Lane A Beck
Biographic Data
| ID | 145113 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lane A Beck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lane A |
| FAMILY NAME | Beck |
| SIGNATURE | BECK L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emerson College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4351-2594 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Increases in Intellectual Humility From Guided Conversations Are Greater When People Perceive Affiliation With Conversation Partners
Intellectual humility involves awareness that one’s knowledge has limitations and that one’s beliefs might be incorrect. Despite documented benefits of intellectual humility, few studies have examined factors associated with long-term changes in intellectual humility. This study investigated whether an intervention focused on guided conversations was associated with increases in intellectual humility and whether these changes were stronger when p…
Perceiving and responding to another's interest in initiating friendship
The present research examines two early steps in friendship initiation: (1) Perceiving potential friends' interest, and (2) responding to that interest. We also consider how attachment insecurity might create challenges with these steps. In Study 1, two unacquainted participants briefly interacted, then reported their own interest in friendship and their perceptions of the other person's interest in friendship. People generally underestimated oth…
Attachment anxiety in daily experiences of romantic relationships
This research provides a conceptual replication and theoretical extension of the mutual cyclical growth model. This model proposes that dependence promotes relationship commitment, which promotes pro-relationship behavior, which-when detected by partners-promotes partners' trust, which promotes partners' willingness to depend on the relationship. Prior research supports these links on a month-to-month basis, but romantic partners' thoughts, feeli…
Spouses’ attachment orientations shape physiological responses to relational stress over time
This research examined how the interplay between spouses’ attachment orientations contributes to physiological responses to relational stress. Mixed-gender newlyweds ( N Wave 1 = 218 couples; N Wave 2 = 184 couples; N Wave 3 = 164 couples) discussed relationship conflicts during three laboratory sessions over the first 3–4 years of marriage. Individuals provided saliva samples to assess their cortisol levels before, during, and after each conflic…
Self-compassion and social stress
The present study investigated links between self-compassion and responses to social stress. Participants (N = 102) were randomly assigned to a self-compassion training or a comparison condition and engaged in the Trier Social Stress Test for Groups (TSST-G). Measures of trait self-compassion, subjective perceptions of stress, and salivary cortisol were collected. Participants with higher trait self-compassion had significantly lower subjective a…
Is Low Power Associated With Submission During Marital Conflict? Moderating Roles of Gender and Traditional Gender Role Beliefs
Lower power during marital interactions predicts greater aggression by men, but no research has identified women’s response to lower power. We tested whether women who experienced lower situational power during conflict exhibited greater submission, especially if they held traditional gender role beliefs and thus accepted structural gender differences in power. Newlywed couples (Time 1, N = 204 couples) completed questionnaires and discussed an a…
Social anxiety, cortisol, and early-stage friendship
Socially anxious people report less closeness to others, but very little research has examined how social anxiety is related to closeness in real-time social interactions. The present study investigated social anxiety, closeness, and cortisol reactivity in zero-acquaintance interactions between 84 same-sex dyads (168 participants). Dyads engaged in either a high or low self-disclosure discussion task and completed self-report measures of closenes…
Seeing you in me
Inclusion of other in the self, a key principle of the self-expansion model, suggests that close others overlap with the self in terms of resources, perspectives, and identities. Research from behavioral, cognitive, and neural domains provides evidence for inclusion of other in the self; the present research extends prior theoretical and empirical work to a new, visual domain by investigating whether inclusion of other in the self applies to faci…
Bioarchaeology
When do we offer more support than we seek? A behavioral replication and developmental extension
Beck and Clark (2009) found self-report evidence that adults are more likely to offer support to a potential friend than to seek identical support from that potential friend, but that this asymmetry between offering and seeking support weakens among close friends. The present study sought to behaviorally replicate these findings in adults as well as to explore the developmental emergence of this phenomenon by examining when children would display…
Spouses’ attachment pairings predict neuroendocrine, behavioral, and psychological responses to marital conflict
This research investigated how spouses' attachment styles jointly contributed to their stress responses. Newlywed couples discussed relationship conflicts. Salivary cortisol indexed physiological stress; observer-rated behaviors indexed behavioral stress; self-reported distress indexed psychological stress. Multilevel modeling tested predictions that couples including 1 anxious and 1 avoidant partner or 2 anxious partners would show distinctive s…
What Constitutes a Healthy Communal Marriage and Why Relationship Stage Matters
The authors take a position that high‐quality marriages are best defined in terms of theoretically grounded sets of intra‐ and interpersonal processes that promote both individuals' mental and physical health and the health of their relationship. On the basis of a long‐standing research program on communal and exchange relationships, they set forth one set of marital processes, those surrounding the provision of mutual responsiveness, that contri…
Looking a gift horse in the mouth as a defense against increasing intimacy
Offering more support than we seek
Human Skeletal Anatomy
Regional Approaches to Mortuary Analysis
Regional Cults and Ethnic Boundaries in “Southern Hopewell”
Vectors of Death
The Greenland Mummies
Human Osteology
Bivariate analysis of trace elements in bone
Trace Elements, Nutritional Status, and Social Stratification at Etowah, Georgia
Spouses’ attachment pairings predict neuroendocrine, behavioral, and psychological responses to marital conflict
This research investigated how spouses' attachment styles jointly contributed to their stress responses. Newlywed couples discussed relationship conflicts. Salivary cortisol indexed physiological stress; observer-rated behaviors indexed behavioral stress; self-reported distress indexed psychological stress. Multilevel modeling tested predictions that couples including 1 anxious and 1 avoidant partner or 2 anxious partners would show distinctive s…
Looking a gift horse in the mouth as a defense against increasing intimacy
Seeing you in me
Inclusion of other in the self, a key principle of the self-expansion model, suggests that close others overlap with the self in terms of resources, perspectives, and identities. Research from behavioral, cognitive, and neural domains provides evidence for inclusion of other in the self; the present research extends prior theoretical and empirical work to a new, visual domain by investigating whether inclusion of other in the self applies to faci…
What Constitutes a Healthy Communal Marriage and Why Relationship Stage Matters
The authors take a position that high‐quality marriages are best defined in terms of theoretically grounded sets of intra‐ and interpersonal processes that promote both individuals' mental and physical health and the health of their relationship. On the basis of a long‐standing research program on communal and exchange relationships, they set forth one set of marital processes, those surrounding the provision of mutual responsiveness, that contri…
Offering more support than we seek
Attachment anxiety in daily experiences of romantic relationships
This research provides a conceptual replication and theoretical extension of the mutual cyclical growth model. This model proposes that dependence promotes relationship commitment, which promotes pro-relationship behavior, which-when detected by partners-promotes partners' trust, which promotes partners' willingness to depend on the relationship. Prior research supports these links on a month-to-month basis, but romantic partners' thoughts, feeli…
Social anxiety, cortisol, and early-stage friendship
Socially anxious people report less closeness to others, but very little research has examined how social anxiety is related to closeness in real-time social interactions. The present study investigated social anxiety, closeness, and cortisol reactivity in zero-acquaintance interactions between 84 same-sex dyads (168 participants). Dyads engaged in either a high or low self-disclosure discussion task and completed self-report measures of closenes…
Bivariate analysis of trace elements in bone
Perceiving and responding to another's interest in initiating friendship
The present research examines two early steps in friendship initiation: (1) Perceiving potential friends' interest, and (2) responding to that interest. We also consider how attachment insecurity might create challenges with these steps. In Study 1, two unacquainted participants briefly interacted, then reported their own interest in friendship and their perceptions of the other person's interest in friendship. People generally underestimated oth…
When do we offer more support than we seek? A behavioral replication and developmental extension
Beck and Clark (2009) found self-report evidence that adults are more likely to offer support to a potential friend than to seek identical support from that potential friend, but that this asymmetry between offering and seeking support weakens among close friends. The present study sought to behaviorally replicate these findings in adults as well as to explore the developmental emergence of this phenomenon by examining when children would display…
Trace Elements, Nutritional Status, and Social Stratification at Etowah, Georgia
Bivariate analysis of trace elements in bone
Human Osteology
Vectors of Death
The Greenland Mummies
Regional Cults and Ethnic Boundaries in “Southern Hopewell”
Regional Approaches to Mortuary Analysis
Human Skeletal Anatomy
Offering more support than we seek
What Constitutes a Healthy Communal Marriage and Why Relationship Stage Matters
The authors take a position that high‐quality marriages are best defined in terms of theoretically grounded sets of intra‐ and interpersonal processes that promote both individuals' mental and physical health and the health of their relationship. On the basis of a long‐standing research program on communal and exchange relationships, they set forth one set of marital processes, those surrounding the provision of mutual responsiveness, that contri…
Looking a gift horse in the mouth as a defense against increasing intimacy
Spouses’ attachment pairings predict neuroendocrine, behavioral, and psychological responses to marital conflict
This research investigated how spouses' attachment styles jointly contributed to their stress responses. Newlywed couples discussed relationship conflicts. Salivary cortisol indexed physiological stress; observer-rated behaviors indexed behavioral stress; self-reported distress indexed psychological stress. Multilevel modeling tested predictions that couples including 1 anxious and 1 avoidant partner or 2 anxious partners would show distinctive s…
Bioarchaeology
When do we offer more support than we seek? A behavioral replication and developmental extension
Beck and Clark (2009) found self-report evidence that adults are more likely to offer support to a potential friend than to seek identical support from that potential friend, but that this asymmetry between offering and seeking support weakens among close friends. The present study sought to behaviorally replicate these findings in adults as well as to explore the developmental emergence of this phenomenon by examining when children would display…
Social anxiety, cortisol, and early-stage friendship
Socially anxious people report less closeness to others, but very little research has examined how social anxiety is related to closeness in real-time social interactions. The present study investigated social anxiety, closeness, and cortisol reactivity in zero-acquaintance interactions between 84 same-sex dyads (168 participants). Dyads engaged in either a high or low self-disclosure discussion task and completed self-report measures of closenes…
Seeing you in me
Inclusion of other in the self, a key principle of the self-expansion model, suggests that close others overlap with the self in terms of resources, perspectives, and identities. Research from behavioral, cognitive, and neural domains provides evidence for inclusion of other in the self; the present research extends prior theoretical and empirical work to a new, visual domain by investigating whether inclusion of other in the self applies to faci…
Is Low Power Associated With Submission During Marital Conflict? Moderating Roles of Gender and Traditional Gender Role Beliefs
Lower power during marital interactions predicts greater aggression by men, but no research has identified women’s response to lower power. We tested whether women who experienced lower situational power during conflict exhibited greater submission, especially if they held traditional gender role beliefs and thus accepted structural gender differences in power. Newlywed couples (Time 1, N = 204 couples) completed questionnaires and discussed an a…
Self-compassion and social stress
The present study investigated links between self-compassion and responses to social stress. Participants (N = 102) were randomly assigned to a self-compassion training or a comparison condition and engaged in the Trier Social Stress Test for Groups (TSST-G). Measures of trait self-compassion, subjective perceptions of stress, and salivary cortisol were collected. Participants with higher trait self-compassion had significantly lower subjective a…
Spouses’ attachment orientations shape physiological responses to relational stress over time
This research examined how the interplay between spouses’ attachment orientations contributes to physiological responses to relational stress. Mixed-gender newlyweds ( N Wave 1 = 218 couples; N Wave 2 = 184 couples; N Wave 3 = 164 couples) discussed relationship conflicts during three laboratory sessions over the first 3–4 years of marriage. Individuals provided saliva samples to assess their cortisol levels before, during, and after each conflic…
Attachment anxiety in daily experiences of romantic relationships
This research provides a conceptual replication and theoretical extension of the mutual cyclical growth model. This model proposes that dependence promotes relationship commitment, which promotes pro-relationship behavior, which-when detected by partners-promotes partners' trust, which promotes partners' willingness to depend on the relationship. Prior research supports these links on a month-to-month basis, but romantic partners' thoughts, feeli…
Increases in Intellectual Humility From Guided Conversations Are Greater When People Perceive Affiliation With Conversation Partners
Intellectual humility involves awareness that one’s knowledge has limitations and that one’s beliefs might be incorrect. Despite documented benefits of intellectual humility, few studies have examined factors associated with long-term changes in intellectual humility. This study investigated whether an intervention focused on guided conversations was associated with increases in intellectual humility and whether these changes were stronger when p…
Perceiving and responding to another's interest in initiating friendship
The present research examines two early steps in friendship initiation: (1) Perceiving potential friends' interest, and (2) responding to that interest. We also consider how attachment insecurity might create challenges with these steps. In Study 1, two unacquainted participants briefly interacted, then reported their own interest in friendship and their perceptions of the other person's interest in friendship. People generally underestimated oth…
Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (10 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works)