Sarah E Ainsworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 4235216 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah E Ainsworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah E |
| FAMILY NAME | Ainsworth |
| SIGNATURE | AINSWORTH S E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Lifting Me Up or Tearing You Down? The Role of Prestige and Dominance in Benign Versus Malicious Envy
Dominance and prestige are two strategies people use to regulate their social rank within group hierarchies. Despite a growing literature on dominance- and prestige-oriented leaders, little is known about how those strategies operate among people lower in social rank. Four studies tested the hypothesis that, among subordinates, dominance and prestige are associated with high levels of malicious and benign envy, respectively. Individual difference…
The Sticky Anchor Hypothesis: Ego Depletion Increases Susceptibility to Situational Cues
Self‐control depletion has been linked both to increased selfish behavior and increased susceptibility to situational cues. The present research tested two competing hypotheses about the consequence of depletion by measuring how people allocate rewards between themselves and another person. Seven experiments analyzed behavior in standard dictator games and reverse dictator games, settings in which participants could take money from another person…
A Meta-Analysis of Social Networking Online and Social Capital
Social networking sites offer new avenues for interpersonal communication that may enable people to build social capital. The meta-analyses reported in this paper evaluated the relationship between social network site (SNS) use and 2 types of social capital: bridging social capital and bonding social capital. The meta-analyses included data from 58 articles gathered through scholarly databases and a hand search of the early publications of releva…
Ego depletion decreases trust in economic decision making
Determined to conform: Disbelief in free will increases conformity
Sex begets violence: Mating motives, social dominance, and physical aggression in men
There are sizable gender differences in aggressive behavior, with men displaying a much higher propensity for violence than women. Evolutionary theories suggest that men's more violent nature derives in part from their historically greater need to compete over access to potential mates. The current research investigates this link between mating and male violence and provides rigorous experimental evidence that mating motives cause men to behave v…
Experimental comparison of the psychological benefits of aerobic exercise, humor, and music
The effects of aerobic exercise, humor, and music on the state anxiety and affect of healthy women were investigated by using a ‘within participants’ design. Twenty women were tested four times at weekly intervals. They were exposed to four 20-minute treatments in a counterbalanced order: 1) stationary cycling at 50% of their maximal heart rate reserve, 2) watching a humorous video, 3) listening to new-age music, and 4) sitting quietly. Participa…
Determined to conform: Disbelief in free will increases conformity
Ego depletion decreases trust in economic decision making
Sex begets violence: Mating motives, social dominance, and physical aggression in men
There are sizable gender differences in aggressive behavior, with men displaying a much higher propensity for violence than women. Evolutionary theories suggest that men's more violent nature derives in part from their historically greater need to compete over access to potential mates. The current research investigates this link between mating and male violence and provides rigorous experimental evidence that mating motives cause men to behave v…
Experimental comparison of the psychological benefits of aerobic exercise, humor, and music
The effects of aerobic exercise, humor, and music on the state anxiety and affect of healthy women were investigated by using a ‘within participants’ design. Twenty women were tested four times at weekly intervals. They were exposed to four 20-minute treatments in a counterbalanced order: 1) stationary cycling at 50% of their maximal heart rate reserve, 2) watching a humorous video, 3) listening to new-age music, and 4) sitting quietly. Participa…
The Sticky Anchor Hypothesis: Ego Depletion Increases Susceptibility to Situational Cues
Self‐control depletion has been linked both to increased selfish behavior and increased susceptibility to situational cues. The present research tested two competing hypotheses about the consequence of depletion by measuring how people allocate rewards between themselves and another person. Seven experiments analyzed behavior in standard dictator games and reverse dictator games, settings in which participants could take money from another person…
Experimental comparison of the psychological benefits of aerobic exercise, humor, and music
The effects of aerobic exercise, humor, and music on the state anxiety and affect of healthy women were investigated by using a ‘within participants’ design. Twenty women were tested four times at weekly intervals. They were exposed to four 20-minute treatments in a counterbalanced order: 1) stationary cycling at 50% of their maximal heart rate reserve, 2) watching a humorous video, 3) listening to new-age music, and 4) sitting quietly. Participa…
Determined to conform: Disbelief in free will increases conformity
Sex begets violence: Mating motives, social dominance, and physical aggression in men
There are sizable gender differences in aggressive behavior, with men displaying a much higher propensity for violence than women. Evolutionary theories suggest that men's more violent nature derives in part from their historically greater need to compete over access to potential mates. The current research investigates this link between mating and male violence and provides rigorous experimental evidence that mating motives cause men to behave v…
Ego depletion decreases trust in economic decision making
A Meta-Analysis of Social Networking Online and Social Capital
Social networking sites offer new avenues for interpersonal communication that may enable people to build social capital. The meta-analyses reported in this paper evaluated the relationship between social network site (SNS) use and 2 types of social capital: bridging social capital and bonding social capital. The meta-analyses included data from 58 articles gathered through scholarly databases and a hand search of the early publications of releva…
The Sticky Anchor Hypothesis: Ego Depletion Increases Susceptibility to Situational Cues
Self‐control depletion has been linked both to increased selfish behavior and increased susceptibility to situational cues. The present research tested two competing hypotheses about the consequence of depletion by measuring how people allocate rewards between themselves and another person. Seven experiments analyzed behavior in standard dictator games and reverse dictator games, settings in which participants could take money from another person…
Lifting Me Up or Tearing You Down? The Role of Prestige and Dominance in Benign Versus Malicious Envy
Dominance and prestige are two strategies people use to regulate their social rank within group hierarchies. Despite a growing literature on dominance- and prestige-oriented leaders, little is known about how those strategies operate among people lower in social rank. Four studies tested the hypothesis that, among subordinates, dominance and prestige are associated with high levels of malicious and benign envy, respectively. Individual difference…
Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (2 works) · Control (management (2 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (2 works) · Dominance (genetics) (2 works) · Ego Depletion (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)