Crystal Smit
Crystal Smit (MSc.) is a post-doctoral researcher at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Erasmus University, the Netherlands. After finishing her research master in Behavioural Science in 2014, she started working on her PhD project which is embedded in the MyMovez project. With her research she focuses on promoting healthy eating and drinking behaviors in children and adolescents. In her studies, she examines the determinates of healthy eating and drinking and how social influences impact, but also can be incorporated in interventions to improve these dietary behaviors.
22 June 2021
Health and Wellbeing, Youth communication
Motivating peer influencers to promote health behaviors
16 June 2021
Health and Wellbeing
Peer influencers can promote water drinking among classmates
19 March 2020
Social media, Health and Wellbeing, Youth communication
Influencers can sway children to drink unhealthy beverages
10 January 2020
Social media, Health and Wellbeing, Youth communication
Can watching vlogs created by peers make youth more physically active?
30 August 2019
Health and Wellbeing, Youth communication, Media technology and AI
Finding the Most Effective Peer Influencers Using Computer Simulations
7 June 2018
Health and Wellbeing, Youth communication, Media technology and AI
Can a Smartphone App Train Peer Influencers to Promote Physical Activity Among Their Peers?
17 April 2018
Health and Wellbeing, Youth communication
The Power of Peer Influencers: Influential Children Can Make Classmates Drink More Water
5 May 2017
Health and Wellbeing, Youth communication
What Determines Teens’ Fruit, Vegetable, and Water Intake?
24 June 2016
Health and Wellbeing, Youth communication