Meg Gerrard, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry
Co-director, Cancer Control Research Program
Contact Information
Phone: (603) 653-9118
Email : Meg.Gerrard@dartmouth.edu
Mailing Address
Dr. Meg Gerrard
Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
HB 7920
1 Medical Center Drive
Lebanon, NH 03756
Education
University of Texas, Austin, BA (1970)
Clinical Internship, Austin State Hospital and University of Texas Counseling and Psychological Services Center, APA Approved, 1973-1974
University of Texas, Austin, PhD (1974)
Program Membership
Cancer Control Research Program
Department Membership
Biography
1976: Visiting Assistant Professor, Management Department, School of Business, University of Texas
1976-1977: Visiting Assistant Professor, Lyndon Barnes School of Public Affairs, University of Texas
1974-1978: Human Services Consultant, School of Social Work, University of Texas
1978-1983: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Kansas
1983-1985: Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Kansas
1985-1986: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Iowa State University
1986-1989: Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Iowa State University
1990-1991: Fellow, Rand Corporation/UCLA Center for Health Policy Study
1992-present: Research Scientist, Institute for Social and Behavorial Research, Iowa State University
1997-1998: Visiting Scholar, University of California at San Diego
2005-2006: Visiting Scholar, Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, Oregon
1989-2008: Professor, Department of Psychology, Iowa State University
2008-: Co-Director, Cancer Control Program; Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Selected Recent Publications
Stock, M.L., Gerrard, M. Gibbons, F.X., Dykstra, J.L., Mahler, H.I.M., Walsh, L., & Kulik, J.A. (in press). A sun protection intervention for highway workers: Long-term efficacy of UV photography and skin cancer information on men's protective cognitions and behavior. Annals of Behavioral Medicine.
Gibbons, F.X., Etcheverry, P.E., Stock, M.L., Gerrard, M., Kiviniemi, M., Weng, C-Y., & O’Hara, R. (in press). Exploring the Link between Racial Discrimination and Substance Use: What Mediates? What Buffers? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Philibert, R., Beach, S., Brody, G., Gunter, T., Madan, A., & Gerrard, M. (in press). The Effect of Smoking on MAOA Promoter Methylation in DNA Prepared from Lymphoblasts and Whole Blood. American Journal of Medical Genetics.
Kogan, S.M., Brody, G.H., Gibbons, F.X., Chen, Y-F., Grange, C., Simons, R., Gerrard, M., & Cutrona, C. (in press). Mechanisms of Family Impact on African American Adolescents’ HIV-Related Behavior. Journal of Research on Adolescence.
Brody, G.H., Ge, X., Gibbons, F.X., Murry, V.M., Gerrard, M., & Simons, R.L. (in press). Longitudinal, mediated pathways from parenting to African American youths’ substance use intentions. Journal of Marriage and the Family.
Reimer, R.A., Gerrard, M., & Gibbons, F.X. (in press). Racial Disparities in Smoking Knowledge among Current Smokers: Data from the Health Information National Trends Surveys. Psychology and Health.
Mahler, H.E.I., Kulik, J.A., Butler, H., Gerrard, M., & Gibbons, F.X. (in press). Social norms information enhances the efficacy of an appearance-based sun protection intervention. Social Science and Medicine.
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.
Stoolmiller, M., Gerrard, M., Worth, K., Gibbons, F.X., Sargent, J.D. R-rated Movie Viewing, Growth in Sensation Seeking and Alcohol Initiation: Reciprocal and Moderation Effects. (in press). Prevention Science.
Dal Cin, S., Worth, K.A., Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X., Stoolmiller, M., Wills, T.A., & Sargent, J.D. (2009). Watching and drinking: Effects of exposure to alcohol use in movies on adolescent drinking are mediated by expectancies, prototypes, and peer affiliations. Health Psychology, 28, 473-480.
Gibbons F.X., Houlihan, A.E., Gerrard, M. (2009). Reason and reaction: The utility of a dual-focus, dual-processing perspective on promotion and prevention of adolescent health risk behaviour. British Journal of Health Psychology, 14, 231-248.
Wills T.A., Sargent J.D., Gibbons F.X., Gerrard M., Stoolmiller M. (2009). Movie exposure to alcohol cues and adolescent alcohol problems: A longitudinal analysis in a national sample. Psychology of Addictive Behavior, 23, 23-35.
Pomery, E.A., Gibbons, F.X., Reis-Bergan, M., & Gerrard, M. (2009). From Willingness to Intention: Experience moderates the shift from reactive to reasoned behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 894-908.
Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X., Houlihan, A.E., Wills, T.A., Stoolmiller, M., Yeh, H-C., Brody, G., & Weng. C-Y. (2008). Temperament, Self-Control, and Dual Processing: A Test of Two Pathways to Adolescent Risk-Taking. Developmental Review, 28, 29-61. (Invited paper in Special Issue: Emerging Directions in Risk and Rational Decision Making).
Andrews, J.A., Hampson, S.E., Barckley, M., Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X. (2008). The effect of early cognitions on cigarette and alcohol use during adolescence. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 22, 96-106.
Wills, T.A., Sargent, J.D., Stoolmiller, M., Gibbons, F.X., & Gerrard, M. (2008). Movie smoking exposure and smoking onset: A longitudinal study of mediation processes in a representative sample of US adolescents. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 22, 269-277.
Houlihan, A.E., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., Reimer, R. A., Yeh, H-C., & Murry, V.M. (2008). Sex and the self: The impact of early sexual onset on the self-concept and subsequent risky behavior of African American adolescents. Journal of Early Adolescence, 28, 70-91.
Gibbons, F.X., Reimer, R.A., Gerrard, M., Yeh, H-C., Houlihan, A.E., Cutrona, C.E., Simons, R.L., & Brody, G.H. (2007). Rural – urban differences in substance use among African American adolescents. Journal of Rural Health, 23, 22-30.
Gibbons, F.X., Yeh, H-C., Gerrard, M., Cleveland, M.J., Cutrona, C. Simons, R.L., & Brody, G.H. (2007). Early experience with discrimination and conduct disorder as predictors of subsequent drug use: A critical period analysis. Invited paper in special issue of Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 88, S27-S37.
Sargent, J.D., Stoolmiller, M., Worth, K.A., Dal Cin, S., Wills, T.A., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., & Tanski, S. (2007). Exposure to smoking depictions in movies: Its association with established adolescent smoking. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, 161, 849-856.
Murry, V.M., Berkel, C., Brody, G.H., Gerrard, M., Gibbons, F.X. (2007). The Strong African American Families Program: Longitudinal pathways to sexual risk reduction. Journal of Adolescent Health, 41, 333-342.
Mahler, H.I.M., Kulik, J.A., Gibbons, F.X., & Gerrard, M. (2007). Long-terms effects of appearance-based interventions on sun protection behaviors. Health Psychology, 26, 350-360.
Weinstein, N.D., Kwitel, A., McCaul, K., Magnan, R., Gerrard, M., & Gibbons, F.X. (2007). Risk perceptions: Assessment and relationship to influenza vaccination. Health Psychology, 26, 146-151.
Brewer, N.T., Chapman, G.B., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., McCaul, K.D., & Weinstein, N.D. (2007). A meta-analysis of the relationship between risk perceptions and vaccination behavior. Health Psychology, 26, 136-145.
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 model for the Strong African-American Families Program. Health Psychology, 26, 50-59.
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)
