Thomas W Britt
Biographic Data
| ID | 224777 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas W Britt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas W |
| FAMILY NAME | Britt |
| SIGNATURE | BRITT T W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clemson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1549-0068 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
I Don’t Want to Go to Work”: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Healthcare Worker Experiences from the Front- and Side-Lines of Covid-19
During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers (HCW) were categorized as "essential" and "non-essential", creating a division where some were "locked-in" a system with little ability to prepare for or control the oncoming crisis. Others were "locked-out" regardless of whether their skills might be useful. The purpose of this study was to systematically gather data over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic from HCW through an interprofessional le…
Neglecting physician desires to teach at an academic medical facility: A mixed method investigation of the consequences
PURPOSE: Recent findings have suggested that physicians who spend more time participating in their most meaningful job activities (e.g. teaching) are less likely to experience burnout. The current study aimed to expound upon this finding, focusing specifically on the role of teaching in promoting meaning and preventing burnout. METHOD: A total of 428 physicians at a large academic healthcare institution completed an online survey that included me…
Job Demands and Resources among Healthcare Professionals during Virus Pandemics: A Review and Examination of Fluctuations in Mental Health Strain during Covid‐19
The present article examines how job demands and resources are related to indices of strain among healthcare professionals during virus pandemics. The article also presents the results of a study examining the relationships between COVID‐19 demands (e.g., lack of personal protective equipment, concerns about infecting family members), resources (meaningful work, social support), and mental health strain within a sample of emergency medicine perso…
Are We Missing the Mark? The Implementation of Community Based Participatory Education in Cancer Disparities Curriculum Development
Personality and strength-related attitude dimensions: Between and within-person relationships
The Effect of Parental Divorce on Discomfort and Cardiac Activity in Response to Public Displays of Affection in College Females
Two studies examined the effect of parental divorce on feelings of discomfort and cardiac activity in response to public displays of affection (PDAs). In the first study, females from divorced homes reported marginally significant higher discomfort in response to PDAs than females from intact homes. In the second study, 32 female participants (16 from divorced homes and 16 from intact homes) viewed a PDA video and a control video and subsequently…
Personality Variables Predict Strength‐Related Attitude Dimensions Across Objects
We examined personality predictors of different attitude strength‐related dimensions across objects. Participants responded to questions regarding 11 attitude objects that assessed the overall evaluation of the object and the strength‐related dimensions of importance, certainty, and relevance. Confirmatory factor analyses supported a 4‐factor solution underlying the self‐report and extremity dimensions across the 11 attitude objects, with importa…
Self-presentation in Everyday Life: Effort, Closeness, and Satisfaction
The present study examined how effort put forth during self-presentations is related to satisfaction with the interaction and relationship partner depending on the closeness of the partner to the individual. Individuals responded to Palm Pilot computers when they experienced an interaction over the course of four days. Following each interaction, participants rated the self-presentational effort they put forth, closeness to the interaction partne…
Ibasho and the adjustment, satisfaction, and well-being of expatriate spouses
Organizational psychology: A Scientist-Practitioner Approach
Stress effects on bilingual language professionals' performance
The work of bilingual language professionals (e.g., translators, diplomats, intelligence analysts) involves substantial use of two or more languages, and often, as well, substantial amounts of stress. This stress can come from many sources, including the language tasks themselves and difficult working conditions. Yet, little is known about how the stressors that bilingual language professionals (BLPs) face influence their language performance or …
The Interactive Effects of Homosexual Speech and Sexual Orientation on the Stigmatization of Men: Evidence for Expectancy Violation Theory
This research examined the joint effects of homosexual linguistic variation and sexual orientation on the stigmatization of male students applying for college admission. Participants were asked to listen to a tape of a speaker who was identified as homosexual, heterosexual, or unspecified and spoke with either stereotypical gay speech or standard speech. Participants made admission decisions, indicated the amount of scholarship funding to be offe…
African-American Perspectives on 9-11
In the past few years, terrorism has introduced most Americans to trauma on their own soil. However, African-Americans have lived through trauma and terrorism within the U.S. for centuries. African-Americans have very different perceptions of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Historical data reveal that African-Americans have endured various forms of domestic terrorism for hundreds of years. B…
Testing the Stress‐Buffering Effects of Self Engagement Among Soldiers on a Military Operation
The present research examined whether self engagement moderated the stressor‐strain relationship in a sample of U.S. soldiers deployed on a peacekeeping mission to Bosnia. Given that individuals were nested within groups (Army companies), we examined the relationships of interest using multilevel random coefficient models. The results of these analyses revealed that self engagement interacted with three different stressors (lower amounts of sleep…
Aspects of Identity Predict Engagement in Work Under Adverse Conditions
This study examined whether aspects of identity relevant to an occupational domain predict increased engagement in work when the conditions of work are unclear or ambiguous, whereas possessing an aspect of identity unrelated to one's occupational domain would not be associated with increased engagement. Members of an elite army unit (U.S. Army Rangers) who scored high on "warriorism" (a belief in the necessity and inevitability of war) evidenced …
Social support, group consensus and stressor–strain relationships: Social context matters
In this study, we examined the degree to which individuals' reactions to stressors were influenced by the quality of their shared social environments. Based on social support theory, we proposed that individuals in positive social environments would show lower levels of strain when exposed to stressors than would individuals in negative social environments. The quality of the shared social environment was assessed by measuring the degree of conse…
Strategically Controlling Information to Help Friends: Effects of Empathy and Friendship Strength on Beneficial Impression Management
Acceptance of Feedback by the Stigmatized and Non-Stigmatized: The Mediating Role of the Motive of the Evaluator
We examined the acceptance of interpersonal performance feedback and its effect on self-esteem among participants who received feedback from evaluators who were likely to be racially biased or unbiased. Black and White participants were given positive or negative feedback by someone who could see them or not, and who was either pro-Black or pro-White. Blacks discounted positive feedback when seen by a pro-Black evaluator, whereas Whites discounte…
Group identity‐based self‐protective strategies: The stigma of race, gender, and garlic
We examine the importance of group membership in stigma and its role in the effectiveness of self-protective cognitions in three experiments. In Experiment 1, men are asked to interact with an attractive female who will judge their value as a potential date, and either eat a mint or a clove of raw garlic prior to the interview. Although the stigmatized-by-garlic men discounted negative feedback and attributed it to their garlic breath, discountin…
Group identity-based self-protective strategies: The stigma of race, gender, and garlic
We examine the importance of group membership in stigma and its role in the effectiveness of self-protective cognitions in three experiments. In Experiment 1, men are asked to interact with an attractive female who will judge their value as a potential date, and either eat a mint or a clove of raw garlic prior to the interview. Although the stigmatized-by-garlic men discounted negative feedback and attributed it to their garlic breath, discountin…
Beneficial impression management: Strategically controlling information to help friends
It was hypothesized that people will strategically regulate information about the identities of friends to help them create desired impressions on audiences. Experiment I demonstrated that participants described a friend consistently with the qualities preferred by an attractive, opposite-sex individual but inconsistently with the qualities preferred by an unattractive, opposite-sex individual. Experiment 2 showed that a friend who had a high soc…
Integrating Social and Counseling Psychological Perspectives on the Self
Few areas present a more ideal opportunity for dialogue between counseling and social psychologists than the self Both disciplines have contributed significantly to the development of self theories and the design of methodologies suitable for understanding processes and practices relevant to the self However, counseling and social psychologists are finding it increasingly necessary to value and actively initiate interdisciplinary discussion and c…
Depression and the explanation of events that happen to self, close others, and strangers
Depressive and nondepressive college students attributed causality for positive and negative events that happened to either themselves, a close other, or a typical student. Depressives made less optimistic attributions than nondepressives when explaining events that happened to themselves. However, depressives and nondepressives generally made similar attributions about others; both groups were optimistic when explaining events that happened to t…
The triangle model of responsibility
Responsibility acts as a psychological adhesive that connects an actor to an event and to relevant prescriptions that should govern conduct. People are held responsible to the extent that (a) a clear, well-defined set of prescriptions is applicable to an event (prescription-event link); (b) the actor is perceived to be bound by the prescriptions by virtue of his or her identity (prescription-identity link); and (c) the actor is connected to the e…
Social Anxiety and Latency of Response to Startle Stimuli
Social support, group consensus and stressor–strain relationships: Social context matters
In this study, we examined the degree to which individuals' reactions to stressors were influenced by the quality of their shared social environments. Based on social support theory, we proposed that individuals in positive social environments would show lower levels of strain when exposed to stressors than would individuals in negative social environments. The quality of the shared social environment was assessed by measuring the degree of conse…
Strategically Controlling Information to Help Friends: Effects of Empathy and Friendship Strength on Beneficial Impression Management
The Interactive Effects of Homosexual Speech and Sexual Orientation on the Stigmatization of Men: Evidence for Expectancy Violation Theory
This research examined the joint effects of homosexual linguistic variation and sexual orientation on the stigmatization of male students applying for college admission. Participants were asked to listen to a tape of a speaker who was identified as homosexual, heterosexual, or unspecified and spoke with either stereotypical gay speech or standard speech. Participants made admission decisions, indicated the amount of scholarship funding to be offe…
Beneficial impression management: Strategically controlling information to help friends
It was hypothesized that people will strategically regulate information about the identities of friends to help them create desired impressions on audiences. Experiment I demonstrated that participants described a friend consistently with the qualities preferred by an attractive, opposite-sex individual but inconsistently with the qualities preferred by an unattractive, opposite-sex individual. Experiment 2 showed that a friend who had a high soc…
Metatraits: Evidence relevant to the validity of the construct and its implications
Further evidence for the metatrait construct was obtained by comparing correlations among theoretically related variables for Ss traited on both constructs, untraited on both constructs, or traited on 1 construct and untraited on another. Using hierarchical multiple regression, Ss traited on both constructs evidenced a substantially higher correlation between the 2 constructs than Ss untraited on 1 or both constructs. These findings replicated ac…
Social blushing
This article reviews theory and research regarding the physiology, situational and dispositional antecedents, behavioral concomitants, and interpersonal consequences of social blushing and offers a new theoretical account of blushing. This model posits that people blush when they experience undesired social attention. Puzzling questions involving blushing in solitude, the phenomenology of blushing, types of blushing, and blushing in dark-skinned …
Integrating Social and Counseling Psychological Perspectives on the Self
Few areas present a more ideal opportunity for dialogue between counseling and social psychologists than the self Both disciplines have contributed significantly to the development of self theories and the design of methodologies suitable for understanding processes and practices relevant to the self However, counseling and social psychologists are finding it increasingly necessary to value and actively initiate interdisciplinary discussion and c…
Depression and the explanation of events that happen to self, close others, and strangers
Depressive and nondepressive college students attributed causality for positive and negative events that happened to either themselves, a close other, or a typical student. Depressives made less optimistic attributions than nondepressives when explaining events that happened to themselves. However, depressives and nondepressives generally made similar attributions about others; both groups were optimistic when explaining events that happened to t…
Ibasho and the adjustment, satisfaction, and well-being of expatriate spouses
Acceptance of Feedback by the Stigmatized and Non-Stigmatized: The Mediating Role of the Motive of the Evaluator
We examined the acceptance of interpersonal performance feedback and its effect on self-esteem among participants who received feedback from evaluators who were likely to be racially biased or unbiased. Black and White participants were given positive or negative feedback by someone who could see them or not, and who was either pro-Black or pro-White. Blacks discounted positive feedback when seen by a pro-Black evaluator, whereas Whites discounte…
On Threat of Shock as an Elicitor of Anxiety: A Methodological Note
The effects of anxiety on the eyeblink component of the human startle response were measured in 32 college students. The manipulation of threat of shock was not successful in eliciting anxiety, suggesting that, while threat of shock can increase anxiety, this increase is not inevitable, illustrating the importance of a manipulation check of the effectiveness of the threat
On Threat of Shock as an Elicitor of Anxiety: A Methodological Note
Social blushing
Social blushing
This article reviews theory and research regarding the physiology, situational and dispositional antecedents, behavioral concomitants, and interpersonal consequences of social blushing and offers a new theoretical account of blushing. This model posits that people blush when they experience undesired social attention. Puzzling questions involving blushing in solitude, the phenomenology of blushing, types of blushing, and blushing in dark-skinned …
Social Anxiety and Latency of Response to Startle Stimuli
Metatraits: Evidence relevant to the validity of the construct and its implications
Further evidence for the metatrait construct was obtained by comparing correlations among theoretically related variables for Ss traited on both constructs, untraited on both constructs, or traited on 1 construct and untraited on another. Using hierarchical multiple regression, Ss traited on both constructs evidenced a substantially higher correlation between the 2 constructs than Ss untraited on 1 or both constructs. These findings replicated ac…
The triangle model of responsibility
Responsibility acts as a psychological adhesive that connects an actor to an event and to relevant prescriptions that should govern conduct. People are held responsible to the extent that (a) a clear, well-defined set of prescriptions is applicable to an event (prescription-event link); (b) the actor is perceived to be bound by the prescriptions by virtue of his or her identity (prescription-identity link); and (c) the actor is connected to the e…
Depression and the explanation of events that happen to self, close others, and strangers
Depressive and nondepressive college students attributed causality for positive and negative events that happened to either themselves, a close other, or a typical student. Depressives made less optimistic attributions than nondepressives when explaining events that happened to themselves. However, depressives and nondepressives generally made similar attributions about others; both groups were optimistic when explaining events that happened to t…
Integrating Social and Counseling Psychological Perspectives on the Self
Few areas present a more ideal opportunity for dialogue between counseling and social psychologists than the self Both disciplines have contributed significantly to the development of self theories and the design of methodologies suitable for understanding processes and practices relevant to the self However, counseling and social psychologists are finding it increasingly necessary to value and actively initiate interdisciplinary discussion and c…
Beneficial impression management: Strategically controlling information to help friends
It was hypothesized that people will strategically regulate information about the identities of friends to help them create desired impressions on audiences. Experiment I demonstrated that participants described a friend consistently with the qualities preferred by an attractive, opposite-sex individual but inconsistently with the qualities preferred by an unattractive, opposite-sex individual. Experiment 2 showed that a friend who had a high soc…
Acceptance of Feedback by the Stigmatized and Non-Stigmatized: The Mediating Role of the Motive of the Evaluator
We examined the acceptance of interpersonal performance feedback and its effect on self-esteem among participants who received feedback from evaluators who were likely to be racially biased or unbiased. Black and White participants were given positive or negative feedback by someone who could see them or not, and who was either pro-Black or pro-White. Blacks discounted positive feedback when seen by a pro-Black evaluator, whereas Whites discounte…
Group identity‐based self‐protective strategies: The stigma of race, gender, and garlic
We examine the importance of group membership in stigma and its role in the effectiveness of self-protective cognitions in three experiments. In Experiment 1, men are asked to interact with an attractive female who will judge their value as a potential date, and either eat a mint or a clove of raw garlic prior to the interview. Although the stigmatized-by-garlic men discounted negative feedback and attributed it to their garlic breath, discountin…
Group identity-based self-protective strategies: The stigma of race, gender, and garlic
We examine the importance of group membership in stigma and its role in the effectiveness of self-protective cognitions in three experiments. In Experiment 1, men are asked to interact with an attractive female who will judge their value as a potential date, and either eat a mint or a clove of raw garlic prior to the interview. Although the stigmatized-by-garlic men discounted negative feedback and attributed it to their garlic breath, discountin…
Social support, group consensus and stressor–strain relationships: Social context matters
In this study, we examined the degree to which individuals' reactions to stressors were influenced by the quality of their shared social environments. Based on social support theory, we proposed that individuals in positive social environments would show lower levels of strain when exposed to stressors than would individuals in negative social environments. The quality of the shared social environment was assessed by measuring the degree of conse…
Strategically Controlling Information to Help Friends: Effects of Empathy and Friendship Strength on Beneficial Impression Management
African-American Perspectives on 9-11
In the past few years, terrorism has introduced most Americans to trauma on their own soil. However, African-Americans have lived through trauma and terrorism within the U.S. for centuries. African-Americans have very different perceptions of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Historical data reveal that African-Americans have endured various forms of domestic terrorism for hundreds of years. B…
Testing the Stress‐Buffering Effects of Self Engagement Among Soldiers on a Military Operation
The present research examined whether self engagement moderated the stressor‐strain relationship in a sample of U.S. soldiers deployed on a peacekeeping mission to Bosnia. Given that individuals were nested within groups (Army companies), we examined the relationships of interest using multilevel random coefficient models. The results of these analyses revealed that self engagement interacted with three different stressors (lower amounts of sleep…
Aspects of Identity Predict Engagement in Work Under Adverse Conditions
This study examined whether aspects of identity relevant to an occupational domain predict increased engagement in work when the conditions of work are unclear or ambiguous, whereas possessing an aspect of identity unrelated to one's occupational domain would not be associated with increased engagement. Members of an elite army unit (U.S. Army Rangers) who scored high on "warriorism" (a belief in the necessity and inevitability of war) evidenced …
Stress effects on bilingual language professionals' performance
The work of bilingual language professionals (e.g., translators, diplomats, intelligence analysts) involves substantial use of two or more languages, and often, as well, substantial amounts of stress. This stress can come from many sources, including the language tasks themselves and difficult working conditions. Yet, little is known about how the stressors that bilingual language professionals (BLPs) face influence their language performance or …
The Interactive Effects of Homosexual Speech and Sexual Orientation on the Stigmatization of Men: Evidence for Expectancy Violation Theory
This research examined the joint effects of homosexual linguistic variation and sexual orientation on the stigmatization of male students applying for college admission. Participants were asked to listen to a tape of a speaker who was identified as homosexual, heterosexual, or unspecified and spoke with either stereotypical gay speech or standard speech. Participants made admission decisions, indicated the amount of scholarship funding to be offe…
Ibasho and the adjustment, satisfaction, and well-being of expatriate spouses
Organizational psychology: A Scientist-Practitioner Approach
Personality Variables Predict Strength‐Related Attitude Dimensions Across Objects
We examined personality predictors of different attitude strength‐related dimensions across objects. Participants responded to questions regarding 11 attitude objects that assessed the overall evaluation of the object and the strength‐related dimensions of importance, certainty, and relevance. Confirmatory factor analyses supported a 4‐factor solution underlying the self‐report and extremity dimensions across the 11 attitude objects, with importa…
Self-presentation in Everyday Life: Effort, Closeness, and Satisfaction
The present study examined how effort put forth during self-presentations is related to satisfaction with the interaction and relationship partner depending on the closeness of the partner to the individual. Individuals responded to Palm Pilot computers when they experienced an interaction over the course of four days. Following each interaction, participants rated the self-presentational effort they put forth, closeness to the interaction partne…
The Effect of Parental Divorce on Discomfort and Cardiac Activity in Response to Public Displays of Affection in College Females
Two studies examined the effect of parental divorce on feelings of discomfort and cardiac activity in response to public displays of affection (PDAs). In the first study, females from divorced homes reported marginally significant higher discomfort in response to PDAs than females from intact homes. In the second study, 32 female participants (16 from divorced homes and 16 from intact homes) viewed a PDA video and a control video and subsequently…
Psychology (27 works) · Social Psychology (24 works) · Clinical Psychology (12 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Anxiety (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works)