CHIP Lecture Series, Fall 2015
“Online Information and HIV in US Counties: Theory, Testing, and Prediction”
Dolores Albarracin, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
12:30 - 1:30pm
Co-Sponsors:
UConn Center for Public Health and Health Policy
UConn College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
UConn Department of Communication
UConn Department of Human Development and Family Studies
UConn Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and the Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace
UConn Marketing Department, UConn School of Business
UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity
UConn School of Business
UConn School of Medicine, UConn Health
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
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About the Speaker
Dolores Albarracín, Ph.D., received doctoral degrees in social and clinical psychology, and has been a professor of psychology at the University of Florida and professor of communication and psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Albarracín specializes in attitudes and persuasion, the intention-behavior relation, goals, predicting general activity patterns, predicting and changing health risk behaviors, and reviewing the effects of behavioral and clinical treatments in various settings (e.g., through meta-analysis and clinical trials). She is the recipient of two Scientist Development Awards from the National Institute of Mental Health and has published her work in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, Health Psychology, Psychological Science, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Clinical and Consulting Psychology, and Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, among others. She co-edited two books, including the Handbook of Attitudes, which has become a source of reference with national and international reach. Dr. Albarracin was a chartered member of the NIH (National Institutes of Health) review panel on Social Psychology and Individual Difference Processes, is currently a chartered member of the NIH panel on Behavioral and Social Processes in HIV, and serves on national and international committees as well as a number of editorial boards. She is a fellow of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science. Dr. Albarracín is currently Editor of Psychological Bulletin.
About this Lecture
Dr. Albarracín will review recent work on the prediction of HIV prevalence in the U.S. as a function of theoretically and data-driven predictors emerging from the mining of tweets and Natural Language Processing, as well as structural variability across U.S. counties. She will also examine implications for hot spot identification and prevention, testing, and treatment of HIV.
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