Curriculum Vitae

(abbreviated version)

Education: 

University of California, Los Angeles

Ph.D., Social Psychology

Academic Positions:

Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA                                                  Universidad de La Frontera, Chile

Professor of Psychology, School of Science and Technology                     Professor of Psychology, Titular

1993-1998 Founding Department Chair                                                 

Research Interests:

• Culture in psychology processes related to peace, conflict , violence and health behaviors
• The study of culture and behavior in psychology and the health sciences
• Attribution theory: applications to social and health behaviors
  • Conflict, peace, violence, and health
  • Health disparities, health promoting behaviors

Teaching Interests:

• Cultural/Cross Cultural Psychology
• Social Psychology
• Personality
• History and Philosophy of Psychology
• Attribution Theory and Psychological Study of Social Issues

Professional Memberships:

• American Psychological Association
• Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)
• Interamerican Society of Psychology
• Society of Behavioral Medicine

Editorial Boards:

• Revista de Psicologia Social (Spain)
• Psicología Contemporanea (Mexico)
• Psykhe (Chile)
• Interdisciplinearia (Argentina)

Representative Awards and Honors:

• APA Elected Fellow
• Fulbright Scholar
• Rotary Foundation Scholar

Representative Publications:

Health

Betancourt, H. & Fuentes, J. L. (2001). Culture and Latino issues in health psychology. In S. S. Kazarian & D. R. Evans (Eds.), Handbook of Cultural Health Psychology (pp. 305-321). San Diego: CA: Academic Press. (PDF)

Study of Culture

Betancourt, H. & Lopez, S. R. (1993). The study of culture, ethnicity, and race in American psychology. American Psychologist, 48, 629-637. (PDF)

Triandis, H. C., McCuster, C., Betancourt, H., Iwao, S., Leung, K., Salazar, J. M. et al. (1993). An etic-emic analysis of individualism and collectivism. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 24, 366-383. (PDF)

Conflict

Betancourt, H. "An attribution-empathy model of helping behavior: Behavioral intentions and judgments of help-giving." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 16.3 (1990): 573-91.

Betancourt, H. & Blair, I. (1992). A cognition (attribution)-emotion model of violence in conflict situations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 18, 343-350.

Betancourt, H. (1997). An attribution mode of social conflict and violence: From psychological to intergroup phenomena. Psykhe, 6, 3-12. (PDF)

Culture and Conflict

Betancourt, H., Hardin, C., & Manzi, J. (1992). Beliefs, value orientation, and culture in attribution processes and helping behavior. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 23, 179-195.

Ongoing research:

Please visit the Culture and Behavior Laboratory website at http://cultureandbehavior.org to view ongoing research activities.