Dolores Albarracin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

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Dolores Albarracin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Social media data can be used as an additional source of information to gauge public opinion about health issues alongside traditional data sources like phone-based polling, says new research co-written by U. of I. psychology professor Dolores Albarracin.

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