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70
Citations
19421
World Ranking
769
National Ranking
366

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow, Society for Prevention Research
  • 2007 - Friend of ECPN (Early Career Prevention Network) Award
  • 2001 - Prevention Research to Practice Award, Society for Prevention Research
  • 2000 - Outstanding Researcher Award, American School Health Association
  • 1949 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1947 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1939 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS)

Overview

William B. Hansen is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Psychology, with specific contributions to Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, General Health Professions, Epidemiology, and Applied Psychology.

Their scholarly work frequently addresses topics such as Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Youth Development and Social Support, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Health Policy Implementation Science, Smoking Behavior and Cessation, and Opioid Use Disorder Treatment.

Recent publications authored or coauthored by William B. Hansen include:

  • D.A.R.E./keepin' it REAL elementary curriculum: Substance use outcomes (2023) published in PLoS ONE
  • Psychosocial Indicators of Adolescent Alcohol, Cigarette, and Marijuana Use: An Analysis of Normalized, Harmonized, and Pooled Data (2022) published in Evaluation & the Health Professions
  • Development of a questionnaire on teachers' knowledge of language as an epistemic tool (2020) published in Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Other recent papers featuring collaboration with frequent coauthors include:

  • Effects of Workplace Variables on Workers Intentions to Misuse Prescription Opioids (2023) published in Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • Fidelity of D.A.R.E. Officers' Delivery of "keepin' it REAL" in Elementary & Middle School (2023) published in Prevention Science

Frequent coauthors with whom William B. Hansen has collaborated include:

  • David L. Wyrick
  • Emily Beamon
  • Gavin W. Fulmer
  • Jihyun Hwang
  • Brian Hand

William B. Hansen's research has been published across multiple venues, with a notable number of works appearing in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Prevention Science, Journal of Prevention, Journal of Research in Science Teaching, and PLoS ONE.

They have also been recognized with distinctions including being a Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1949), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1947), and Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) (1939).

Best Publications

  • A review of research on fidelity of implementation: implications for drug abuse prevention in school settings

    Linda Dusenbury;Rosalind Brannigan;Mathea Falco;William B. Hansen

  • A Multicommunity Trial for Primary Prevention of Adolescent Drug Abuse: Effects on Drug Use Prevalence

    Mary Ann Pentz;James H. Dwyer;David P. MacKinnon;Brian R. Flay

  • Preventing alcohol, marijuana, and cigarette use among adolescents: peer pressure resistance training versus establishing conservative norms.

    William B. Hansen;John W. Graham

  • School-based substance abuse prevention: a review of the state of the art in curriculum, 1980–1990

    William B. Hansen

  • Deterring the Onset of Smoking in Children: Knowledge of Immediate Physiological Effects and Coping with Peer Pressure, Media Pressure, and Parent Modeling1

    Richard I. Evans;Richard M. Rozelle;Maurice B. Mittelmark;William B. Hansen

  • Diffusion of a School-Based Substance Abuse Prevention Program: Predictors of Program Implementation

    Louise Ann Rohrbach;John W. Graham;William B. Hansen

  • Social influence processes affecting adolescent substance use.

    John W. Graham;Gary Marks;William B. Hansen

  • Relative Effectiveness of Comprehensive Community Programming for Drug Abuse Prevention With High-Risk and Low-Risk Adolescents

    C. Anderson Johnson;Mary Ann Pentz;Mark D. Weber;James H. Dwyer

  • Handbook of adolescent health risk behavior.

    Ralph J. DiClemente;William Bunker Hansen;Lynn E. Ponton

  • Quality of implementation: developing measures crucial to understanding the diffusion of preventive interventions

    Linda Dusenbury;Rosalind Brannigan;William B. Hansen;John Walsh

  • Increasing the validity of self-reports of smoking behavior in children.

    Richard I. Evans;William B. Hansen;Maurice B. Mittelmark

  • Mediating Mechanisms in a School-Based Drug Prevention Program: First-Year Effects of the Midwestern Prevention Project

    D P MacKinnon;C A Johnson;M A Pentz;J H Dwyer

  • Affective and social influences approaches to the prevention of multiple substance abuse among seventh grade students: Results from project SMART

    William B. Hansen;C.Anderson Johnson;Brian R. Flay;John W. Graham

  • Testing the Generalizability of Intervening Mechanism Theories: Understanding the Effects of Adolescent Drug Use Prevention Interventions

    Stewart I. Donaldson;John W. Graham;William B. Hansen

  • Peer influence on smoking initiation during early adolescence: a comparison of group members and group outsiders.

    Patricia A. Aloise-Young;John W. Graham;William B. Hansen

  • Substance use among eighth-grade students who take care of themselves after school.

    Jean L. Richardson;Kathleen Dwyer;Kimberly McGuigan;William B. Hansen

  • Attrition in prevention research.

    William B. Hansen;Linda M. Collins;C. Kevin Malotte;C. Anderson Johnson

  • Effects of Program Implementation on Adolescent Drug Use Behavior: The Midwestern Prevention Project (MPP)

    Mary Ann Pentz;Elizabeth A. Trebow;William B. Hansen;David P. MacKinnon

  • The consistency of peer and parent influences on tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana use among young adolescents.

    William B. Hansen;John W. Graham;Judith L. Sobel;David R. Shelton

  • A multicommunity trial for primary prevention of adolescent drug abuse: Effects on drug use prevalence

    M. A. Pentz;J. H. Dwyer;D. P. MacKinnon;B. R. Flay

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian R. Flay
Brian R. Flay Boise State University
John W. Graham
John W. Graham Pennsylvania State University
C. Anderson Johnson
C. Anderson Johnson Claremont Graduate University
Linda Dusenbury
Linda Dusenbury Cornell University
Steve Sussman
Steve Sussman University of Southern California
Clyde W. Dent
Clyde W. Dent University of Southern California
Mary Ann Pentz
Mary Ann Pentz University of Southern California
Linda M. Collins
Linda M. Collins New York University
David P. MacKinnon
David P. MacKinnon Arizona State University
Christopher L. Ringwalt
Christopher L. Ringwalt University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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