Anna Song, PhD
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Dr. Song is a health psychologist who studies adolescent and young adult decision-making processes underlying smoking behaviors. Her research focuses on ethnic/class disparities, smoking-related perceptions, and personality and socio-cognitive factors that shape smoking-related attitudes.
Anna Song is an assistant professor of Psychological Sciences in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts (SSHA) at the University of California, Merced. Her area of expertise is health psychology. Specifically, her research focuses on psychosocial factors that influence adolescent and young adult risk behavior decision-making. Risk behaviors that are of interest to Dr. Song include a) smoking initiation, progression, and cessation, b) sex initiation, c) gambling, and d) unhealthy eating patterns. She is also interested in adolescents’ and young adults’ beliefs about risk behaviors, as well as cultural factors that might explain sociodemographic differences in risk behavior prevalence.
1999-2006, Ph.D., University of California, Davis, Department of Psychology: Social-Personality
1998, B.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, College of Literature, Science, and Arts
Song, A. V., Glantz, S. A., & Halpern-Felsher, B. L. (2009). Perceptions of secondhand smoke risks predict future adolescent smoking initiation.
Simonton, D.K. & Song, A.V. (2009). Eminence, IQ, physical and mental health, and achievement domain: Cox's 282 geniuses revisited. Psychological Review.
Song, A. V., Cornell, J. L., Ramos, M. E., Biehl, M., Kropp, R. Y., & Halpern-Felsher, B.L. (2009). Perceptions of smoking-related risks and benefits as predictors of smoking initiation. The American Journal of Public Health.
Song, A. V.& Glantz, S. A. (2008). Pushing secondhand smoke and the tobacco industry outside the social norm to reduce adolescent smoking. Journal of Adolescent Health.
Brady, S. S., Song, A. V., & Halpern-Felsher, B. L. (2008). Adolescents report both positive and negative consequences of experimentation with cigarette use. Preventive Medicine.
Song, A. V. & Kelly, J. G. (2008). Community Psychology in Practice: Introduction. Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community, 35,1-10 (reprinted in Community psychology in practice: An Oral history through the stories of five community psychologists(J. K. Kelly & A. V. Song, Eds).
Song, A. V., Ling, P. M., & Glantz, S. A. (2007) Smoking in movies is associated with increased smoking among young adults. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 33(5), 396-403.
Kelly, J. K. & Song, A. V.(2004). History, context, and narratives: An introduction. Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community, 28,1-14 (reprinted in Six community psychologists tell their stories: History, context, and narratives, J. K. Kelly & A. V. Song, Eds).
Barrett, G. J., Swanson, P. W., & Song, A. V.(2004). Evaluation of training program for caregivers to aging adults. Journal of Extension, 43, article 3RIB6.
Song, A. V. (2001). Distinguished scholar interview with Dean Keith Simonton by Anna Song. Clio’s Psyche, 8,141-145.