Dolores Albarracín

Dolores Albarracín a scholar of attitudes, communication, and behavior is the Director of the Social Action Lab, Director of the Science of Science Communication Division at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, and Amy Gutmann University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She studies the impact of communication and persuasion on human behavior and the formation of beliefs, attitudes, and goals, particularly those that are socially beneficial. In addition to an interest in basic attitudinal processes, she is interested in finding ways of intervening to promote positive social interactions and public policies. Her research is a combination of basic and applied psychology.

Her publications include Creating Conspiracy Beliefs: How Our Thoughts Are Shaped, Action and Inaction in a Social World: Predicting and Changing Attitudes and Behavior, and The Handbook of Attitudes. She has been elected President of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and is a fellow of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Health Psychology. 

Albarracín was born in Argentina, received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 1997, and was previously a tenured professor at the University of Florida and at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.