistant to Full Professor, Department of Psychology, Iowa State University
1990 – 1991 Consultant, Rand Corporation/UCLA Center for Health Policy Study
1997 – 1998 Visiting Scholar, University of California at San Diego
2005 – 2006 Visiting Scholar, Oregon Research Institute, Eugene Oregon
1990 – 2008 Research Scientist, Inst. for Social and Behavioral Research, Iowa State University
Selected Recent Publications
Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F. X., Stock, M.L., Houlihan, A.E., & Dykstra, J.L. (2006). Temperament, Self-regulation, and the Prototype Willingness Model of Adolescent Health Risk Behavior. In D. de Ridder & J. de Wit (Eds.) Self-regulation in Health Behaviour, (97-117). W. Sussex, UK: Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., Pomery, E.A., & Reimer, R. (in press). Health decision-making: Reasoned vs. reactive responding. In D. de Ridder & J. de Wit (Eds.) Self-regulation in Health Behaviour. Sussex, UK: Wiley and Sons, Inc.
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 perceptions and vaccination behavior. Health 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. Invited paper for a special issue of Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
Brody, G.H., Murry, V.M., Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X., Brown, A.C., Anderson, T., Chen, Y-F., & Luo, Z. (in press). 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.
Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X., Brody, G.H., Murry, V.M., & Wills, T.A. (in press). A theory-based dual focus alcohol intervention for pre-adolescents: Social cognitions in The Strong African American Families Program. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.
Brody, G.H., Ge, X., Conger, R., 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.
Weinstein, N.D., Kwitel, A., McCaul, K., Magnan, R., Gerrard, M., & Gibbons, F.X. (in press). Risk perception and influenza vaccination. Health Psychology.
Gibbons, F.X., Reimer, R.A., Gerrard, M., Yeh, H-C., Houlihan, A.E., 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.
Brody, G.H. Chen, Y.F., Murry, V.M., Ge, X., Simons, R.L., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M. & Cutrona, C. (in press). Perceived Discrimination and the Adjustment of African American Youths: A Five-Year Longitudinal Analysis with Contextual Moderation Effects. Child Development.
Research Interests
Gerrard has been a research scientist with the Institute for Social and Behavioral Research at ISU since 1990. Over the past ten years, she has studied adolescent health risk behaviors such as drinking, smoking, and reckless driving and how they relate to adolescent thinking about the dangers associated with these behaviors.
Grants and Honors
Gibbons (PI) 2001 – 2007
NIMH
Psychological and Familial Influences on Health Behavior
Goals: This project examines social-psychological factors associated with the health of African American adolescents. These factors include familial, dispositional and cognitive. Behaviors include health-promoting (e.g., exercise) and health risk (e.g., risky sex).
Role: Co-PI
Mahler (PI) 2002 – 2006
National Cancer Institute
Social Psychological Interventions for UV Protection
Goals: This project examines the efficacy of an attractiveness-based approach to altering UV exposure (from the sun and tanning booths) and UV protective behaviors. In addition it will examine the psychological processes and variables that mediate and moderate the effectiveness of the intervention.
Role: Co-PI (PI on Iowa State University site of dual site project)
Gibbons (PI) 2004 – 2009
NIDA
A Social-Cognitive Model of Adolescent Substance Use
Goals: The purpose of this project is to examine the impact of stress, especially that produced by racial discrimination, on drug-relevant cognitions. The project includes a series of lab and field survey and experimental studies.
Role: Co-PI
Brody (PI)
NIAAA 2000-2010
Preventing Alcohol Use among African American Youths
Goals: The purpose of this project is to examine the efficacy of a family-based universal intervention designed to slow onset, and reduce escalation of alcohol use in African American pre-teens and adolescents.
Role: Co-PI (PI on Iowa State University site of dual site project)
