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Research Overview
Dr. Bryan is a 2006 recipient of the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of Health Psychology. Dr. Bryan's programmatic research is focused on health psychology that synthesizes psychological, physiological, and genetic determinants of behavior with the goal of developing theoretically and empirically based interventions to increase healthy behavior. The two behaviors she is currently focusing on in this work are HIV/STD prevention with high risk adolescents and exercise promotion with sedentary adults, and this work has been funded by NIAAA, NIDA, and NCI. Related to her interests in health psychology, Dr. Bryan also studies the statistical and methodological issues encountered in prevention and field research, and has specific interests in structural equation modeling and mediational analysis of intervention effects. Finally, Dr. Bryan has secondary interests in the study of attraction, mating, and romantic relationships from an evolutionary social psychological perspective.
Education
Ph.D., Arizona State University, 1997 (social psychology, quantitative emphasis)
M.A., Arizona State University, 1994 (social psychology, quantitative emphasis)
B.A., University of California-Los Angeles, 1992 (psychology
Featured Publications
Broaddus, M.R., & Bryan, A. (2008). Consistent condom use among juvenile detainees: The role of individual differences, social bonding, and health beliefs. AIDS and Behavior,12, 59-67.
Bator, R.J., & Bryan, A. (in press). Increasing the motivation to practice safer sex through imagery. Social Influence.
Schmiege, S., Bryan, A., & Klein, W.M.P. (in press). The roles of worry and perceived risk in the determination of intentions to engage in health-related and non-health-related behavior. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
Webster, G.D., Bryan, A., Crawford, C.B., McCarthy, L., & Higgins, B.G. (in press). Lineage, sex, and wealth as moderators of kin investment: Evidence from inheritances. Human Nature.
Webster, G.D., & Bryan, A. (2007). Sociosexual attitudes and behaviors: Why two factors are better than one. Journal of Research in Personality, 41, 917-922.
Bryan, A., Schmiege, S.J., & Broaddus, M.R. (2007). Mediational analysis in HIV/AIDS research: Estimating multivariate path analytic models in a structural equation modeling framework. AIDS and Behavior, 11, 365-383.
Bryan, A., Ray, L., & Cooper, M.L. (2007). Alcohol use and protective sexual behaviors among high-risk adolescents. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 68, 327-335.
Bryan, A., Hutchison, K.E., Seals, D.S., & Allen, D.L. (2007). A transdisciplinary model integrating genetic, physiological, and psychological correlates of voluntary exercise. Health Psychology, 26, 30-39.
Braun, M.F., & Bryan, A. (2006). Female waist-to-hip and male waist-to-shoulder ratios as determinants of romantic partner desirability. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 23, 805-819.
Bryan, A., Kagee, A., & Broaddus, M.R. (2006). Condom use among South African adolescents: Developing and testing a theoretical model of intentions and behavior. AIDS and Behavior, 10, 387-397.
Bryan, A., Ruiz, M.A., Robbins, R.N., & O’Neill, D. (2006). Effectiveness of an HIV prevention intervention in prison among African-Americans, Hispanics, and Caucasians. Health Education and Behavior, 33, 154-177.
Fisher, J.D., Fisher, W.A., Cornman, D., Amico, R., Bryan, A., & Friedland, G. (2006). Clinician-initiated intervention delivered during routine clinical care reduces sexual risk behavior of HIV+ patients. JAIDS, 41, 44–52.
Bryan, A., Rocheleau, C.A., Robbins, R.N., & Hutchison, K.E. (2005). Condom use among high-risk adolescents: Testing the influence of alcohol use on the relationship of cognitive correlates of behavior. Health Psychology, 24, 133-142.
Bryan, A., Aiken, L.S., & West, S.G. (2004). HIV/STD risk among incarcerated adolescents: Optimism about the future and self esteem as predictors of condom use self-efficacy. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 34, 912-936.
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