Health Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies - Paperback

by Mark Tarrant (Editor), Martin S. Hagger (Editor)

Health Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies reflects and expands upon 13 of the most innovative contributions to the field from researchers such as Friedman and Rosenman, Marmot, Kiecolt-Glaser, and Ajzen. This book will familiarise you with the classic studies, spanning a period from the 1950s to 2010s, and show you how they continue to apply to the world today.

Revisiting the Classic Studies is a series of texts that introduces readers to the studies in psychology that changed the way we think about core topics in the discipline today. It provokes students to ask more interesting and challenging questions about the field by encouraging a deeper level of engagement both with the details of the studies themselves and with the nature of their contribution. Edited by leading scholars in their field and written by researchers at the cutting edge of these developments, the chapters in each text provide details of the original works and their theoretical and empirical impact, and then discuss the ways in which thinking and research have advanced in the years since the studies were conducted.

Mark Tarrant is Professor at the University of Plymouth
Martin S. Hagger is Professor at the University of California, Merced and Finland Distinguished Professor (FiDiPro) at University of Jyväskylä.

Author Biography

Mark Tarrant is Professor of Psychology at the University of Plymouth, UK. His work focuses on the development and evaluation of group-based behaviour change interventions for supporting health. He has published more than 70 articles and book chapters, including in leading international journals (e.g., Psychological Science, Health Psychology Review), and has been funded by major research councils (e.g., NIHR, MRC, ESRC) and charities (e.g., Stroke Association).

Dr. Martin Hagger is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at University of California, Merced. He is also Visiting Professor of Behavior Change at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland and Adjunct Professor at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. He has also been visiting Professor at the Universities of Rome, Bordeaux, and Genoble, and Hong Kong Baptist University. At UC Merced, he is Director of the Social and Health Psychology Applied Behavioural Research for Prevention and Promotion (SHARPP) Lab and former Faculty Chair of the School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts and Provost's Faculty Fellow. His research focuses on the determinants of health behavior, the mechanisms and processes of behavior change, and behavior change interventions. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of Psychology of Sport and Exercise, Stress and Health, and Health Psychology Review, and Senior Editor (Health Psychology) of Social Science and Medicine, and is editorial board member of eleven other journals. He has received numerous awards including a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher Award four years running (2020-2024), and the Distinguished Health Psychology Contribution Award from the International Association of Applied Psychology. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 38, Society of Health Psychology), the European Health Psychology Society, the Society of Behavioral Medicine, the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology