My research is in health psychology with an emphasis on the psychological aspects of tobacco addiction, motivation, and treatment. More specifically, I am interested in mechanisms that underlie the efficacy of tailored interventions for smoking cessation, ways to improve tailored self-help materials, and the influence of expectancies on tobacco interventions. My interests also include minority health and health disparities among smoking-related conditions. Specifically, I am interested in mechanisms underlying the efficacy of culturally-sensitive interventions for African American smokers and the use of traditional group-based interventions in this population.

Webb, M. S., Hendricks, P. S. & Brandon, T. H. (in press). Expectancy priming of smoking cessation messages enhances the placebo effect of tailored interventions. Health Psychology.

Webb, M. S., & Carey, M. P. (in press). Tobacco smoking among low income African American women: Demographic and psychosocial correlates in a community sample. Nicotine and Tobacco Research.

Webb, M. S. (in press). Treating Tobacco Dependence among African Americans: A Meta-Analytic Review. Health Psychology.

Lee, J.-H, Herzog, T. A., Meade, C. D., Webb, M. S., & Brandon, T. H. (2006). Use of GEE for analyzing longitudinal binomial data: A primer using data from a tobacco intervention. Addictive Behaviors (Epub ahead of print).

Webb, M. S., Simmons Nath, V., & Brandon, T. H. (2005). Tailored interventions for motivating smoking cessation: Using placebo-tailoring to examine the influence of expectancies and personalization. Health Psychology, 24, 179-188