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Ambivalence about health - related dietary change

Professor Mark Conner | Psychology | 01 April 1994

Application abstract: this project addresses different conceptions of healthy eating, ambivalent attitudes about dietary change, and how these relate to whether or not people adopt healthy dietary changes. While the concept of healthy eating is wide ...

Testing the efficacy and mechanisms of collaborative implementation intentions

Professor Mark Conner | Psychology | 05 November 2007

Recent research indicates that asking people to plan in advance of action, when, where and how to perform behaviour for themselves, enhances the probability of action. This manipulation or ‘implementation intentions’, has been shown to increase the l ...

Understanding adolescent smoking initiation: a 4-year longitudinal study

Professor Mark Conner | Psychology | 02 December 2002

Reducing rates of smoking initiation could lead to positive impacts on health. The present research builds upon an existing large, cohort study of adolescents and smoking initiation that was partly funded by esrc (r000223219: testing a social psychol ...

Understanding smoking in young adults: a 6-year longitudinal study

Professor Mark Conner | Psychology | 01 September 2005

This research extends an existing study of adolescent smoking initiation (leeds adolescent initiation cohort study; lasic) previously funded by esrc. We will collect data related to to smoking from a sub-sample (n=400) of the lasic study who agreed t ...

Understanding and using self-generated validity to promote behaviour change

Professor Mark Conner | Psychology | 28 June 2010

Self-generated validity (sgv) describes the finding that asking participants to report their intention to perform a behaviour (eg, "do you intend to donate blood? ") causes greater subsequent performance of that behaviour compared to not asking about ...

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