Faculty Profile

Associate Professor
ev0361@wayne.edu

Department

Psychology

Secondary Title

Social-Personality Area Chair

Phone

313-577-2836

Fax

313-577-7636

Office

5057 Woodward, Suite 7907.2

Biography

“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.” – Mark Twain

News mentions

2023

2021

Detroit Is It: Happy populous. Happy City? What do Happiness and Politics Have to do with One Another?
Psychology Today: One Personality Trait Predicts Longevity More Than Others—But Why?

2020

2017

Washington Post: Brain Training Games Don't Really Train Brains, a New Study Suggests

Selected publications

* denotes current/former graduate student.

COVID-19 pandemic

Godfrey*, O., Bogg, T., & Milad*, E. (2024). A psychosocial model of COVID-19 vaccination: Antecedent and concurrent effects of demographics, traits, political beliefs, vaccine intention, information sources, mandates, and flu vaccine history. Annals of Behavioral Medicine
Bogg, T., Milad*, E., & Godfrey*, O. (2023). COVID-19 vaccine intention: Prospective and concurrent tests of a disposition-belief-motivation framework. Health Psychology
Milad*, E., & Bogg, T. (2021). Spring 2020 COVID-19 surge: Prospective relations between demographic factors, personality traits, social cognitions and guideline adherence, mask wearing, and symptoms in a U.S. sample. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 55, 665-676
Bogg, T., & Milad*, E. (2020). Demographic, personality, and social cognition correlates of coronavirus guideline adherence in a U.S. sample. Health Psychology, 12, 1026-1036

Personality and health and well-being

Milad*, E., & Bogg, T. (2020). Personality traits, coping, health-related behaviors, and cumulative physiological health in a national sample: 10 Year Prospective effects of conscientiousness via perceptions of activity on allostatic load. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 54, 880-892
Crane, N. T., Hayes*, J. M., Viviano*, R. P., Bogg, T., & Damoiseaux, J. S. (2020). Resting-state functional brain connectivity in older adults: Exploring links among personality traits, cognitive performance, and the default mode network. Personality Neuroscience, e3
Bogg, T., & Slatcher, R. B. (2015). Activity mediates conscientiousness' relationship to diurnal cortisol slope in a national sample. Health Psychology, 34, 1195-1199
Bogg, T., & Roberts, B. W. (2013). The case for conscientiousness: Evidence and implications for a personality trait marker of health and longevity. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 45, 278-288
Bogg, T., & Roberts, B. W. (2004). Conscientiousness and health-related behaviors: A meta-analysis of the leading behavioral contributors to mortality. Psychological Bulletin, 130, 887-919

Personality-informed interventions

Matz, S. C., Beck, E. D., Atherton, O. E., White, M., Rauthmann, J. F., Mroczek, D. K., Kim, M., & Bogg, T. (2023). Personality science in the digital age: The promises and challenges of psychological targeting for personalized behavior change at scale. Perspectives on Psychological Science
Bogg, T., & Vo*, P. T. (2022). Realistic effort action plans (REAP) for exercise among underactive and inactive university students: A randomized trial. Journal of American College Health
Bogg, T., Marshbanks, M., Doherty*, H., & Vo*, P. T. (2019). Testing a brief motivational-interviewing educational commitment module for at-risk college drinkers: A randomized trial. Addictive Behaviors, 90, 151-157

Personality and diet and exercise

Bogg, T. (2016). Self-control, dietary quality, and new frontiers in the study of traits and wellness: A commentary on Keller, Hartmann, and Siegrist. Psychology & Health, 31, 1328-1331
Vo*, P. T., & Bogg, T. (2015). Testing Theory of Planned Behavior and Neo-Socioanalytic Theory models of trait activity, industriousness, exercise social cognitions, exercise intentions, and physical activity in a representative U.S. sample. Frontiers in Psychology, 6: 1114
Bogg, T. (2008). Conscientiousness, the Transtheoretical Model of Change, and exercise: A Neo-Socioanalytic integration of trait and social cognitive frameworks in the prediction of behavior. Journal of Personality, 76, 775-801
Bogg, T., Voss, M., Wood, D., & Roberts, B. W. (2008). A hierarchical investigation of personality and behavior: Examining Neo-Socioanalytic models of health-related outcomes. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 183-2007

Trait self-control, subjective social investment, decisions to drink and alcohol consumption

Finn, P. R., Gerst, K., Lake, A., & Bogg, T. (2017). Decisions to attend and drink at party events: The effects of incentives and disincentives and lifetime alcohol and antisocial problems. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 41, 1622-1629
Bogg, T., Lasecki*, L., & Vo*, P. T. (2016). School investment, drinking motives, and high-risk high-reward partying decisions mediate the relationship between trait self-control and alcohol consumption among college drinkers. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 77, 133-142
Bogg, T., Finn, P. R., & Monsey, K. E. (2012). A year in the college life: Evidence for the social investment hypothesis via trait self-control and alcohol consumption. Journal of Research in Personality, 46, 694-699
Bogg, T. (2011). Investigating drinking via the social investment hypothesis: Committed relationship status moderates the association between educational investment and excessive alcohol consumption among college students. Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 1104-1109
Bogg, T., & Finn, P. R. (2009). An ecologically-based model of alcohol consumption decision-making: Evidence for the discriminative and predictive role of contextual reward and punishment information. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 70, 446-457

Personality and electronically-mediated information-seeking and social behaviors

Briskin*, J. L., Bogg, T., & Haddad, J. (2018). Lower trait stability, stronger normative beliefs, habitual phone use, and unimpeded phone access predict distracted college student messaging in social, academic, and driving contexts. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 2633
Bogg, T. (2017). Social media membership, browsing, and profile updating in a representative U.S. sample: Independent and interdependent effects of Big Five traits and aging and social factors. Frontiers in Psychology; 8, 1122
Bogg, T., & Vo*, P. T. (2014). Openness, neuroticism, conscientiousness, and family health and aging concerns interact in the prediction of health-related Internet searches in a representative U.S. sample. Frontiers in Psychology, 5: 370

Behavioral disinhibition, externalizing psychopathology, cognitive control and cognitive capacity

Bogg, T., & Lasecki*, L. (2015). Reliable gains? Evidence for substantially underpowered designs in studies of working memory training transfer to fluid intelligence. Frontiers in Psychology, 5: 1589
Bogg, T., & Roberts, B. W. (2013). Duel or diversion? Conscientiousness and executive functioning in the prediction of health and longevity. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 45, 400-401
Bogg, T., Fukunaga, R., Finn, P. R., & Brown, J. W. (2012). Cognitive control links alcohol use, trait disinhibition, and reduced cognitive capacity: Evidence for medial prefrontal cortex dysregulation during reward-seeking behavior. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 122, 112-118
Endres, M. J., Rickert, M. E., Bogg, T., Lucas, J., & Finn, P. R. (2011). Externalizing psychopathology and behavioral disinhibition: Working memory mediates signal discriminability and reinforcement moderates response bias in approach-avoidance learning. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120, 336-351
Bogg, T., & Finn, P. R. (2010). A self-regulatory model of behavioral disinhibition in late adolescence: Integrating personality traits, externalizing psychopathology, and cognitive capacity. Journal of Personality, 78, 441-470

Research Description

Personality, motivation, and health-related behaviors; personality-informed interventions for improved health status.

Affiliated Departments

Psychology

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