Elizabeth C Pinel
Biographic Data
| ID | 4233145 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth C Pinel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth C |
| FAMILY NAME | Pinel |
| SIGNATURE | PINEL E C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vermont |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0224-0000 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 706 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Are quantitative targets for social network size and interaction frequency appropriate for public health guidelines on social connection? Evidence from loneliness and related mental health outcomes
Introduction Public health guidelines for social connection seek to address loneliness and its health consequences at the population level. Although some approaches suggest specific numeric targets (e.g., frequency of social interaction), the empirical basis for these thresholds remains unclear. We aimed to identify such thresholds for loneliness and related mental health outcomes and test their stability across strata of mental health. Methods W…
A Self-Affirmation Intervention for Responsible Parties in Restorative Justice
This study tested the psychological effects of a self-affirmation intervention (Steele, 1988) on offenders (i.e., “responsible parties”) undergoing restorative justice. We randomly assigned 116 participants in restorative justice to write for ten minutes about either their values (self-affirmation condition) or a neutral control topic. Participants next completed measures of two mediator variables: self-integrity and existential connection, and t…
Diverse community perspectives on public health guidelines for social connection: A qualitative study in Canada
Loneliness and social isolation harm mental and physical health, yet existing public health strategies often fail to reflect the lived realities of equity-owed communities. To address this gap, our team has been developing potential public health guidelines aimed at fostering social connection in Canada. This study sought to engage five communities facing structural inequities (i.e. 2S/LGBTQ+ individuals, racialized communities, Indigenous people…
Trauma, existential isolation, and their associated clinical outcomes
Introduction: Across two studies, we examined the relationship between cumulative experiences of trauma, existential isolation (the felt sense of feeling alone with regard to one's experience of reality), psychological distress, and suicidal ideation. We hypothesized that as the amount of trauma people have experienced increases, so too does their existential isolation. We further hypothesized that the existential isolation associated with trauma…
Public Health Guidelines for Social Connection: An International Delphi Study
Not Drinking and Alone: Alcohol Use and Its Implications for Existential Isolation
Introduction: Research implicates social isolation as a risk factor for problematic alcohol use. However, no known research examines the role that a specific type of social isolation—existential isolation, a feeling of being alone in one's subjective experience of reality—plays in alcohol consumption. In sociocultural contexts where alcohol consumption is normative, existentially isolated individuals may seek out alcohol as a method for experienc…
Emerging Ideas. A ripple effect: Does I‐sharing with a stranger promote compromise in cohabiting couples
Feeling out of (existential) place: Existential isolation and nonnormative group membership
Literature devoted to understanding the experiences of individuals who do not fit the cultural mold—those who belong to minority, stigmatized, or underrepresented groups—demonstrates that nonnormative status goes hand in hand with a range of negative outcomes. The current research considers a heretofore unstudied correlate of nonnormative status: existential isolation (the feeling of being alone in one’s subjective experience), which differs from…
Feeling alone in your subjectivity: Introducing the State Trait Existential Isolation Model (STEIM)
Psychologists have devoted substantial attention to social isolation and to loneliness but only recently have psychologists begun to consider existential isolation. Existential isolation is a unique form of interpersonal isolation, related to, but distinct from loneliness and social isolation. Feeling existentially isolated is the subjective sense one is alone in one's experience, and that others cannot understand one's perspective. In the curren…
I-sharing after a gender status threat and its implications for attitudes toward gay men
Fostering selflessness through I-sharing
The Emotional Impact of Ambivalent Sexism: Forecasts Versus Real Experiences
The Affective Consequences of Minimizing Women's Body Image Concerns
We propose that women regularly anticipate and receive messages from others that trivialize the severity of their body image concerns. Moreover, we suggest that these minimizing messages can heighten women's negative affective reactions to body image threats, particularly if they internalize them. Two studies provided support for these ideas. In Study 1, women and men estimated the likelihood that others would minimize the feelings of a woman who…
We're warmer (they're more competent): I‐sharing and African‐Americans' perceptions of the ingroup and outgroup
Researchers currently know very little about how African‐Americans regard themselves and their salient outgroup (i.e., European‐Americans). The current study examines how experiences with individual ingroup and outgroup members affect these evaluations on two key dimensions in intergroup research: warmth and competence. In particular, the study asks what effect I‐sharing (i.e., sharing a subjective experience) with an African‐American or a Europe…
Seeing I to I: A Pathway to Interpersonal Connectedness
The authors introduce the construct of I-sharing--the belief that one shares an identical subjective experience with another person--and the role it plays in liking. In Studies 1-3, participants indicated their liking for an objectively similar and an objectively dissimilar person, one of whom I-shared with them and the other of whom did not. Participants preferred the objectively similar person but only when that person I-shared with them. Studi…
Getting There is Only Half the Battle: Stigma Consciousness and Maintaining Diversity in Higher Education
Increases in stigma consciousness since arriving at a primarily White college could predict the college performance and self‐esteem of the academically stigmatized. After reviewing relevant research, the authors report on a study in which 44 stigmatized (African Americans and Latinos/Latinas) and 79 nonstigmatized (Whites and Asian Americans) students completed measures of stigma consciousness, GPA, disengagement from academics, and self‐esteem. …
You're Just Saying That Because I'm a Woman: Stigma Consciousness and Attributions to Discrimination
Doyen and Carlier (2002) reported peg-moving performance in a sample of French adults classified in the hand preference subgroups of Annett (1970, 1985). The findings were said to differ from those for English samples. This paper describes new analyses of English data, drawn from schools and universities. Comparison of the school and university samples showed that relationships between hand skill asymmetry and subgroup handedness were reliable, b…
Stigma on my mind: Individual differences in the experience of stereotype threat
When saying and doing diverge: The effects of stereotype threat on self-reported versus non-verbal anxiety
Stigma Consciousness in Intergroup Contexts: The Power of Conviction
The illusion of external agency
People typically underestimate their capacity to generate satisfaction with future outcomes. When people experience such self-generated satisfaction, they may mistakenly conclude that it was caused by an influential, insightful, and benevolent external agent. In three laboratory experiments, participants who were allowed to generate satisfaction with their outcomes were especially likely to conclude that an external agent had subliminally influen…
Stigma consciousness: The psychological legacy of social stereotypes
Immune neglect: A source of durability bias in affective forecasting
Effects of Self-Esteem on Vulnerability-Denying Defensive Distortions: Further Evidence of an Anxiety-Buffering Function of Self-Esteem
Why do people need self-esteem? Converging evidence that self-esteem serves an anxiety-buffering function
Three studies were conducted to assess the proposition that self-esteem serves an anxiety-buffering function. In Study 1, it was hypothesized that raising self-esteem would reduce anxiety in response to vivid images of death. In support of this hypothesis, Ss who received positive personality feedback reported less anxiety in response to a video about death than did neutral feedback Ss. In Studies 2 and 3, it was hypothesized that increasing self…
Stigma consciousness: The psychological legacy of social stereotypes
Immune neglect: A source of durability bias in affective forecasting
Stigma on my mind: Individual differences in the experience of stereotype threat
Why do people need self-esteem? Converging evidence that self-esteem serves an anxiety-buffering function
Three studies were conducted to assess the proposition that self-esteem serves an anxiety-buffering function. In Study 1, it was hypothesized that raising self-esteem would reduce anxiety in response to vivid images of death. In support of this hypothesis, Ss who received positive personality feedback reported less anxiety in response to a video about death than did neutral feedback Ss. In Studies 2 and 3, it was hypothesized that increasing self…
When saying and doing diverge: The effects of stereotype threat on self-reported versus non-verbal anxiety
Effects of Self-Esteem on Vulnerability-Denying Defensive Distortions: Further Evidence of an Anxiety-Buffering Function of Self-Esteem
Stigma Consciousness in Intergroup Contexts: The Power of Conviction
Getting There is Only Half the Battle: Stigma Consciousness and Maintaining Diversity in Higher Education
Increases in stigma consciousness since arriving at a primarily White college could predict the college performance and self‐esteem of the academically stigmatized. After reviewing relevant research, the authors report on a study in which 44 stigmatized (African Americans and Latinos/Latinas) and 79 nonstigmatized (Whites and Asian Americans) students completed measures of stigma consciousness, GPA, disengagement from academics, and self‐esteem. …
Seeing I to I: A Pathway to Interpersonal Connectedness
The authors introduce the construct of I-sharing--the belief that one shares an identical subjective experience with another person--and the role it plays in liking. In Studies 1-3, participants indicated their liking for an objectively similar and an objectively dissimilar person, one of whom I-shared with them and the other of whom did not. Participants preferred the objectively similar person but only when that person I-shared with them. Studi…
The Emotional Impact of Ambivalent Sexism: Forecasts Versus Real Experiences
The illusion of external agency
People typically underestimate their capacity to generate satisfaction with future outcomes. When people experience such self-generated satisfaction, they may mistakenly conclude that it was caused by an influential, insightful, and benevolent external agent. In three laboratory experiments, participants who were allowed to generate satisfaction with their outcomes were especially likely to conclude that an external agent had subliminally influen…
Fostering selflessness through I-sharing
Feeling out of (existential) place: Existential isolation and nonnormative group membership
Literature devoted to understanding the experiences of individuals who do not fit the cultural mold—those who belong to minority, stigmatized, or underrepresented groups—demonstrates that nonnormative status goes hand in hand with a range of negative outcomes. The current research considers a heretofore unstudied correlate of nonnormative status: existential isolation (the feeling of being alone in one’s subjective experience), which differs from…
I-sharing after a gender status threat and its implications for attitudes toward gay men
We're warmer (they're more competent): I‐sharing and African‐Americans' perceptions of the ingroup and outgroup
Researchers currently know very little about how African‐Americans regard themselves and their salient outgroup (i.e., European‐Americans). The current study examines how experiences with individual ingroup and outgroup members affect these evaluations on two key dimensions in intergroup research: warmth and competence. In particular, the study asks what effect I‐sharing (i.e., sharing a subjective experience) with an African‐American or a Europe…
Why do people need self-esteem? Converging evidence that self-esteem serves an anxiety-buffering function
Three studies were conducted to assess the proposition that self-esteem serves an anxiety-buffering function. In Study 1, it was hypothesized that raising self-esteem would reduce anxiety in response to vivid images of death. In support of this hypothesis, Ss who received positive personality feedback reported less anxiety in response to a video about death than did neutral feedback Ss. In Studies 2 and 3, it was hypothesized that increasing self…
Effects of Self-Esteem on Vulnerability-Denying Defensive Distortions: Further Evidence of an Anxiety-Buffering Function of Self-Esteem
Immune neglect: A source of durability bias in affective forecasting
Stigma consciousness: The psychological legacy of social stereotypes
The illusion of external agency
People typically underestimate their capacity to generate satisfaction with future outcomes. When people experience such self-generated satisfaction, they may mistakenly conclude that it was caused by an influential, insightful, and benevolent external agent. In three laboratory experiments, participants who were allowed to generate satisfaction with their outcomes were especially likely to conclude that an external agent had subliminally influen…
Stigma Consciousness in Intergroup Contexts: The Power of Conviction
Stigma on my mind: Individual differences in the experience of stereotype threat
When saying and doing diverge: The effects of stereotype threat on self-reported versus non-verbal anxiety
You're Just Saying That Because I'm a Woman: Stigma Consciousness and Attributions to Discrimination
Doyen and Carlier (2002) reported peg-moving performance in a sample of French adults classified in the hand preference subgroups of Annett (1970, 1985). The findings were said to differ from those for English samples. This paper describes new analyses of English data, drawn from schools and universities. Comparison of the school and university samples showed that relationships between hand skill asymmetry and subgroup handedness were reliable, b…
Getting There is Only Half the Battle: Stigma Consciousness and Maintaining Diversity in Higher Education
Increases in stigma consciousness since arriving at a primarily White college could predict the college performance and self‐esteem of the academically stigmatized. After reviewing relevant research, the authors report on a study in which 44 stigmatized (African Americans and Latinos/Latinas) and 79 nonstigmatized (Whites and Asian Americans) students completed measures of stigma consciousness, GPA, disengagement from academics, and self‐esteem. …
Seeing I to I: A Pathway to Interpersonal Connectedness
The authors introduce the construct of I-sharing--the belief that one shares an identical subjective experience with another person--and the role it plays in liking. In Studies 1-3, participants indicated their liking for an objectively similar and an objectively dissimilar person, one of whom I-shared with them and the other of whom did not. Participants preferred the objectively similar person but only when that person I-shared with them. Studi…
The Affective Consequences of Minimizing Women's Body Image Concerns
We propose that women regularly anticipate and receive messages from others that trivialize the severity of their body image concerns. Moreover, we suggest that these minimizing messages can heighten women's negative affective reactions to body image threats, particularly if they internalize them. Two studies provided support for these ideas. In Study 1, women and men estimated the likelihood that others would minimize the feelings of a woman who…
We're warmer (they're more competent): I‐sharing and African‐Americans' perceptions of the ingroup and outgroup
Researchers currently know very little about how African‐Americans regard themselves and their salient outgroup (i.e., European‐Americans). The current study examines how experiences with individual ingroup and outgroup members affect these evaluations on two key dimensions in intergroup research: warmth and competence. In particular, the study asks what effect I‐sharing (i.e., sharing a subjective experience) with an African‐American or a Europe…
The Emotional Impact of Ambivalent Sexism: Forecasts Versus Real Experiences
Fostering selflessness through I-sharing
I-sharing after a gender status threat and its implications for attitudes toward gay men
Feeling alone in your subjectivity: Introducing the State Trait Existential Isolation Model (STEIM)
Psychologists have devoted substantial attention to social isolation and to loneliness but only recently have psychologists begun to consider existential isolation. Existential isolation is a unique form of interpersonal isolation, related to, but distinct from loneliness and social isolation. Feeling existentially isolated is the subjective sense one is alone in one's experience, and that others cannot understand one's perspective. In the curren…
Feeling out of (existential) place: Existential isolation and nonnormative group membership
Literature devoted to understanding the experiences of individuals who do not fit the cultural mold—those who belong to minority, stigmatized, or underrepresented groups—demonstrates that nonnormative status goes hand in hand with a range of negative outcomes. The current research considers a heretofore unstudied correlate of nonnormative status: existential isolation (the feeling of being alone in one’s subjective experience), which differs from…
Not Drinking and Alone: Alcohol Use and Its Implications for Existential Isolation
Introduction: Research implicates social isolation as a risk factor for problematic alcohol use. However, no known research examines the role that a specific type of social isolation—existential isolation, a feeling of being alone in one's subjective experience of reality—plays in alcohol consumption. In sociocultural contexts where alcohol consumption is normative, existentially isolated individuals may seek out alcohol as a method for experienc…
Emerging Ideas. A ripple effect: Does I‐sharing with a stranger promote compromise in cohabiting couples
Diverse community perspectives on public health guidelines for social connection: A qualitative study in Canada
Loneliness and social isolation harm mental and physical health, yet existing public health strategies often fail to reflect the lived realities of equity-owed communities. To address this gap, our team has been developing potential public health guidelines aimed at fostering social connection in Canada. This study sought to engage five communities facing structural inequities (i.e. 2S/LGBTQ+ individuals, racialized communities, Indigenous people…
Trauma, existential isolation, and their associated clinical outcomes
Introduction: Across two studies, we examined the relationship between cumulative experiences of trauma, existential isolation (the felt sense of feeling alone with regard to one's experience of reality), psychological distress, and suicidal ideation. We hypothesized that as the amount of trauma people have experienced increases, so too does their existential isolation. We further hypothesized that the existential isolation associated with trauma…
Public Health Guidelines for Social Connection: An International Delphi Study
Are quantitative targets for social network size and interaction frequency appropriate for public health guidelines on social connection? Evidence from loneliness and related mental health outcomes
Introduction Public health guidelines for social connection seek to address loneliness and its health consequences at the population level. Although some approaches suggest specific numeric targets (e.g., frequency of social interaction), the empirical basis for these thresholds remains unclear. We aimed to identify such thresholds for loneliness and related mental health outcomes and test their stability across strata of mental health. Methods W…
A Self-Affirmation Intervention for Responsible Parties in Restorative Justice
This study tested the psychological effects of a self-affirmation intervention (Steele, 1988) on offenders (i.e., “responsible parties”) undergoing restorative justice. We randomly assigned 116 participants in restorative justice to write for ten minutes about either their values (self-affirmation condition) or a neutral control topic. Participants next completed measures of two mediator variables: self-integrity and existential connection, and t…
Psychology (23 works) · Social Psychology (21 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (10 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Consciousness (5 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (5 works)