Dolores Albarracín, Ph.D.
Annenberg Public Policy Center
202 S 36th Street
Philadelphia PA 19104
Attitudes; Communication and persuasion; Motivation; Behavioral change; Health
Professor Dolores Albarracin will be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2026.
Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, Universidad de Belgrano, Argentina
B.A. in Psychology, Universidad Catolica de La Plata
B.A. in Letters, Universidad Nacioal de La Plata
“The Persuasive impact of attitudinal, behavioral, and combined message statements.” Scientific Reports, 2026
“Understanding belief–behavior correspondence: Beliefs and belief–to–behavior inferences.” Psychological Inquiry, 2025
Enhancing others through information selection: Establishing the phenomenon and its preconditions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2025
Bypassing versus correcting misinformation: Efficacy and fundamental processes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2025
Creating Conspiracy Beliefs: How Our Thoughts Are Shaped. Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Action and Inaction in a Social World: Predicting and Changing Attitudes and Behavior. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
“The Modulating Role of Self-Posed Questions in Repeated Choice: Integral and Incidental Questions Can Increase or Decrease Behavioral Rigidity.” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2019.
“Acting by a Deadline: The Interplay between Deadline Distance and Movement Induced Goals.” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2019.
“The Social Creation of Action and Inaction: From Concepts to Goals to Behaviors.” Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 2019.
“Attitudes and Attitude Change.” Annual Review of Psychology, 2018.
Advisees
Wynne Williams-Ceci [Psychology Graduate Student]
Janet Lopez [Psychology Graduate Student]
Yubo Zhou [Psychology Graduate Student]
Maya Enisman [Postdoc researcher]
Minjae Seo [Postdoc researcher]