Karen K Dion
Biographic Data
| ID | 650237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen K Dion |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen K |
| FAMILY NAME | Dion |
| SIGNATURE | DION K K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 673 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Intergroup friendship: A reflective spotlight
Growing empirical evidence supports the positive contribution of cross‐group friendship to intergroup attitudes, as well as to individuals' personal development. However, developing cross‐group friendships may be challenging depending on individuals' respective group identities; namely, their ethnicity, gender, race, and sexual orientation identities. This paper considers how psychological factors related to these group identities contribute to c…
Gender, Immigrant Generation, and Ethnocultural Identity
Gender and Cultural Adaptation in Immigrant Families
The study of immigration and immigrants’ experiences benefits from examining the contribution of gender. In this article, we focus on the importance of gender for understanding different aspects of family functioning. Conditions associated with immigration and settlement in the receiving society may challenge expectations about gender‐related roles, resulting in the renegotiation of these roles in immigrant families. Also, there is evidence of di…
Cultural perspectives on romantic love
Culture‐related dimensions contribute to a more complete understanding of romantic love. In particular, we suggest that the dimensions of individualism and collectivism, at both societal and psychological levels, offer insights into the nature of romantic love and its perceived importance for marriage. Changes In values pertaining to romantic love and its role In choosing a spouse are evident In several traditionally collectivistic societies and …
Introduction: Toward Understanding Love
Atiachment Style and Heterosexual Relationships among Young Adults: A Short-Term Panel Study
We investigated whether the relationship advantages reported for individuals with a secure attachment style persisted over a 4-month time period. The temporal stability of two self-report measures of attachment style was also investigated. `Secures' reported consistent levels of relationship satisfaction, relationship costs, relationship commitment, trust for their partners. `Insecures' (i.e. avoidants and anxious/ambivalents) reported decreasing…
Gender and Ethnocultural Comparisons in Styles of Love
Ethnocultural background and gender were investigated as correlates of love styles in an ethnically diverse sample of university students in Toronto. Women viewed love as more friendship oriented, more pragmatic, but less permissive than did men, findings consistent with previous research with American college students. Ethnocultural differences or Gender x Ethnocultural Background interactions were also found. In line with an expected contrast b…
Individualistic and Collectivistic Perspectives on Gender and the Cultural Context of Love and Intimacy
Individualism and collectivism help explain culture-related differences in romantic love and in the importance of emotional intimacy in marriage. Three propositions are suggested: (a) Romantic love is more likely to be an important basis for marriage in individualistic than in collectivistic societies; (b) psychological intimacy in marriage is more important for marital satisfaction and personal well-being in individualistic than in collectivisti…
Personality-based hardiness as a buffer for discrimination-related stress in members of Toronto's Chinese community.
Social-psychological correlates of experienced discrimination: Test of the double jeopardy hypothesis
Stereotyping Physical Attractiveness: A Sociocultural Perspective
Why does stereotyping based on physical attractiveness occur? We proposed a sociocultural hypothesis that physical attractiveness is less likely to be a salient evaluative cue in cultural contexts where collectivism, rather than individualism, is the basis for the dominant system of values. In collectivist cultures, the group rather than the individual is stressed, suggesting that social judgments, such as first impressions of others, are more li…
Belief in a just world and physical attractiveness stereotyping
Just-world theory provides a possible explanation of physical attractiveness stereotyping, in that believing in a just world should lead to a positive bias toward winners, such as the physically attractive. Several hypotheses derived from this premise were tested by having adults complete the Just World Scale and rate the personality traits and expected life outcomes of an attractive or unattractive stimulus person. Predictions for the personalit…
Personality and Behavioural Correlates of Romantic Love
Physical Attractiveness and Interpersonal Attraction
Defensiveness, intimacy, and heterosexual attraction
Physical attractiveness and interpersonal influence
The Honi phenomenon revisited: Factors underlying the resistance to perceptual distortion of one's partner
An individual being viewed in an Ames room usually appears considerably altered in physical size to an observer. However, some married persons perceive less size distortion of their spouses than a stranger. This instance of selective perceptual distortion, known as the Honi phenomenon, could perhaps reflect differential familiarity and/or emotional involvement toward these stimulus persons. Using heterosexual couples as subjects, we investigated …
Self‐esteem and romantic love
Physical Attractiveness and Peer Perception Among Children
Most previous research has investigated the impact of physical attractiveness on young adults' first impressions of peers. The present study examined the relationship between physical attractiveness and peer perception at an earlier period of peer interaction in a setting where subjects were personally acquainted. Using a picture-board sociometric technique, young children (4-6 years) indicated which classmates they liked and disliked and also no…
Children's physical attractiveness and sex as determinants of adult punitiveness
Young children's stereotyping of facial attractiveness
Physical attractiveness and evaluation of children's transgressions
What is beautiful is good
A person's physical appearance, along with his sexual identity, is the personal characteristic that is most obvious and accessible to others in social inter-action. The present experiment was designed to determine whether physically attractive stimulus persons, both male and female, are (a) assumed to possess more socially desirable personality traits than physically unattractive stimulus persons and (6) expected to lead better lives (e.g., be mo…
Physical attractiveness and dating choice: A test of the matching hypothesis
What is beautiful is good
A person's physical appearance, along with his sexual identity, is the personal characteristic that is most obvious and accessible to others in social inter-action. The present experiment was designed to determine whether physically attractive stimulus persons, both male and female, are (a) assumed to possess more socially desirable personality traits than physically unattractive stimulus persons and (6) expected to lead better lives (e.g., be mo…
Physical attractiveness and dating choice: A test of the matching hypothesis
Individualistic and Collectivistic Perspectives on Gender and the Cultural Context of Love and Intimacy
Individualism and collectivism help explain culture-related differences in romantic love and in the importance of emotional intimacy in marriage. Three propositions are suggested: (a) Romantic love is more likely to be an important basis for marriage in individualistic than in collectivistic societies; (b) psychological intimacy in marriage is more important for marital satisfaction and personal well-being in individualistic than in collectivisti…
Physical attractiveness and evaluation of children's transgressions
Gender and Cultural Adaptation in Immigrant Families
The study of immigration and immigrants’ experiences benefits from examining the contribution of gender. In this article, we focus on the importance of gender for understanding different aspects of family functioning. Conditions associated with immigration and settlement in the receiving society may challenge expectations about gender‐related roles, resulting in the renegotiation of these roles in immigrant families. Also, there is evidence of di…
Young children's stereotyping of facial attractiveness
Physical Attractiveness and Peer Perception Among Children
Most previous research has investigated the impact of physical attractiveness on young adults' first impressions of peers. The present study examined the relationship between physical attractiveness and peer perception at an earlier period of peer interaction in a setting where subjects were personally acquainted. Using a picture-board sociometric technique, young children (4-6 years) indicated which classmates they liked and disliked and also no…
Atiachment Style and Heterosexual Relationships among Young Adults: A Short-Term Panel Study
We investigated whether the relationship advantages reported for individuals with a secure attachment style persisted over a 4-month time period. The temporal stability of two self-report measures of attachment style was also investigated. `Secures' reported consistent levels of relationship satisfaction, relationship costs, relationship commitment, trust for their partners. `Insecures' (i.e. avoidants and anxious/ambivalents) reported decreasing…
Children's physical attractiveness and sex as determinants of adult punitiveness
Gender, Immigrant Generation, and Ethnocultural Identity
Physical attractiveness and interpersonal influence
Belief in a just world and physical attractiveness stereotyping
Just-world theory provides a possible explanation of physical attractiveness stereotyping, in that believing in a just world should lead to a positive bias toward winners, such as the physically attractive. Several hypotheses derived from this premise were tested by having adults complete the Just World Scale and rate the personality traits and expected life outcomes of an attractive or unattractive stimulus person. Predictions for the personalit…
Gender and Ethnocultural Comparisons in Styles of Love
Ethnocultural background and gender were investigated as correlates of love styles in an ethnically diverse sample of university students in Toronto. Women viewed love as more friendship oriented, more pragmatic, but less permissive than did men, findings consistent with previous research with American college students. Ethnocultural differences or Gender x Ethnocultural Background interactions were also found. In line with an expected contrast b…
Social-psychological correlates of experienced discrimination: Test of the double jeopardy hypothesis
Stereotyping Physical Attractiveness: A Sociocultural Perspective
Why does stereotyping based on physical attractiveness occur? We proposed a sociocultural hypothesis that physical attractiveness is less likely to be a salient evaluative cue in cultural contexts where collectivism, rather than individualism, is the basis for the dominant system of values. In collectivist cultures, the group rather than the individual is stressed, suggesting that social judgments, such as first impressions of others, are more li…
Introduction: Toward Understanding Love
The Honi phenomenon revisited: Factors underlying the resistance to perceptual distortion of one's partner
An individual being viewed in an Ames room usually appears considerably altered in physical size to an observer. However, some married persons perceive less size distortion of their spouses than a stranger. This instance of selective perceptual distortion, known as the Honi phenomenon, could perhaps reflect differential familiarity and/or emotional involvement toward these stimulus persons. Using heterosexual couples as subjects, we investigated …
Physical attractiveness and dating choice: A test of the matching hypothesis
Physical attractiveness and evaluation of children's transgressions
What is beautiful is good
A person's physical appearance, along with his sexual identity, is the personal characteristic that is most obvious and accessible to others in social inter-action. The present experiment was designed to determine whether physically attractive stimulus persons, both male and female, are (a) assumed to possess more socially desirable personality traits than physically unattractive stimulus persons and (6) expected to lead better lives (e.g., be mo…
Young children's stereotyping of facial attractiveness
Physical Attractiveness and Peer Perception Among Children
Most previous research has investigated the impact of physical attractiveness on young adults' first impressions of peers. The present study examined the relationship between physical attractiveness and peer perception at an earlier period of peer interaction in a setting where subjects were personally acquainted. Using a picture-board sociometric technique, young children (4-6 years) indicated which classmates they liked and disliked and also no…
Children's physical attractiveness and sex as determinants of adult punitiveness
Self‐esteem and romantic love
The Honi phenomenon revisited: Factors underlying the resistance to perceptual distortion of one's partner
An individual being viewed in an Ames room usually appears considerably altered in physical size to an observer. However, some married persons perceive less size distortion of their spouses than a stranger. This instance of selective perceptual distortion, known as the Honi phenomenon, could perhaps reflect differential familiarity and/or emotional involvement toward these stimulus persons. Using heterosexual couples as subjects, we investigated …
Defensiveness, intimacy, and heterosexual attraction
Physical attractiveness and interpersonal influence
Personality and Behavioural Correlates of Romantic Love
Physical Attractiveness and Interpersonal Attraction
Belief in a just world and physical attractiveness stereotyping
Just-world theory provides a possible explanation of physical attractiveness stereotyping, in that believing in a just world should lead to a positive bias toward winners, such as the physically attractive. Several hypotheses derived from this premise were tested by having adults complete the Just World Scale and rate the personality traits and expected life outcomes of an attractive or unattractive stimulus person. Predictions for the personalit…
Stereotyping Physical Attractiveness: A Sociocultural Perspective
Why does stereotyping based on physical attractiveness occur? We proposed a sociocultural hypothesis that physical attractiveness is less likely to be a salient evaluative cue in cultural contexts where collectivism, rather than individualism, is the basis for the dominant system of values. In collectivist cultures, the group rather than the individual is stressed, suggesting that social judgments, such as first impressions of others, are more li…
Social-psychological correlates of experienced discrimination: Test of the double jeopardy hypothesis
Personality-based hardiness as a buffer for discrimination-related stress in members of Toronto's Chinese community.
Gender and Ethnocultural Comparisons in Styles of Love
Ethnocultural background and gender were investigated as correlates of love styles in an ethnically diverse sample of university students in Toronto. Women viewed love as more friendship oriented, more pragmatic, but less permissive than did men, findings consistent with previous research with American college students. Ethnocultural differences or Gender x Ethnocultural Background interactions were also found. In line with an expected contrast b…
Individualistic and Collectivistic Perspectives on Gender and the Cultural Context of Love and Intimacy
Individualism and collectivism help explain culture-related differences in romantic love and in the importance of emotional intimacy in marriage. Three propositions are suggested: (a) Romantic love is more likely to be an important basis for marriage in individualistic than in collectivistic societies; (b) psychological intimacy in marriage is more important for marital satisfaction and personal well-being in individualistic than in collectivisti…
Atiachment Style and Heterosexual Relationships among Young Adults: A Short-Term Panel Study
We investigated whether the relationship advantages reported for individuals with a secure attachment style persisted over a 4-month time period. The temporal stability of two self-report measures of attachment style was also investigated. `Secures' reported consistent levels of relationship satisfaction, relationship costs, relationship commitment, trust for their partners. `Insecures' (i.e. avoidants and anxious/ambivalents) reported decreasing…
Cultural perspectives on romantic love
Culture‐related dimensions contribute to a more complete understanding of romantic love. In particular, we suggest that the dimensions of individualism and collectivism, at both societal and psychological levels, offer insights into the nature of romantic love and its perceived importance for marriage. Changes In values pertaining to romantic love and its role In choosing a spouse are evident In several traditionally collectivistic societies and …
Introduction: Toward Understanding Love
Gender and Cultural Adaptation in Immigrant Families
The study of immigration and immigrants’ experiences benefits from examining the contribution of gender. In this article, we focus on the importance of gender for understanding different aspects of family functioning. Conditions associated with immigration and settlement in the receiving society may challenge expectations about gender‐related roles, resulting in the renegotiation of these roles in immigrant families. Also, there is evidence of di…
Gender, Immigrant Generation, and Ethnocultural Identity
Intergroup friendship: A reflective spotlight
Growing empirical evidence supports the positive contribution of cross‐group friendship to intergroup attitudes, as well as to individuals' personal development. However, developing cross‐group friendships may be challenging depending on individuals' respective group identities; namely, their ethnicity, gender, race, and sexual orientation identities. This paper considers how psychological factors related to these group identities contribute to c…
Psychology (23 works) · Social Psychology (20 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (14 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Developmental psychology (13 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (10 works) · Attractiveness (9 works) · Physical attractiveness (9 works) · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification (8 works) · Psychoanalysis (7 works)