Dolores Albarracín
Psychology Department
University of Illinois
603 E. Daniel Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
U.S.A.
Home Page
Phone: (217) 244-7019
Fax: (217) 244-5876
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Current research:
Social cognition, attitudes, goals, and behaviors. Change maintenance and decay processes. Applications to health prevention. Behavior change in different ethnic, gender, and age groups. Health disparities. Social and health neuroscience.
Awards:
K01 (1999-2004) Scientist Development Award from the National Institutes of Mental Health.
K02 (2005-2009) Scientist Development Award from the National Institutes of Mental Health.
Several other research fellowships and grants. |
 Books:
 Albarracín, D., Johnson, B. T., & Zanna, M. P. (Eds.). (2005). The handbook of attitudes. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Journal Articles:
- Albarracín, D. (2002). Cognition in persuasion: An analysis of information processing in response to persuasive communications. In M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (Vol. 34, pp. 61-130). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
- Albarracín, D., Cohen, J. B., & Kumkale, G. T. (2003). When communications collide with recipients' actions: Effects of post-message behavior on intention to follow the message recommendation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29.
- Albarracín, D., Gillette, J., Earl, A., Glasman, L. R., Durantini, M. R., & Ho., M. H. (2005). A test of major assumptions about behavior change: A comprehensive look at the effects of passive and active HIV-prevention interventions since the beginning of the epidemic. Psychological Bulletin, 131, 856-897.
- Albarracín, D., Glasman, L. R., & Wallace, H. M. (2004). Survival and change in judgments: A model of activation and comparison. In M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (Vol. 36). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
- Albarracín, D., Handley, I., Noguchi, K., McCulloch, K., Li, H., Leeper, J., Brown, R., & Earl, A. (in press). Increasing and decreasing motor and cognitive output: A model of general action and inaction goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
- Albarracín, D., & Kumkale, G. T. (2003). Affect as information in persuasion: A model of affect identification and discounting. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 453-469.
- Albarracín, D., & McNatt, P. S. (2005). Maintenance and decay of past behavior influences: Anchoring attitudes on beliefs following inconsistent actions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 719-733.
- Albarracín, D., & Mitchell, A. L. (2004). The role of defensive confidence in preference for proatttitudinal information: How believing that one is strong can sometimes be a defensive weakness. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1565-1584.
- Albarracín, D., & Wyer, R. S. (2001). Elaborative and nonelaborative processing of a behavior-related communication. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 691-705.
- Albarracín, D., & Wyer, R. S. (2000). The cognitive impact of past behavior: Influences on beliefs, attitudes, and future behavioral decisions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 5-22.
- Durantini, M. R., Albarracín, D., Earl, A., & Mitchell, A. L. (2006). Conceptualizing the influence of social agents of behavior change: A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of HIV-prevention interventionists for different groups. Psychological Bulletin, 132, 212-248.
- Kumkale, G. T., & Albarracín, D. (2004). The sleeper effect in persuasion: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 130, 143-172.
- Wright, P., Albarracín, D., Li, H., Brown, R. D., & Liu, Y. (in press). Dissociated responses in the amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex to bottom-up and top-down components of emotional evaluation. Neuroimage.
- Wyer, R. S., & Albarracín, D. (2005). Belief formation, organization and change: Cognitive and motivational influences. In D. Albarracín, B. T. Johnson, & M. P. Zanna (in press). Handbook of attitudes and attitude change. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
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