Wayne Velicer (March 4, 1944 – October 15, 2017) was an American psychologist known for his research in

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and

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. He taught at the

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from 1973 until his death in 2017. He worked with

James O. Prochaska James O. Prochaska (6 August 1942 – 9 July 2023) was professor of psychology at the University of Rhode Island. He was the lead developer of the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change (TTM) beginning in 1983. Career James Prochaska was b ...

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

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. In 2013, he received the Samuel J. Messick Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from Division 5 of the

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. 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 {{US-psychologist-stub