Dr. Monica S. Webb

Assistant Professor

Education

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University of South Florida, PhD.
University of Miami, BS.

Research Interest

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My research is in health psychology with an emphasis on the psychological aspects of tobacco addiction, motivation, and treatment. More specifically, I am interested in mechanisms that underlie the efficacy of tailored interventions for smoking cessation, ways to improve tailored self-help materials, and the influence of expectancies on tobacco interventions. My interests also include minority health and health disparities among smoking-related conditions. Specifically, I am interested in mechanisms underlying the efficacy of culturally-sensitive interventions for African American smokers and the use of traditional group-based interventions in this population.

Representative Publications

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Webb, M. S., & Carey, M. P. (in press). Tobacco smoking among low income African American women: Demographic and psychosocial correlates in a community sample. Nicotine and Tobacco Research.

Webb, M. S. (in press). Treating tobacco dependence among African Americans: A meta-analytic review. Health Psychology.

Webb, M. S. (in press). Focus groups as an intervention for low-income African American smokers to promote participation in subsequent intervention studies. Research in Nursing and Health, March/April, 2008.

Webb, M. S., Francis, J. D., Hines, B. C., & Quarles, F. B. (2007). Health disparities and culturally-specific treatment: Perspectives and expectancies of African American smokers. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 63(6), 567-583.

Webb, M. S., Vanable, P., Carey, M. P., & Blair, D. (2007). Cigarette smoking among HIV+ men and women: Examining health, alcohol use, and psychosocial correlates across the smoking spectrum. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 5, 371-383.

Webb, M. S., Hendricks, P. S. & Brandon, T. H. (2007). Expectancy priming of smoking cessation messages enhances the placebo effect of tailored interventions. Health Psychology, 26, 598-609.

Lee, J.-H, Herzog, T. A., Meade, C. D., Webb, M. S., & Brandon, T. H. (2007). Use of GEE for analyzing longitudinal binomial data: A primer using data from a tobacco intervention. Addictive Behaviors, 32, 187-193.

Webb, M. S., Simmons Nath, V., & Brandon, T. H. (2005). Tailored interventions for motivating smoking cessation: Using placebo-tailoring to examine the influence of expectancies and personalization. Health Psychology, 24, 179-188.

Chirikos T. N., Herzog T. A., Meade C. D., Webb M. S., Brandon T. H. (2004). Cost-effectiveness analysis of a complementary health intervention: The case of smoking relapse prevention. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 20 (4), 475-480.

Brandon, T. H., Meade, C. D., Herzog, T. A. Chirikos, T. N., Webb, M. S., Cantor, A. B. (2004). Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of a minimal intervention to prevent smoking relapse: Dismantling the effects of content versus contact. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 72, 797-808.

Simmons, V. N., Webb, M. S., & Brandon, T. H. (2004). College student smoking: An initial test of an experiential dissonance-enhancing intervention. Addictive Behaviors, 19, 1129-1136.

Brandon, T. H., Herzog, T. A., Webb, M. S. (2003). It ain’t over till it’s over: The case for offering relapse-prevention interventions to former smokers. American Journal of the Medical Sciences. 326 (4), 197-200.