Lynn Mccutcheon

Biographic Data

ID3784359
NAMELynn Mccutcheon
GIVEN NAMESLynn
FAMILY NAMEMccutcheon
SIGNATUREMCCUTCHEON L
AFFILIATIONSNorth American Journal of Psychology, FL, USA
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • The dark triad, emotional regulation, and celebrity admiration

    Open AccessRobert T Hitlan, Urska Dobersek et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2026

    This study examined personality and emotional factors associated with celebrity admiration. Building on past research linking specific personality traits to an inability to effectively regulate emotional states, we specifically examined the role of the Dark Triad (psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism) in predicting emotional dysregulation and problematic celebrity attachment in a cross-sectional analysis of 245 participants. We predicted…

  • Stacking Up With the Stars: Relative Deprivation and Excessive Admiration of Celebrities

    Open AccessMara S Aruguete, Ho Phi Huynh et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports2019

    The purpose of this study was to investigate whether celebrity admiration is associated with personal relative deprivation, impulsivity, and materialism. We gave the Celebrity Attitude Scale , the Personal Relative Deprivation Scale , the MacArthur Scale of Subjective Social Status , a subscale from the Consideration of Future Consequences-14 , and the Material Values Scale , to 149 respondents recruited through Mechanical Turk. We found a weak b…

  • An Investigation of Demographic Correlates of the Celebrity Attitude Scale

    Open AccessLynn E Mccutcheon, Lynn Mccutcheon et al.ARTICLEInterpersona An International…2016Cited by: 4References: 11

    The Celebrity Attitude Scale (CAS) has been widely used in the last 15 years, but little is known about how ethnicity and socioeconomic status relate to scores on this scale. In the first of two studies, we showed that a sample of African-American college students had more favorable attitudes toward their favorite celebrities than a sample of White college students. However, there was no control for the possibility that the two samples were unequ…

  • Body Image and Celebrity Worship

    Mara Aruguetem, James D Griffith et al.ARTICLEImplicit Religion2014

    We surveyed college students to determine the relationship between body image and celebrity admiration. We administered the Celebrity Attitude Scale (CAS), the Self-Objectification Questionnaire (SOQ), the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT), and a slightly modified version of the (ESS,) to 279 participants from three universities and one college. We hypothesized that, as the tendency to worship celebrities increased, so would self-objectification, enjoy…

  • The Temporal Stability of the Tendency to Worship Celebrities

    Open AccessJames Griffiths, James D Griffith et al.ARTICLESAGE Open2013Cited by: 2References: 6

    This study examined the test-retest and internal reliability of a scale used to measure celebrity worship. We administered the Celebrity Attitude Scale (CAS) and several related items on two different occasions approximately 3 months apart to 248 participants from three universities and one college. We hypothesized that attitudes about celebrities would remain fairly stable over time. Results confirmed the hypothesis and were discussed in relatio…