Martin S. Hagger University of California - Merced

Dr. Martin Hagger is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at University of California, Merced. He is also Visiting Professor of Behavior Change at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland and Adjunct Professor at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. He has also been visiting Professor at the Universities of Rome, Bordeaux, and Genoble, and Hong Kong Baptist University. At UC Merced, he is Director of the Social and Health Psychology Applied Behavioural Research for Prevention and Promotion (SHARPP) Lab and former Faculty Chair of the School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts and Provost’s Faculty Fellow. His research focuses on the determinants of health behavior, the mechanisms and processes of behavior change, and behavior change interventions. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of Psychology of Sport and Exercise, Stress and Health, and Health Psychology Review, and Senior Editor (Health Psychology) of Social Science and Medicine, and is editorial board member of eleven other journals. He has received numerous awards including a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher Award four years running (2020-2024), and the Distinguished Health Psychology Contribution Award from the International Association of Applied Psychology. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 38, Society of Health Psychology), the European Health Psychology Society, the Society of Behavioral Medicine, the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology