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Sonya Dal Cin

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

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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

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