Professor Helweg-Larsen - Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D
Professor Helweg-Larsen Prof. Helweg-Larsen is the Director of the Social Identity and Risk Lab and the Glenn E. & Mary Line Todd Chair in the Social Sciences at Dickinson College. She uses social psychological methods to examine why smart people do dumb things. She has examined the causes, consequences, and correlates of optimistic bias (thinking you are less at risk than others) as well as other health-related behaviors and cognitions. In two NIH-funded grants she has examined cross-culturally how moralized beliefs about smoking affect risk perceptions and quitting intentions as well as the...
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