Sierra Watts
Biographic Data
| ID | 644835 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sierra Watts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sierra |
| FAMILY NAME | Watts |
| SIGNATURE | WATTS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New England |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7938-7444 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Punitive attitudes in Australia: Investigating the rural-urban divide
Don’t you like us? Don’t you want us? The influence of immigrants’ acculturation strategies on cognitions of rejection in host community members
Voting in Indian Country: The View from the Trenches by Jean Reith Schroedel
Reviewed by: Voting in Indian Country: The View from the Trenches by Jean Reith Schroedel Sierra Watt (bio) Voting in Indian Country: The View from the Trenches by Jean Reith Schroedel University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020 jean reith schroedel’s Voting in Indian Country: The View from the Trenches outlines the struggles experienced by Native Americans as they strive for full participation in the American political process, both historically and …
“To Protect and to (Pre)serve”: The moderating effects of right‐wing protective popular nationalism on aggressive tendencies toward ethnic minorities
Right-wing protective popular nationalism (RWPPN) is concerned with the protection and preservation of national culture. It is theorized to arise from right popular nationalistic rhetoric based on a narrowly defined us and them. Using an online survey of 316 Australians (50.9% male; Mage = 45.46, SD = 15.97), we explored whether RWPPN moderated the relationship between nationally related constructs (collective narcissism, identity fusion, perceiv…
Looking Out For (White) Australia: Developing the Construct and a Measure of Right-Wing Protective Popular Nationalism
We conceptualized and developed a measure of right-wing protective popular nationalism (RWPPN) – a specific form of popular nationalism where people seek to protect the national culture from outgroup influences. RWPPN is derived from a sociological analysis of right-wing popular nationalism in Australia and is theoretically related to several key psychological constructs, including right-wing authoritarianism (RWA), social dominance orientation (…
Technological and analytical advancements in intergroup contact research
The prolific expansion of intergroup contact research has established that intergroup interactions are tightly linked to social integration. In this review, recent technological and statistical innovations with the potential to advance this body of research are presented. First, concerns over the validity of longitudinal models are discussed before innovative analytical techniques are introduced that explore change over time. Next, intensive repe…
Frontline Workers' Perceptions of Human Trafficking: Warning Signs and Risks in the Midwest
Research on human trafficking in the U.S. has centered overwhelmingly on coastal regions, border states, and urban hubs. In an attempt to understand perceptions of exploitation and human trafficking more broadly, this paper focuses on frontline workers in the Midwest. Service providers in the legal/law enforcement, medical, non-profit, social service, and foster care sectors often encounter exploited or trafficked persons in their work. Their per…
WaSH as a maternal health issue: Three perspectives from rural Uganda
Inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) knowledge and practices affect maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality. This article describes postpartum knowledge, resources, and practices in three rural Ugandan hospitals. A lack of WaSH resources was problematic for both staff and newly-birthed mothers who demonstrated a lack of knowledge about the appropriate use of WaSH resources and the links between WaSH and health protection. These r…
Gender Violence as a Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Risk: Uncovering Violence Against Women and Girls as It Pertains to Poor WaSH Access
The purpose of this study was to better understand the gender violence risks that exist in communities where poor water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) access is a known problem. Focus groups and key informant interviews were used to capture the lived experiences of community and health care practitioners from Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya. This article provides lived narratives of the various cultural and environmental conditions leading t…
Acculturation Strategy and Racial Group in the Perception of Immigrants
We investigated the effects of race and different acculturation strategies on perceptions of immigrants in Australia, an immigrant-based nation with a multicultural policy. Two experimental studies presented participants with scenarios that systematically varied racial group (African, Asian, and European) and acculturation strategy (assimilation, integration, separation, marginalisation), then assessed responses to immigrant targets using measure…
From rhetoric to reality: An NGO's challenge for reaching the furthest behind
The guiding principle of Agenda 2030 is the commitment to “leave no one behind”. However, as the Millennium Development Goals experience has demonstrated, there remains a “rhetoric-implementation gap” where local stakeholders struggle to realistically respond to policies formulated at the global level. This article proposes a way forward for NGOs seeking to translate the rhetoric of Agenda 2030 into reality. It presents an integrated and multi-se…
Preaching to different choirs: How to motivate dismissive, uncommitted, and alarmed audiences to adapt to climate change
Preference for consistency and value dissimilarities in dehumanization and prejudice toward asylum seekers in Australia
Recent research has highlighted the importance of differential attribution of uniquely human characteristics in dehumanization and prejudice. Relatively little is known, however, about the importance of perceiving dissimilarities between the ingroup and outgroup in different types of values (beyond prosocial values), or the role of preference for consistency (PFC). This study investigated values, perceived dissimilarities in values, and PFC, in d…
A multi-dimensional model of the origins of attitude certainty: Teachers’ attitudes toward attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Immigrants’ social integration as a function of approach–avoidance orientation and problem-solving style
Water, climate change, and maternal and newborn health
Attitudes toward Out‐groups and the perception of consensus: All feet do not wear one shoe
Although social perception research has been carried out across a number of diverse domains, to the best of our knowledge, studies have not directly assessed the relationship between attitudes toward the out‐group and perceptions of community support for those attitudes. In the present research, we report the findings of a study conducted in Western Australia using data collected from 653 participants from three different locations. The main thru…
The cost of poor adjustment to chronic illness: Lessons from three studies
This paper summarizes information about expenditures for people with chronic illness as a function of their psychosocial adjustment to illness. Three studies are discussed: two prospective baseline surveys and one historic cohort analytic study. Each was conducted between 1988 and 1993 in Southern Ontario, Canada in tertiary centres which were treating patients recently referred to a specialty medical clinic for one of 13 types of chronic physica…
Visibility and anonymity effects on attraction and group cohesiveness
This study investigated attraction and group cohesiveness under different visibility and anonymity conditions for social categories that differed in their capacity to be visually cued. Using computer‐mediated communication in 36 mixed gender (visually cued category) and nationality (non‐visually cued category) groups, we manipulated social category salience ( via discussion topic), and anonymity versus visibility (via live video links). Under hig…
Attitudes toward indigenous Australians: The issue of “special treatment”
Previous research has found that people who report negative attitudes toward Indigenous Australians also report acceptance of false beliefs such as “being Indigenous entitles you to more social security benefits”. In the present study, we were interested in examining negative attitudes toward Indigenous Australians across three Western Australian locations, and comments spontaneously generated by participants regarding what is known in the litera…
Functions of attitudes towards ethnic groups: Effects of level of abstraction
Community care, ideology and social policy
Understanding Newborn Infant Readmission: Findings of the Ontario Mother and Infant Survey
Clinical decision‐making in the context of chronic illness
This paper develops a framework to compare clinical decision making in relation to chronic and acute medical conditions. Much of the literature on patient‐physician decision making has focused on acute and often life‐threatening medical situations in which the patient is highly dependent upon the expertise of the physician in providing the therapeutic options. Decision making is often constrained and driven by the overwhelming impact of the acute…
Pilot study of a visitor volunteer programme for community elderly people receiving home health care
There is a need to evaluate community support programmes for elderly people. In this randomized control trial (RCT), we determined the effectiveness of 'friendly visitors' in a volunteer programme of a visiting nurses organization in Southern Ontario, Canada. The Volunteer Friendly Visitor Programme was developed to support elderly people receiving homemaking and nursing care in the community. Volunteers are screened, trained, interviewed and mat…
Preaching to different choirs: How to motivate dismissive, uncommitted, and alarmed audiences to adapt to climate change
Technological and analytical advancements in intergroup contact research
The prolific expansion of intergroup contact research has established that intergroup interactions are tightly linked to social integration. In this review, recent technological and statistical innovations with the potential to advance this body of research are presented. First, concerns over the validity of longitudinal models are discussed before innovative analytical techniques are introduced that explore change over time. Next, intensive repe…
Attitudes toward Out‐groups and the perception of consensus: All feet do not wear one shoe
Although social perception research has been carried out across a number of diverse domains, to the best of our knowledge, studies have not directly assessed the relationship between attitudes toward the out‐group and perceptions of community support for those attitudes. In the present research, we report the findings of a study conducted in Western Australia using data collected from 653 participants from three different locations. The main thru…
Attitudes toward indigenous Australians: The issue of “special treatment”
Previous research has found that people who report negative attitudes toward Indigenous Australians also report acceptance of false beliefs such as “being Indigenous entitles you to more social security benefits”. In the present study, we were interested in examining negative attitudes toward Indigenous Australians across three Western Australian locations, and comments spontaneously generated by participants regarding what is known in the litera…
Gender Violence as a Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Risk: Uncovering Violence Against Women and Girls as It Pertains to Poor WaSH Access
The purpose of this study was to better understand the gender violence risks that exist in communities where poor water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) access is a known problem. Focus groups and key informant interviews were used to capture the lived experiences of community and health care practitioners from Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya. This article provides lived narratives of the various cultural and environmental conditions leading t…
Water, climate change, and maternal and newborn health
Visibility and anonymity effects on attraction and group cohesiveness
This study investigated attraction and group cohesiveness under different visibility and anonymity conditions for social categories that differed in their capacity to be visually cued. Using computer‐mediated communication in 36 mixed gender (visually cued category) and nationality (non‐visually cued category) groups, we manipulated social category salience ( via discussion topic), and anonymity versus visibility (via live video links). Under hig…
Functions of attitudes towards ethnic groups: Effects of level of abstraction
Immigrants’ social integration as a function of approach–avoidance orientation and problem-solving style
Frontline Workers' Perceptions of Human Trafficking: Warning Signs and Risks in the Midwest
Research on human trafficking in the U.S. has centered overwhelmingly on coastal regions, border states, and urban hubs. In an attempt to understand perceptions of exploitation and human trafficking more broadly, this paper focuses on frontline workers in the Midwest. Service providers in the legal/law enforcement, medical, non-profit, social service, and foster care sectors often encounter exploited or trafficked persons in their work. Their per…
Understanding Newborn Infant Readmission: Findings of the Ontario Mother and Infant Survey
Punitive attitudes in Australia: Investigating the rural-urban divide
Acculturation Strategy and Racial Group in the Perception of Immigrants
We investigated the effects of race and different acculturation strategies on perceptions of immigrants in Australia, an immigrant-based nation with a multicultural policy. Two experimental studies presented participants with scenarios that systematically varied racial group (African, Asian, and European) and acculturation strategy (assimilation, integration, separation, marginalisation), then assessed responses to immigrant targets using measure…
From rhetoric to reality: An NGO's challenge for reaching the furthest behind
The guiding principle of Agenda 2030 is the commitment to “leave no one behind”. However, as the Millennium Development Goals experience has demonstrated, there remains a “rhetoric-implementation gap” where local stakeholders struggle to realistically respond to policies formulated at the global level. This article proposes a way forward for NGOs seeking to translate the rhetoric of Agenda 2030 into reality. It presents an integrated and multi-se…
Preference for consistency and value dissimilarities in dehumanization and prejudice toward asylum seekers in Australia
Recent research has highlighted the importance of differential attribution of uniquely human characteristics in dehumanization and prejudice. Relatively little is known, however, about the importance of perceiving dissimilarities between the ingroup and outgroup in different types of values (beyond prosocial values), or the role of preference for consistency (PFC). This study investigated values, perceived dissimilarities in values, and PFC, in d…
The cost of poor adjustment to chronic illness: Lessons from three studies
This paper summarizes information about expenditures for people with chronic illness as a function of their psychosocial adjustment to illness. Three studies are discussed: two prospective baseline surveys and one historic cohort analytic study. Each was conducted between 1988 and 1993 in Southern Ontario, Canada in tertiary centres which were treating patients recently referred to a specialty medical clinic for one of 13 types of chronic physica…
Rules for Descriptive Cataloging in the Library of Congress: Phonorecords
Effect of General Self-Efficacy Expectancies on Performance Attributions
Self-efficacy is usually conceived of as specific to a situation; however, it has been proposed that self-efficacy across the individual's entire history of achievement experiences contributes to a general set of expectations of competence—general self-efficacy expectancy. Shelton suggested in 1990 that high general self-efficacy expectancy is the product of a history of more self-attributed successes than failures. Because attributions made for …
Injuries and Seniors: The Canadian Context
Age, adjustment, and costs: A study of chronic illnesses
Pilot study of a visitor volunteer programme for community elderly people receiving home health care
There is a need to evaluate community support programmes for elderly people. In this randomized control trial (RCT), we determined the effectiveness of 'friendly visitors' in a volunteer programme of a visiting nurses organization in Southern Ontario, Canada. The Volunteer Friendly Visitor Programme was developed to support elderly people receiving homemaking and nursing care in the community. Volunteers are screened, trained, interviewed and mat…
Clinical decision‐making in the context of chronic illness
This paper develops a framework to compare clinical decision making in relation to chronic and acute medical conditions. Much of the literature on patient‐physician decision making has focused on acute and often life‐threatening medical situations in which the patient is highly dependent upon the expertise of the physician in providing the therapeutic options. Decision making is often constrained and driven by the overwhelming impact of the acute…
Understanding Newborn Infant Readmission: Findings of the Ontario Mother and Infant Survey
Community care, ideology and social policy
Attitudes toward indigenous Australians: The issue of “special treatment”
Previous research has found that people who report negative attitudes toward Indigenous Australians also report acceptance of false beliefs such as “being Indigenous entitles you to more social security benefits”. In the present study, we were interested in examining negative attitudes toward Indigenous Australians across three Western Australian locations, and comments spontaneously generated by participants regarding what is known in the litera…
Functions of attitudes towards ethnic groups: Effects of level of abstraction
The cost of poor adjustment to chronic illness: Lessons from three studies
This paper summarizes information about expenditures for people with chronic illness as a function of their psychosocial adjustment to illness. Three studies are discussed: two prospective baseline surveys and one historic cohort analytic study. Each was conducted between 1988 and 1993 in Southern Ontario, Canada in tertiary centres which were treating patients recently referred to a specialty medical clinic for one of 13 types of chronic physica…
Visibility and anonymity effects on attraction and group cohesiveness
This study investigated attraction and group cohesiveness under different visibility and anonymity conditions for social categories that differed in their capacity to be visually cued. Using computer‐mediated communication in 36 mixed gender (visually cued category) and nationality (non‐visually cued category) groups, we manipulated social category salience ( via discussion topic), and anonymity versus visibility (via live video links). Under hig…
Attitudes toward Out‐groups and the perception of consensus: All feet do not wear one shoe
Although social perception research has been carried out across a number of diverse domains, to the best of our knowledge, studies have not directly assessed the relationship between attitudes toward the out‐group and perceptions of community support for those attitudes. In the present research, we report the findings of a study conducted in Western Australia using data collected from 653 participants from three different locations. The main thru…
Water, climate change, and maternal and newborn health
Immigrants’ social integration as a function of approach–avoidance orientation and problem-solving style
A multi-dimensional model of the origins of attitude certainty: Teachers’ attitudes toward attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Preaching to different choirs: How to motivate dismissive, uncommitted, and alarmed audiences to adapt to climate change
Preference for consistency and value dissimilarities in dehumanization and prejudice toward asylum seekers in Australia
Recent research has highlighted the importance of differential attribution of uniquely human characteristics in dehumanization and prejudice. Relatively little is known, however, about the importance of perceiving dissimilarities between the ingroup and outgroup in different types of values (beyond prosocial values), or the role of preference for consistency (PFC). This study investigated values, perceived dissimilarities in values, and PFC, in d…
Acculturation Strategy and Racial Group in the Perception of Immigrants
We investigated the effects of race and different acculturation strategies on perceptions of immigrants in Australia, an immigrant-based nation with a multicultural policy. Two experimental studies presented participants with scenarios that systematically varied racial group (African, Asian, and European) and acculturation strategy (assimilation, integration, separation, marginalisation), then assessed responses to immigrant targets using measure…
From rhetoric to reality: An NGO's challenge for reaching the furthest behind
The guiding principle of Agenda 2030 is the commitment to “leave no one behind”. However, as the Millennium Development Goals experience has demonstrated, there remains a “rhetoric-implementation gap” where local stakeholders struggle to realistically respond to policies formulated at the global level. This article proposes a way forward for NGOs seeking to translate the rhetoric of Agenda 2030 into reality. It presents an integrated and multi-se…
Gender Violence as a Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Risk: Uncovering Violence Against Women and Girls as It Pertains to Poor WaSH Access
The purpose of this study was to better understand the gender violence risks that exist in communities where poor water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) access is a known problem. Focus groups and key informant interviews were used to capture the lived experiences of community and health care practitioners from Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya. This article provides lived narratives of the various cultural and environmental conditions leading t…
WaSH as a maternal health issue: Three perspectives from rural Uganda
Inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) knowledge and practices affect maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality. This article describes postpartum knowledge, resources, and practices in three rural Ugandan hospitals. A lack of WaSH resources was problematic for both staff and newly-birthed mothers who demonstrated a lack of knowledge about the appropriate use of WaSH resources and the links between WaSH and health protection. These r…
Frontline Workers' Perceptions of Human Trafficking: Warning Signs and Risks in the Midwest
Research on human trafficking in the U.S. has centered overwhelmingly on coastal regions, border states, and urban hubs. In an attempt to understand perceptions of exploitation and human trafficking more broadly, this paper focuses on frontline workers in the Midwest. Service providers in the legal/law enforcement, medical, non-profit, social service, and foster care sectors often encounter exploited or trafficked persons in their work. Their per…
“To Protect and to (Pre)serve”: The moderating effects of right‐wing protective popular nationalism on aggressive tendencies toward ethnic minorities
Right-wing protective popular nationalism (RWPPN) is concerned with the protection and preservation of national culture. It is theorized to arise from right popular nationalistic rhetoric based on a narrowly defined us and them. Using an online survey of 316 Australians (50.9% male; Mage = 45.46, SD = 15.97), we explored whether RWPPN moderated the relationship between nationally related constructs (collective narcissism, identity fusion, perceiv…
Looking Out For (White) Australia: Developing the Construct and a Measure of Right-Wing Protective Popular Nationalism
We conceptualized and developed a measure of right-wing protective popular nationalism (RWPPN) – a specific form of popular nationalism where people seek to protect the national culture from outgroup influences. RWPPN is derived from a sociological analysis of right-wing popular nationalism in Australia and is theoretically related to several key psychological constructs, including right-wing authoritarianism (RWA), social dominance orientation (…
Psychology (19 works) · Political science (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (8 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)