New Visiting Faculty at DIS

DIS is welcomes Prof. Marie Helweg-Larsen as new visiting faculty for fall and spring semesters.

August 24, 2010

Marie, who is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, and a native Dane, will be teaching two section of the course "Psychology of Human Sexuality" in the fall 2010 and spring 2011.

Marie received her PhD in Social Psychology from UCLA and conducts research in the causes, consequences, and correlates of the optimistic bias (people thinking they are less at risk than their peers). She is a native Dane and is currently investigating in a NIH-funded grant moralization and smoking attitudes among smokers and non-smokers in the U.S. and Denmark.