Elizabeth Dunn
Biographic Data
| ID | 5524086 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Dunn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Dunn |
| SIGNATURE | DUNN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3638-0821 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How do-more-good frames influence climate action likelihood and anticipated happiness
Calls for climate action often emphasize the need to reduce harm, such as by eating less meat, driving less, and shopping less. A more productive approach, however, may be to encourage people to do more good. To compare the two approaches, we conducted two pre-registered online experiments in which participants were randomly assigned to either a do-more-good condition or a do-less-bad condition. The do-more-good condition presented 15 actions fra…
Explicit Signals Enhance Social Engagement Between Strangers
Brief interactions with strangers can enhance well-being, yet people often avoid them. Building on a new theoretical framework—the Stranger Engagement Model—we designed an intervention to promote positive interactions between strangers. In a field experiment with adults on a university campus ( N = 563), we enabled individuals to send explicit signals indicating whether or not they were interested in engaging with strangers. Our findings suggest …
Everything Is Better Together
Social interaction is robustly linked to happiness, but are all daily activities better with other people, or are some activities more enjoyable in solitude? We utilized data from four waves of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) to test whether the impact of socializing varied across a comprehensive list of activities. Specifically, we examined the relationship between socializing and happiness across more than 80 daily activities by analyzing 1…
Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Facilitate Difficult Conversations
Having difficult conversations is a cornerstone of healthy relationships, yet people are often reluctant to initiate them. We propose that chatbots, with their remarkable ability to emulate human communication, can be harnessed to help people prepare for difficult conversations. In a pre-registered study ( N = 1,371), participants who briefly prepared for a difficult conversation with a chatbot were significantly more likely to initiate that conv…
Is a random human peer better than a highly supportive chatbot in reducing loneliness over time
AI chatbots are increasingly embedded in social life, offering accessible companionship. While brief interactions have been shown to provide immediate benefits, it is unclear whether repeated, daily engagement with chatbots reduces loneliness. In this pre-registered study, we tested the effectiveness of a chatbot versus a human peer in reducing loneliness among 296 students in their first semester of university. For two weeks, participants either…
Influence of Covid-19 Conditions on Resident Evacuation Behavior During Hurricane Ian
Hurricane Ian, a Category 4 hurricane that made landfall in Florida in 2022, presented a unique challenge for residents due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This study examines how the evolving COVID-19 pandemic affected perceptions of hurricane risks and evacuation decisions, particularly the role of COVID-19 concerns in influencing the decision to stay home. The study found that only 4% of respondents cited COVID-19 as the primary reason for s…
Hurricane Risk Perceptions and Evacuation Decision-Making in the Postvaccine Era of Covid-19 in U.S. Coastal States Impacted by North Atlantic Hurricanes
During peak disease transmission in 2021, the compounding threat posed by the pandemic and hurricane season required coastal states to understand evacuation behaviors during a major hurricane to inform the planning process. While research relating to hurricane evacuation behavior and perceptions of risk has increased since the start of the pandemic, there is minimal understanding of how perceptions have changed now the COVID-19 vaccine is availab…
How Post-Immunization Covid-19 Context Affected Residents’ Evacuation Behavior during Hurricane Ida
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, decision-making during disasters fundamentally changed to accommodate the combined risks of hurricanes and infectious diseases. Prior research conducted in 2020 by Collins et al. examined how individuals changed their intended evacuation decision-making during the pandemic or their actual evacuation decisions during Hurricanes Laura and Sally. Hurricane Ida provided further data on evacuation decision-mak…
The UBC State Social Connection Scale
Social connection plays a central role in people’s everyday lives. Although researchers have traditionally focused on the benefits of experiencing an enduring sense of social connection, recent research has also begun to explore the contextual factors that shape momentary feeling of social connection. To date, however, no psychological scales have been developed to measure state social connection. To address this gap, we developed the 10-item UBC…
Hurricanes Laura and Sally
This study examines risk perceptions and evacuation planning for those residents affected by Hurricane Laura—the first major hurricane evacuation during the COVID-19 pandemic—and Hurricane Sally, prior to the widespread availability of vaccines. Research on hurricane evacuation behavior and risk perceptions during a pandemic is critical for quantifying the intersect of these compounding threats. Analyses captured how people perceive public shelte…
Hurricane Hazards, Evacuations, and Sheltering
Although research relating to hurricane evacuation behavior and perceptions of risk has grown throughout the years, there is very little understanding of how these risks compound during a pandemic. Utilizing the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (PRVI) as a study region, this work examines risk perceptions and evacuation planning during the first hurricane season following the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic…
A Virtual Approach to Promote Inter-Professional Learning (IPL) Between Biomedical Science and Medicine in Higher Education for the Benefit of Patient Care
In the clinical setting, collaboration between multidisciplinary teams is core to providing effective patient care. The delivery of traditional interprofessional education is associated with a number of logistical challenges, which were heightened by the Covid-19 pandemic. This workshop was developed to bring together Biomedical Science and Medical students using an online platform. The workshop consisted of (1) defining interprofessional educati…
Typology of Human Mobility and Immobility for Disaster Risk Reduction
Disaster induced and climate related migration and displacement are a crucial issue in the era of climate change. Particularly, human mobility, immobility, and trapped populations are forms of proactive or inactive responses to those negative disturbances. The authors hypothesize that human immobility is deeply rooted in socio-geographical factors such as income, home rental or ownership, insurance coverage, how long one has lived in the area, an…
Bypassing Chokepoints
In this interview from 16 June 2016 at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies at the Universität Regensburg, postdoc Čarna Brković speaks with Elizabeth Dunn, an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Indiana University Bloomington, about Dunn’s current project on ‘Chokepoints’ and research on displacement and humanitarian aid in Georgia. Dunn also discusses writing for different audiences, differences in acade…
From Wealth to Well-Being? Money Matters, but Less than People Think
Mispredicting Affective and Behavioral Responses to Racism
Contemporary race relations are marked by an apparent paradox: Overt prejudice is strongly condemned, yet acts of blatant racism still frequently occur. We propose that one reason for this inconsistency is that people misunderstand how they would feel and behave after witnessing racism. The present research demonstrates that although people predicted that they would be very upset by a racist act, when people actually experienced this event they s…
Are you being served…? An unobtrusive experiment of affective influences on helping in a department store
Based on recent theories of affect and cognition, this unobtrusive field experiment predicted and found that induced positive mood improved real‐life customer service behaviors by less experienced sales staff, but had no effect on the behaviors of experienced long‐term staff in several department stores. Positive or negative mood was unobtrusively induced in sales staff in major department stores by a confederate. A second confederate, blind to t…
Escherichia coli , Corporate Discipline and the Failure of the Sewer State
Recent panics over adulterated beef have led the US federal government to institute what it calls a ‘risk-based, science-based’ approach to food safety. Rather than having federal inspectors monitoring carcasses for microbial contamination, the USDA has implemented a system known as HACCP that asks firms to regulate their own production processes. HACCP is an incidence of audit, a new method of governmentality widely used by state agencies. This …
Civil Society
The relationship between parental racial attitudes and children’s implicit prejudice
Uncertain Transition
The ethnographies collected here offer a surprising and compelling picture of change in Russia and Eastern Europe found in no other book to date. Looking at the everyday processes by which individuals and groups forge new lives, the authors challenge the idea that we can understand this transformation by the predictable models_whether capitalism, post-socialism, modernity, or postmodernity. The collection brings together a wide-ranging group of a…
Civil Society
Introduction Political society and civil anthropology Chris Hann 1. Money, morality and modes of civil society among American Mormons Elizabeth Dunn 2. How Ernest Gellner got mugged on the streets of London, Or civil society, the media and the quality of life Peter Loizos 3. Anti-semitism and fear of the public sphere in a post-totalitarian society: East Germany Susanne Spuelbeck 4. The shifting meanings of civil and civic society in Poland Micha…
The relationship between parental racial attitudes and children’s implicit prejudice
Escherichia coli , Corporate Discipline and the Failure of the Sewer State
Recent panics over adulterated beef have led the US federal government to institute what it calls a ‘risk-based, science-based’ approach to food safety. Rather than having federal inspectors monitoring carcasses for microbial contamination, the USDA has implemented a system known as HACCP that asks firms to regulate their own production processes. HACCP is an incidence of audit, a new method of governmentality widely used by state agencies. This …
Civil Society
Introduction Political society and civil anthropology Chris Hann 1. Money, morality and modes of civil society among American Mormons Elizabeth Dunn 2. How Ernest Gellner got mugged on the streets of London, Or civil society, the media and the quality of life Peter Loizos 3. Anti-semitism and fear of the public sphere in a post-totalitarian society: East Germany Susanne Spuelbeck 4. The shifting meanings of civil and civic society in Poland Micha…
Uncertain Transition
The ethnographies collected here offer a surprising and compelling picture of change in Russia and Eastern Europe found in no other book to date. Looking at the everyday processes by which individuals and groups forge new lives, the authors challenge the idea that we can understand this transformation by the predictable models_whether capitalism, post-socialism, modernity, or postmodernity. The collection brings together a wide-ranging group of a…
Civil Society
The relationship between parental racial attitudes and children’s implicit prejudice
Escherichia coli , Corporate Discipline and the Failure of the Sewer State
Recent panics over adulterated beef have led the US federal government to institute what it calls a ‘risk-based, science-based’ approach to food safety. Rather than having federal inspectors monitoring carcasses for microbial contamination, the USDA has implemented a system known as HACCP that asks firms to regulate their own production processes. HACCP is an incidence of audit, a new method of governmentality widely used by state agencies. This …
Are you being served…? An unobtrusive experiment of affective influences on helping in a department store
Based on recent theories of affect and cognition, this unobtrusive field experiment predicted and found that induced positive mood improved real‐life customer service behaviors by less experienced sales staff, but had no effect on the behaviors of experienced long‐term staff in several department stores. Positive or negative mood was unobtrusively induced in sales staff in major department stores by a confederate. A second confederate, blind to t…
Mispredicting Affective and Behavioral Responses to Racism
Contemporary race relations are marked by an apparent paradox: Overt prejudice is strongly condemned, yet acts of blatant racism still frequently occur. We propose that one reason for this inconsistency is that people misunderstand how they would feel and behave after witnessing racism. The present research demonstrates that although people predicted that they would be very upset by a racist act, when people actually experienced this event they s…
From Wealth to Well-Being? Money Matters, but Less than People Think
Bypassing Chokepoints
In this interview from 16 June 2016 at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies at the Universität Regensburg, postdoc Čarna Brković speaks with Elizabeth Dunn, an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Indiana University Bloomington, about Dunn’s current project on ‘Chokepoints’ and research on displacement and humanitarian aid in Georgia. Dunn also discusses writing for different audiences, differences in acade…
A Virtual Approach to Promote Inter-Professional Learning (IPL) Between Biomedical Science and Medicine in Higher Education for the Benefit of Patient Care
In the clinical setting, collaboration between multidisciplinary teams is core to providing effective patient care. The delivery of traditional interprofessional education is associated with a number of logistical challenges, which were heightened by the Covid-19 pandemic. This workshop was developed to bring together Biomedical Science and Medical students using an online platform. The workshop consisted of (1) defining interprofessional educati…
Typology of Human Mobility and Immobility for Disaster Risk Reduction
Disaster induced and climate related migration and displacement are a crucial issue in the era of climate change. Particularly, human mobility, immobility, and trapped populations are forms of proactive or inactive responses to those negative disturbances. The authors hypothesize that human immobility is deeply rooted in socio-geographical factors such as income, home rental or ownership, insurance coverage, how long one has lived in the area, an…
Hurricanes Laura and Sally
This study examines risk perceptions and evacuation planning for those residents affected by Hurricane Laura—the first major hurricane evacuation during the COVID-19 pandemic—and Hurricane Sally, prior to the widespread availability of vaccines. Research on hurricane evacuation behavior and risk perceptions during a pandemic is critical for quantifying the intersect of these compounding threats. Analyses captured how people perceive public shelte…
Hurricane Hazards, Evacuations, and Sheltering
Although research relating to hurricane evacuation behavior and perceptions of risk has grown throughout the years, there is very little understanding of how these risks compound during a pandemic. Utilizing the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (PRVI) as a study region, this work examines risk perceptions and evacuation planning during the first hurricane season following the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic…
How Post-Immunization Covid-19 Context Affected Residents’ Evacuation Behavior during Hurricane Ida
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, decision-making during disasters fundamentally changed to accommodate the combined risks of hurricanes and infectious diseases. Prior research conducted in 2020 by Collins et al. examined how individuals changed their intended evacuation decision-making during the pandemic or their actual evacuation decisions during Hurricanes Laura and Sally. Hurricane Ida provided further data on evacuation decision-mak…
The UBC State Social Connection Scale
Social connection plays a central role in people’s everyday lives. Although researchers have traditionally focused on the benefits of experiencing an enduring sense of social connection, recent research has also begun to explore the contextual factors that shape momentary feeling of social connection. To date, however, no psychological scales have been developed to measure state social connection. To address this gap, we developed the 10-item UBC…
Hurricane Risk Perceptions and Evacuation Decision-Making in the Postvaccine Era of Covid-19 in U.S. Coastal States Impacted by North Atlantic Hurricanes
During peak disease transmission in 2021, the compounding threat posed by the pandemic and hurricane season required coastal states to understand evacuation behaviors during a major hurricane to inform the planning process. While research relating to hurricane evacuation behavior and perceptions of risk has increased since the start of the pandemic, there is minimal understanding of how perceptions have changed now the COVID-19 vaccine is availab…
Influence of Covid-19 Conditions on Resident Evacuation Behavior During Hurricane Ian
Hurricane Ian, a Category 4 hurricane that made landfall in Florida in 2022, presented a unique challenge for residents due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This study examines how the evolving COVID-19 pandemic affected perceptions of hurricane risks and evacuation decisions, particularly the role of COVID-19 concerns in influencing the decision to stay home. The study found that only 4% of respondents cited COVID-19 as the primary reason for s…
How do-more-good frames influence climate action likelihood and anticipated happiness
Calls for climate action often emphasize the need to reduce harm, such as by eating less meat, driving less, and shopping less. A more productive approach, however, may be to encourage people to do more good. To compare the two approaches, we conducted two pre-registered online experiments in which participants were randomly assigned to either a do-more-good condition or a do-less-bad condition. The do-more-good condition presented 15 actions fra…
Explicit Signals Enhance Social Engagement Between Strangers
Brief interactions with strangers can enhance well-being, yet people often avoid them. Building on a new theoretical framework—the Stranger Engagement Model—we designed an intervention to promote positive interactions between strangers. In a field experiment with adults on a university campus ( N = 563), we enabled individuals to send explicit signals indicating whether or not they were interested in engaging with strangers. Our findings suggest …
Everything Is Better Together
Social interaction is robustly linked to happiness, but are all daily activities better with other people, or are some activities more enjoyable in solitude? We utilized data from four waves of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) to test whether the impact of socializing varied across a comprehensive list of activities. Specifically, we examined the relationship between socializing and happiness across more than 80 daily activities by analyzing 1…
Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Facilitate Difficult Conversations
Having difficult conversations is a cornerstone of healthy relationships, yet people are often reluctant to initiate them. We propose that chatbots, with their remarkable ability to emulate human communication, can be harnessed to help people prepare for difficult conversations. In a pre-registered study ( N = 1,371), participants who briefly prepared for a difficult conversation with a chatbot were significantly more likely to initiate that conv…
Is a random human peer better than a highly supportive chatbot in reducing loneliness over time
AI chatbots are increasingly embedded in social life, offering accessible companionship. While brief interactions have been shown to provide immediate benefits, it is unclear whether repeated, daily engagement with chatbots reduces loneliness. In this pre-registered study, we tested the effectiveness of a chatbot versus a human peer in reducing loneliness among 296 students in their first semester of university. For two weeks, participants either…
Psychology (12 works) · Political science (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics (5 works) · Law (5 works)