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Dr. Tonya Dodge and Dr. Michelle StockDr. Tonya Dodge and Dr. Michelle Stock presented research at The Forum @ DC in February 2018. The research examined the effect of Initiative 71, a ballot initiative that legalized recreational marijuana in Washington, DC, on college students’ beliefs about willingness to use marijuana.
Deepti Joshi and Dr. Saud AbaalkhailDeepti Joshi and Dr. Saud Abaalkhail presenting a poster at GWU Research Days. The title of the poster ‘Physical Activity Goals among Patients in Primary Care Setting’ explored the types of physical activity goals patients bring with them to the primary care setting.
Abigail Shonrock presenting a poster at GWU Research Days. The title of the poster ‘Personality and Physical Activity Choices Among College Students’ tested whether those who chose specific types of physical activity (e.g., running, yoga) differed from those who did not on several different dimensions of personality (e.g., sensation seeking).
In picture: Emily Schoen (Sophomore, Class of 2026)
Emily presented a poster titled “Assessing the Impact of a Psychoeducational Intervention on Attitudes and Intentions towards Strength Training among Primary Care Patients” at GWU’s Annual Research Showcase event in April 2024. She was interested to see if the psychoeducatinoal intervention we administered to 134 patients changed patients’ intentions and confidence to engage in strength training and in their ability to slow down sarcopenia.
In picture: Emma Tetrault (Junior, Class of 2025)
Emma presented a poster titled “Understanding Marijuana Use: Exploring Norms Across Methods of Administration” at GWU’s Annual Research Showcase event in April 2024. She wondered if descriptive norms (i.e., perceived prevalence) and injunctive norms (i.e., perceived approval from others) differed across the different methods of administering marijuana (i.e., joints, blunts, vapes and edibles) among young adult college students. Because of her particular interest in vaping, she also explored whether past-year marijuana use, descriptive norms about vaping, and injunctive norms about vaping uniquely predicted intentions to vape marijuana over the next six weeks.