CHIP Lecture Series, Spring 2015
“Self-Affirmation: From Theory to Process to Health Impact”
William Klein, PhD, National Cancer Institute, National Human Genomics Research Institute
12:30 - 1:30pm
Co-Sponsors:
Center for Environmental Health and Health Promotion, UConn
Center for Public Health and Health Policy, UConn Health
Department of Human Development and Family Studies, UConn
Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, UConn
Location
Video Conference Room 204, 2nd floor
J. Ray Ryan Building, 2006 Hillside Road
University of Connecticut, Storrs Campus
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Accessibility: elevator available in building lobby on ground floor.
Web Stream
You can view this talk streamed live during the lecture -- or archived after the lecture -- at http://www.chip.uconn.edu/lecture-01-22-15.
About the Speaker
Dr. Klein is Associate Director of the Behavioral Research Program at the National Cancer Institute and Adjunct Investigator in the Social and Behavioral Research Branch of the National Human Genomics Research Institute. He received his PhD in Social Psychology at Princeton University in 1991. Dr. Klein joined NIH in 2009 from the Psychology Department at the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award as a member of the graduate faculty in the Social Psychology and the Biological and Health Psychology graduate programs, and where he now serves as adjunct faculty. His research interests fall largely in the areas of self-judgment, risk perception, and risk communication. Dr. Klein has been interested in how risk perception biases are related to the processing of health communications, to health decision-making, and to health behavior; how social processes (e.g., social comparison, self-affirmation, peer influence) influence responses to personalized feedback and risk communication; the influence of affective factors such as worry and incidental emotion on risk appraisal and health decisions; the impact of ambiguity on responses to feedback and risk messages; the role of optimism in health behavior and psychological functioning; and applications of theory to risk communication and health behavior intervention. Dr. Klein’s work has produced over 100 publications and has been supported by the National Cancer Institute, National Science Foundation, and several private foundations. In his current position at NCI, he oversees a research program with six branches devoted to various aspects of health behaviors linked to cancer outcomes (Basic Biobehavioral and Psychological Sciences Branch, Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch, Health Behaviors Research Branch, Tobacco Control Research Branch, Process of Care Research Branch, Science of Research and Technology Research Branch). He also co-chairs NCI’s Cognitive, Affective, and Social Processes in Health Research (CASPHR) working group, and serves as Executive Secretary for the White House Office of Science and Technology’s Social, Behavioral, and Economic Subcommittee of the Committee on Science.
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