Ahra Ko
Biographic Data
| ID | 5379574 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ahra Ko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ahra |
| FAMILY NAME | Ko |
| SIGNATURE | KO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7295-1097 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fundamental evolved motives meet environmental threats and opportunities
Understanding “Communities” in Community-Based Senior Housing Models
Sibling aggression is surprisingly common and sexually egalitarian
Responses to political partisans are shaped by a Covid-19-sensitive disease avoidance psychology
How do natural changes in disease avoidance motivation shape thoughts about and behaviors toward ingroup and outgroup members? During the COVID-19 pandemic, political party affiliation has been a strong predictor in the United States of COVID-19-related opinions, attitudes, and behaviors. Using a six-wave longitudinal panel survey of representative Americans (on Prolific, N = 1,124, from April 2020 to February 2021), we explored how naturally occ…
Functionally Calibrating Life Satisfaction
Family still matters
Weight Location Moderates Weight-Based Self-Devaluation and Perceived Social Devaluation in Women
Overweight and obese (“heavyweight”) people devalue themselves because, it has been proposed, they are socially devalued. However, for women, social valuation depends not only on how much weight they carry but also on where on their bodies they carry it. Here, we investigated whether weight-based self-valuation and perceived social valuation similarly depend on body shape. Study 1, using a nationally representative sample from National Health and…
Ethnicity moderates the outcomes of self-enhancement and self-improvement themes in expressive writing
The current study examined whether writing content related to self-enhancing (viz., downward social comparison and situational attributions) and self-improving (viz., upward social comparison and persistence) motivations were differentially related to expressive writing outcomes among 17 Asian American and 17 European American participants. Content analysis of the essays revealed no significant cultural group differences in the likelihood of enga…
Ethnicity moderates the outcomes of self-enhancement and self-improvement themes in expressive writing
The current study examined whether writing content related to self-enhancing (viz., downward social comparison and situational attributions) and self-improving (viz., upward social comparison and persistence) motivations were differentially related to expressive writing outcomes among 17 Asian American and 17 European American participants. Content analysis of the essays revealed no significant cultural group differences in the likelihood of enga…
Ethnicity moderates the outcomes of self-enhancement and self-improvement themes in expressive writing
The current study examined whether writing content related to self-enhancing (viz., downward social comparison and situational attributions) and self-improving (viz., upward social comparison and persistence) motivations were differentially related to expressive writing outcomes among 17 Asian American and 17 European American participants. Content analysis of the essays revealed no significant cultural group differences in the likelihood of enga…
Family still matters
Weight Location Moderates Weight-Based Self-Devaluation and Perceived Social Devaluation in Women
Overweight and obese (“heavyweight”) people devalue themselves because, it has been proposed, they are socially devalued. However, for women, social valuation depends not only on how much weight they carry but also on where on their bodies they carry it. Here, we investigated whether weight-based self-valuation and perceived social valuation similarly depend on body shape. Study 1, using a nationally representative sample from National Health and…
Functionally Calibrating Life Satisfaction
Sibling aggression is surprisingly common and sexually egalitarian
Responses to political partisans are shaped by a Covid-19-sensitive disease avoidance psychology
How do natural changes in disease avoidance motivation shape thoughts about and behaviors toward ingroup and outgroup members? During the COVID-19 pandemic, political party affiliation has been a strong predictor in the United States of COVID-19-related opinions, attitudes, and behaviors. Using a six-wave longitudinal panel survey of representative Americans (on Prolific, N = 1,124, from April 2020 to February 2021), we explored how naturally occ…
Understanding “Communities” in Community-Based Senior Housing Models
Fundamental evolved motives meet environmental threats and opportunities
Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Disease (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Mating (2 works)