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Dolores Albarracín

Dolores Albarracín

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Attitudes and social cognition: I study attitudes and persuasion, the intention-behavior relation, goals, general activity patterns, prediction and change of health risk behaviors, and the effects of behavioral and clinical treatments in various settings (e.g., through meta-analysis and clinical trials). The resulting body of work concerns attitudes and social cognition broadly construed, and almost always has implications for understanding and changing behavior.

Primary Interests:

  • Attitudes and Beliefs
  • Communication, Language
  • Culture and Ethnicity
  • Health Psychology
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Motivation, Goal Setting
  • Neuroscience, Psychophysiology
  • Persuasion, Social Influence
  • Social Cognition

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  • From Primed Concepts to Action: A Meta-Analysis
    • Linked publication: Weingarten, E., Hepler, J., & Albarracín, D. (2016). On priming action: A meta-analysis of the behavioral effects of incidentally-presented stimuli. Psychological Bulletin, 142, 5, 472–497.

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Courses Taught:

  • Advances in Self-Regulation
  • Attitude Theory and Change
  • Attitudes
  • Social Psychology Theory and Methods
  • The Psychology of Attitudes and Persuasion

Dolores Albarracín
University of Pennsylvania
202 S. 36th Street
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
United States of America

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