Wayne Velicer

{{Short description|American psychologist (1944–2017)}}

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| birth_name = Wayne Frank Velicer

| birth_date = {{birth date|1944|03|04}}

| birth_place = Green Bay, Wisconsin

| death_date = {{death date and age |2017|10|15|1944|03|04}}

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| fields = Health psychology
Quantitative psychology

| workplaces = University of Rhode Island

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| education = University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh
Purdue University

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| thesis_title = An empirical comparison of factor analysis, image analysis, and principal component analysis

| thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/302618791

| thesis_year = 1972

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| known_for = Work in quantitative methodology
Transtheoretical model of behavior change

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| awards = Samuel J. Messick Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from Division 5 of the American Psychological Association (2013)

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Wayne Velicer (March 4, 1944 – October 15, 2017) was an American psychologist known for his research in quantitative and health psychology. He taught at the University of Rhode Island from 1973 until his death in 2017. He worked with James O. Prochaska to help to found the University of Rhode Island's Cancer Prevention Research Center, of which he subsequently served as co-director.{{Cite journal |last1=Harlow |first1=Lisa L. |last2=Aiken |first2=Leona |last3=Blankson |first3=A. Nayena |last4=Boodoo |first4=Gwyneth M. |last5=Brick |first5=Leslie Ann D. |last6=Collins |first6=Linda M. |last7=Cumming |first7=Geoff |last8=Fava |first8=Joseph L. |last9=Goodwin |first9=Matthew S. |last10=Hoeppner |first10=Bettina B. |last11=MacKinnon |first11=David P. |date=2021-05-04 |title=A Tribute to the Mind, Methodology and Mentoring of Wayne Velicer |journal=Multivariate Behavioral Research |language=en |volume=56 |issue=3 |pages=377–389 |doi=10.1080/00273171.2020.1729083 |issn=0027-3171 |pmc=7438240 |pmid=32077317}}{{Cite web |date=2017-12-05 |title=URI loses a 'giant' in his field, in the classroom, in life |url=https://web.uri.edu/chs/2017/12/05/uri-loses-a-giant-in-his-field-in-the-classroom-in-life/ |access-date=2022-01-08 |website=University of Rhode Island |language=en-US}}