{"id":155,"date":"2020-09-11T09:51:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T13:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/mental-health\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=155"},"modified":"2026-01-14T10:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:06:18","slug":"melissa-salmon","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/people\/melissa-salmon\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Salmon"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"116\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/Dice-and-Chips-e1599832414873-240x116.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/Dice-and-Chips-e1599832414873-240x116.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/Dice-and-Chips-e1599832414873-160x77.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/Dice-and-Chips-e1599832414873-768x371.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/Dice-and-Chips-e1599832414873-400x193.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/Dice-and-Chips-e1599832414873-360x174.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/Dice-and-Chips-e1599832414873.jpg 1084w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melissa Salmon\u2019s research focuses on promoting positive behaviour change among people living with addiction. Specifically, she is interested in how perceptions of one\u2019s past and future can help people to quit or cut down on addictive behaviours, such as problem gambling. Currently, the main strategy of helping people to change addictive behaviour is to focus them on a better possible future without the behaviour. However, Salmon\u2019s research suggests that nostalgic reverie, or a sentimental longing, for the life that was lived before addiction can also motivate behaviour change. Her current project explores the conditions in which longing for a future free of addiction and longing for one\u2019s past that was free of addiction might motivate or undermine behaviour change. She is using a mixed-methods approach to answer this research question for her dissertation involving first-person experiential narratives, correlation, and experimental design among problem gamblers.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keywords: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">addiction, behaviour change, nostalgia, gambling<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Melissa","cu_people_last_name":"Salmon","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[45],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-155","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-former-students"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Ph.D. Student","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/155\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}