Andrew Ward
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596544 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Ward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Ward |
| SIGNATURE | WARD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swarthmore College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8726-1312 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 265 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Why regional spending does not affect support for the European Union
It is usually assumed that spending by the European Union translates into greater support for the EU among those who benefit from that spending. Empirical work has, however, produced mixed findings as to the association between the EU’s regional development spending and EU support. To better test this relationship, we link a unique dataset on EU spending in Wales at a hyper-local level to survey panel data that measures EU support at, and in the …
Don't judge a food by its package: Greenwashing alters health perceptions
Control Yourself: Broad Implications of Narrowed Attention
Attention represents a key element of self-control, and multiple theoretical accounts have highlighted the role played by abundant attentional capacity in effecting successful self-regulation. What, then, are the consequences of living in today’s world, in which attention can become so easily divided by a multitude of stimuli? In this article, we consider the implications of divided attention for self-control and show that although the end result…
Eating up cognitive resources: Does attentional consumption lead to food consumption
How are gender inequality and violence against women related? Findings from a population‐level community attitudes survey
Low support for gender equality (GE) predicts attitudes supporting violence against women (VAW). However, little is known about the influence of attitudes toward different manifestations of GE. This study extends knowledge by assessing the relative strength of attitudes to GE across seven theoretically derived dimensions, and their association with attitudes toward VAW. 17,542 Australians participated in the 2017 National Community Attitudes Towa…
Patient-reported outcomes in survivors of breast cancer one, three, and five years post-diagnosis: A cancer registry-based feasibility study
Patient-reported outcomes in melanoma survivors at 1, 3 and 5 years post-diagnosis: A population-based cross-sectional study
Attitudinal support for violence against women: What a population‐level survey of the Australian community can and cannot tell us
Violence against women ( VAW ) is a serious and prevalent problem globally. Societal‐level norms, practices and structures are among the factors contributing to it, sometimes referred to collectively as representing “cultures of support” for VAW . Understanding factors contributing to these cultures is important for prevention, but remains the subject of debate. Population‐level surveys of attitudes toward VAW are one means to strengthen this und…
Taking a Stand: The Effects of Standing Desks on Task Performance and Engagement
Time spent sitting is associated with negative health outcomes, motivating some individuals to adopt standing desk workstations. This study represents the first investigation of the effects of standing desk use on reading comprehension and creativity. In a counterbalanced, within-subjects design, 96 participants completed reading comprehension and creativity tasks while both sitting and standing. Participants self-reported their mood during the t…
History of Social Psychology: Insights, Challenges, and Contributions to Theory and Application
1.1 Continuing Themes in Content and Methodology 1.2 Social History, New Challenges, and Dialectics of Social Research 1.3 Four Insights Underlying Research and Application 1.4 Social Psychology Today 1.5 Successful Applications and The Challenge of “Scaling Up”
Explicit Control of Implicit Responses: Simple Directives Can Alter IAT Performance
Research has begun to reveal the malleability of implicit prejudice. One measure of this construct, the race Implicit Association Test (IAT), represents a widely-used tool to assess individuals’ positive and negative associations with different racial groups. In two studies, we demonstrate the capacity of salient pressures to alter implicit racial responses. In Study 1, an enhancement of promoting pressures through an explicit instruction to ster…
Health Care Coverage and the Health Care Industry
Objectives. We examined rates of uninsurance among workers in the US health care workforce by health care industry subtype and workforce category. Methods. We used 2004 to 2006 National Health Interview Survey data to assess health insurance coverage rates. Multivariate logistic regression analyses were conducted to estimate the odds of uninsurance among health care workers by industry subtype. Results. Overall, 11% of the US health care workforc…
Ensuring the Enfranchisement of People With Disabilities
In a representational democracy, the process of selecting people to represent the electorate is critical. To accomplish this goal, it is crucial that elections be fair and accurate reflections of the decisions of the voters. However, a significant and relatively unacknowledged constituency, people with disabilities, faces a variety of barriers to full participation in the U.S. electoral democracy. Recent research has provided evidence that how pe…
Stepping up the pressure: Arousal can be associated with a reduction in male aggression
The attentional myopia model of behavioral control [Mann and Ward, 2007] was tested in an experiment investigating the relationship between physiological arousal and aggression. Drawing on previous work linking arousal and narrowed attentional focus, the model predicts that arousal will lead to behavior that is relatively disinhibited in situations in which promoting pressures to aggress are highly salient. In situations in which inhibitory press…
Addressing confounding errors when using non-experimental, observational data to make causal claims
Needs, Medical Necessity, and the Problem of Helping the Uninsured
The nature of health care, a multifaceted system of reimbursements, subsidies, levels of care, and trade-offs between economics, values and social goods, makes it both a problematic area of policy and critical to the well-being of society. In the United States, provision of health care is not a right as in some countries, but occurs as a function of a complex set of cross-subsidized mechanisms that, according to some analysts, exclude from covera…
Fort Pillow, a Civil War Massacre, and Public Memory
Bridging Temporal and Spatial "Gaps": The role of information and communication technologies in defining communities
The diffusion and use of digitally based information and communication technologies (ICTs) offers the opportunity to redefine and reconceptualize 'community' both in terms of delineating the boundaries of community, as well as the modes of communication used between members. The creation of an electronic infrastructure, the Internet, permits the possibility of widespread public communication that is inexpensive and relatively easy to access. A se…
Reactive Devaluation of an “Israeli” vs. “Palestinian” Peace Proposal
Three studies used the Palestinian-Israeli context to investigate the tendency for political antagonists to derogate each other's compromise proposals. In study 1, Israeli Jews evaluated an actual Israeli-authored peace plan less favorably when it was attributed to the Palestinians than when it was attributed to their own government. In study 2, both Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs similarly devalued a Palestinian plan when it was ascribed to the …
Maximizing versus satisficing: Happiness is a matter of choice
Can people feel worse off as the options they face increase? The present studies suggest that some people--maximizers--can. Study 1 reported a Maximization Scale, which measures individual differences in desire to maximize. Seven samples revealed negative correlations between maximization and happiness, optimism, self-esteem, and life satisfaction, and positive correlations between maximization and depression, perfectionism, and regret. Study 2 f…
Moving with the Times: An oral history of a geography department
The 30-year story of the geography department at Oxford Brookes University is presented as an oral history in the words of the experienced full-time staff. The department has gained a reputation in the UK and beyond for innovative active-learning methods and its story is an example of how a pedagogic culture can develop in a geography department. The story can also be read as a case study of a workplace in higher education, or as a contribution t…
Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America
Journal Article Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America. By Andrew Ward. (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000. xviii, 493 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-374-18771-1.) Get access Celia M. Azevedo Celia M. Azevedo State University of Campinas, Sao Paolo, Brazil Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2…
Kant's First Analogy of Experience
Rejetant le consensus sur l'interpretation de la premiere analogie de l'experience dans la premiere et la seconde edition de la «Critique de la raison pure», l'A. presente sa propre lecture de l'argument kantien et montre que le principe de permanence n'est pas seulement un instrument pour distinguer la perception du changement, mais la condition meme de toute experience
To Your Heart's Content: A Model of Affective Diversity in Top Management Teams
In this study we develop a model of how diversity in positive affect (PA) among group members influences individual attitudes, group processes, and group performance. We test the model on a sample of 62 U.S. top management teams. Greater affective fit between a team member and his or her group is related to more positive attitudes about group relations and perceptions of greater influence within the group. Results also suggest there is a negative…
Don't mind if I do: Disinhibited eating under cognitive load
Past research has shown that strong emotional or motivational states can cause normally restrained eaters to overeat. In this article it is argued that simple cognitive load can also disinhibit eating by restrained eaters. Two studies examined this disinhibition effect. In Study 1, restrained and unrestrained eaters were given the opportunity to consume high-calorie food while performing either a high cognitive-load or low cognitive-load task. Re…
Maximizing versus satisficing: Happiness is a matter of choice
Can people feel worse off as the options they face increase? The present studies suggest that some people--maximizers--can. Study 1 reported a Maximization Scale, which measures individual differences in desire to maximize. Seven samples revealed negative correlations between maximization and happiness, optimism, self-esteem, and life satisfaction, and positive correlations between maximization and depression, perfectionism, and regret. Study 2 f…
Don't mind if I do: Disinhibited eating under cognitive load
Past research has shown that strong emotional or motivational states can cause normally restrained eaters to overeat. In this article it is argued that simple cognitive load can also disinhibit eating by restrained eaters. Two studies examined this disinhibition effect. In Study 1, restrained and unrestrained eaters were given the opportunity to consume high-calorie food while performing either a high cognitive-load or low cognitive-load task. Re…
Reactive Devaluation of an “Israeli” vs. “Palestinian” Peace Proposal
Three studies used the Palestinian-Israeli context to investigate the tendency for political antagonists to derogate each other's compromise proposals. In study 1, Israeli Jews evaluated an actual Israeli-authored peace plan less favorably when it was attributed to the Palestinians than when it was attributed to their own government. In study 2, both Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs similarly devalued a Palestinian plan when it was ascribed to the …
Actual versus assumed differences in construal: "Naive realism" in intergroup perception and conflict
We compared partisan group members' construais and beliefs regarding contentious issues, contrasting actual differences construal with their assumptions about those differences. Study 1 dealt with the abortion debate and Study 2 with the racially charged Howard Beach incident. Although many significant examples of construal differences were found, ovcrestimation of such differences was far more common than underestimation. Misperception about the…
Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America
Journal Article Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America. By Andrew Ward. (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000. xviii, 493 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-374-18771-1.) Get access Celia M. Azevedo Celia M. Azevedo State University of Campinas, Sao Paolo, Brazil Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2…
Moving with the Times: An oral history of a geography department
The 30-year story of the geography department at Oxford Brookes University is presented as an oral history in the words of the experienced full-time staff. The department has gained a reputation in the UK and beyond for innovative active-learning methods and its story is an example of how a pedagogic culture can develop in a geography department. The story can also be read as a case study of a workplace in higher education, or as a contribution t…
Explicit Control of Implicit Responses: Simple Directives Can Alter IAT Performance
Research has begun to reveal the malleability of implicit prejudice. One measure of this construct, the race Implicit Association Test (IAT), represents a widely-used tool to assess individuals’ positive and negative associations with different racial groups. In two studies, we demonstrate the capacity of salient pressures to alter implicit racial responses. In Study 1, an enhancement of promoting pressures through an explicit instruction to ster…
Ensuring the Enfranchisement of People With Disabilities
In a representational democracy, the process of selecting people to represent the electorate is critical. To accomplish this goal, it is crucial that elections be fair and accurate reflections of the decisions of the voters. However, a significant and relatively unacknowledged constituency, people with disabilities, faces a variety of barriers to full participation in the U.S. electoral democracy. Recent research has provided evidence that how pe…
Why regional spending does not affect support for the European Union
It is usually assumed that spending by the European Union translates into greater support for the EU among those who benefit from that spending. Empirical work has, however, produced mixed findings as to the association between the EU’s regional development spending and EU support. To better test this relationship, we link a unique dataset on EU spending in Wales at a hyper-local level to survey panel data that measures EU support at, and in the …
Stepping up the pressure: Arousal can be associated with a reduction in male aggression
The attentional myopia model of behavioral control [Mann and Ward, 2007] was tested in an experiment investigating the relationship between physiological arousal and aggression. Drawing on previous work linking arousal and narrowed attentional focus, the model predicts that arousal will lead to behavior that is relatively disinhibited in situations in which promoting pressures to aggress are highly salient. In situations in which inhibitory press…
Eating up cognitive resources: Does attentional consumption lead to food consumption
How are gender inequality and violence against women related? Findings from a population‐level community attitudes survey
Low support for gender equality (GE) predicts attitudes supporting violence against women (VAW). However, little is known about the influence of attitudes toward different manifestations of GE. This study extends knowledge by assessing the relative strength of attitudes to GE across seven theoretically derived dimensions, and their association with attitudes toward VAW. 17,542 Australians participated in the 2017 National Community Attitudes Towa…
Attitudinal support for violence against women: What a population‐level survey of the Australian community can and cannot tell us
Violence against women ( VAW ) is a serious and prevalent problem globally. Societal‐level norms, practices and structures are among the factors contributing to it, sometimes referred to collectively as representing “cultures of support” for VAW . Understanding factors contributing to these cultures is important for prevention, but remains the subject of debate. Population‐level surveys of attitudes toward VAW are one means to strengthen this und…
Health Care Coverage and the Health Care Industry
Objectives. We examined rates of uninsurance among workers in the US health care workforce by health care industry subtype and workforce category. Methods. We used 2004 to 2006 National Health Interview Survey data to assess health insurance coverage rates. Multivariate logistic regression analyses were conducted to estimate the odds of uninsurance among health care workers by industry subtype. Results. Overall, 11% of the US health care workforc…
Kant's First Analogy of Experience
Rejetant le consensus sur l'interpretation de la premiere analogie de l'experience dans la premiere et la seconde edition de la «Critique de la raison pure», l'A. presente sa propre lecture de l'argument kantien et montre que le principe de permanence n'est pas seulement un instrument pour distinguer la perception du changement, mais la condition meme de toute experience
Three Realist Claims
A famous philosopher has told us that if we take a synoptic view of philosophical problems, the power of scepticism over the mind will greatly abate, if not entirely dissolve away. For my part, I find that the wider I cast my view, the more difficult it becomes to defend realism. But I shall here confine myself to three problems, the problems of perception, memory, and induction. I maintain that if one does examine these problems together, the pl…
A "Semantic Realist" Response to Dummett's Antirealism
In What Is a Theory of Meaning? (II)' Michael Dummett argues that the applicability of a truth-conditions theory of meaning for natural language is extremely limited. There are many natural language sentences whose meaning a truth-conditions theory cannot account for. This failure of a truth-conditions theory leads Dummett to adopt a verificationist theory of meaning. But, since a verificationist theory of meaning rejects bivalence, and because b…
Skepticism and Davidson's Omniscient Interpreter Argument
Talking Sense About Freedom
According to the first view, libertarianism, an agent's morally responsible decisions and actions are neither the inevitable result of his naturally formed character, together with his beliefs about the surrounding circumstances, nor mere chance occurrences. They are, rather, under the control of the agent's essential self standardly held to be of a fundamentally rational nature which is said to lie outside any natural causal nexus and, yet, to p…
Statesmanship and citizenship in Plato's Protagoras
Is Gerwin's Natural-Agency Theory a Viable Alternative to Hume
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Psychological Barriers to Dispute Resolution
Actual versus assumed differences in construal: "Naive realism" in intergroup perception and conflict
We compared partisan group members' construais and beliefs regarding contentious issues, contrasting actual differences construal with their assumptions about those differences. Study 1 dealt with the abortion debate and Study 2 with the racially charged Howard Beach incident. Although many significant examples of construal differences were found, ovcrestimation of such differences was far more common than underestimation. Misperception about the…
Pyrrhic victories: The cost to the board of ousting the CEO
Going against anecdotal evidence and common perception, the findings presented here show that boards who take action against their CEOs do so only at great cost to themselves, winning only a pyrrhic victory. Indeed, the findings presented show three distinct levels of board turnover. Normal attrition in periods of continuity produced a turnover of 10.99 per cent over two years; routine retirement exists (22.35 per cent) produced a similar turnove…
To Your Heart's Content: A Model of Affective Diversity in Top Management Teams
In this study we develop a model of how diversity in positive affect (PA) among group members influences individual attitudes, group processes, and group performance. We test the model on a sample of 62 U.S. top management teams. Greater affective fit between a team member and his or her group is related to more positive attitudes about group relations and perceptions of greater influence within the group. Results also suggest there is a negative…
Don't mind if I do: Disinhibited eating under cognitive load
Past research has shown that strong emotional or motivational states can cause normally restrained eaters to overeat. In this article it is argued that simple cognitive load can also disinhibit eating by restrained eaters. Two studies examined this disinhibition effect. In Study 1, restrained and unrestrained eaters were given the opportunity to consume high-calorie food while performing either a high cognitive-load or low cognitive-load task. Re…
Moving with the Times: An oral history of a geography department
The 30-year story of the geography department at Oxford Brookes University is presented as an oral history in the words of the experienced full-time staff. The department has gained a reputation in the UK and beyond for innovative active-learning methods and its story is an example of how a pedagogic culture can develop in a geography department. The story can also be read as a case study of a workplace in higher education, or as a contribution t…
Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America
Journal Article Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America. By Andrew Ward. (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000. xviii, 493 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-374-18771-1.) Get access Celia M. Azevedo Celia M. Azevedo State University of Campinas, Sao Paolo, Brazil Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2…
Kant's First Analogy of Experience
Rejetant le consensus sur l'interpretation de la premiere analogie de l'experience dans la premiere et la seconde edition de la «Critique de la raison pure», l'A. presente sa propre lecture de l'argument kantien et montre que le principe de permanence n'est pas seulement un instrument pour distinguer la perception du changement, mais la condition meme de toute experience
Bridging Temporal and Spatial "Gaps": The role of information and communication technologies in defining communities
The diffusion and use of digitally based information and communication technologies (ICTs) offers the opportunity to redefine and reconceptualize 'community' both in terms of delineating the boundaries of community, as well as the modes of communication used between members. The creation of an electronic infrastructure, the Internet, permits the possibility of widespread public communication that is inexpensive and relatively easy to access. A se…
Reactive Devaluation of an “Israeli” vs. “Palestinian” Peace Proposal
Three studies used the Palestinian-Israeli context to investigate the tendency for political antagonists to derogate each other's compromise proposals. In study 1, Israeli Jews evaluated an actual Israeli-authored peace plan less favorably when it was attributed to the Palestinians than when it was attributed to their own government. In study 2, both Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs similarly devalued a Palestinian plan when it was ascribed to the …
Maximizing versus satisficing: Happiness is a matter of choice
Can people feel worse off as the options they face increase? The present studies suggest that some people--maximizers--can. Study 1 reported a Maximization Scale, which measures individual differences in desire to maximize. Seven samples revealed negative correlations between maximization and happiness, optimism, self-esteem, and life satisfaction, and positive correlations between maximization and depression, perfectionism, and regret. Study 2 f…
Fort Pillow, a Civil War Massacre, and Public Memory
Needs, Medical Necessity, and the Problem of Helping the Uninsured
The nature of health care, a multifaceted system of reimbursements, subsidies, levels of care, and trade-offs between economics, values and social goods, makes it both a problematic area of policy and critical to the well-being of society. In the United States, provision of health care is not a right as in some countries, but occurs as a function of a complex set of cross-subsidized mechanisms that, according to some analysts, exclude from covera…
Ensuring the Enfranchisement of People With Disabilities
In a representational democracy, the process of selecting people to represent the electorate is critical. To accomplish this goal, it is crucial that elections be fair and accurate reflections of the decisions of the voters. However, a significant and relatively unacknowledged constituency, people with disabilities, faces a variety of barriers to full participation in the U.S. electoral democracy. Recent research has provided evidence that how pe…
Stepping up the pressure: Arousal can be associated with a reduction in male aggression
The attentional myopia model of behavioral control [Mann and Ward, 2007] was tested in an experiment investigating the relationship between physiological arousal and aggression. Drawing on previous work linking arousal and narrowed attentional focus, the model predicts that arousal will lead to behavior that is relatively disinhibited in situations in which promoting pressures to aggress are highly salient. In situations in which inhibitory press…
Addressing confounding errors when using non-experimental, observational data to make causal claims
Health Care Coverage and the Health Care Industry
Objectives. We examined rates of uninsurance among workers in the US health care workforce by health care industry subtype and workforce category. Methods. We used 2004 to 2006 National Health Interview Survey data to assess health insurance coverage rates. Multivariate logistic regression analyses were conducted to estimate the odds of uninsurance among health care workers by industry subtype. Results. Overall, 11% of the US health care workforc…
History of Social Psychology: Insights, Challenges, and Contributions to Theory and Application
1.1 Continuing Themes in Content and Methodology 1.2 Social History, New Challenges, and Dialectics of Social Research 1.3 Four Insights Underlying Research and Application 1.4 Social Psychology Today 1.5 Successful Applications and The Challenge of “Scaling Up”
Explicit Control of Implicit Responses: Simple Directives Can Alter IAT Performance
Research has begun to reveal the malleability of implicit prejudice. One measure of this construct, the race Implicit Association Test (IAT), represents a widely-used tool to assess individuals’ positive and negative associations with different racial groups. In two studies, we demonstrate the capacity of salient pressures to alter implicit racial responses. In Study 1, an enhancement of promoting pressures through an explicit instruction to ster…
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