Affective Determinants of Health Behavior offers readers an important window into existing research and serves as a showcase for important insights on possible new directions and implications for health intervention.

• Preface


• Chapter 1 Overview of Affective Determinants of Health Behavior


• David M. Williams, Ryan E. Rhodes, and Mark T. Conner


• Chapter 2 Affect in the Process of Action Control of Health Protective Behaviors


• Ryan E. Rhodes and Samantha M. Gray


• Chapter 3 Affect, Dual-processing, Developmental Psychopathology, and Health Behaviors


• Reinout W. Wiers, Kristen G. Anderson, Bram Van Bockstaele, Elske Salemink, and Bernhard Hommel


• Chapter 4 Affective Dynamics in Temporal Self-regulation Theory: Social Forces Meet Neurobiological Processes


• Peter A. Hall, Geoffrey T. Fong, and Cassandra J. Lowe


• Chapter 5 Affect in the Context of Self-Determination Theory


• Martin S. Hagger and Cleo Protogerou


• Chapter 6 Self-Regulation of Affect-Health Behavior Relations


• Paschal Sheeran, Thomas L. Webb, Peter M. Gollwitzer, and Gabriele Oettingen


• Chapter 7 Experiential Attitude and Anticipated Affect


• Mark T. Conner


• Chapter 8 The Behavioral Affective Associations Model


• Marc T. Kiviniemi and Lynne Klasko-Foster


• Chapter 9 Perceived Satisfaction with Health Behavior Change


• Austin S. Baldwin and Margarita Sala


• Chapter 10 Psychological Hedonism, Hedonic Motivation, and Health-Related Behavior


• David M. Williams


• Chapter 11 Affect as a Potential Determinant of Physical Activity and Exercise: Critical Appraisal of an Emerging Research Field


• Panteleimon Ekkekakis, Zachary Zenko, Matthew A. Ladwig, and Mark E. Hartman


• Chapter 12 "Stressed Spelled Backwards is Desserts": Affective Determinants of Eating Behavior


• Denise de Ridder and Catharine Evers


• Chapter 13 Affective Determinants of Smoking


• Danielle E. McCarthy, Jessica W. Cook, Teresa M. Leyro, Haruka Minami, and Krysten W. Bold


• Chapter 14 The Role of Negative Affect in the Course of Substance Use Disorders


• Elizabeth D. Reese, Jennifer Y. Yi, Ryan P. Bell, and Stacey B. Daughters


• Chapter 15 Feeling Hot Hot Hot: Affective Determinants of Sexual Behavior


• Natasha S. Hansen, Arielle S. Gillman, Sarah W. Feldstein Ewing, and Angela D. Bryan


• Chapter 16 Affect and Tanning Behaviors


• Ashley K. Day and Elliot J. Coups


• Chapter 17 Emotions and Pro-sociality: Lessons for Donation


• Eamonn Ferguson and Barbara Masser


• Chapter 18 Affect and Clinical Decision Making


• Jane Heyhoe and Rebecca Lawton


• Chapter 19 Emotions, Delay, and Avoidance in Cancer Screening: Roles for Fear, Embarrassment, and Disgust


• Nathan S. Consedine, Lisa M. Reynolds, and Charmaine Borg


• Chapter 20 Decision Making in Cancer Prevention and Control: Insights from Affective Science


• Erin M. Ellis and Rebecca A. Ferrer


• Chapter 21 Affective Determinants of Health Behavior: Common Themes, Future Directions, and Implications for Health Behavior Change


• Ryan E. Rhodes, David M. Williams, and Mark T. Conner

David M. Williams is an Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Psychiatry and Human Behavior, and the Director of the Center for Health Equity Research at Brown University School of Public Health. He studies the interplay between affective and cognitive factors in determining health-related behavior, and the application of this knowledge to the design of health behavior interventions. He has over 70 publications in these areas of research and has received continuous funding from the National Institutes of Health since 2004.
Ryan E. Rhodes is a Professor in the School of Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education, the Director of the Behavioral Medicine Laboratory, and the Associate Director of the Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health at the University of Victoria. His primary area of research is the psychology of physical activity and sedentary behavior. He has held over 90 grants for this research and has contributed over 275 publications as well as 20 book chapters and an undergraduate textbook. Dr. Rhodes is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Science, the Society of Behavioral Medicine, and the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. He is also a College Member of the Royal Society of Canada.
Mark T. Conner is a Professor of Applied Social Psychology at the University of Leeds. He is one of the most highly cited experts on health behavior in the world. His work focuses on understanding, predicting and changing health behaviors. His work includes a number of important empirical studies and reviews of the determinants of health behaviors and intervention studies to change health behaviors in different groups.