Research Team

Lab Director, Dr. Allecia Reid

Allecia Reid is an associate professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Broadly, her research aims to understand the factors that contribute to engagement in health risk behaviors and to improve the design of health promotion interventions. Much of this work focuses on young adult alcohol use. She is especially interested in the roles of peers, social norms, and stigmatizing environments in health behaviors. Recent work also examines the psychosocial processes that promote better maintenance of behavior change following health interventions, with the goal of identifying strategies that are critical to include in maintenance enhancement interventions.  Work in the lab has been supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Science Foundation.

Curriculum Vitae

Madison Bracken, Graduate Student

Madison is a PhD student in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research interests include health behavior change, mHealth and technology supported interventions and online social support. Madison received her BA in psychology from the University of Connecticut in 2013 and Master’s in Health Psychology from Central Connecticut State University in 2017. Prior to coming to UMass, Madison worked as a research coordinator at the Center for mHealth and Social Media at the University of Connecticut.

Alexander Kellogg, Graduate Student

Alex is a PhD student in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.  His research interests concern the effects of stigma, particularly structural stigma, on health behavior and outcomes.  He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2020 with BAs in psychology and sociology.  Before joining the University of Massachusetts Amherst, he worked as a research assistant in the Pennebaker Language Lab and the Population Research Center.