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Winifred A Gebhardt is Associate Professor of Health Psychology at Leiden University's Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. She holds ancillary roles including chair of the Psychology Master’s Programme Committee and Senior Researcher at the National Institute for Social Research (4 days/week since 2021). Her work focuses on identity processes, self-regulation, and goal conflict dynamics in health behavior change.
- Education: Clinical & Health Psychology (Major), Social & Organizational Psychology (Minor) from Utrecht University (1989); Post-Master Research Internship at Harvard Medical School (1989); PhD cum laude at Leiden University (1997)
Her research examines how health goals interact with personal identity and other life goals, particularly in contexts like smoking cessation, physical activity promotion, alcohol use, and self-management for intellectual disabilities. She pioneered the Health Behaviour Goal Model and transitional identities framework.
Recent publications focus on digital future-self interventions for smoking/PA, organizational humanness, and cardiovascular teachable moments. She received the European Health Psychology Society Fellowship (2018) for lifetime contributions.
- Key Supervisees: Janice Sandjojo, Eline Meijer, Kristell Penfornis, Michelle Brust
