Richard Moser is a Research Psychologist within the Office of the Associate Director, Behavioral Research Program. His main duty is to provide analytic support for in-house research projects which includes issues of research design and statistical methodology. He also serves as the data coordinator for the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) and is the liaison between the division and the NCI Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program. He can be helpful in obtaining and using statistical software. His research interests include statistical methodology, assessment, health cognitions, and end-of-life issues. Before joining the NCI, he worked at the Palo Alto VA hospital performing alcoholism research, taught statistics at several Bay Area psychology graduate schools and consulted for the statistical software company SPSS. He obtained his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology in 1996.
Select Publications and Presentations:
Moser, R. P., McCaul, K., Peters, E., Nelson, W., & Marcus, S. (2007) Risk and worry as predictors of health-protective behavior: Data from the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS). Journal of Health Psychology, 12 (1).
Weinstein, N. D., Marcus, S. E., & Moser, R. P. (2005). Smokers' unrealistic optimism about their risk. Tobacco Control, 14, 55-59.
Moser, R. P., Green, V., Weber, D., & Doyle, C. (in press). Psychosocial correlates of fruit and vegetable consumption among African American men. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.
Neimeyer, R. A., Moser, R. P., & Wittkowski, J. (2003). Assessing attitudes toward dying and death: Psychometric Considerations. Omega, 47, 45-76.
Moser, R. P., & Berger, A. (2005). Physicians' Death Attitudes and Their Use of Heroic Treatment: Results from a Pilot Study. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Washington, D.C.
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