Professor Kyra Hamilton is director of the Health and Psychology Innovations (HaPI) research laboratory. She is also Docent, Behavior Change at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland and affiliate member in Health Sciences Research Institute at the University of California, Merced, USA.
Professor Hamilton has both psychology and nursing qualifications and over 30 years’ experience in health. Her main fields of research are health psychology and behavioral medicine, and areas of expertise and innovation are health behavior motivation, self-regulation, and change.
She is particularly interested in understanding the multiple effects of motivational, volitional, and automatic processes on health behavior and the translation of research findings into policy and practice. Her research is applied widely to understand priority health- and risk-related behaviors, working with a wide range of population groups and in multiple contexts.
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