Alexandra N Fisher
Biographic Data
| ID | 170318 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandra N Fisher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandra N |
| FAMILY NAME | Fisher |
| SIGNATURE | FISHER A N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3892-034X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Gender inequality and cultural values in explaining gender differences in positive and negative emotions: A comparison of 24 countries during the Covid-19 pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic posed a major challenge to mental health. Existing evidence shows that COVID-19 is related to poor emotional well-being, particularly among women. However, most work on the subject uses single-country samples, limiting the ability to generalize the disparity or explain it as a function of societal variables. The present study investigates the expression of positive and negative emotions during the pandemic as a function o…
Intergroup contact in the context of gender. A critical review of the literature and opportunities for future research
Compared to other intergroup contexts, gendered contact is more prevalent yet relatively understudied in contact research. We critically review available studies examining cross-gender contact—including contact between women and men, and contact involving genders outside of the gender binary—and its impact on outgroup attitudes and support for social change. We then outline future directions for gendered contact research with a focus on (a) asses…
A Recipe for Disaster?”: Female-Breadwinner Relationships Threaten Heterosexual Scripts
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11199-025-01560-y
Does Gender Influence Media Engagement? Attitudes and Experiences of Australian Media Sources
The news media’s reliance on official sources for interviews tends to privilege male voices and perspectives. To date, most of the research in this area has focused on news content analysis which consistently finds that women voices are marginalized, comprising only around 30 per cent of people quoted, heard, and seen in the news. In this study, we extend this work to examine whether potential gender differences in sources’ attitudes toward, and …
A framework for evaluating women’s leadership programmes
The increase in women’s leadership programmes has been paralleled by a growing demand on behalf of private and public sector stakeholders for pragmatic reporting on impact assessment. Yet, there remains limited research and tools available for conducting evaluation of women’s leadership programmes. Based on an extensive review of the literature and co-design with a sub-national Australian government, we develop an evaluation framework for women’s…
The Precarity of Progress: Implications of a Shifting Gendered Division of Labor for Relationships and Well-Being as a Function of Country-Level Gender Equality
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic saw a shift toward a more traditional division of labor–one where women took greater responsibility for household tasks and childcare than men. We tested whether this regressive shift was more acutely perceived and experienced by women in countries with greater gender equality. Cross-cultural longitudinal survey data for women and men ( N = 10,238) was collected weekly during the first few months of the pandemic…
Sameness and Difference in Psychological Research on Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships: The Need for Invariance and Equivalence Testing
Singlehood and Attunement of Self-Esteem to Friendships
Romantic relationships activate a process of psychological attunement whereby self-esteem becomes responsive to the romantic bond, thereby potentially benefitting relationship quality and bolstering self-esteem. Yet some people are romantically single, raising the question: Do single people also exhibit psychological attunement? In a 2-year longitudinal study of young adults ( N = 279), we test whether singles psychologically attune to their frie…
Gender inequalities during Covid-19
The onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic put a halt to progress toward gender equality and, instead, exacerbated existing gender inequalities across domains—from gendered divisions of labour to economic stability. In this paper we document some of the most glaring gender inequalities that have arisen in the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss how social psychological theories and research—including work on gender stereotypes and roles, responses to th…
Dyadic measurement invariance and its importance for replicability in romantic relationship science
Comparisons of group means, variances, correlations, and/or regression slopes involving psychological variables rely on an assumption of measurement invariance—that the latent variables under investigation have equivalent meaning and measurement across group. When measures are noninvariant, replicability suffers, as comparisons are either conceptually meaningless, or hindered by inflated Type I error rates. We propose that the failure to account …
Are single people a stigmatized 'group'? Evidence from examinations of social identity, entitativity, and perceived responsibility
Are single people a stigmatized ‘group’? Evidence from examinations of social identity, entitativity, and perceived responsibility
Self-esteem, epistemic needs, and responses to social feedback
People with lower self-esteem (LSEs) suffer from poor relational well-being. This may occur, in part, because LSEs’ epistemic needs constrain their ability to benefit from positive social feedback. Consistent with this hypothesis, LSEs felt undeserving of positive social feedback, which undermined their relational well-being (Experiment 1). After receiving positive social feedback, LSEs displayed an equal preference for additional positive and ne…
Self-Esteem Reflects Assessments of Valuation
Gender inequalities during Covid-19
The onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic put a halt to progress toward gender equality and, instead, exacerbated existing gender inequalities across domains—from gendered divisions of labour to economic stability. In this paper we document some of the most glaring gender inequalities that have arisen in the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss how social psychological theories and research—including work on gender stereotypes and roles, responses to th…
Dyadic measurement invariance and its importance for replicability in romantic relationship science
Comparisons of group means, variances, correlations, and/or regression slopes involving psychological variables rely on an assumption of measurement invariance—that the latent variables under investigation have equivalent meaning and measurement across group. When measures are noninvariant, replicability suffers, as comparisons are either conceptually meaningless, or hindered by inflated Type I error rates. We propose that the failure to account …
Are single people a stigmatized ‘group’? Evidence from examinations of social identity, entitativity, and perceived responsibility
The Precarity of Progress: Implications of a Shifting Gendered Division of Labor for Relationships and Well-Being as a Function of Country-Level Gender Equality
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic saw a shift toward a more traditional division of labor–one where women took greater responsibility for household tasks and childcare than men. We tested whether this regressive shift was more acutely perceived and experienced by women in countries with greater gender equality. Cross-cultural longitudinal survey data for women and men ( N = 10,238) was collected weekly during the first few months of the pandemic…
Are single people a stigmatized 'group'? Evidence from examinations of social identity, entitativity, and perceived responsibility
Does Gender Influence Media Engagement? Attitudes and Experiences of Australian Media Sources
The news media’s reliance on official sources for interviews tends to privilege male voices and perspectives. To date, most of the research in this area has focused on news content analysis which consistently finds that women voices are marginalized, comprising only around 30 per cent of people quoted, heard, and seen in the news. In this study, we extend this work to examine whether potential gender differences in sources’ attitudes toward, and …
A framework for evaluating women’s leadership programmes
The increase in women’s leadership programmes has been paralleled by a growing demand on behalf of private and public sector stakeholders for pragmatic reporting on impact assessment. Yet, there remains limited research and tools available for conducting evaluation of women’s leadership programmes. Based on an extensive review of the literature and co-design with a sub-national Australian government, we develop an evaluation framework for women’s…
Self-Esteem Reflects Assessments of Valuation
Self-esteem, epistemic needs, and responses to social feedback
People with lower self-esteem (LSEs) suffer from poor relational well-being. This may occur, in part, because LSEs’ epistemic needs constrain their ability to benefit from positive social feedback. Consistent with this hypothesis, LSEs felt undeserving of positive social feedback, which undermined their relational well-being (Experiment 1). After receiving positive social feedback, LSEs displayed an equal preference for additional positive and ne…
Are single people a stigmatized 'group'? Evidence from examinations of social identity, entitativity, and perceived responsibility
Are single people a stigmatized ‘group’? Evidence from examinations of social identity, entitativity, and perceived responsibility
Sameness and Difference in Psychological Research on Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships: The Need for Invariance and Equivalence Testing
Singlehood and Attunement of Self-Esteem to Friendships
Romantic relationships activate a process of psychological attunement whereby self-esteem becomes responsive to the romantic bond, thereby potentially benefitting relationship quality and bolstering self-esteem. Yet some people are romantically single, raising the question: Do single people also exhibit psychological attunement? In a 2-year longitudinal study of young adults ( N = 279), we test whether singles psychologically attune to their frie…
Gender inequalities during Covid-19
The onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic put a halt to progress toward gender equality and, instead, exacerbated existing gender inequalities across domains—from gendered divisions of labour to economic stability. In this paper we document some of the most glaring gender inequalities that have arisen in the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss how social psychological theories and research—including work on gender stereotypes and roles, responses to th…
Dyadic measurement invariance and its importance for replicability in romantic relationship science
Comparisons of group means, variances, correlations, and/or regression slopes involving psychological variables rely on an assumption of measurement invariance—that the latent variables under investigation have equivalent meaning and measurement across group. When measures are noninvariant, replicability suffers, as comparisons are either conceptually meaningless, or hindered by inflated Type I error rates. We propose that the failure to account …
Does Gender Influence Media Engagement? Attitudes and Experiences of Australian Media Sources
The news media’s reliance on official sources for interviews tends to privilege male voices and perspectives. To date, most of the research in this area has focused on news content analysis which consistently finds that women voices are marginalized, comprising only around 30 per cent of people quoted, heard, and seen in the news. In this study, we extend this work to examine whether potential gender differences in sources’ attitudes toward, and …
A framework for evaluating women’s leadership programmes
The increase in women’s leadership programmes has been paralleled by a growing demand on behalf of private and public sector stakeholders for pragmatic reporting on impact assessment. Yet, there remains limited research and tools available for conducting evaluation of women’s leadership programmes. Based on an extensive review of the literature and co-design with a sub-national Australian government, we develop an evaluation framework for women’s…
The Precarity of Progress: Implications of a Shifting Gendered Division of Labor for Relationships and Well-Being as a Function of Country-Level Gender Equality
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic saw a shift toward a more traditional division of labor–one where women took greater responsibility for household tasks and childcare than men. We tested whether this regressive shift was more acutely perceived and experienced by women in countries with greater gender equality. Cross-cultural longitudinal survey data for women and men ( N = 10,238) was collected weekly during the first few months of the pandemic…
Gender inequality and cultural values in explaining gender differences in positive and negative emotions: A comparison of 24 countries during the Covid-19 pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic posed a major challenge to mental health. Existing evidence shows that COVID-19 is related to poor emotional well-being, particularly among women. However, most work on the subject uses single-country samples, limiting the ability to generalize the disparity or explain it as a function of societal variables. The present study investigates the expression of positive and negative emotions during the pandemic as a function o…
Intergroup contact in the context of gender. A critical review of the literature and opportunities for future research
Compared to other intergroup contexts, gendered contact is more prevalent yet relatively understudied in contact research. We critically review available studies examining cross-gender contact—including contact between women and men, and contact involving genders outside of the gender binary—and its impact on outgroup attitudes and support for social change. We then outline future directions for gendered contact research with a focus on (a) asses…
A Recipe for Disaster?”: Female-Breadwinner Relationships Threaten Heterosexual Scripts
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11199-025-01560-y
Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (3 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (3 works) · Economics (3 works)