Gavin Fox

Gavin is a current fourth-year social psychology PhD candidate with a focus on health psychology. Broadly speaking their research examines the processes that underlie health behavior change and how we can use this knowledge to create more impactful interventions. Over the last several years, they have worked on a smartphone app to assess context-specific health behaviors (i.e., exercise, fruit and vegetable intake, drinking, and bystander behaviors) and are currently working on an app aimed at improving parent communication with their emerging adult children as they transition from highschool to college, with the goal of ultimately reducing drinking and its negative consequences in this population. Gavin’s primary line of research explores the theoretical underpinnings of multiple health behavior change. They use a variety of methods (e.g., experimental, longitudinal, EMA) and statistics (e.g., regression, SEM, multilevel modeling, meta-analysis) to better understand how well people’s behaviors map on to psychological theories, laying the foundation for future interventions. Outside of the lab, Gavin enjoys reading science fiction and fantasy novels, hanging out with friends, playing golf and collecting Pokémon cards.

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Student Outcomes

• Quang Luong – Coauthor; Conference Presentations
• Maeve McGowan – Honors Student; Project Manager
• Alli Kimmel – Coauthor; Cognitive Neuroscience PhD Student
• Sarah Stevenson – Conference Presentations; Counseling Graduate Student
• Jess Costenbader – Conference Presentations; Counseling Graduate Student

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Princess Neely

Princess is a graduate student in the Social Psychology Ph.D. program. Her research examines the relationship between minoritized students and institutions of higher education through the lens of trust, stress, coping processes, and identity.

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Maeve McGowan

Maeve McGowan is the current lab manager for the HRB Lab. She graduated from Lehigh University in 2025 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. She was an RA in the lab for a couple of years before completing her honors thesis under the mentorship of Dr. Napper. Her research focuses on health identity and parent-child communication in a variety of health contexts including alcohol use, smoking, sexual consent, and opioid use. She hopes to go to graduate school to further study health behavior change! Outside of the lab, Maeve enjoys hanging out with friends and family, listening to music, and playing pickleball.

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Gianna LaMena

Gianna is an undergraduate psychology student with a clinical and behavioral health concentration. Her research interests include substance use, eating disorders, and adolescent relationships and mental health. After graduating from Lehigh University, she hopes to pursue a PhD in clinical or counseling psychology. In her spare time she enjoys spending time with her friends, listening to music, and crocheting.

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