Cynthia S Levine
Biographic Data
| ID | 1739930 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynthia S Levine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynthia S |
| FAMILY NAME | Levine |
| SIGNATURE | LEVINE C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8390-9513 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Schools’ Respect for Identity-Based Differences and Student Outcomes: Examining the Relationship among Students with Varying Numbers of Marginalized Identities
When schools value diversity, students with marginalized identities exhibit better academic and well-being outcomes. However, most work focuses on one identity dimension (e.g., race, sexuality) at a time. Using data from the California Healthy Kids Survey ( N = 205,064 students in 6th–12th grade across 751 schools), we examined how the number of marginalized identities students held, schools’ respect for identity-based differences, and the intera…
Who Should Learn About Race in School? Lay Theories About the Relevance of Lessons About Race to Students of Color and White Students
Both students of color and White students benefit from learning about race in school, but do Americans recognize the relevance of lessons about race to both groups? We investigated (1) whether Americans see lessons about race as more relevant to students of color than to White students and (2) how to help Americans see the relevance to White students. In Study 1, we analyzed school districts’ ( N = 14,247) educational goals and found that distric…
Gentrification creates social class disparities in belonging
Gentrification impacts nearly every major city in the United States, posing a potential threat to lower social class residents' sense of belonging in their neighborhoods. In one survey and three preregistered experiments, we investigated how gentrification affects the belonging of residents across the social class spectrum and how to invest in working-class neighborhoods without undermining lower social class residents' sense of belonging. Studie…
I Am Not A Virus: Status-Based Rejection Sensitivity and Sleep Among East Asian People in the United States During Covid-19
As COVID-19 spread in the United States, anti-East Asian bias increased. This article aimed to (1) show that thinking about COVID-19 heightened East Asian individuals’ anxious expectations of discrimination and (2) explore these expectations’ health correlates. Specifically, the paper focused on COVID-19-triggered race-based rejection sensitivity, defined as (1) East Asian individuals’ expectations of rejection due to the stereotype that they spr…
Feeling excited or taking a bath: Do distinct pathways underlie the positive affect–health link in the U.S. and Japan
Feeling good is linked to better health in Western contexts. Recent studies show, however, that the affect-health link is not consistent across cultures. We suggest two reasons for such inconsistency. The first follows from research showing that North American (vs. East Asian) cultures tend to value high arousal positive (HAP) states, for example, excited, more than low arousal positive (LAP) states, for example, calm. The second is one we propos…
Academic disparities and health: How gender-based disparities in schools relate to boys' and girls' health
Culture and social hierarchy: Self- and other-oriented correlates of socioeconomic status across cultures
Current theorizing on socioeconomic status (SES) focuses on the availability of resources and the freedom they afford as a key determinant of the association between high SES and stronger orientation toward the self and, by implication, weaker orientation toward others. However, this work relies nearly exclusively on data from Western countries where self-orientation is strongly sanctioned. In the present work, we predicted and found that especia…
Just World Beliefs Are Associated With Lower Levels of Metabolic Risk and Inflammation and Better Sleep After an Unfair Event
This study's goal was to conduct a preliminary test of the theory that just world beliefs can buffer against negative physiological outcomes after people experience certain types of negative life events by testing associations between just world beliefs and physiological outcomes among people with different life event histories. In a sample of 247 adults ( M age = 46.01; 24.31% men; 60.78% White), this research investigated the relationship betwe…
Dimensions of Socioeconomic Status and Childhood Asthma Outcomes: Evidence for Distinct Behavioral and Biological Associations
OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to investigate 2 key dimensions of socioeconomic status (SES)-prestige and resources-and their associations with immune, behavioral, and clinical outcomes in childhood asthma. METHODS: Children ages 9 to 17 years with a physician's diagnosis of asthma (N = 150), and one of their parents participated in this study. Children and parents completed interviews and questionnaires about SES (prestige = parent …
Views of a good life and allostatic load: Physiological correlates of theories of a good life depend on the socioeconomic context
This research examines the relationship between one's theory of a good life and allostatic load, a marker of cumulative biological risk, and how this relationship differs by socioeconomic status. Among adults with a bachelor's degree or higher, those who saw individual characteristics (e.g., personal happiness, effort) as part of a good life had lower levels of allostatic load than those who did not. In contrast, among adults with less than a bac…
Subjective and Objective Hierarchies and Their Relations to Psychological Well-Being: A U.S./Japan Comparison
Hierarchy can be conceptualized as objective social status (e.g., education level) or subjective social status (i.e., one’s own judgment of one’s status). Both forms predict well-being. This is the first investigation of the relative strength of these hierarchy–well-being relationships in the U.S. and Japan, cultural contexts with different normative ideas about how social status is understood and conferred. In probability samples of Japanese ( N…
The role of non‐verbal behaviour in racial disparities in health care: Implications and Solutions
As doctors' disengaged non-verbal behaviour towards minority group patients and lower ability to read minority group patients' non-verbal behaviours may contribute to racial disparities in patients' satisfaction and health outcomes, solutions that target non-verbal behaviour may be effective. A number of strategies for such targeting are discussed
Culture and social hierarchy: Self- and other-oriented correlates of socioeconomic status across cultures
Current theorizing on socioeconomic status (SES) focuses on the availability of resources and the freedom they afford as a key determinant of the association between high SES and stronger orientation toward the self and, by implication, weaker orientation toward others. However, this work relies nearly exclusively on data from Western countries where self-orientation is strongly sanctioned. In the present work, we predicted and found that especia…
The role of non‐verbal behaviour in racial disparities in health care: Implications and Solutions
As doctors' disengaged non-verbal behaviour towards minority group patients and lower ability to read minority group patients' non-verbal behaviours may contribute to racial disparities in patients' satisfaction and health outcomes, solutions that target non-verbal behaviour may be effective. A number of strategies for such targeting are discussed
Gentrification creates social class disparities in belonging
Gentrification impacts nearly every major city in the United States, posing a potential threat to lower social class residents' sense of belonging in their neighborhoods. In one survey and three preregistered experiments, we investigated how gentrification affects the belonging of residents across the social class spectrum and how to invest in working-class neighborhoods without undermining lower social class residents' sense of belonging. Studie…
Academic disparities and health: How gender-based disparities in schools relate to boys' and girls' health
The role of non‐verbal behaviour in racial disparities in health care: Implications and Solutions
As doctors' disengaged non-verbal behaviour towards minority group patients and lower ability to read minority group patients' non-verbal behaviours may contribute to racial disparities in patients' satisfaction and health outcomes, solutions that target non-verbal behaviour may be effective. A number of strategies for such targeting are discussed
Subjective and Objective Hierarchies and Their Relations to Psychological Well-Being: A U.S./Japan Comparison
Hierarchy can be conceptualized as objective social status (e.g., education level) or subjective social status (i.e., one’s own judgment of one’s status). Both forms predict well-being. This is the first investigation of the relative strength of these hierarchy–well-being relationships in the U.S. and Japan, cultural contexts with different normative ideas about how social status is understood and conferred. In probability samples of Japanese ( N…
Dimensions of Socioeconomic Status and Childhood Asthma Outcomes: Evidence for Distinct Behavioral and Biological Associations
OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to investigate 2 key dimensions of socioeconomic status (SES)-prestige and resources-and their associations with immune, behavioral, and clinical outcomes in childhood asthma. METHODS: Children ages 9 to 17 years with a physician's diagnosis of asthma (N = 150), and one of their parents participated in this study. Children and parents completed interviews and questionnaires about SES (prestige = parent …
Views of a good life and allostatic load: Physiological correlates of theories of a good life depend on the socioeconomic context
This research examines the relationship between one's theory of a good life and allostatic load, a marker of cumulative biological risk, and how this relationship differs by socioeconomic status. Among adults with a bachelor's degree or higher, those who saw individual characteristics (e.g., personal happiness, effort) as part of a good life had lower levels of allostatic load than those who did not. In contrast, among adults with less than a bac…
Just World Beliefs Are Associated With Lower Levels of Metabolic Risk and Inflammation and Better Sleep After an Unfair Event
This study's goal was to conduct a preliminary test of the theory that just world beliefs can buffer against negative physiological outcomes after people experience certain types of negative life events by testing associations between just world beliefs and physiological outcomes among people with different life event histories. In a sample of 247 adults ( M age = 46.01; 24.31% men; 60.78% White), this research investigated the relationship betwe…
Culture and social hierarchy: Self- and other-oriented correlates of socioeconomic status across cultures
Current theorizing on socioeconomic status (SES) focuses on the availability of resources and the freedom they afford as a key determinant of the association between high SES and stronger orientation toward the self and, by implication, weaker orientation toward others. However, this work relies nearly exclusively on data from Western countries where self-orientation is strongly sanctioned. In the present work, we predicted and found that especia…
Feeling excited or taking a bath: Do distinct pathways underlie the positive affect–health link in the U.S. and Japan
Feeling good is linked to better health in Western contexts. Recent studies show, however, that the affect-health link is not consistent across cultures. We suggest two reasons for such inconsistency. The first follows from research showing that North American (vs. East Asian) cultures tend to value high arousal positive (HAP) states, for example, excited, more than low arousal positive (LAP) states, for example, calm. The second is one we propos…
Academic disparities and health: How gender-based disparities in schools relate to boys' and girls' health
I Am Not A Virus: Status-Based Rejection Sensitivity and Sleep Among East Asian People in the United States During Covid-19
As COVID-19 spread in the United States, anti-East Asian bias increased. This article aimed to (1) show that thinking about COVID-19 heightened East Asian individuals’ anxious expectations of discrimination and (2) explore these expectations’ health correlates. Specifically, the paper focused on COVID-19-triggered race-based rejection sensitivity, defined as (1) East Asian individuals’ expectations of rejection due to the stereotype that they spr…
Gentrification creates social class disparities in belonging
Gentrification impacts nearly every major city in the United States, posing a potential threat to lower social class residents' sense of belonging in their neighborhoods. In one survey and three preregistered experiments, we investigated how gentrification affects the belonging of residents across the social class spectrum and how to invest in working-class neighborhoods without undermining lower social class residents' sense of belonging. Studie…
Schools’ Respect for Identity-Based Differences and Student Outcomes: Examining the Relationship among Students with Varying Numbers of Marginalized Identities
When schools value diversity, students with marginalized identities exhibit better academic and well-being outcomes. However, most work focuses on one identity dimension (e.g., race, sexuality) at a time. Using data from the California Healthy Kids Survey ( N = 205,064 students in 6th–12th grade across 751 schools), we examined how the number of marginalized identities students held, schools’ respect for identity-based differences, and the intera…
Who Should Learn About Race in School? Lay Theories About the Relevance of Lessons About Race to Students of Color and White Students
Both students of color and White students benefit from learning about race in school, but do Americans recognize the relevance of lessons about race to both groups? We investigated (1) whether Americans see lessons about race as more relevant to students of color than to White students and (2) how to help Americans see the relevance to White students. In Study 1, we analyzed school districts’ ( N = 14,247) educational goals and found that distric…
Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (4 works) · Context (archaeology (3 works)