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Marie Helweg-Larsen

Marie Helweg-Larsen

My research areas are in cross-cultural psychology, health psychology, and social psychology. My main area of research investigates the causes, consequences, and correlates of the optimistic bias (people thinking they are less at risk than their peers) -- that is, why people do risky things that they know they should not. In addition, I have research interests in health communication, gender, and public health. Currently, I'm conducting NIH-funded research in the U.S. and Denmark on moralization of smoking.

Primary Interests:

  • Culture and Ethnicity
  • Ethics and Morality
  • Gender Psychology
  • Health Psychology
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Persuasion, Social Influence
  • Sexuality, Sexual Orientation
  • Social Cognition

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Courses Taught:

  • Human Sexuality
  • Psychology of Women
  • Research Methods
  • Research Methods in Social Psychology
  • Senior Seminar: Risk and Society
  • Social Psychology
  • Social Psychology in Film
  • The Social Psychology of Stigmatization
  • Why Do People Believe Weird Things?

Marie Helweg-Larsen
Department of Psychology
Dickinson College
Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17013
United States of America

  • Phone: (717) 245-1562
  • Fax: (717) 245-1971

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