Wayne Velicer (March 4, 1944 – October 15, 2017) was an American psychologist known for his research in
quantitative
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and
health psychology. He taught at the
University of Rhode Island from 1973 until his death in 2017. He worked with
James O. Prochaska
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to help to found the University of Rhode Island's Cancer Prevention Research Center, of which he subsequently served as co-director.
Honors and awards
In 2004, Velicer was one of six University of Rhode Island faculty to be named an
ISI Highly Cited Researcher
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. In 2013, he received the
Samuel J. Messick Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from Division 5 of the
American Psychological Association. In 2018, he was posthumously inducted into the University of Rhode Island's Lifetime Service Society.
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1944 births
2017 deaths
People from Green Bay, Wisconsin
University of Rhode Island faculty
University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh alumni
20th-century American psychologists
Purdue University alumni
Quantitative psychologists
Presidents of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology
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