DUANE SHELL , PhD
Research Associate Professor
Department of Educational Psychology
108 Mabel Lee Hall
University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0345
(402) 472-6981
Biography
Dr. Shell is currently a Research Associate Professor at UNL in the Department of Educational Psychology. He has the positions of Site Evaluator for the NU Directions Project, a program to reduce high-risk drinking among college students. He also works on projects for the Nebraska Prevention Center for Alcohol and Drug Abuse at UNL including research on the influences of alcohol and tobacco expectancies on behavior that includes research from China and Thailand. In addition to his current positions, he has served as evaluator for numerous federal- and state-funded grant projects.
Dr. Shell's primary research interests are self-regulation and motivational influences on behavior and cognition as these are manifest in educational and public health settings. He also has expertise in applied statistics, measurement, and multi-methods program evaluation. He has numerous peer reviewed publications, published articles and reports, national and international presentations at professional conferences and meetings, and is co-editing a book.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Newman, I. M., Shell, D. F., Innadda, S., & Li, T. (in press). Alcohol expectancies among a sample of Thai high school students. Thai Journal of Public Health.
Newman, I. M., Ling, Q., Shell, D. F., Qu, M., & Ying, Z. (in press). Measuring expectancies. Chinese Journal of Health Statistics.
Newman, I. M., Shell, D. F., Qu, M., Xue, J., & Mass, M. R. (in press). Adolescent alcohol use: Mixed methods research approach. Journal of Guanxi University for Nationalities.
Xue, J., Newman, I. M., Shell, D. F., & Fang, X. (in press). Western cultural influence on Chinese adolescent drinking. Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medical Science.
Newman, I. M., & Shell, D. F. (2005). Smokeless tobacco expectancies among a sample of rural adolescents. American Journal of Health Behavior, 29, 127-136.
Shell, D. F., Newman, I. M., & Qu, M. (2002). Alcohol expectancies among high school students in China. Alcoholism: Clinical and experimental research, 26(5), 76A.
Shell, D. F., & Husman, J. (2001). The multivariate dimensionality of personal control and future time perspective beliefs in achievement and self-regulation. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 26, 481-506.
Books
Newman, I. M., Qu, M., Shell, D. F., Li, Y. C., & Gao, F. F. (2001). Alcohol expectancies among adolescents in Inner Mongolia. In A. Jones & B. V. Lundquist (Eds.), Challenges for public health at the dawn of the 21st century: Selected proceedings from the Ninth Internation Congress, World Federation of Public Health Associations, 2-6 September 2000, Beijing, China. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association.
Research Projects
| Education Intervention to Reduce the Likelihood of Smokeless Tobacco Use | |
| Nebraska DHHS, Cancer and Smoking Disease Research | |
| Role: PI/Evaluator | 2005-2006 |
| The Cosmic Ray Observatory Project | |
| NSF | |
| Role: Educational Evaluator | 2000-2005 |
| Greek Revolution Project | |
| US DOE, Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools | |
| Role: Project Evaluator | 2003-2005 |
