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Kelsey Severson

I am a 4th year undergraduate student majoring in psychology and minoring in sociology at UC Merced. After UC Merced, I plan to attend graduate school for counseling psychology with a concentration in professional clinical counseling. My research interests include links between adverse childhood...

Birgitte Westerskov Dalgas

I am a doctoral student in the Health Ph.D. program at University of Southern Denmark. I graduated from University of Southern Denmark with a master degree in sports science in 2019. My research is qualitative research and focuses on the relation between persons’ social and environmental context and...

Miles Smith

I am a fourth year undergraduate student pursuing a B.S. in psychology. I would like to continue my studies of psychology after I graduate from UC Merced, specifically in behavioral psych. My passion for psychology lies primarily in examining behavior change and health behaviors. In relation to...

Rabia Majeed

I am a fourth-year doctoral student working in the SHARPP Lab at the University of California, Merced. I graduated with a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan. My research interests involve understanding the interplay of biological...

Zoe Griffith

I am a 5th year PhD student in the Health Psychology program. I received my BA in psychology with honors from Cal Poly Humboldt University in 2019. My research focuses on extending traditional social cognition models to include dispositional traits associated with a variety of health behaviors (e.g...

Psychological Sciences

For more information about the Health Psychology program at UC Merced, please visit our website: Health PsychologyProgram. If you're interested in learning more about our lab and what we do, please feel free to reach out! You can contact Dr. Hagger directly at mhagger@ucmerced.edu. If you're...

Courses

Courses taught by Dr. Martin Hagger: Undergraduate Courses: PSY-190-2/3: Science of Behavior Change Many of the problems observed in today’s society can be linked, directly or indirectly, to human behavior. Governments, organizations, and professionals increasingly recognize the value of developing...

Members

Lab Director: Dr. Martin Hagger Lab Manager: Susette Moyers Graduate Students: Kaylyn McAnally Lauren McKinley Jessica Balla Thais Benoit Zoe Griffith Danielle Simpson Undergraduate Research Assistants: Michael Vang Kelsey Severson Carolina Hernandez Mercedes Pena Katie Roseman Priya Sandhu Delainey...

Evidence Synthesis and Development of Theories

Testing Theories Using Meta-Analysis A key focus of my research is the application of meta-anaytic techniques to test key hypotheses ofsocial cognition, motivational, and other behaviorial theories, particularly those that have been applied to health behaviors, using data from the synthesis of...

Theory-Based Determinants and Behavior Change Research

Theory-Based Determinants and Behavior Change Research A key research theme is focused on identification of the motivational and belief-based psychological deterimants of behavior, particularly in health behavior contexts, and testing predictive models that identify the relative effects of these...