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UCL DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH HEALTH BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH CENTRE |
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DR PHILLIPPA LALLY Research Associate in Health Psychology EXPERTISE Habitual behaviour, particularly habit formation. Weight control in adults. Social norms for eating behaviour. RESEARCH Research interests My principle area of interest is habit formation. My PhD tested the utility of habit formation theory for designing behaviour change advice for weight loss. This involved testing a weight loss intervention based on habit-theory and also examined the process of habit development for diet and activity behaviours. A randomised controlled trial of habit-based weight loss advice compared with a no-treatment control group showed significantly greater weight loss in the intervention group (over 8 weeks), which was maintained over follow up (a further 6 months). The recommended behaviours also became increasingly automatic. In another study I tracked changes in automaticity over three months as volunteers repeated one eating or activity behaviour in a consistent context on a daily basis. The results of this study showed that simple advice can result in habit formation and developed a methodology for modelling the habit formation process on an individual basis. This research has contributed to the understanding of habit formation and shown that it may be a useful foundation for simple, easily disseminable, weight loss interventions. I plan to build on these findings in future studies. Current grants I currently hold an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship. As part of this I spent a month at Duke University in North Carolina working with Professor Wendy Wood and have presented the results from my PhD at conferences and workshops. I am now focusing on writing papers relating to my PhD work. BIOGRAPHY Appointments 2007- Research Associate Qualifications 2007 PhD in Health Psychology, University College London 2004 MSc in Health Psychology, University College London 2002 BSc in Psychology, University of Warwick Other I am currently working towards my Stage 2 qualification in Health Psychology. PUBLICATIONS This page last modified 25 May, 2010 by Mark Livermore |
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CONTACT DETAILS Telephone: +44 (0)20 7679 8254 Internal: x48254 Fax: +44 (0)20 7679 8354 Email: p.lally@ucl.ac.uk Postal address: Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK Office: Room 209, 1-19 Torrington Place, WC1E 7HB |
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