Speaker：Prof. Jennifer Inauen, Institute of Psychology, Department Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland

Time： Sep. 18, 3:00--5:00pm

Venue：三教 307

Host：Prof. Yiqun Gan

Abstract

Even though health behavior change has been theorized as a dynamic, within-person phenomenon, previous studies have predominantly used methods that do not capture these temporal processes. With the technological advancement for ecological momentary and ambulatory assessment (also known as intensive-longitudinal methods), we can now study temporal processes in our observational and experimental research in daily life, and thereby learn more about the temporal processes in health behavior change.

In this lecture, after an introduction to the topic, I will provide several empirical examples that will showcase how we can use intensive-longitudinal methods to advance our understanding of the temporal processes in health behavior change and related psychosocial determinants.

After this lecture, students can (1) explain why it’s important to study temporal processes in health behavior change, (2) describe the status quo of what we know about temporal processes in health behavior change, (3) describe intensive-longitudinal methods to study temporal processes in health behavior change, and (4) explain the challenges and future directions for studying temporal processes in health behavior change.

Bio

Psychology and Behavioral Medicine at University of Bern, Switzerland.

After obtaining her PhD in psychology from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, Jennifer Inauen joined Urte Scholz’ research team as an academic researcher lecturer at the Universities of Konstanz, Germany, and Zurich, Switzerland. From 2014-2016, she joined Niall Bolger’s and Patrick Shrout’s labs at Columbia and New York University in the USA, before accepting a tenure track research group leader position at Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology. In 2018, Jennifer Inauen was appointed Assistant Professor of Health Psychology (tenure track) at the University of Bern. She has been an Associate Professor there since 2022.

Jennifer Inauen’s research aims to understand the principles of health behavior change, which she studies at the example of healthy eating, physical activity, hygiene, safe water consumption and more. Using mobile technology and intensive-longitudinal methods in daily life, she seeks to understand behavior change processes at different levels, focusing on intra- and interindividual differences. Based on these insights, she aims to develop more effective behavior change interventions.