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Matt Henson, Ph.D.

  • Matt Henson, Ph.D.
  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Psychology
  • 244c Mills Godwin Bldg
  • Norfolk, VA 23529
  • 757-683-5761
  • jhenson@odu.edu
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  • Education

    University Of California - Los Angeles, 2004
    Major: Quantitative Psychology
    Degree: Ph. D.
    University of California, Los Angeles, 1999
    Major: Quantitative Psychology
    Degree: M.A.
    Truman State University, 1998
    Major: Psychology
    Degree: B.S.
  • Research Interests

     Personality antecedents of adolescent and young adult risky health behaviors (e.g., substance use and risky sex)  Moderators and mediators of substance use intervention efficacy  Assessment, modeling, and behavioral consequences of a sensation seeking personality  Complex modeling of longitudinal data  Applications of Item Response Theory (IRT) to substance use behaviors  The application of mixture detection to latent variable models
  • 2009: Certificate of Excellence in Promoting Undergraduate Research, Old Dominion University
  • 1998: Magna cum laude, Truman University
  • 2009: Shining Star Award, OId Dominion University
  • 2010: Shining Star Award, OId Dominion University
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, Syracuse University
  • University Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research