Alison J Bianchi
Biographic Data
| ID | 238382 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison J Bianchi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison J |
| FAMILY NAME | Bianchi |
| SIGNATURE | BIANCHI A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0700-7016 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Constructing Stability: The Emergence and Persistence of a Newly Formed Status Characteristic
This study examines whether a newly constructed status characteristic stabilizes across interaction contexts and over time, a question central to the diffusion of status value theory. Using a laboratory experiment, undergraduate women from a large public university (valid N = 100) were randomly assigned to high- or low-status positions on a novel status characteristic and then interacted within dyads consisting of participants and confederate par…
Competence or Dominance? A Quasi-Experimental Test of Sense of Control, Status, and Power
Sense of control has been conceived as an individual-level mechanism shaping the unequal distribution of life outcomes. Yet recent studies imply its potential to form interpersonal hierarchies through two distinct dimensions: status and power. As extant theorizing favors status processes over power dynamics, we investigated it as a status element using status characteristic theory and a modified standardized experimental situation. We successfull…
Sentiments as Status Processes? A Theoretical Reformulation from the Expectation States Tradition
Do the ties that bind also create social inequality? Using an expectation states theoretical framework, we elaborate status characteristics and behavior-status theories to explore how sentiments, network connections based on liking and disliking, may affect processes entailing status, the prestige based on one's differentially valued social distinctions. Within task groups, we theorize that positive and negative sentiments may themselves be statu…
Self‐Fulfilling Expectations
A self‐fulfilling expectation (or, as it is often referred to, a self‐fulfilling prophecy) is a person's anticipation about how a situation will end that prompts the person to behave in ways that cause the anticipated ending to come true. Individuals often have a sense that a situation's outcome is a foregone conclusion, even if the outcome is not necessarily inevitable. A person with this sense may be compelled to act in ways that encourage the …
The Latin Americanization Thesis: An Expectation States Approach
The Latin Americanization thesis posits that the racial hierarchy in the United States is now composed of Whites, Honorary Whites, and Collective Blacks, with skin tone being the primary determinant of one’s placement within this tripartite system of social status. Extant research mostly examines this approach at the macro level; relatively little is known about the thesis at the micro level. By examining goal-oriented task groups, our experiment…
Emotion Management: Unexpected Research Opportunities
During the process of emotion management , individuals perceive that they are feeling emotions that differ from what is expected within the situation. Consequently, they use cognitive, physical, and/or other means either to display more appropriate emotions or to change their emotions on a deeper level to be consistent with what is customarily expressed. Beginning with the first examinations of emotion management in 1979 by the pioneer Arlie Hoch…
Introduction of Murray Webster, Jr: Recipient of the 2015 Cooley Mead Award
Testing the spread of status value theory
Gender and Education, An Encyclopedia (Volumes 1 and 2)
Working Hard or Hardly Working: Sources of Legitimation for High School Students' Academic Engagement
Academic engagement is a precursor to student achievement, and thus exploring its potential antecedents informs studies of adolescent development. We employ a theory from structural social psychology, the theory of the legitimacy of authority, to craft measures of possible sources of legitimation—authorization, endorsement, and propriety—for student engagement. We examine the effects of these measures on three aspects of academic engagement: disc…
Accentuate The Positive: Positive Sentiments And Status In Task Groups
We explore the capacity of positive sentiments, those enduring affective states one achieves when one likes another, to impact status structures. Do positive sentiments combine with existing aspects of interaction to create status hierarchies and potentially change the social order, or do they moderate the effects of extant structure by dampening the magnitude of status differences? Using the theoretical framework of Status Characteristics Theory…
Social Isolation in Modern Society
Examining Medical Interview Asymmetry Using the Expectation States Approach
In this study we examine medical interview asymmetry using the expectation states approach. Physicians lead clinical interviews because of a feature inherent in those interviews, namely the status difference between doctor and patient. This power differential varies: it is greatest when the biomedical aspects of the interview are emphasized. These observations are consistent with status characteristics theory (SCT), which is based on the expectat…
Activating Performance Expectations and Status Differences Through Gift Exchange: Experimental Results
Early theoretical work on social exchange focused on how exchange relations generate social structural outcomes. Specifically, gift giving was said to evoke status structures. No experimental evidence exists to verify or refute the notion that gift giving during exchange processes generates status hierarchies. We present experimental results demonstrating the emergence of status inequalities directly from social exchanges in dyads. Our findings s…
Emotions and Sociology
Rejecting Others' Influence: Negative Sentiment and Status in Task Groups
Sentiment has been shown to affect status processes, but the mechanism is unclear. This article presents evidence in support of one of two competing approaches-sentiments as constituent elements of expectations or sentiments as moderators of expectations-that conceptualize the effect of interpersonal sentiments on status behaviors, as studied within the framework of expectations states theory. I create an experimental design, based on the standar…
Testing the spread of status value theory
Activating Performance Expectations and Status Differences Through Gift Exchange: Experimental Results
Early theoretical work on social exchange focused on how exchange relations generate social structural outcomes. Specifically, gift giving was said to evoke status structures. No experimental evidence exists to verify or refute the notion that gift giving during exchange processes generates status hierarchies. We present experimental results demonstrating the emergence of status inequalities directly from social exchanges in dyads. Our findings s…
Rejecting Others' Influence: Negative Sentiment and Status in Task Groups
Sentiment has been shown to affect status processes, but the mechanism is unclear. This article presents evidence in support of one of two competing approaches-sentiments as constituent elements of expectations or sentiments as moderators of expectations-that conceptualize the effect of interpersonal sentiments on status behaviors, as studied within the framework of expectations states theory. I create an experimental design, based on the standar…
Examining Medical Interview Asymmetry Using the Expectation States Approach
In this study we examine medical interview asymmetry using the expectation states approach. Physicians lead clinical interviews because of a feature inherent in those interviews, namely the status difference between doctor and patient. This power differential varies: it is greatest when the biomedical aspects of the interview are emphasized. These observations are consistent with status characteristics theory (SCT), which is based on the expectat…
Emotions and Sociology
Emotion Management: Unexpected Research Opportunities
During the process of emotion management , individuals perceive that they are feeling emotions that differ from what is expected within the situation. Consequently, they use cognitive, physical, and/or other means either to display more appropriate emotions or to change their emotions on a deeper level to be consistent with what is customarily expressed. Beginning with the first examinations of emotion management in 1979 by the pioneer Arlie Hoch…
Accentuate The Positive: Positive Sentiments And Status In Task Groups
We explore the capacity of positive sentiments, those enduring affective states one achieves when one likes another, to impact status structures. Do positive sentiments combine with existing aspects of interaction to create status hierarchies and potentially change the social order, or do they moderate the effects of extant structure by dampening the magnitude of status differences? Using the theoretical framework of Status Characteristics Theory…
Social Isolation in Modern Society
Activating Performance Expectations and Status Differences Through Gift Exchange: Experimental Results
Early theoretical work on social exchange focused on how exchange relations generate social structural outcomes. Specifically, gift giving was said to evoke status structures. No experimental evidence exists to verify or refute the notion that gift giving during exchange processes generates status hierarchies. We present experimental results demonstrating the emergence of status inequalities directly from social exchanges in dyads. Our findings s…
Emotions and Sociology
Rejecting Others' Influence: Negative Sentiment and Status in Task Groups
Sentiment has been shown to affect status processes, but the mechanism is unclear. This article presents evidence in support of one of two competing approaches-sentiments as constituent elements of expectations or sentiments as moderators of expectations-that conceptualize the effect of interpersonal sentiments on status behaviors, as studied within the framework of expectations states theory. I create an experimental design, based on the standar…
Examining Medical Interview Asymmetry Using the Expectation States Approach
In this study we examine medical interview asymmetry using the expectation states approach. Physicians lead clinical interviews because of a feature inherent in those interviews, namely the status difference between doctor and patient. This power differential varies: it is greatest when the biomedical aspects of the interview are emphasized. These observations are consistent with status characteristics theory (SCT), which is based on the expectat…
Accentuate The Positive: Positive Sentiments And Status In Task Groups
We explore the capacity of positive sentiments, those enduring affective states one achieves when one likes another, to impact status structures. Do positive sentiments combine with existing aspects of interaction to create status hierarchies and potentially change the social order, or do they moderate the effects of extant structure by dampening the magnitude of status differences? Using the theoretical framework of Status Characteristics Theory…
Social Isolation in Modern Society
Working Hard or Hardly Working: Sources of Legitimation for High School Students' Academic Engagement
Academic engagement is a precursor to student achievement, and thus exploring its potential antecedents informs studies of adolescent development. We employ a theory from structural social psychology, the theory of the legitimacy of authority, to craft measures of possible sources of legitimation—authorization, endorsement, and propriety—for student engagement. We examine the effects of these measures on three aspects of academic engagement: disc…
Gender and Education, An Encyclopedia (Volumes 1 and 2)
Testing the spread of status value theory
The Latin Americanization Thesis: An Expectation States Approach
The Latin Americanization thesis posits that the racial hierarchy in the United States is now composed of Whites, Honorary Whites, and Collective Blacks, with skin tone being the primary determinant of one’s placement within this tripartite system of social status. Extant research mostly examines this approach at the macro level; relatively little is known about the thesis at the micro level. By examining goal-oriented task groups, our experiment…
Emotion Management: Unexpected Research Opportunities
During the process of emotion management , individuals perceive that they are feeling emotions that differ from what is expected within the situation. Consequently, they use cognitive, physical, and/or other means either to display more appropriate emotions or to change their emotions on a deeper level to be consistent with what is customarily expressed. Beginning with the first examinations of emotion management in 1979 by the pioneer Arlie Hoch…
Introduction of Murray Webster, Jr: Recipient of the 2015 Cooley Mead Award
Self‐Fulfilling Expectations
A self‐fulfilling expectation (or, as it is often referred to, a self‐fulfilling prophecy) is a person's anticipation about how a situation will end that prompts the person to behave in ways that cause the anticipated ending to come true. Individuals often have a sense that a situation's outcome is a foregone conclusion, even if the outcome is not necessarily inevitable. A person with this sense may be compelled to act in ways that encourage the …
Sentiments as Status Processes? A Theoretical Reformulation from the Expectation States Tradition
Do the ties that bind also create social inequality? Using an expectation states theoretical framework, we elaborate status characteristics and behavior-status theories to explore how sentiments, network connections based on liking and disliking, may affect processes entailing status, the prestige based on one's differentially valued social distinctions. Within task groups, we theorize that positive and negative sentiments may themselves be statu…
Competence or Dominance? A Quasi-Experimental Test of Sense of Control, Status, and Power
Sense of control has been conceived as an individual-level mechanism shaping the unequal distribution of life outcomes. Yet recent studies imply its potential to form interpersonal hierarchies through two distinct dimensions: status and power. As extant theorizing favors status processes over power dynamics, we investigated it as a status element using status characteristic theory and a modified standardized experimental situation. We successfull…
Constructing Stability: The Emergence and Persistence of a Newly Formed Status Characteristic
This study examines whether a newly constructed status characteristic stabilizes across interaction contexts and over time, a question central to the diffusion of status value theory. Using a laboratory experiment, undergraduate women from a large public university (valid N = 100) were randomly assigned to high- or low-status positions on a novel status characteristic and then interacted within dyads consisting of participants and confederate par…
Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social Power and Status Dynamics (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Social science (5 works)