Biography
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Research Interests
Questions that guide my current research include:
1. How can we persuade others to engage in socially beneficial behaviors? Under what conditions do changes in attitudes predict behavior? How do attitudes change over time, and what role does memory play (e.g. sleeper effects)? When do we seek out information that is likely to confirm vs. challenge prior attitudes? How doe attitudes become automatic and what brain activity supports this automation?
2. How is action structured and socially conditioned? Do action goals promote changes in attitudes and behavioral routines? Do people engage in behavior for the sake of being active, and what are the potential consequences of this tendency in the context of health? Do these tendencies vary across cultures?
3. Does the grammatical and syntactic structure of our thoughts influence our overt behavior? Under what conditions do randomly strung thoughts acquire coherence?
4. How can we use the psychology of social cognition, attitudes, and motivation for health promotion? What types of campaigns and interventions work for different groups?
For PDF copies of publications, see: https://www.socialactionlab.org/publications-1
Dr. Albarracin will be admitting new students for the next academic year.
Education
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Courses Taught
- Psych 352
- Psych 552
- Psych 558
- Psych 593
- Psych 201
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Psychology
Professor, Business Administration
Professor, Information Trust Institute
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
External Links
Recent Publications
Albarracin, D., & Jung, H. (2021). A research agenda for the post-COVID-19 world: Theory and research in social psychology. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 24(1), 10-17. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12469
Albarracin, D., Sunderrajan, A., McCulloch, K. C., & Jones, C. (2021). Mistaking an Intention for a Behavior: The Case of Enacting Behavioral Decisions Versus Simply Intending to Enact Them. Personality and social psychology bulletin, 47(3), 455-467. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220929203
Albarracin, D., & Dai, W. (2021). Priming Effects on Behavior and Priming Behavioral Concepts: A Commentary on Sherman and Rivers (2020). Psychological Inquiry, 32(1), 24-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2021.1889319
Barton, A. W., Reinhart, C. A., Campbell, C. C., Smith, D. C., & Albarracin, D. (2021). Opioid use at the transition to emerging adulthood: A latent class analysis of non-medical use of prescription opioids and heroin use. Addictive Behaviors, 114, [106757]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2020.106757
Chan, M. P. S., Morales, A., Zlotorzynska, M., Sullivan, P., Sanchez, T., Zhai, C., & Albarracín, D. (2021). Estimating the influence of Twitter on pre-exposure prophylaxis use and HIV testing as a function of rates of men who have sex with men in the United States. AIDS (London, England), 35, S101-S109. https://doi.org/10.1097/QAD.0000000000002838