{"id":7058,"date":"2025-03-20T17:31:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T21:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.upenn.edu\/cfar\/?p=7058"},"modified":"2025-03-28T10:36:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:36:46","slug":"penn-cfar-hcp-swg-director-dolores-albarracin-receives-the-bbva-foundation-frontiers-of-knowledge-award-in-social-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.upenn.edu\/cfar\/2025\/03\/20\/penn-cfar-hcp-swg-director-dolores-albarracin-receives-the-bbva-foundation-frontiers-of-knowledge-award-in-social-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolores Albarrac\u00edn receives the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PIK Professor and Penn CFAR HCP SWG Director\u00a0<strong>Dolores Albarrac\u00edn<\/strong>\u00a0has been named one of five recipients of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Sciences for her research increasing \u201cour understanding of how attitudes can be changed, particularly with regard to persuasive messages,\u201d the awards committee said.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><!--more--><!--more-->\u201cMy research has been guided by the following questions: How do we change behavior through persuasion? When does persuasion begin with changes in convictions, and when does it end with changes in beliefs that originate in particular emotions? How can we promote exposure to messages audiences fear and resist?\u201d Albarrac\u00edn says. \u201cAnswering each of these questions involves identifying the psychological processes at play and producing policy recommendations that benefit society.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/penntoday.upenn.edu\/news\/annenberg-sas-dolores-albarracin-bbva-foundation-frontiers-knowledge-award?utm_content=Staff&amp;utm_source=Penn+Today+-+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=5c376b1c98-3%2F12%2F25%3A+Economic+impact&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-a88f34f16b-45874048\"><!--more-->Read more here<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PIK Professor and Penn CFAR HCP SWG Director\u00a0Dolores Albarrac\u00edn\u00a0has been named one of five recipients of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Sciences for her research increasing \u201cour understanding of how attitudes can be changed, particularly with regard to persuasive messages,\u201d the awards committee said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":254,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.upenn.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.upenn.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.upenn.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.upenn.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.upenn.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7058"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.upenn.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7064,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.upenn.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7058\/revisions\/7064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.upenn.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.upenn.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.upenn.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}