Evaluating Smokers' Reactions to Advertising for New Lower Nicotine Quest Cigarettes
Two individual-differences variables, need for cognition and perceived vulnerability, moderated smokers' health beliefs about Quest cigarettes.
William Shadel is a senior behavioral scientist at RAND. He also is a member of the Biobehavioral Cancer Control Program at the UPMC-Hillman Cancer Center. Before joining RAND in 2005, he was a faculty member at Brown University and the University of Pittsburgh.
Shadel's research ranges from basic human laboratory work designed to understand the biopsychosocial mechanisms that contribute to smoking initiation and cessation to evaluating cognitive-behavioral and pharmacological smoking cessation interventions in the clinic and public health settings. He has published over 160 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters since 1993 and has been continuously funded as a principal investigator by the National Cancer Institute and National Institute on Drug Abuse since 1999.
Shadel's current grants examine how tobacco advertising at point-of-sale retail locations influences tobacco use behavior in adolescents and adults. He has been or is currently on the editorial board of several journals, was associate editor of the American Psychological Association journal, Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, from 2005 to 2007, and has served as a regular and ad hoc member of several grant review panels at the National Institutes of Health since 1999.
Shadel received his Ph.D. in clinical health psychology and social/personality psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Education
Ph.D., M.A. in clinical health psychology and social-personality psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago; B.A. in psychology, Temple University
Concurrent Non-RAND Positions
Member, Biobehavioral Cancer Control Program, UPMC-Hillman Cancer Center
Selected Work
- Shadel, W.G. Setodji, C., Martno, S., Dunbar, M.S., Jenson, D., Wong, J., & Torbatian, A., "Removing price discounts from the tobacco retail environment: Effects on college students’ risk of using smokeless tobacco, little cigars, and electronic nicotine delivery devices," Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (forthcoming)
- Shadel, W.G., Setodji, C., Martino, S., Dunbar, M., Jenson, D., Bialas, A., & Li, R., "Does removing menthol cigarettes in convenience stores reduce risk of future cigarette smoking? An experimental investigation in young people. ," Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 251, 2023
- Shadel, W.G., Martino, S., Setodji, C., Scharf, D., & Creswell, K., "Do graphic health warning labels on cigarette packages deter purchases at point-of-sale? An experiment with adult smokers," Health Education Research, 34, 2019
- Shadel, W.G., Martino, S., Setodji, C., Cervone, D., & Witkiewitz, K., "Does self-efficacy causally influence initial smoking cessation? An experimental study," Addictive Behaviors, 73, 2017
- Shadel, W.G., Martino, S., Setodji, C., Scharf, D., Kusuke, D., Sicker, A., & Gong, M., "Hiding the tobacco power wall reduces cigarette smoking risk in adolescents: Using an experimental convenience store to assess tobacco regulatory options at retail point-of-sale," Tobacco Control, 25, 2016
- Shadel, W.G., Galvan, F.H., & Tucker, J.S., "Developing a nicotine patch adherence intervention for HIV-positive Latino Smokers," Addictive Behaviors, 59, 2016
- Shadel, W.G., Tucker, J.S., Golinelli, D., "Readjusting our priorities: Helping homeless youth quit smoking.," American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 49, 2015
- Shadel, W.G., Martino, S.C., Setodji, C., & Scharf, D., "Momentary effects of exposure to pro-smoking media on college students' future smoking risk," Health Psychology, 31, 2012