About

Data scientist applying theories and methods from behavioral science.

Research Brief

My research focuses on psychological processes that sustain behavioral changes, which I study using a diverse set of statistics, methods, theories, and technologies. Representative projects include: (1) developing dynamic computational models for processes underlying health behavior change; (2) testing theoretically-grounded interventions targeted at lifestyle behaviors; (3) examining principles of effective health communication; and (4) modeling how relationship dynamics shape health beliefs and behavior.

I am interested in many other topics that intersect health, psychology, and behavior change, such as meta-science, reproducibility, philosophy of science, openness, data visualization, mobile tech, and theory development and testing. I contribute to several large interdisciplinary collaborations in these domains.

My research documentation (i.e., code, data, materials, preregistrations) are primarily on the open science framework. My preprint and postprint manuscripts are open access at OSFpreprints. I occasional blog, here.

Courses taught at University of Minnesota:

• Introduction to Research Methods (honors)
• Introduction to Psychological Measurement and Data Analysis
• Introduction to Health Psychology
• Introduction to Social Psychology
• Major Project
• Human Sexuality

• ledon004@umn.edu