Sean Young

About

Sean Young is a social/behavioral psychologist and health services researcher. He studies how to use social technologies to change (social, digital interventions) and predict (data science/AI) health and societal problems. He is a social entrepreneur and the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal/international best-selling book, Stick with It, on the science behind lasting behavior change. Sean Young is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Informatics at the Schools of Medicine and ICS.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Political Science
• Nursing
• Psychiatry
• Psychology
• Applied psychology

Selected publications

• Online misinformation and vaccine hesitancy

  Translational Behavioral Medicine · 2021-09-16 · 221 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding

  Although rates of vaccination have increased worldwide, the rise in nonmedical exemptions for vaccination may have caused a resurgence of childhood vaccine-preventable diseases. Vaccine hesitancy plays an important role in the decreasing rates of vaccination and is considered by the World Health Organization as a top ten global threat to public health. Online vaccine misinformation is present in news outlets, websites, and social media, and its rapid and extensive dissemination is aided by artif…

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• COVIDLies: Detecting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media

  2020-01-01 · 215 citations

  articleOpen access

  The ongoing pandemic has heightened the need for developing tools to flag COVID-19related misinformation on the internet, specifically on social media such as Twitter. However, due to novel language and the rapid change of information, existing misinformation detection datasets are not effective for evaluating systems designed to detect misinformation on this topic. Misinformation detection can be divided into two sub-tasks: (i) retrieval of misconceptions relevant to posts being checked for ver…

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• Human Resources and Personnel Management

  2022-02-09 · 118 citations

  book-chapterSenior author

  This chapter explores an approach to human resources management that begins with an organization's vision translated into a strategic plan and then operationalized through its budget and human resource policies to achieve the institutional mission, goals, and objectives. Policies developed in response to external accreditation or regulatory requirements are typically led by human resources administration with the support of academic health science centers (AHSCs) leadership, including legal coun…

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• The application of digital health to the assessment and treatment of substance use disorders: The past, current, and future role of the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network

  Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment · 2020 · 75 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
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• Applying social norms interventions to increase adherence to COVID-19 prevention and control guidelines

  Preventive Medicine · 2021 · 54 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  Despite widespread national, state, and local guidelines for COVID-19 prevention, including social distancing and mask orders, many people continue to not adhere to recommendations, including congregating in groups for non-essential activities, putting themselves and others at risk. A social psychological perspective can be used to understand reasons for lack of adherence to policies and methods for increasing adherence based on successes from other behavior change campaigns. This manuscript see…

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Recent grants

• HOPE Social Media Intervention for HIV Testing and Studying Social Networks

  NIH · $2.9M · 2015–2022

• Mining real-time social media big data to monitor HIV: Development and Ethical Issues

  NIH · $2.7M · 2017–2021

• NIH Grant R56AI125105

  NIH · $671k · 2019

Frequent coauthors

• Jeffrey D. Klausner

  University of Southern California

  55 shared

• Robert Marlin

  University of California, San Diego

  41 shared

• Emily Huang

  Methodist Hospital

  41 shared

• Joseph Daniels

  Arizona State University

  41 shared

• A Medline

  38 shared

• Greg Wilson

  38 shared

• Lina Rosengren

  Skåne University Hospital

  37 shared

• William G. Cumberland

  University of California, Los Angeles

  33 shared

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