Tim Bogg
Associate Professor
Social-Personality Area Chair
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Tim Bogg
Department
Psychology
“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
Research interest(s)/area of expertise
Twain’s advice rings true, but it also assumes everyone is like him—struggling, or failing, to make healthier or safer choices. Of course, not everyone struggles with doing what they shouldn’t. My lab takes a multidisciplinary approach to examining how people differ in their engagement in health-promoting and health-degrading behaviors and their experience of health-related outcomes via two broad aims: 1) investigating the compelling story of personality differences in the expression of health-related behaviors and outcomes (e.g., preventive pandemic behaviors, excessive alcohol consumption, physical inactivity, poor diet, distracted mobile phone use); and 2) developing and testing models of health-related behavioral interventions that are informed by personality frameworks.
Research
- We are using experimental designs to test for effects of varying message frames and sources, as well as financial incentives, on preventive pandemic behaviors
- We are conducting longitudinal research examining psychosocial predictors and correlates of preventive behaviors, symptoms, diagnoses, vaccination, and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- We are using data from national studies to investigate relationships and pathways between personality traits and various markers of health-related quality of life.
- We conducted a randomized trial of a personality-informed psycho-educational training intervention for exercise initiation and maintenance.
- We conducted a randomized trial of a personality-informed motivational interviewing module for alcohol-related harm reduction among at-risk college drinkers
Education
- Ph.D., Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- B.S., Journalism, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Awards and grants
Experimental tests of message frames, message sources, and incentives on preventive pandemic behaviors
Social Sciences Research Support Program
Wayne State University, Office of the Vice President for Research: 9/7/22-9/6/23; Total costs: $10,000
Role: PI
Coronavirus coping, beliefs, and behavior study
Betty J. Neitzel Psychology Faculty Research Grant
Wayne State University, Department of Psychology: 12/1/20-4/30/23; Total costs: $12,000
Role: PI
PIPELine (Personality-Informed Prehabilitation in End-Stage LIver Disease);
Northwestern University Medical School: Funded 8/1/18-7/31/19; Total costs: $25,000
Role: Co-Investigator
Detroit Area Young Adult Development Studies (DAYADS)
Wayne State University
NIH/NIAAA R00: Funded 8/1/2011-7/31/2014, Total costs: $700,698
Role: PI
Selected publications
COVID-19 pandemic
Conscientiousness and health and well-being
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 and diet and exercise
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. (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.
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
Behavioral disinhibition, cognitive control, and cognitive capacity
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.