Sonya Dal Cin
- SPN Mentor
I study the psychology of media use in everyday life. This includes media influences on cognition, emotion, and behaviour (e.g., attitudes, norms, self-concept, and self-regulation), and the ways in which contextual and dispositional factors may moderate these effects. I examine media use as both a predictor (i.e., the effects media have) and as an outcome (i.e., the psychological antecedents of media use). I am particularly interested in the relation of media use to 1) health and wellbeing, broadly construed (e.g., substance use, sexual wellness), 2) stereotyping and prejudice, and 3) person perception.
Primary Interests:
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Communication, Language
- Health Psychology
- Life Satisfaction, Well-Being
- Person Perception
- Persuasion, Social Influence
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Self and Identity
Research Group or Laboratory:
Book Chapters and Other Publications
Courses Taught:
- Communication Theory in the Social Science Tradition (Graduate)
- Health Communication and Health Behavior Change
- Mass Media and Health Behavior
- Media Psychology
- Research Methods (Graduate)
Sonya Dal Cin
Department of Communication Studies
University of Michigan
105 South State Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1285
United States of America
- Phone: (734) 615-0380
- Fax: (734) 764-3288