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PhD Social Psychology University of California, Santa Barbara
Masters Social Psychology University of California, Santa Barbara
Bachelors Psychology University of California, Santa Barbara

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According to Wikipedia, William Dean Crano is an American psychologist. He is the Oskamp Distinguished Professor of Psychology in the Division of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences , Claremont Graduate University. He has also written almost 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, in journals including Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Psychological Inquiry, Journal of Social Psychology, and AIDS Education and Prevention, and is the co-author of an article in Annual Review of Psychology, Volume 57, 2006. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and Association for Psychological Science .

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Attitudes and persuasion. (2006) (804)
Research Design and Issues of Validity (2000) (637)
Attitudes and the Prediction of Behavior (2011) (520)
Principles and Methods of Social Research (1986) (349)
The NIMH Multisite HIV Prevention Trial: reducing HIV sexual risk behavior. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Multisite HIV Prevention Trial Group. (1998) (278)
Vested interest as a moderator of attitude–behavior consistency. (1982) (242)
Inferred evaluation and the relation between attitude similarity and interpersonal attraction. (1988) (228)
Acculturation, familism, parental monitoring, and knowledge as predictors of marijuana and inhalant use in adolescents. (2004) (217)
Principles of research in social psychology (1973) (169)
Monitoring Matters (2009) (145)
Understanding early-onset drug and alcohol outcomes among youth: The role of family structure, social factors, and interpersonal perceptions of use (2011) (140)
Causal influence of teachers' expectations on children's academic performance: A cross-lagged panel analysis. (1978) (133)
Does Intelligence Cause Achievement?: A Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis (1972) (128)
The leniency contract and persistence of majority and minority influence. (1998) (125)
Indirect minority influence: Evidence for leniency in source evaluation and counterargumentation. (1997) (106)
Family Structure and Adolescent Drug Use: An Exploration of Single-Parent Families (2009) (97)
Primacy versus Recency in Retention of Information and Opinion Change (1977) (97)
Vested interest, symbolic politics, and attitude-behavior consistency. (1997) (87)
Components of vested interest and attitude-behavior consistency (1995) (80)
Assumed Consensus of Attitudes (1983) (80)
Attitudes and Attitude Change: The Fourth Peak (2011) (80)
Testing a Single-Factor Model as an Alternative to the Misuse of Partial Correlations in Hypothesis-Testing Research (1970) (79)
A Measure of Adjustment Strain in International Students (1993) (78)
Intentions of Becoming a Living Organ Donor Among Hispanics: A Theory-Based Approach Exploring Differences Between Living and Nonliving Organ Donation (2008) (77)
Expectancy change and adolescents' intentions to use marijuana. (2008) (74)
Predicting job performance of low income workers: The Work Opinion Questionnaire. (1984) (72)
Effects of Sex, Response Order, and Expertise in Conformity: A Dispositional Approach* (1970) (71)
Mass media and drug prevention : classic and contemporary theories and research (2002) (68)
The Enduring Impact of Parents’ Monitoring, Warmth, Expectancies, and Alcohol Use on Their Children’s Future Binge Drinking and Arrests: a Longitudinal Analysis (2016) (66)
The role of theory in developing effective antidrug public service announcements (2002) (63)
Attitude Ambivalence, Friend Norms, and Adolescent Drug Use (2014) (60)
Pathways from Parental Knowledge and Warmth to Adolescent Marijuana Use: An Extension to the Theory of Planned Behavior (2009) (60)
Variations in parental monitoring and predictions of adolescent prescription opioid and stimulant misuse. (2015) (58)
Persuading People with Depression to Seek Help: Respect the Boomerang (2013) (56)
Milestones in the Psychological Analysis of Social Influence (2000) (55)
Effects of Sex, Conversation, Location, and Size of Observer Group on Bystander Intervention in a High Risk Situation* (1974) (54)
Outgroup Accountability in the Minimal Group Paradigm: Implications for Aversive Discrimination and Social Identity Theory (2001) (54)
Living Kidney Donation among Hispanics: A Qualitative Examination of Barriers and Opportunities (2008) (54)
Perceived discrimination as a risk factor for depressive symptoms and substance use among Hispanic adolescents in Los Angeles (2013) (53)
Principles and methods of social research, 3rd ed. (2015) (52)
Attitudes and attitude change (2008) (52)
The Pervasive Effects of Vested Interest on Attitude–Criterion Consistency in Political Judgment (2002) (50)
Dimensions of Majority and Minority Groups (2008) (49)
Majority and Minority Influence (2007) (49)
Perceptions of Intragroup Rejection and Coping Strategies: Malleable Factors Affecting Hispanic Adolescents’ Emotional and Academic Outcomes (2014) (45)
Refining the meaning and measurement of acculturation: Revisiting a novel methodological approach☆ (1996) (45)
Vested interest and environmental risk communication: improving willingness to cope with impending disasters (2014) (44)
Evaluation of the Predictive Validity of Tests of Mental Ability for Classroom Performance in Elementary Grades. (1979) (44)
The effect of congruous and incongruous source-statement combinations upon the judged credibility of a communication. (1968) (44)
A RE-EXAMINATION OF THE CROSS-CULTURAL PRINCIPLES OF TASK SEGREGATION AND SEX ROLE DIFFERENTIATION IN THE FAMILY (1975) (43)
The Psychology of Attitudes and Attitude Change (2011) (43)
Overcoming adolescents' resistance to anti-inhalant appeals. (2007) (42)
Complexity of attitude structure and processes of conflict reduction. (1967) (42)
The Context/Comparison Model of Social Influence: Mechanisms, Structure, and Linkages that Underlie Indirect Attitude Change (1997) (41)
Context/Categorization Model of Social Influence: Minority and Majority Influence in the Formation of a Novel Response Norm (1994) (41)
Methodological Issues in Applied Social Psychology (1992) (41)
A quasi-experimental investigation of message appeal variations on organ donor registration rates. (2008) (40)
Judgmental subjectivity/objectivity and locus of choice in social comparison. (1989) (40)
Predicting adolescents' persistence, non-persistence, and recent onset of nonmedical use of opioids and stimulants. (2012) (40)
The At-risk Adolescent Marijuana Nonuser: Expanding the Standard Distinction (2008) (38)
Formal vs informal group affiliations: implications for alcohol and drug use among adolescents. (1986) (37)
Attachment theory and theory of planned behavior: an integrative model predicting underage drinking. (2013) (37)
A Test of the Theory of Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence in Middle-and Low-Socioeconomic-Status Children: A Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis. (1974) (36)
Effects of fatalism and family communication on HIV/AIDS awareness variations in Native American and Anglo parents and children. (2002) (35)
A Mass Mediated Intervention on Hispanic Live Kidney Donation (2010) (35)
Adolescents' attitudes toward antimarijuana ads, usage intentions, and actual marijuana usage. (2013) (35)
Factors mediating the association of the recency of parent's marijuana use and their adolescent children's subsequent initiation. (2013) (34)
How Minorities Prevail: The Context/Comparison-Leniency Contract Model (2009) (33)
Cognitive responses to minority‐ or majority‐based communications: Factors that underlie minority influence (1996) (33)
Passive-positive organ donor registration behavior: A mixed method assessment of the IIFF Model (2010) (33)
Adolescent Alcohol Use: Protective and Predictive Parent, Peer, and Self-Related Factors (2016) (32)
Maternal Factors That Influence Children's Positive Behavior: Demonstration of a Structural Equation Analysis of Selected Data from the Berkeley Growth Study. (1987) (32)
Social reinforcement, self-attribution, and the foot-in-the-door phenomenon. (1982) (31)
Measuring Acculturation Gap Conflicts Among Hispanics (2014) (30)
Attitude ambivalence, social norms, and behavioral intentions: Developing effective antitobacco persuasive communications. (2016) (30)
Intergroup bias and perceived similarity: Effects of successes and failures on support for in- and outgroup political leaders (2013) (29)
Parents' beliefs and children's marijuana use: evidence for a self-fulfilling prophecy effect. (2014) (28)
Examination of Newcomb's extension of structural balance theory. (1973) (27)
Social Influence Interpretation of Interpersonal Processes and Team Performance Over Time Using Bayesian Model Selection (2015) (27)
Increasing Social Support for Depressed Individuals: A Cross-Cultural Assessment of an Affect-Expectancy Approach (2012) (26)
The power of the proposition: frequency of marijuana offers, parental knowledge, and adolescent marijuana use. (2015) (25)
Social psychology : principles and themes of interpersonal behavior (1982) (25)
Expanding the reach of vested interest in predicting attitude-consistent behavior (2014) (25)
Attitude Change as a Function of Discrepancy and Source of Influence (1968) (24)
A cross-cultural study of expressive and instrumental role complementarity in the family (1978) (24)
Parent–Child Drug Communication: Pathway From Parents' Ad Exposure to Youth's Marijuana Use Intention (2014) (23)
Nonmedical use of prescription stimulants in college students: Attitudes, intentions, and vested interest. (2016) (23)
When does dissonance fail? The time dimension in attitude measurement. (1970) (23)
“…you would probably want to do it. Cause that's what made them popular”: Exploring Perceptions of Inhalant Utility Among Young Adolescent Nonusers and Occasional Users (2009) (22)
Indirect Minority Influence: The Leniency Contract Revisited (1998) (22)
Judgmental subjectivity/objectivity and locus of choice in social comparison (1989) (22)
Deterrence and Incapacitation: An Interrupted Time-Series Analysis of California's Three-Strikes Law1 (2003) (21)
Social Mediation of Persuasive Media in Adolescent Substance Prevention (2017) (20)
Peripheral Factors Affecting the Evaluation of Artworks (2018) (20)
What Do Infant Mental Tests Test? A Cross-lagged Panel Analysis of Selected Data from the Berkeley Growth Study. (1977) (19)
Participation in Team Sports and Alcohol and Marijuana Use Initiation Trajectories (2014) (18)
Vested interest and symbolic politics--observations and recommendations: reply To Sears (1997). (1997) (18)
Racial factors in helping behavior: An unobtrusive field experiment (1975) (18)
Overjustification, assumed consensus, and attitude change: Further investigation of the incentive-aroused ambivalence hypothesis. (1988) (17)
Attitude Formation and Change (2015) (17)
THE MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES INVENTORY : A MEASURE OF PERSPECTIVE-TAKING (1998) (16)
15. A history of social influence research (2010) (16)
Enhancing prediction of inhalant abuse risk in samples of early adolescents: a secondary analysis. (2008) (16)
Above the influence of vaping: Peer leader influence and diffusion of a network-informed preventive intervention. (2020) (15)
Political Orientation and Moral Conviction: A Conservative Advantage or an Equal Opportunity Motivator of Political Engagement? (2015) (15)
Ethnic groups' perception of physicians' attentiveness: Implications for health and obesity (2013) (15)
Influencing Inhalant Intentions by Changing Socio-Personal Expectations (2008) (15)
Social psychology and politics (2015) (14)
Sympathetic arousal and self-attention: The accessibility of interoceptive and exteroceptive arousal cues ☆ (1989) (14)
Facilitating Reading Comprehension Through Spatial Skills Training (1991) (14)
Equity in Access to Outdoor Recreation—Informing a Sustainable Future (2019) (14)
The influence of incentive-aroused ambivalence on overjustification effects in attitude change (1984) (13)
Context, comparison, and change: Methodological and theoretical contributions to a theory of minority (and majority) influence. (1994) (13)
Differentiating Common Predictors and Outcomes of Marijuana Initiation: A Retrospective Longitudinal Analysis (2014) (12)
Social environment and social support (1991) (12)
An extension and application of the multitrait-multimethod matrix technique. (1977) (11)
Group Membership and Adolescents' Alcohol Intake: The Role of Drinking Motives. (2016) (11)
Pitfalls Associated With the Use of Financial Incentives (and Other Complex Manipulations) in Human Social Research (1991) (11)
Media representations of majority and minority groups (2007) (11)
Yes, we can: physical activity and group identification among healthy adults (2015) (10)
Cultural Dimensions Reconsidered: Global and Regional Analyses of the Ethnographic Atlas (1977) (10)
Assumed Policy Similarity and Voter Preference (2003) (10)
Majority and minority in¯uence in attitude formation and attitude change: Context/categorization ± leniency contract theory (2009) (10)
Application of vested interest theory to prevention of non-medical prescription stimulant and marijuana use: Unforeseen benefits of attitude-behavior inconsistency. (2019) (10)
Fox and Not-Fox Television News Impact on Opinions on Global Warming: Selective Exposure, Not Motivated Reasoning (2015) (10)
8. The evolution of research methodologies in social psychology: a historical analysis (2010) (10)
Patterns of Substance Use, Delinquency, and Risk Factors Among Adolescent Inhalant Users (2015) (10)
Forest visitation, media consumption, and diverse publics: lessons for outreach (2008) (9)
The Siren's Call: Mass Media and Drug Prevention (2012) (8)
Conceptualizing and Measuring Weekend versus Weekday Alcohol Use: Item Response Theory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (2016) (8)
Associations Between Family and Peer E-Cigarette Use with Adolescent Tobacco and Marijuana Usage: A Longitudinal Path Analytic Approach. (2020) (8)
Assessing and Redressing Comprehension Artifacts in Social Intervention Research (1985) (8)
Patterns of Cultural Diffusion: Analyses of Trait Associations Across Societies By Content and Geographical Proximity (1977) (7)
Selective invalidation of ambivalent pro-marijuana attitude components. (2019) (7)
Italian Food? Sounds Good! Made in Italy and Italian Sounding Effects on Food Products' Assessment by Consumers (2021) (6)
Effects of Spatial Skills Training on Reading Performance (1978) (6)
Organ donation and departments of motor vehicles: Multiple messages, implementations, and replications. (2021) (6)
Social Instability and Identity-Uncertainty: Fertile Ground for Political Extremism (2015) (6)
Routes to communication about outdoor recreation with diverse publics: what we know about media (2008) (6)
It’s all relative: Increasing organ donor registration intentions by maximizing family-relevant vested interest (2019) (6)
Parent’s Influence on Children’s Cannabis Use (2017) (6)
Effects of Age of Actor and Observer on the Moral Judgments of Children (1982) (6)
Applications of Social Psychology (2020) (6)
An agent-based model of indirect minority influence on social change and diversity (2018) (5)
Preventing college student nonmedical prescription stimulant use: Development of vested interest theory-based persuasive messages. (2020) (5)
Whatever became of Kurt Lewin? Reactions to Nuttin's quasi-social analysis of social behaviour (1989) (5)
Group status and reciprocity norms: Can the door-in-the-face effect be obtained in an out-group context? (2009) (5)
Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Targeted Communication Programs: A Manual for Business Communicators (1987) (5)
Parental Influences on Adolescent Major Depressive Symptoms and Marijuana Use (2020) (4)
Controlling Language and Irony: Reducing Threat and Increasing Positive Message Evaluations (2020) (4)
Raising Low-Income/Minority Achievement by Reducing Student Sense of Academic Futility: The Underlying Theoretical Commonalities of Suggested Strategies. (1980) (4)
An analysis of the role and trait components of sex-biased occupational beliefs (1982) (4)
A Preliminary Investigation of a Hyperbolic Model of Attitude Change. (1972) (4)
Warring with Words : Narrative and Metaphor in Politics (2014) (4)
Reflections on Gabriel Mugny’s Contributions to Attitude-Centric Theory and Research on Minority Influence (2017) (4)
Social environment and social support. (1991) (4)
Food Reputation and Food Preferences: Application of the Food Reputation Map (FRM) in Italy, USA, and China (2020) (4)
Effects of Sex, Distance, and Conversation in the Invasion of Personal Space. (1973) (4)
There’s a new kid on the block. (2017) (4)
Positive Parenting, Adolescent Substance Use Prevention, and the Good Life (2018) (4)
Governing Spirits: Body Politic Scenarios and Schemas in the French Revolution Debate (2014) (3)
You are either for us or against us: When are ambivalent in-group members sanctioned? (2015) (3)
The effect of dogmatism upon pattern of response to attitudinally discrepant information. (1968) (3)
Cultural drift, indirect minority influence, network structure, and their impacts on cultural change and diversity. (2021) (3)
Black Boy and Man Child in the Promised Land. Content Analysis in the Study of Value Change Over time. (1976) (3)
The Psychology of Sociability (2022) (2)
Additive Effects of Utility and Attitudinal Supportiveness in the Selection of Information (1973) (2)
The media campaign as a focal prevention strategy: A guide to design, implementation, and evaluation. (2015) (2)
Attitude Functions in Persuasion: Matching, Involvement, Self- Affi rmation, and Hierarchy (2011) (2)
Participation in team sports as related to alcohol and marijuana use growth in youth (2014) (2)
Experiencing, caring, coping: Vested interest mediates the effect of past experience on coping behaviors in environmental risk contexts (2021) (2)
University of Arizona Phoenix in Tucson: Arizona's Department of Communication's Campaign for Fairness and Survival. (1995) (2)
A Rebuttal-Based Social Norms-Tailored Cannabis Intervention for At-Risk Adolescents (2021) (2)
Research methodology: The interaction of substance with investigative form. (1986) (2)
The psychology of populism (2021) (2)
Creating Persuasive Substance-Use Prevention Communications: The EQUIP Model (2019) (2)
Sources of Bias in the Comparison of Attitude Change Models (1974) (2)
How big was it, really? (2006) (2)
Wish I Didn't Know Now What I Didn't Know Then. (2006) (2)
Alcohol Consumption Measure (2014) (1)
Talking About Drug PreventionAds: Adolescent Responses to Interpersonal Discussion About Drug Prevention Media Campaign Messages (2008) (1)
Facilitative Effects of Map Interpretation on Reading Skills. (1976) (1)
Fitting Research Design to Research Purpose: Internal and External Validity (2005) (1)
Social Psychological Contributions to the Study of Populism (2021) (1)
Annotated archive of diffusion references: empirical and theoretical works (1981) (1)
Social Psychological Contributions to the Mitigation of Adolescent Depression (2020) (1)
Lend me a hand. (2009) (1)
I may be Latino/a but I am a citizen: Distancing from a stigmatized identity (2021) (1)
Dying to be Popular (2011) (1)
Reflections on a Proposal Designed to Enhance the Internal and Internal Validity of Research in Psychology (2019) (1)
Introduction and Follow Up of Ongoing WiRED International Program (2020) (1)
Attitude Change: The Competing Views, Peter Suedfeld (Ed.). Aldine-Atherton, Chicago (1971) (1972) (1)
There's Nothing So Practical…Theoretical Translations and Organ Donation (2010) (1)
An Extension of Naroll's Linked Pair Solution to Galton's Problem1 (1968) (0)
Nonmedical Use of Prescription Stimulants Intentions Scale (2016) (0)
Alcohol Drinking Intentions Measure (2014) (0)
Parental Monitoring Scale (2013) (0)
Optimizing climate change communication: Context Comparison Model method (2022) (0)
Subjective Norms of Inhalant Use Measures (2013) (0)
Attitudes Toward Employment - Work Opinion Questionnaire 1984 ; Copyrighted: Johnson, C.; Messe, L.; Crano, W. (2005) (0)
RECENT AND RELEVANT (2009) (0)
Re-Presentations of Social Representations. (1989) (0)
Summary of the International Applied Military Psychology Symposium (24th) Held in Toronto, Canada on July 1988 (1988) (0)
You and Me and the EEC. (1989) (0)
My Blog's Bigger Than Your Blog. (2007) (0)
The International Applied Military Psychology Symposium (24th) Held in Toronto, Canada on 30 June - 3 July 1988. (1988) (0)
Reply to Carroll (1976) (0)
Non-technical introduction to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of utility communication programs (1981) (0)
Interaction of Self-Concept and State/Trait Anxiety Under Different Conditions of Social Comparison Pressure (1984) (0)
Attitudes Toward Employment-Work Opinion Questionnaire 1984 (1998) (0)
The Rules That Govern Minority Influence: How the Minority Moves the Majority to Its Position (1970) (0)
A suggested revision and extension of Moscovici’s theory of minority influence (2021) (0)
A Titanic Surrender to the Implausible. (2007) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (2002) (0)
The continuation of Politik by other means. (2012) (0)
Effects of consumers' attitudes and knowledge on the acceptance and utilization of time-of-use rates: Edmond, Oklahoma. Final report (1980) (0)
Overall Impression of Jack Measure (2016) (0)
Malcontents in the Middle: Uncertainty-Identity, Extreme Religious Groups and Leader Rhetoric (2022) (0)
A Free-Response Method of Computer Assisted Personality Assessment: A Research Update. (1987) (0)
Designing Experiments: Variations on the Basics (2014) (0)
Work Opinion Questionnaire (2020) (0)
International Applied Military Psychology Symposium (23rd) Held in Lisbon, Portugal on June 1-5, 1987 (1987) (0)
The Context/Comparison Model of majority and minority Influence (2017) (0)
Social Signals and Persuasion (2017) (0)
Black Boy and Manchild in the Promised Land (1976) (0)
Behavioral Control Measure (2014) (0)
Perceptions of Intragroup Rejection and Coping Strategies: Malleable Factors Affecting Hispanic Adolescents’ Emotional and Academic Outcomes (2013) (0)
An Assessment of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Environmental Psychology and Its Participants Held in Lisbon, Portugal on 22-26 September, 1986. (1987) (0)
The Effect of Invisible Narrators in PSAs Targeting Adolescent Marijuana Use (2012) (0)
Measure of Subjective Vested Interest (2016) (0)
European Perspectives on Developmental Psychology: The European Conference on Developmental Psychology (2nd) held at Rome, Italy on September 10-13, 1986. (1987) (0)
Critical review of Elrick and Lavidge's customer acceptance surveys (1980) (0)
The Development of Thai Alcohol Outcome Expectancies Scale (2013) (0)
An Innovative Vaccinator Training Program (2021) (0)
Social Support Outcome Expectations Measure (2015) (0)
Drinking Attitudes Measure (2014) (0)
Conceptual Development in the Social Sciences, with Special References to Role Complementarity in the Family (1982) (0)
"Examination of Newcomb's Extension of Structural Balance Theory": Erratum. (1973) (0)
Drinking Norms Measure (2014) (0)
Energy essays: a focus on utility communication (1981) (0)
Inhalant Attitude Scale (2013) (0)
Long time gone...Or, Hope springs eternal. (2016) (0)
Psychological reactance and adolescent cannabis use: The role of parental warmth and monitoring. (2022) (0)
The second time around. (1983) (0)
Contexts and conditions of outgroup influence (2023) (0)
First Annual Meeting of National Survey of Parents and Youth Users Group (2007) (0)
The Psychology of Insecurity (2023) (0)
Let’s (not) drink to that. (2014) (0)
Reply to Whyte (1976) (0)

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