Faculty Collective-Jill Quilici
Jill Quilici studies decision making about nutritional intake from a social-cognitive perspective, focusing on what factors influence our decisions to stick with or abandon healthy eating goals and testing environmental or educational interventions designed to promote healthier eating decisions and reduce health disparities. This topic is of great significance because of the current obesity epidemic in the United States, which is associated with serious health conditions, including heart disease, stroke, and type II diabetes. Students assisting in my lab get experience conducting literature review, experimental design, development of stimulus materials, data collection, data scoring, data entry, data analysis, and writing up and presenting research findings.