H Colleen Sinclair
Biographic Data
| ID | 144791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Colleen Sinclair |
| GIVEN NAMES | H Colleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Sinclair |
| SIGNATURE | SINCLAIR H C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mississippi State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5921-595X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 111 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Single‐Sided: Associations Between Social Network Opinions and Singlehood Among Heterosexual and Sexually Diverse Individuals
Although romantic relationships are often idealized, many individuals find satisfaction in being single. Evidence shows social networks influence commitment within romantic relationships—with network approval being a boon, and disapproval a detractor—but whether this social network effect extends to commitment to being single remains unclear. This study examined whether perceived approval from parents and friends predicts commitment to singlehood…
What’s the Chatter? Developing an Integrated Theory-Grounded Psycholinguistic Threat Assessment for the Evaluation of Online Extremist Chatter
We examined the online communications of a known domestic terrorist group, the Boogaloo Bois, by analyzing 3,513 Boogaloo-affiliated posts from 2019 to 2020 from 9 social media platforms. Applying a theory-grounded coding framework based on the Integrated Model of Dangerous Speech (IMDS), Moral Disengagement Theory (MDT), and the Duplex Theory of Hate (DToH), we tested links between psycholinguistic markers and threats of violence. We operational…
Balancing Relationships: What Happens When Your Friends and Romantic Partners Do Not Get Along
Research has extensively examined how social network opinions (approval or disapproval from friends) affect romantic relationships. Friends are not the only ones to have opinions, yet there has been less exploration into whether one's friendship is influenced by opinions of the romantic partner. Balance theory suggests that individuals seek congruent attitudes within triads. Thus, this research (total N = 439) proposes that just as friend opinion…
Behavioral and psychological consequences of social identity-based aggressive victimization in high school youth
Research suggests many youth report being victimized in school due to ptheir social identities (e.g., race, gender, sexual orientation). We compared the consequences of social identity-based victimization (SIBV) to general victimization wherein adolescents are victimized by peers for other reasons (e.g., competition, a perceived insult). An online survey administered to 471 high school students yielded 777 victimization reports. 71.2% of the stud…
Don’t Tell Me Who I Can’t Love: A Multimethod Investigation of Social Network and Reactance Effects on Romantic Relationships
In three studies, we examined the influence of social network reactions on feelings toward a romantic partner. Study 1 was a large survey (N = 858), Study 2 was a vignette design in which social network reactions were manipulated, and Study 3 was a laboratory-based, dating game experiment. We found extensive support for the social network effect, whereby relationship approval from family and friends leads individuals to feel more love, more commi…
Commentary and Rejoinder on
Revisiting the Romeo and Juliet Effect: Reexamining the Links Between Social Network Opinions and Romantic Relationship Outcomes
We conducted a replication and extension of Driscoll, Davis, and Lipetz's (1972) classic longitudinal survey of the Romeo and Juliet effect, wherein they found that increases in parental interference were linked to increases in love and commitment. Using the original measures, 396 participants were followed over a 3-4 month period wherein they reported love, commitment, trust, and criticism for their partners as well as levels of perceived interf…
Opposite Ends of the Same Stick? Multi-Method Test of the Dimensionality of Individualism and Collectivism
The construct of individualism-collectivism (IND-COL) has become the definitive standard in cross-cultural psychology, management, and related fields. It is also among the most controversial, in particular, with regard to the ambiguity of its dimensionality: Some view IND and COL as the opposites of a single continuum, whereas others argue that the two are independent constructs. We explored the issue through seven different tests using original …
Pulling the strings: Effects of friend and parent opinions on dating choices
The current study examined how dating choices are affected when individuals are faced with social network opinions that are in agreement or disagreement about the quality of potential dates. In a virtual dating game paradigm, participants spoke to 2 potential romantic partners online and received positive and/or negative feedback ostensibly from their friend and parent about 1 of the partners. The study employed a 2 (parent opinion: approve, disa…
Gender Rules: Same- and Cross-Gender Friendships Norms
An Introduction to Issues of Gender in Stalking Research
Adding insult to injury: Effects of interpersonal rejection types, rejection sensitivity, and self‐regulation on obsessive relational intrusion
This study tested the I 3 model [Finkel, 2007; 2008] of intimate partner violence as applied to obsessive relational intrusion (ORI) to assess the relation among self‐regulation, rejection, rejection sensitivity (RS), and stalking‐related aggression. In Study 1, participants ( N =221) read one of three vignettes: no relationship termination, an “internal” rejection (involves an internal attribution to the rejected as cause of relationship ending)…
Stalking Myth-Attributions: Examining the Role of Individual and Contextual Variables on Attributions in Unwanted Pursuit Scenarios
What is a Word
Language is a means of expressing knowledge and at the same time an object of knowledge. How do children, in addition to using Ianguage, acquire the capacity to think about language? The authors postulate that this ‘metalinguistic competence’ develops along with general cognitive structuration as described by Piaget. The present research concerns the concept of ‘the word’, experimentally studied with children aged 4–10 years. It shows a slow deve…
When Courtship Persistence Becomes Intrusive Pursuit: Comparing Rejecter and Pursuer Perspectives of Unrequited Attraction
The changing status of ‘filler syllables’ on the way to grammatical morphemes
The appearance of ‘filler syllables’ (called here PAEs, for Prefixed Additional Elements) in the late single-word period is analysed in relation to the emergence of grammatical morphemes, by confronting data from the longitudinal study of one child acquiring French, video- recorded between 1;3.2 and 2;2.6, with four hypotheses making different claims about the kind of language knowledge underlying their production: the DEVICES TO LENGTHEN SINGLE-…
Cycle of Blame or Just World: Effects of Legal Verdicts on Gender Patterns in Rape-Myth Acceptance and Victim Empathy
The conviction rate for sexual assault is persistently low in the United States. We propose a cycle-of-blame framework to highlight the possibility that the same rape myths that limit convictions are in turn strengthened by not-guilty verdicts. Participants read a summary of a rape trial. In different conditions, they were told that the jury's verdict was guilty or not guilty. In a No-Verdict condition, participants merely read the summary. All 9…
From one word to two words: Repetition patterns on the way to structured speech
This paper gives an account of the transition from one-word to multiword utterances based on the productions of one child from age 1;5.23 to 1;8.15 in spontaneous interaction with her mother. The authors' interpretation of the observed development emphasizes: (1) the initial dissociation and later co-ordination of temporal chaining of elements on the one hand and meaning-relatedness between elements on the other; and (2) the psychological importa…
Comprehension of Questions by Children Between 5 and 9
Relations Between Syntax and Semantics: Are They 'Easy to See
Recent findings in developmental psycholinguistics have shown that below the age of eight children have difficulty in understanding English sentences that do not conform to the normal SVO pattern (Chomsky, 1969). Experiments with French-speaking children are reported which duplicate and extend this research. Results for English and French are compared. Certain discrepancies have led to an investigation of a possible parallel development in the se…
On cognitive development
Gender Rules: Same- and Cross-Gender Friendships Norms
Don’t Tell Me Who I Can’t Love: A Multimethod Investigation of Social Network and Reactance Effects on Romantic Relationships
In three studies, we examined the influence of social network reactions on feelings toward a romantic partner. Study 1 was a large survey (N = 858), Study 2 was a vignette design in which social network reactions were manipulated, and Study 3 was a laboratory-based, dating game experiment. We found extensive support for the social network effect, whereby relationship approval from family and friends leads individuals to feel more love, more commi…
Revisiting the Romeo and Juliet Effect: Reexamining the Links Between Social Network Opinions and Romantic Relationship Outcomes
We conducted a replication and extension of Driscoll, Davis, and Lipetz's (1972) classic longitudinal survey of the Romeo and Juliet effect, wherein they found that increases in parental interference were linked to increases in love and commitment. Using the original measures, 396 participants were followed over a 3-4 month period wherein they reported love, commitment, trust, and criticism for their partners as well as levels of perceived interf…
When Courtship Persistence Becomes Intrusive Pursuit: Comparing Rejecter and Pursuer Perspectives of Unrequited Attraction
Opposite Ends of the Same Stick? Multi-Method Test of the Dimensionality of Individualism and Collectivism
The construct of individualism-collectivism (IND-COL) has become the definitive standard in cross-cultural psychology, management, and related fields. It is also among the most controversial, in particular, with regard to the ambiguity of its dimensionality: Some view IND and COL as the opposites of a single continuum, whereas others argue that the two are independent constructs. We explored the issue through seven different tests using original …
Cycle of Blame or Just World: Effects of Legal Verdicts on Gender Patterns in Rape-Myth Acceptance and Victim Empathy
The conviction rate for sexual assault is persistently low in the United States. We propose a cycle-of-blame framework to highlight the possibility that the same rape myths that limit convictions are in turn strengthened by not-guilty verdicts. Participants read a summary of a rape trial. In different conditions, they were told that the jury's verdict was guilty or not guilty. In a No-Verdict condition, participants merely read the summary. All 9…
An Introduction to Issues of Gender in Stalking Research
Stalking Myth-Attributions: Examining the Role of Individual and Contextual Variables on Attributions in Unwanted Pursuit Scenarios
Relations Between Syntax and Semantics: Are They 'Easy to See
Recent findings in developmental psycholinguistics have shown that below the age of eight children have difficulty in understanding English sentences that do not conform to the normal SVO pattern (Chomsky, 1969). Experiments with French-speaking children are reported which duplicate and extend this research. Results for English and French are compared. Certain discrepancies have led to an investigation of a possible parallel development in the se…
On cognitive development
Commentary and Rejoinder on
Single‐Sided: Associations Between Social Network Opinions and Singlehood Among Heterosexual and Sexually Diverse Individuals
Although romantic relationships are often idealized, many individuals find satisfaction in being single. Evidence shows social networks influence commitment within romantic relationships—with network approval being a boon, and disapproval a detractor—but whether this social network effect extends to commitment to being single remains unclear. This study examined whether perceived approval from parents and friends predicts commitment to singlehood…
Balancing Relationships: What Happens When Your Friends and Romantic Partners Do Not Get Along
Research has extensively examined how social network opinions (approval or disapproval from friends) affect romantic relationships. Friends are not the only ones to have opinions, yet there has been less exploration into whether one's friendship is influenced by opinions of the romantic partner. Balance theory suggests that individuals seek congruent attitudes within triads. Thus, this research (total N = 439) proposes that just as friend opinion…
Comprehension of Questions by Children Between 5 and 9
On cognitive development
Relations Between Syntax and Semantics: Are They 'Easy to See
Recent findings in developmental psycholinguistics have shown that below the age of eight children have difficulty in understanding English sentences that do not conform to the normal SVO pattern (Chomsky, 1969). Experiments with French-speaking children are reported which duplicate and extend this research. Results for English and French are compared. Certain discrepancies have led to an investigation of a possible parallel development in the se…
Comprehension of Questions by Children Between 5 and 9
From one word to two words: Repetition patterns on the way to structured speech
This paper gives an account of the transition from one-word to multiword utterances based on the productions of one child from age 1;5.23 to 1;8.15 in spontaneous interaction with her mother. The authors' interpretation of the observed development emphasizes: (1) the initial dissociation and later co-ordination of temporal chaining of elements on the one hand and meaning-relatedness between elements on the other; and (2) the psychological importa…
Cycle of Blame or Just World: Effects of Legal Verdicts on Gender Patterns in Rape-Myth Acceptance and Victim Empathy
The conviction rate for sexual assault is persistently low in the United States. We propose a cycle-of-blame framework to highlight the possibility that the same rape myths that limit convictions are in turn strengthened by not-guilty verdicts. Participants read a summary of a rape trial. In different conditions, they were told that the jury's verdict was guilty or not guilty. In a No-Verdict condition, participants merely read the summary. All 9…
The changing status of ‘filler syllables’ on the way to grammatical morphemes
The appearance of ‘filler syllables’ (called here PAEs, for Prefixed Additional Elements) in the late single-word period is analysed in relation to the emergence of grammatical morphemes, by confronting data from the longitudinal study of one child acquiring French, video- recorded between 1;3.2 and 2;2.6, with four hypotheses making different claims about the kind of language knowledge underlying their production: the DEVICES TO LENGTHEN SINGLE-…
When Courtship Persistence Becomes Intrusive Pursuit: Comparing Rejecter and Pursuer Perspectives of Unrequited Attraction
What is a Word
Language is a means of expressing knowledge and at the same time an object of knowledge. How do children, in addition to using Ianguage, acquire the capacity to think about language? The authors postulate that this ‘metalinguistic competence’ develops along with general cognitive structuration as described by Piaget. The present research concerns the concept of ‘the word’, experimentally studied with children aged 4–10 years. It shows a slow deve…
Stalking Myth-Attributions: Examining the Role of Individual and Contextual Variables on Attributions in Unwanted Pursuit Scenarios
An Introduction to Issues of Gender in Stalking Research
Adding insult to injury: Effects of interpersonal rejection types, rejection sensitivity, and self‐regulation on obsessive relational intrusion
This study tested the I 3 model [Finkel, 2007; 2008] of intimate partner violence as applied to obsessive relational intrusion (ORI) to assess the relation among self‐regulation, rejection, rejection sensitivity (RS), and stalking‐related aggression. In Study 1, participants ( N =221) read one of three vignettes: no relationship termination, an “internal” rejection (involves an internal attribution to the rejected as cause of relationship ending)…
Pulling the strings: Effects of friend and parent opinions on dating choices
The current study examined how dating choices are affected when individuals are faced with social network opinions that are in agreement or disagreement about the quality of potential dates. In a virtual dating game paradigm, participants spoke to 2 potential romantic partners online and received positive and/or negative feedback ostensibly from their friend and parent about 1 of the partners. The study employed a 2 (parent opinion: approve, disa…
Gender Rules: Same- and Cross-Gender Friendships Norms
Commentary and Rejoinder on
Revisiting the Romeo and Juliet Effect: Reexamining the Links Between Social Network Opinions and Romantic Relationship Outcomes
We conducted a replication and extension of Driscoll, Davis, and Lipetz's (1972) classic longitudinal survey of the Romeo and Juliet effect, wherein they found that increases in parental interference were linked to increases in love and commitment. Using the original measures, 396 participants were followed over a 3-4 month period wherein they reported love, commitment, trust, and criticism for their partners as well as levels of perceived interf…
Opposite Ends of the Same Stick? Multi-Method Test of the Dimensionality of Individualism and Collectivism
The construct of individualism-collectivism (IND-COL) has become the definitive standard in cross-cultural psychology, management, and related fields. It is also among the most controversial, in particular, with regard to the ambiguity of its dimensionality: Some view IND and COL as the opposites of a single continuum, whereas others argue that the two are independent constructs. We explored the issue through seven different tests using original …
Don’t Tell Me Who I Can’t Love: A Multimethod Investigation of Social Network and Reactance Effects on Romantic Relationships
In three studies, we examined the influence of social network reactions on feelings toward a romantic partner. Study 1 was a large survey (N = 858), Study 2 was a vignette design in which social network reactions were manipulated, and Study 3 was a laboratory-based, dating game experiment. We found extensive support for the social network effect, whereby relationship approval from family and friends leads individuals to feel more love, more commi…
Behavioral and psychological consequences of social identity-based aggressive victimization in high school youth
Research suggests many youth report being victimized in school due to ptheir social identities (e.g., race, gender, sexual orientation). We compared the consequences of social identity-based victimization (SIBV) to general victimization wherein adolescents are victimized by peers for other reasons (e.g., competition, a perceived insult). An online survey administered to 471 high school students yielded 777 victimization reports. 71.2% of the stud…
What’s the Chatter? Developing an Integrated Theory-Grounded Psycholinguistic Threat Assessment for the Evaluation of Online Extremist Chatter
We examined the online communications of a known domestic terrorist group, the Boogaloo Bois, by analyzing 3,513 Boogaloo-affiliated posts from 2019 to 2020 from 9 social media platforms. Applying a theory-grounded coding framework based on the Integrated Model of Dangerous Speech (IMDS), Moral Disengagement Theory (MDT), and the Duplex Theory of Hate (DToH), we tested links between psycholinguistic markers and threats of violence. We operational…
Balancing Relationships: What Happens When Your Friends and Romantic Partners Do Not Get Along
Research has extensively examined how social network opinions (approval or disapproval from friends) affect romantic relationships. Friends are not the only ones to have opinions, yet there has been less exploration into whether one's friendship is influenced by opinions of the romantic partner. Balance theory suggests that individuals seek congruent attitudes within triads. Thus, this research (total N = 439) proposes that just as friend opinion…
Single‐Sided: Associations Between Social Network Opinions and Singlehood Among Heterosexual and Sexually Diverse Individuals
Although romantic relationships are often idealized, many individuals find satisfaction in being single. Evidence shows social networks influence commitment within romantic relationships—with network approval being a boon, and disapproval a detractor—but whether this social network effect extends to commitment to being single remains unclear. This study examined whether perceived approval from parents and friends predicts commitment to singlehood…
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