Wayne Velicer

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.^[1][2]

Wayne Velicer
Born	Wayne Frank Velicer (1944-03-04)March 4, 1944 Green Bay, Wisconsin
Died	October 15, 2017(2017-10-15) (aged 73)
Education	University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh Purdue University
Known for	Work in quantitative methodology Transtheoretical model of behavior change
Spouse	Anna Velicer
Awards	Samuel J. Messick Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from Division 5 of the American Psychological Association (2013)
Scientific career
Fields	Health psychology Quantitative psychology
Institutions	University of Rhode Island
Thesis	An empirical comparison of factor analysis, image analysis, and principal component analysis (1972)

Honors and awards

In 2004, Velicer was one of six University of Rhode Island faculty to be named an ISI Highly Cited Researcher.^[3] In 2013, he received the Samuel J. Messick Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from Division 5 of the American Psychological Association.^[4] In 2018, he was posthumously inducted into the University of Rhode Island's Lifetime Service Society.^[5]