Camille S Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4233209 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Camille S Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Camille S |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Jose State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2074-3851 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 130 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Photovoice at the hooks hub: Black Girls Dissident Definitions of Safe Space at Predominantly White Kentuckian Schools
In this article, we consider Black girls’ experiences as teenagers in Kentuckian school systems through an intertextual analysis alongside photovoice research. We ask questions to understand connections between bell hooks’ educational landscape, and co-researchers’ educational landscapes after 2020. Relying on hooks’ Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black, we lay out the various means through which Black teenage girls understand their ed…
From mandate to co-create: Leading the Development of Inclusive Performance Evaluation Criteria
Purpose Annual performance evaluations of faculty are a routine, yet essential, task in higher education. Creating (or revising) performance criteria presents an opportunity for leaders to work with their teams to co-create evaluation metrics that broaden participation and minimise inequity. The purpose of this study was to support organisational leaders in developing equitable performance criteria. Design/methodology/approach We adopted the “dua…
Boasts are a boost: Achievement prime self-reactivity predicts subsequent academic performance
The present research tests the hypothesis that self-reactivity following an achievement prime reflects the strength of achievement goals and is a predictor of future goal-relevant performance. In Studies 1-3, undergraduates reported their grade-point averages (GPAs) following either an achievement goal prime or a control prime. Academic exaggeration (higher self-reported than official GPA) was the indicator of self-reactivity to the prime. Study …
Not All Selves Feel the Same Uncertainty: Assimilation to Primes Among Individualists and Collectivists
Three experiments and a pilot study demonstrated that uncertainty about the self is uncomfortable (Pilot Study) and causes people to change their self-concepts in response to primes (Experiments 1–3), depending on both the nature of the uncertainty and how the self is defined. In Experiment 1, Asian Americans assimilated to a stereotype prime when made to feel uncertain about their collective selves, whereas European Americans assimilated to the …
Unseen disadvantage: How American universities' focus on independence undermines the academic performance of first-generation college students
American universities increasingly admit first-generation college students whose parents do not have 4-year degrees. Once admitted, these students tend to struggle academically, compared with continuing-generation students--students who have at least 1 parent with a 4-year degree. We propose a cultural mismatch theory that identifies 1 important source of this social class achievement gap. Four studies test the hypothesis that first-generation st…
Reflection Versus Self-Reflection: Sources of Self-Esteem Boost Determine Behavioral Outcomes
Positive self-views are known to benefit individuals. However, little attention has been paid to the means by which self-esteem is attained and the consequences associated with different paths to high self-esteem. The current studies suggest that positive self-esteem attained through self-reflection is associated with performance benefits, but that positive self-esteem attained by affiliation with successful others should not be associated with p…
Visual perspective influences the use of metacognitive information in temporal comparisons
Four studies test the proposition that when people look back to past selves as a means of gauging current status, the visual perspective they assume determines the kind of information that they consider in making their judgments of change. In this way, visual perspective, coupled with the kind of change for which people are looking, determines how much change is perceived. The studies demonstrate that in the first-person perspective, experiential…
The powerful disregard social comparison information
The downside of feeling better: Self-regard repair harms performance
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Retracted: When different is better: performance following upward comparison
The attainability of upward social comparisons is known to affect self‐evaluative responses. The consequences for performance, however, are less well understood. We suggest that demoralizing upward comparisons with unattainable targets may lead to improved performance when the target and performance domains are mismatched. For example, comparison with a target that has been successful in an analytic domain should lead to better performance in a v…
Retracted: When nothing compares to me: how defensive motivations and similarity shape social comparison effects
While similarity typically breeds social comparison, all information gained from social comparisons is not equally influential. Three studies illustrate the situations in which individuals defensively interpret social comparison information such that they incorporate information that reflects positively on the self and disregard negative information. Study 1 extends previous research to show that self‐threat broadens the conditions under which de…
No pain, no gain: The conditions under which upward comparisons lead to better performance
In 3 studies, the authors explored the relation between threatening upward social comparisons and performance. In an initial study, participants were exposed to comparison targets who either threatened or boosted self-evaluations and then completed a performance task. Participants exposed to the threatening target performed better than those in a control group, whereas those exposed to the nonthreatening target performed worse. In Study 2, self-a…
Unseen disadvantage: How American universities' focus on independence undermines the academic performance of first-generation college students
American universities increasingly admit first-generation college students whose parents do not have 4-year degrees. Once admitted, these students tend to struggle academically, compared with continuing-generation students--students who have at least 1 parent with a 4-year degree. We propose a cultural mismatch theory that identifies 1 important source of this social class achievement gap. Four studies test the hypothesis that first-generation st…
The powerful disregard social comparison information
Retracted: When nothing compares to me: how defensive motivations and similarity shape social comparison effects
While similarity typically breeds social comparison, all information gained from social comparisons is not equally influential. Three studies illustrate the situations in which individuals defensively interpret social comparison information such that they incorporate information that reflects positively on the self and disregard negative information. Study 1 extends previous research to show that self‐threat broadens the conditions under which de…
No pain, no gain: The conditions under which upward comparisons lead to better performance
In 3 studies, the authors explored the relation between threatening upward social comparisons and performance. In an initial study, participants were exposed to comparison targets who either threatened or boosted self-evaluations and then completed a performance task. Participants exposed to the threatening target performed better than those in a control group, whereas those exposed to the nonthreatening target performed worse. In Study 2, self-a…
Retracted: When different is better: performance following upward comparison
The attainability of upward social comparisons is known to affect self‐evaluative responses. The consequences for performance, however, are less well understood. We suggest that demoralizing upward comparisons with unattainable targets may lead to improved performance when the target and performance domains are mismatched. For example, comparison with a target that has been successful in an analytic domain should lead to better performance in a v…
Retracted: When nothing compares to me: how defensive motivations and similarity shape social comparison effects
While similarity typically breeds social comparison, all information gained from social comparisons is not equally influential. Three studies illustrate the situations in which individuals defensively interpret social comparison information such that they incorporate information that reflects positively on the self and disregard negative information. Study 1 extends previous research to show that self‐threat broadens the conditions under which de…
No pain, no gain: The conditions under which upward comparisons lead to better performance
In 3 studies, the authors explored the relation between threatening upward social comparisons and performance. In an initial study, participants were exposed to comparison targets who either threatened or boosted self-evaluations and then completed a performance task. Participants exposed to the threatening target performed better than those in a control group, whereas those exposed to the nonthreatening target performed worse. In Study 2, self-a…
The downside of feeling better: Self-regard repair harms performance
View retraction statement:Statement of Retraction
Reflection Versus Self-Reflection: Sources of Self-Esteem Boost Determine Behavioral Outcomes
Positive self-views are known to benefit individuals. However, little attention has been paid to the means by which self-esteem is attained and the consequences associated with different paths to high self-esteem. The current studies suggest that positive self-esteem attained through self-reflection is associated with performance benefits, but that positive self-esteem attained by affiliation with successful others should not be associated with p…
Visual perspective influences the use of metacognitive information in temporal comparisons
Four studies test the proposition that when people look back to past selves as a means of gauging current status, the visual perspective they assume determines the kind of information that they consider in making their judgments of change. In this way, visual perspective, coupled with the kind of change for which people are looking, determines how much change is perceived. The studies demonstrate that in the first-person perspective, experiential…
The powerful disregard social comparison information
Not All Selves Feel the Same Uncertainty: Assimilation to Primes Among Individualists and Collectivists
Three experiments and a pilot study demonstrated that uncertainty about the self is uncomfortable (Pilot Study) and causes people to change their self-concepts in response to primes (Experiments 1–3), depending on both the nature of the uncertainty and how the self is defined. In Experiment 1, Asian Americans assimilated to a stereotype prime when made to feel uncertain about their collective selves, whereas European Americans assimilated to the …
Unseen disadvantage: How American universities' focus on independence undermines the academic performance of first-generation college students
American universities increasingly admit first-generation college students whose parents do not have 4-year degrees. Once admitted, these students tend to struggle academically, compared with continuing-generation students--students who have at least 1 parent with a 4-year degree. We propose a cultural mismatch theory that identifies 1 important source of this social class achievement gap. Four studies test the hypothesis that first-generation st…
Boasts are a boost: Achievement prime self-reactivity predicts subsequent academic performance
The present research tests the hypothesis that self-reactivity following an achievement prime reflects the strength of achievement goals and is a predictor of future goal-relevant performance. In Studies 1-3, undergraduates reported their grade-point averages (GPAs) following either an achievement goal prime or a control prime. Academic exaggeration (higher self-reported than official GPA) was the indicator of self-reactivity to the prime. Study …
From mandate to co-create: Leading the Development of Inclusive Performance Evaluation Criteria
Purpose Annual performance evaluations of faculty are a routine, yet essential, task in higher education. Creating (or revising) performance criteria presents an opportunity for leaders to work with their teams to co-create evaluation metrics that broaden participation and minimise inequity. The purpose of this study was to support organisational leaders in developing equitable performance criteria. Design/methodology/approach We adopted the “dua…
Photovoice at the hooks hub: Black Girls Dissident Definitions of Safe Space at Predominantly White Kentuckian Schools
In this article, we consider Black girls’ experiences as teenagers in Kentuckian school systems through an intertextual analysis alongside photovoice research. We ask questions to understand connections between bell hooks’ educational landscape, and co-researchers’ educational landscapes after 2020. Relying on hooks’ Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black, we lay out the various means through which Black teenage girls understand their ed…
Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (6 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (5 works) · Social comparison theory (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Academic achievement (2 works) · Communication (2 works)