Least favourite time of year, but so impt to acknowledge ppl who lost their lives to drowning in the past year & their families, communities. Pls always #keepwatch of children,
🏊 at a patrolled beach btwn the flags, wear a lifejacket 🚣‍♂️& avoid 🍺 around water Royal Life Saving

The #CallForAbstracts for #ICBM2023 is open now through November 23! We look forward to receiving abstracts for oral and poster presentations, workshops and symposia! Submit now at icbm2023.com/program/call-f…. #Behavior alMedicine #Health #Behavior #ClimateAndHealth #ClimateChange

New paper today in Health Psychology Review - review of state-of-knowledge in #EMA research on five key health behaviours (633 papers) + meta-analysis. Great leadership by Olga Perski, Dominika Kwasnicka and top team.
Papers on specific behaviours in prep/review tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Our pre-registered RCT of a theory-based intervention using persuasive communication, imagery, and implementation intention techniques is now published in Ann Behav Med - open access Stephanie Smith Kyra Hamilton Jacob Keech HaPI Research Lab SHARPP Lab at UC Merced
academic.oup.com/abm/advance-ar…

Olivia Engle Jane Callaghan 🌈 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🐶🐱🥾🧶 There's some great lit on the concept of generalisability in qual - contesting the equation of generalisability with statistical generalisability. I really like this paper for instance - tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Happy to share that our scoping review 'What goes on in digital behaviour change interventions for weight loss maintenance targeting physical activity' was just accepted at Sage Digital Health. Check out the pre-print here: psyarxiv.com/4rjpa/ NoHoW Jorge Encantado, PhD

How do skin-conductance ratings from tightly controlled experimental tasks translate to everyday stress responses in-vivo?
Our first ARC-Discovery findings, w/Allison Waters & Kathy Ryan. Fear learning and extinction predicts anxiety in daily life:
bit.ly/3REq7LH

The 'big five' scientific publishers make an estimated $1.06 Billion from open access article publishing charges according to a new pre-print - and this analysis excludes the huge open access only publishers like PLoS and Frontiers zenodo.org/record/7057144…

Power analysis for #interactions can be tough!

📢 Our new preprint features:
𝟭 An intuitive taxonomy of 12 types of interaction
...with the 𝘕s to reach power = .80/.90
𝟮 A 😭 meta-study
𝟯 Simulations testing 3 ways to ↗️ power
𝟰 A cool web app!

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osf.io/xhe3u/

The key paper from my PhD has now been published! The International Food Literacy Questionnaire (IFLQ-19) is valid, reliable and comprehensively captures the Vidgen & Gallegos definition/conceptual framework of food literacy: doi.org/10.1186/s12966… (1/5)

Do physical activity interventions combining self-monitoring with other components provide an additional benefit compared with self-monitoring alone? A systematic review and meta-analysis bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/…

Join us UniSC: University of the Sunshine Coast - We are currently recruiting for 4 positions: Professor in Psychology, Associate Professor in Psychology; and a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology.

🚨Publication Alert🚨
GCMH member Kyra Hamilton has recently co-authored an article looking at the effect of combined exercise training & behaviour change counselling versus usual care on physical activity in patients awaiting hip and knee arthroplasty doi.org/10.1016/j.ocar…

An in-press article in Preventive Medicine examines effects of a total ban on tobacco on 5 US college/uni campuses - findings show reductions in tobacco use and 2nd-hand smoke exposure, but increases in e-nicotine product use sciencedirect.com/science/articl…