Dolores Albarracín, PhD is a social psychologist who studies social cognition, communication, and behavioral change. She is a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Academy of Political and Social Science, and Association for the Advancement of Sciences. She also is a fellow of the Society for Social and Personality Psychology, American Psychological Association, Association for Psychological Science, and Society for Experimental Social Psychology.
Her research has been recognized with an award for Outstanding Mid-Career Contributions to the Psychology of Attitudes and Social Influence from the Society of Social and Personality Psychology in 2018 and the Diener Award for Outstanding Mid-Career Contributions to Social Psychology from the same society in 2020. She has published six books, including three volumes of the Handbook of Attitudes and two authored monographs: Action and Inaction in a Social World: Predicting and Changing Attitudes and Behaviors (2021) and Creating Conspiracy Beliefs: How Our Thoughts are Shaped (D. Albarracin, J. Albarracin, M-P.S. Chan, & K.H. Jamieson, 2022), both published by Cambridge University Press.
She received the 2019 Avant Garde Award from the National Institutes of Health and $43 million of federal funding for her research on health behavioral change. She was the editor of Psychological Bulletin (2014-2020) and is currently editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition (2023-2029). She was President of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in 2023. Albarracín holds a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
