Lisa Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3920859 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0765-566X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
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…
Integrating social measures into land sector carbon abatement investment decisions
With growing demand for land sector carbon abatement to support multiple objectives, there are calls to improve how social measures can be applied to inform investment decisions. Yet, limitations exist in using social measures to inform land-use investment and valuation frameworks. This study focuses on how social measures can inform the alignment of land sector investment priorities with regional social contexts. In partnership with Australia’s …
Predicting first-time-in-college students’ degree completion outcomes
The Association between Having a Preterm Birth and Later Maternal Mental Health: An Analysis of U.S. Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Data
Social Influence
Social influence is defined as change in an individual's thoughts, feelings, attitudes, or behaviors that results from interaction with another individual or a group. Social influence is distinct from conformity, power, and authority. Conformity occurs when an individual expresses a particular opinion or behavior in order to fit in to a given situation or to meet the expectations of a given other, though he does not necessarily hold that opinion …
Developing an entitativity measure and distinguishing it from antecedents and outcomes within online and face-to-face groups
Entitativity, an individual’s recognition of a social unit as a group, is a fundamental group characteristic. However, past entitativity measures have not demonstrated their psychometric validity. We create and demonstrate initial psychometric validity for a new measure of entitativity as well as several of its antecedents. We demonstrate convergent and divergent validity of our entitativity measure (and the antecedents) in three studies of onlin…
Gender and career success: A typology and analysis of dual paradigms
Despite women's advancements in the workplace, gender inequality persists. We classify and test two frameworks used to explain gender differences in career success: unequal attributes and unequal effects. The unequal attributes framework suggests that gender is related to other attributes, which result in unequal career outcomes for men and women (i.e., a mediated effect). The unequal effects framework suggests that even when men and women share …
Obesity and gender as status beliefs
Behavior Patterns, Performance Expectations, Gender, and Task Focus: A Replication and Extension
Previous work by Webster and Rashotte (2010) experimentally tested a theory of behavior and performance expectations, and female and male participants acted quite differently in the experiment. Theories of status processes predict no differences in how women and men use status information. We replicated two conditions and added two more conditions to assess a plausible cause of gender effects here. New results do not show a gender difference. We …
Racial double standards and applicant selection
The Theories of Status Characteristics and Expectation States
Behavioral versus Questionnaire Measures of Expectations
The goal of the present research is to determine the degree of correspondence between the observed behavior in an experiment and the attitudes expressed in a questionnaire administered after an experiment. To do so, we replicate Driskell and Mullen’s study using more data from multiple experiments and conduct more sophisticated analyses. The attitudinal measures are questionnaire items regarding study participants’ views of themselves, a partner,…
Raising Capital: Claims of Masculinity among Men on Match.com
We examine both gay and straight men's constructions of masculinity using 358 self-descriptive dating profiles from Match.com of 'men seeking men' and 'men seeking women' in eight southern US metropolitan areas. In addition to the men's specific references to gender and gendered performances, we discuss three broad topics of the men's self-descriptions including personality, leisure, and work. This analysis reveals the ideal characteristics these…
The Neutralization and Denial of Sexual Violence in College Party Subcultures
Heavy drinking and sexual assault are prevalent among college students who attend parties hosted by fraternities and athletic teams, and accusations often produce victim blaming and disbelief. We provide a symbolic interactionist explanation of how subculturally held sentiments shape students' perceptions. We find that fraternity or athletic team party attendees (but not those who drink in other settings) are more likely than abstainers to hold s…
Expectations, Status Value, and Group Structure
We report a replication and extension of theory and experimental tests reported by Stuart J. Hysom. That earlier work added status value of rewards to established theories of status generalization processes. We extend that work to cases in which both the status positions of actors and the status value of their rewards function in status generalization. Overall experimental results show confirmation of the theory, but fine-grained analyses reveal …
Physical Attractiveness and Social Status
In this article, we outline the evidence regarding the status effects of physical attractiveness, paying particular attention to outcomes in the areas of jobs, crime, performance evaluations, power, health perceptions, and exchange. The framework of status characteristics theory is used to guide our explication. The role of attractiveness in marketing is also discussed. While the literature generally supports the idea that attractiveness is good …
Length of residence, age and patterns of medicinal plant knowledge and use among women in the urban Amazon
BACKGROUND: This paper explores patterns of women's medicinal plant knowledge and use in an urban area of the Brazilian Amazon. Specifically, this paper examines the relationship between a woman's age and her use and knowledge of medicinal plants. It also examines whether length of residence in three different areas of the Amazon is correlated with a woman's use and knowledge of medicinal plants. Two of the areas where respondents may have reside…
Status, Participation, and Influence in Task Groups
Status generalization theories describe how society's status advantages and disadvantages can structure group inequality and also can suggest ways to design interventions to overcome its undesirable effects. We address problems of interaction as affected by the status characteristic race, which often disadvantages black members of work teams. Following the lead of Goar and Sell, we devised mixed-race task groups of women aimed at equalizing influ…
The future of femme: Notes on femininity, aging and gender theory
This article begins by contextualizing the author's experience as an aging femme trying to locate herself in relation to the representation of the femme as lesbianism’s “bad girl.” From the point of view of the femme at midlife, it analyzes the construction of the femme as the gender performative subject with agency in opposition to an imagined “mainstream,” heterosexual woman whose gender identity is determined by her internalization of beauty c…
Testing the spread of status value theory
Ready to Take a Chance Again: Transitions into Dating Among Divorced Parents
After a marital break up parents may make efforts to find new romantic partners, although little is known about how the process of repartnering unfolds. This study consisted of surveying by phone two samples of divorcing custodial parents who had been identified from court records (N = 39 for recent filers, N = 39 for one-year post filers). Results indicate that repartnering happened fairly quickly, with 50% having had some dating experience even…
Feminists in Brideland
One measure of the anxiety that the bride produces for feminist critics is her conspicuous absence from the current theory on fashion and beauty culture. Among the recent titles on fashion and beauty, there are odes to the shoe, the hat, and underwear, histories of lipstick, cosmetics, and fetish wear, but nothing on the wedding industry. The bride is not a sexy topic. A notable exception to the feminist silence on brides and bridal fashion is Na…
Viewpoint More than just Skin-deep: Fem(me)ininity and the subversion of identity
(1995). VIEWPOINT More than just Skin-deep: Fem(me)ininity and the subversion of identity. Gender, Place & Culture: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 71-76
How to Recognize a Lesbian: The Cultural Politics of Looking like What You Are
The Neutralization and Denial of Sexual Violence in College Party Subcultures
Heavy drinking and sexual assault are prevalent among college students who attend parties hosted by fraternities and athletic teams, and accusations often produce victim blaming and disbelief. We provide a symbolic interactionist explanation of how subculturally held sentiments shape students' perceptions. We find that fraternity or athletic team party attendees (but not those who drink in other settings) are more likely than abstainers to hold s…
The future of femme: Notes on femininity, aging and gender theory
This article begins by contextualizing the author's experience as an aging femme trying to locate herself in relation to the representation of the femme as lesbianism’s “bad girl.” From the point of view of the femme at midlife, it analyzes the construction of the femme as the gender performative subject with agency in opposition to an imagined “mainstream,” heterosexual woman whose gender identity is determined by her internalization of beauty c…
Physical Attractiveness and Social Status
In this article, we outline the evidence regarding the status effects of physical attractiveness, paying particular attention to outcomes in the areas of jobs, crime, performance evaluations, power, health perceptions, and exchange. The framework of status characteristics theory is used to guide our explication. The role of attractiveness in marketing is also discussed. While the literature generally supports the idea that attractiveness is good …
Testing the spread of status value theory
How to Recognize a Lesbian: The Cultural Politics of Looking like What You Are
Status, Participation, and Influence in Task Groups
Status generalization theories describe how society's status advantages and disadvantages can structure group inequality and also can suggest ways to design interventions to overcome its undesirable effects. We address problems of interaction as affected by the status characteristic race, which often disadvantages black members of work teams. Following the lead of Goar and Sell, we devised mixed-race task groups of women aimed at equalizing influ…
Developing an entitativity measure and distinguishing it from antecedents and outcomes within online and face-to-face groups
Entitativity, an individual’s recognition of a social unit as a group, is a fundamental group characteristic. However, past entitativity measures have not demonstrated their psychometric validity. We create and demonstrate initial psychometric validity for a new measure of entitativity as well as several of its antecedents. We demonstrate convergent and divergent validity of our entitativity measure (and the antecedents) in three studies of onlin…
Viewpoint More than just Skin-deep: Fem(me)ininity and the subversion of identity
(1995). VIEWPOINT More than just Skin-deep: Fem(me)ininity and the subversion of identity. Gender, Place & Culture: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 71-76
Gender and career success: A typology and analysis of dual paradigms
Despite women's advancements in the workplace, gender inequality persists. We classify and test two frameworks used to explain gender differences in career success: unequal attributes and unequal effects. The unequal attributes framework suggests that gender is related to other attributes, which result in unequal career outcomes for men and women (i.e., a mediated effect). The unequal effects framework suggests that even when men and women share …
Expectations, Status Value, and Group Structure
We report a replication and extension of theory and experimental tests reported by Stuart J. Hysom. That earlier work added status value of rewards to established theories of status generalization processes. We extend that work to cases in which both the status positions of actors and the status value of their rewards function in status generalization. Overall experimental results show confirmation of the theory, but fine-grained analyses reveal …
Length of residence, age and patterns of medicinal plant knowledge and use among women in the urban Amazon
BACKGROUND: This paper explores patterns of women's medicinal plant knowledge and use in an urban area of the Brazilian Amazon. Specifically, this paper examines the relationship between a woman's age and her use and knowledge of medicinal plants. It also examines whether length of residence in three different areas of the Amazon is correlated with a woman's use and knowledge of medicinal plants. Two of the areas where respondents may have reside…
Raising Capital: Claims of Masculinity among Men on Match.com
We examine both gay and straight men's constructions of masculinity using 358 self-descriptive dating profiles from Match.com of 'men seeking men' and 'men seeking women' in eight southern US metropolitan areas. In addition to the men's specific references to gender and gendered performances, we discuss three broad topics of the men's self-descriptions including personality, leisure, and work. This analysis reveals the ideal characteristics these…
Racial double standards and applicant selection
Obesity and gender as status beliefs
Behavior Patterns, Performance Expectations, Gender, and Task Focus: A Replication and Extension
Previous work by Webster and Rashotte (2010) experimentally tested a theory of behavior and performance expectations, and female and male participants acted quite differently in the experiment. Theories of status processes predict no differences in how women and men use status information. We replicated two conditions and added two more conditions to assess a plausible cause of gender effects here. New results do not show a gender difference. We …
Behavioral versus Questionnaire Measures of Expectations
The goal of the present research is to determine the degree of correspondence between the observed behavior in an experiment and the attitudes expressed in a questionnaire administered after an experiment. To do so, we replicate Driskell and Mullen’s study using more data from multiple experiments and conduct more sophisticated analyses. The attitudinal measures are questionnaire items regarding study participants’ views of themselves, a partner,…
How to Recognize a Lesbian: The Cultural Politics of Looking like What You Are
Viewpoint More than just Skin-deep: Fem(me)ininity and the subversion of identity
(1995). VIEWPOINT More than just Skin-deep: Fem(me)ininity and the subversion of identity. Gender, Place & Culture: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 71-76
Feminists in Brideland
One measure of the anxiety that the bride produces for feminist critics is her conspicuous absence from the current theory on fashion and beauty culture. Among the recent titles on fashion and beauty, there are odes to the shoe, the hat, and underwear, histories of lipstick, cosmetics, and fetish wear, but nothing on the wedding industry. The bride is not a sexy topic. A notable exception to the feminist silence on brides and bridal fashion is Na…
Ready to Take a Chance Again: Transitions into Dating Among Divorced Parents
After a marital break up parents may make efforts to find new romantic partners, although little is known about how the process of repartnering unfolds. This study consisted of surveying by phone two samples of divorcing custodial parents who had been identified from court records (N = 39 for recent filers, N = 39 for one-year post filers). Results indicate that repartnering happened fairly quickly, with 50% having had some dating experience even…
Testing the spread of status value theory
The future of femme: Notes on femininity, aging and gender theory
This article begins by contextualizing the author's experience as an aging femme trying to locate herself in relation to the representation of the femme as lesbianism’s “bad girl.” From the point of view of the femme at midlife, it analyzes the construction of the femme as the gender performative subject with agency in opposition to an imagined “mainstream,” heterosexual woman whose gender identity is determined by her internalization of beauty c…
Physical Attractiveness and Social Status
In this article, we outline the evidence regarding the status effects of physical attractiveness, paying particular attention to outcomes in the areas of jobs, crime, performance evaluations, power, health perceptions, and exchange. The framework of status characteristics theory is used to guide our explication. The role of attractiveness in marketing is also discussed. While the literature generally supports the idea that attractiveness is good …
Length of residence, age and patterns of medicinal plant knowledge and use among women in the urban Amazon
BACKGROUND: This paper explores patterns of women's medicinal plant knowledge and use in an urban area of the Brazilian Amazon. Specifically, this paper examines the relationship between a woman's age and her use and knowledge of medicinal plants. It also examines whether length of residence in three different areas of the Amazon is correlated with a woman's use and knowledge of medicinal plants. Two of the areas where respondents may have reside…
Status, Participation, and Influence in Task Groups
Status generalization theories describe how society's status advantages and disadvantages can structure group inequality and also can suggest ways to design interventions to overcome its undesirable effects. We address problems of interaction as affected by the status characteristic race, which often disadvantages black members of work teams. Following the lead of Goar and Sell, we devised mixed-race task groups of women aimed at equalizing influ…
Expectations, Status Value, and Group Structure
We report a replication and extension of theory and experimental tests reported by Stuart J. Hysom. That earlier work added status value of rewards to established theories of status generalization processes. We extend that work to cases in which both the status positions of actors and the status value of their rewards function in status generalization. Overall experimental results show confirmation of the theory, but fine-grained analyses reveal …
The Theories of Status Characteristics and Expectation States
Behavioral versus Questionnaire Measures of Expectations
The goal of the present research is to determine the degree of correspondence between the observed behavior in an experiment and the attitudes expressed in a questionnaire administered after an experiment. To do so, we replicate Driskell and Mullen’s study using more data from multiple experiments and conduct more sophisticated analyses. The attitudinal measures are questionnaire items regarding study participants’ views of themselves, a partner,…
Raising Capital: Claims of Masculinity among Men on Match.com
We examine both gay and straight men's constructions of masculinity using 358 self-descriptive dating profiles from Match.com of 'men seeking men' and 'men seeking women' in eight southern US metropolitan areas. In addition to the men's specific references to gender and gendered performances, we discuss three broad topics of the men's self-descriptions including personality, leisure, and work. This analysis reveals the ideal characteristics these…
The Neutralization and Denial of Sexual Violence in College Party Subcultures
Heavy drinking and sexual assault are prevalent among college students who attend parties hosted by fraternities and athletic teams, and accusations often produce victim blaming and disbelief. We provide a symbolic interactionist explanation of how subculturally held sentiments shape students' perceptions. We find that fraternity or athletic team party attendees (but not those who drink in other settings) are more likely than abstainers to hold s…
Behavior Patterns, Performance Expectations, Gender, and Task Focus: A Replication and Extension
Previous work by Webster and Rashotte (2010) experimentally tested a theory of behavior and performance expectations, and female and male participants acted quite differently in the experiment. Theories of status processes predict no differences in how women and men use status information. We replicated two conditions and added two more conditions to assess a plausible cause of gender effects here. New results do not show a gender difference. We …
Racial double standards and applicant selection
Social Influence
Social influence is defined as change in an individual's thoughts, feelings, attitudes, or behaviors that results from interaction with another individual or a group. Social influence is distinct from conformity, power, and authority. Conformity occurs when an individual expresses a particular opinion or behavior in order to fit in to a given situation or to meet the expectations of a given other, though he does not necessarily hold that opinion …
Developing an entitativity measure and distinguishing it from antecedents and outcomes within online and face-to-face groups
Entitativity, an individual’s recognition of a social unit as a group, is a fundamental group characteristic. However, past entitativity measures have not demonstrated their psychometric validity. We create and demonstrate initial psychometric validity for a new measure of entitativity as well as several of its antecedents. We demonstrate convergent and divergent validity of our entitativity measure (and the antecedents) in three studies of onlin…
Gender and career success: A typology and analysis of dual paradigms
Despite women's advancements in the workplace, gender inequality persists. We classify and test two frameworks used to explain gender differences in career success: unequal attributes and unequal effects. The unequal attributes framework suggests that gender is related to other attributes, which result in unequal career outcomes for men and women (i.e., a mediated effect). The unequal effects framework suggests that even when men and women share …
Obesity and gender as status beliefs
The Association between Having a Preterm Birth and Later Maternal Mental Health: An Analysis of U.S. Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Data
Predicting first-time-in-college students’ degree completion outcomes
Integrating social measures into land sector carbon abatement investment decisions
With growing demand for land sector carbon abatement to support multiple objectives, there are calls to improve how social measures can be applied to inform investment decisions. Yet, limitations exist in using social measures to inform land-use investment and valuation frameworks. This study focuses on how social measures can inform the alignment of land sector investment priorities with regional social contexts. In partnership with Australia’s …
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 (17 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Political science (10 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (9 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Social Power and Status Dynamics (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Economics (5 works)