Benjamin T Blankenship
Biographic Data
| ID | 159494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin T Blankenship |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin T |
| FAMILY NAME | Blankenship |
| SIGNATURE | BLANKENSHIP B T |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Madison University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5296-9302 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pubertal Timing, Perceived Social Support, and Self-Esteem Among Sexual Minority and Straight Youth
Self-esteem is crucial for overall well-being and develops amid a complex web of social and biological changes across adolescence and into young adulthood. This study examines how perceived social support and pubertal timing in adolescence relate to young adult self-esteem disparities based on gender/sex and sexual orientation. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (N = 1,144; 76.57% young women, 50% sexual…
When small acts are multiplied
Using the Act Frequency Approach, we drew on majority White, U.S. samples to create a new measure of social justice behavior and examine its correlates. Although existing measures of social justice behavior focus on engagement in collective action, participants in Study 1 (n = 137) were encouraged to nominate and evaluate a broad set of acts relevant to their daily lives. The final 17-item Everyday Social Justice Behavior (ESJB) scale reflects a …
The best little kid in the world
According to “the Best Little Boy in the World Hypothesis” many gay men exhibit a drive to excel in achievement‐related areas of life, as a way to avoid staking self‐worth on domains where others’ rejection could negatively affect them. Pachankis and Hatzenbuehler's (2013) research supported this hypothesis among men. We expand on this research and hypothesized that internalized sexual stigma would be associated with achievement‐related contingen…
Trust and tribulation
We examined how racial‐ethnic identity centrality, or the importance of race/ethnicity in people's self‐perceptions, affected peoples’ support for the Democratic and Republican candidates in the 2020 US election. We explored this association by examining the mediating role of trust in important social institutions. In Study 1, we examined these effects by comparing the pattern of relationships among people of color (POC) and white people, using a…
All immigrants are not alike
In two studies, we investigated how intersecting social categories shape views of immigrants in the United States. In Study 1, we analyzed 310 attributes generated by 92 participants for the category of immigrant and 30 additional immigrant groups with intersecting social categories (e.g. “undocumented immigrant”) reflecting various levels of social status. Using the Meaning Extraction Method (MEM) and factor analysis to examine shared meanings, …
Can "slacktivism" work? Perceived power differences moderate the relationship between social media activism and collective action intentions through positive affect
We argue that the often-used critique of social media activism as merely a ‘feel-good’ mechanism can be countered by conceptualizing social media activism as a necessary type of collective action (i.e., consensus mobilization), incorporating theory on the benefits of positive feelings for activism, and by examining how power may affect these relationships. Women from two different samples (MTurk and university) were randomly assigned to recall a …
Threat, trust, and Trump
Using longitudinal data from 421 MTurk participants, collected over 6 months surrounding the 2016 election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, we investigated the relationships among identity centrality, institutional trust, and vote. Specifically, we were interested in whether trust in science and the media mediated the relationship between the centrality of racial, gender, and class identities, and how the importance of these identities w…
Examining college students’ multiple social identities of gender, race, and socioeconomic status
Intersectional Identities, Identity Dimensions, and Academic Contingencies of Self-Worth
Many people rely on academic performance as an important part of their self-concept, or have academic contingencies of self-worth. We compared academic contingencies of self-worth in three groups of participants, who varied in their feelings about two minority identities: sexual minority Asian/Pacific Islanders, straight Asian/Pacific Islanders, and sexual minority Whites. Comparing pairs of groups that shared one marginalized social identity, we…
All immigrants are not alike
In two studies, we investigated how intersecting social categories shape views of immigrants in the United States. In Study 1, we analyzed 310 attributes generated by 92 participants for the category of immigrant and 30 additional immigrant groups with intersecting social categories (e.g. “undocumented immigrant”) reflecting various levels of social status. Using the Meaning Extraction Method (MEM) and factor analysis to examine shared meanings, …
The best little kid in the world
According to “the Best Little Boy in the World Hypothesis” many gay men exhibit a drive to excel in achievement‐related areas of life, as a way to avoid staking self‐worth on domains where others’ rejection could negatively affect them. Pachankis and Hatzenbuehler's (2013) research supported this hypothesis among men. We expand on this research and hypothesized that internalized sexual stigma would be associated with achievement‐related contingen…
Threat, trust, and Trump
Using longitudinal data from 421 MTurk participants, collected over 6 months surrounding the 2016 election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, we investigated the relationships among identity centrality, institutional trust, and vote. Specifically, we were interested in whether trust in science and the media mediated the relationship between the centrality of racial, gender, and class identities, and how the importance of these identities w…
Examining college students’ multiple social identities of gender, race, and socioeconomic status
Intersectional Identities, Identity Dimensions, and Academic Contingencies of Self-Worth
Many people rely on academic performance as an important part of their self-concept, or have academic contingencies of self-worth. We compared academic contingencies of self-worth in three groups of participants, who varied in their feelings about two minority identities: sexual minority Asian/Pacific Islanders, straight Asian/Pacific Islanders, and sexual minority Whites. Comparing pairs of groups that shared one marginalized social identity, we…
Examining college students’ multiple social identities of gender, race, and socioeconomic status
Can "slacktivism" work? Perceived power differences moderate the relationship between social media activism and collective action intentions through positive affect
We argue that the often-used critique of social media activism as merely a ‘feel-good’ mechanism can be countered by conceptualizing social media activism as a necessary type of collective action (i.e., consensus mobilization), incorporating theory on the benefits of positive feelings for activism, and by examining how power may affect these relationships. Women from two different samples (MTurk and university) were randomly assigned to recall a …
Threat, trust, and Trump
Using longitudinal data from 421 MTurk participants, collected over 6 months surrounding the 2016 election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, we investigated the relationships among identity centrality, institutional trust, and vote. Specifically, we were interested in whether trust in science and the media mediated the relationship between the centrality of racial, gender, and class identities, and how the importance of these identities w…
Trust and tribulation
We examined how racial‐ethnic identity centrality, or the importance of race/ethnicity in people's self‐perceptions, affected peoples’ support for the Democratic and Republican candidates in the 2020 US election. We explored this association by examining the mediating role of trust in important social institutions. In Study 1, we examined these effects by comparing the pattern of relationships among people of color (POC) and white people, using a…
All immigrants are not alike
In two studies, we investigated how intersecting social categories shape views of immigrants in the United States. In Study 1, we analyzed 310 attributes generated by 92 participants for the category of immigrant and 30 additional immigrant groups with intersecting social categories (e.g. “undocumented immigrant”) reflecting various levels of social status. Using the Meaning Extraction Method (MEM) and factor analysis to examine shared meanings, …
The best little kid in the world
According to “the Best Little Boy in the World Hypothesis” many gay men exhibit a drive to excel in achievement‐related areas of life, as a way to avoid staking self‐worth on domains where others’ rejection could negatively affect them. Pachankis and Hatzenbuehler's (2013) research supported this hypothesis among men. We expand on this research and hypothesized that internalized sexual stigma would be associated with achievement‐related contingen…
When small acts are multiplied
Using the Act Frequency Approach, we drew on majority White, U.S. samples to create a new measure of social justice behavior and examine its correlates. Although existing measures of social justice behavior focus on engagement in collective action, participants in Study 1 (n = 137) were encouraged to nominate and evaluate a broad set of acts relevant to their daily lives. The final 17-item Everyday Social Justice Behavior (ESJB) scale reflects a …
Pubertal Timing, Perceived Social Support, and Self-Esteem Among Sexual Minority and Straight Youth
Self-esteem is crucial for overall well-being and develops amid a complex web of social and biological changes across adolescence and into young adulthood. This study examines how perceived social support and pubertal timing in adolescence relate to young adult self-esteem disparities based on gender/sex and sexual orientation. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (N = 1,144; 76.57% young women, 50% sexual…
Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)