The Health Psychology Interview Project is a classroom exercise designed to connect students in lecture courses to experts in the field through collective online interviews and iterative writing activities.

To read more about the project, see:

Feasel, S. H., & Sherman, D. K. (2025). Connecting, interviewing, writing: Fostering student engagement via the health psychology interview project. Teaching of Psychology.

The Health Psychology Interview Project developed out of the Health Psychology & COVID-19 interview series.

Health Psychology & COVID-19

After the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Professor David Sherman of UC Santa Barbara conducted a series of interviews (in Spring and Summer, 2020) with public health workers, policy scholars, and health psychology researchers to discuss their experience and research related to this global pandemic. With grants from the Association for Psychological Science Fund for Teaching and Public Understanding of Psychological Science and UCSB Instructional Development Professor Sherman and his students compiled these materials for use by other instructors of Health Psychology as well as the broader community.

The professor and students produced a 65-minute compilation video that includes excerpts from the videos and additional narration from Spring 2021 to provide some context.

In Winter 2022, Professor Sherman and his Psych 159: Health Psychology class at UCSB conducted follow-up interviews with 8 of the speakers from 2020, along with 4 new interviews. In this round of interviews, the students asked the questions, and the guests reflected on what had changed and what they had learned over the two years of the pandemic. The students then wrote papers, which became the first cohort in Feasel & Sherman (2025) Health Psychology Interview Project.

If you have questions about using the Health Psychology & COVID-19 materials, or the Health Psychology Interview Project please contact Professor David Sherman via email: sherman@ucsb.edu