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Duane T. Wegener is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including psychology, medicine, and social sciences, with a notable focus on subfields such as sociology and political science, public health, environmental and occupational health, social psychology, applied psychology, and obstetrics and gynecology.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics including behavioral health and interventions, obesity, physical activity and diet, misinformation and its impacts, social and intergroup psychology, cultural differences and values, gestational diabetes research and management, and media influence and health.

Recent publications by Duane T. Wegener cover a range of subjects:

  • Changes in COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Black and White Individuals in the US, 2022, JAMA Network Open
  • A Validity-Based Framework for Understanding Replication in Psychology, 2020, Personality and Social Psychology Review
  • The role of discomfort in the continued influence effect of misinformation, 2021, Memory & Cognition
  • Persuasion amidst a pandemic: Insights from the Elaboration Likelihood Model, 2021, European Review of Social Psychology
  • How Attitudes Impact the Continued Influence Effect of Misinformation: The Mediating Role of Discomfort, 2022, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Coauthorship appears regularly in their work, with frequent collaborators including Mei-Wei Chang, Jolynn Pek, Laura E. Wallace, Alai Tan, and Mark W. Susmann.

Their research has been published extensively in venues such as the Journal of Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Nutrients, Memory & Cognition, and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

Best Publications

  • Evaluating the use of exploratory factor analysis in psychological research.

    Leandre R. Fabrigar;Duane T. Wegener;Robert C. MacCallum;Erin J. Strahan

  • ATTITUDES AND ATTITUDE CHANGE

    Richard E. Petty;Duane T. Wegener;Leandre R. Fabrigar

  • Exploratory factor analysis.

    Leandre R. Fabrigar;Duane Theodore Wegener

  • Attitude change: Multiple roles for persuasion variables.

    Richard E. Petty;Duane T. Wegener

  • The elaboration likelihood model: Current status and controversies.

    Richard E. Petty;Duane T. Wegener

  • The problem of equivalent models in applications of covariance structure analysis.

    Robert C. MacCallum;Duane T. Wegener;Bert N. Uchino;Leandre R. Fabrigar

  • Mood management across affective states : the hedonic contingency hypothesis

    Duane T. Wegener;Richard E. Petty

  • The Flexible Correction Model: The Role of Naive Theories of Bias in Bias Correction

    Duane T. Wegener;Richard E. Petty

  • Flexible correction processes in social judgment: the role of naive theories in corrections for perceived bias.

    Duane T. Wegener;Richard E. Petty

  • Positive mood can increase or decrease message scrutiny: the hedonic contingency view of mood and message processing.

    Duane T. Wegener;Richard E. Petty;Stephen M. Smith

  • Message Order Effects in Persuasion: An Attitude Strength Perspective

    Curtis P. Haugtvedt;Duane T. Wegener

  • Beyond valence in the perception of likelihood: the role of emotion specificity.

    David DeSteno;Richard E. Petty;Duane T. Wegener;Derek D. Rucker

  • Discrete Emotions and Persuasion: The Role of Emotion-Induced Expectancies

    David DeSteno;Richard E. Petty;Derek D. Rucker;Duane T. Wegener

  • Matching Versus Mismatching Attitude Functions: Implications for Scrutiny of Persuasive Messages

    Richard E. Petty;Duane T. Wegener

  • Flexible Correction Processes in Social Judgment: Correcting for Context-Induced Contrast

    Richard E. Petty;Duane T. Wegener

  • Effects of mood on high elaboration attitude change: The mediating role of likelihood judgments

    Duane T Wegener;Richard E. Petty;David J. Klein

  • The Structure of Attitudes.

    Leandre R. Fabrigar;Tara K. MacDonald;Duane T. Wegener

  • Measures and Manipulations of Strength-Related Properties of Attitudes: Current Practice and Future Directions

    Richard E. Petty;Jon A. Krosnick

  • Cognitive Processes in Attitude Change

    Richard E. Petty;Joseph R. Priester;Duane T. Wegener

  • Attitudinal Ambivalence and Message-Based Persuasion: Motivated Processing of Proattitudinal Information and Avoidance of Counterattitudinal Information

    Jason K. Clark;Duane T. Wegener;Leandre R. Fabrigar

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard E. Petty
Richard E. Petty The Ohio State University
Leandre R. Fabrigar
Leandre R. Fabrigar Queen's University
Janice R. Kelly
Janice R. Kelly Purdue University West Lafayette
David DeSteno
David DeSteno Northeastern University
Derek D. Rucker
Derek D. Rucker Northwestern University
Pablo Briñol
Pablo Briñol Autonomous University of Madrid
Zakary L. Tormala
Zakary L. Tormala Stanford University
Bert N. Uchino
Bert N. Uchino University of Utah
Norbert L. Kerr
Norbert L. Kerr Michigan State University
Richard L. Lindroth
Richard L. Lindroth University of Wisconsin–Madison

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