Dr. Dolores Albarracín, is a professor of psychology, business, and medicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a renowned scholar in the fields of attitudes, communication, and behavior. Dr. Albarracín was born in Argentina. She received her PhD 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 Pennsylvania. Dr. Albarracín has published about 170 journal articles and book chapters in the leading outlets of the fields of psychology and health, and has had an important impact on national health communication policy. Her innovative research is an unusual combination of basic and applied psychology and has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1997.

Dr. Albarracín was the 2018 inaugural recipient of the Award for Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Research on Attitudes and Social Influence from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. She is also the 2019 recipient of the Avant-Garde Award, National Institute of Drug Abuse, which supports individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose high-impact, bold basic research that will open new areas of HIV/AIDS research and/or lead to new avenues for prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS among people who use drugs. Her avant-garde work concerned the creation of an online community to improve interactions among people who use drugs and society at large. 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, and the author of five books. Her recent book in press at Cambridge University Press that integrates her theoretical and applied contributions is titled, Action and Inaction in a Social World: Dynamic, and Implications for the Prediction and Change of Attitudes and Behaviors. According to Google Scholar, her work has been cited close to 17,000 times, with many key articles being the most frequently cited pieces within a topic (e.g., selective exposure; condom use; misinformation correction).