Douglas L. Hill, Ph.D.
Research Associate

Doug Hill has a social psychology background. His interests include health messages, mood, and effects of media portrayals. As an undergraduate at Colby College he did research on gender stereotypes presented in television advertising. As a graduate student at the University of Maryland he conducted experimental studies on the effects of mood on reading health information and intentions to perform preventive behaviors. He has taught two classes at the University of Maryland: Social Psychology and Experimental Psychology. He completed his Ph. D. in Social Psychology at the University of Maryland in the Summer of 2002.

Doug Hill joined PIRE in the summer of 2001 and currently is working on the Adolescent Sex and TV project. He is helping coordinate a 3-year content analysis of television programming as part of a study to examine how sexual content on TV affects adolescents' sexual attitudes, values, and behaviors.

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