Avril Thorne
Biographic Data
| ID | 763449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Avril Thorne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Avril |
| FAMILY NAME | Thorne |
| SIGNATURE | THORNE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 455 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
“So it’s like, do you like Jeff a lot or, I mean…”: How Women Friends Interactionally Position Personal Identity While Conversing About Desire
Despite Erikson’s (1968) proposal that identity is a psychosocial task, most existing research in developmental psychology has conceptualized personal identity as an individual, “internalized” phenomenon. The present case study aimed to elucidate how emerging adult friends co-construct personal identities by multiply positioning themselves while dialoguing about their romantic and sexual desires. The participating friends were two White, heterose…
Patterns of Intimacy and Distancing as Young Women (and Men) Friends Exchange Stories of Romantic Relationships
I'm Outgoing and She's Reserved: The Reciprocal Dynamics of Personality in Close Friendships in Young Adulthood
Close college-age friendships provide differential opportunities for reinforcing dispositional tendencies and fostering accommodation or change. This finding was obtained from a cross-sectional study of 66 pairs of same-sex college-age friends (58% female). Each pair of friends was extreme and either very similar or different with regard to extraversion-introversion. Interviews with each friend were analyzed for references to each other's role in…
A longitudinal study of conversations with parents about sex and dating during college
Emerging adulthood is a time of sexual and romantic relationship development as well as change in the parent-child relationship. This study provides a longitudinal analysis of 30 young adults' (17 women, 13 men) sexual experiences, attitudes about sexuality and dating, and reported conversations with parents about sexuality and dating from the 1st and 4th years of college. Self-report questionnaires revealed increases in general closeness with pa…
The Negotiation of Compulsory Romance in Young Women Friends' Stories about Romantic Heterosexual Experiences
For young women in western cultures, satisfying the dictates of traditional romantic norms while sustaining intimacy with same-sex friends and a sovereign sense of self can be daunting. The present study explored how 23 pairs of young adult, white female friends (ages 19— 25) attending a public university in Northern California positioned themselves vis-à-vis norms of compulsory romance as they told spontaneous stories about their own and others'…
Caught in the act: How extraverted and introverted friends communally cope with being recorded
The Life Story as a Community Project
Channeling identity: A study of storytelling in conversations between introverted and extraverted friends
How late-adolescent friends share stories about relationships: The importance of mitigating the seriousness of romantic problems
This narrative study explored how late adolescents (N = 64 dyads) jointly told stories about romantic relationships during casual conversations with same-sex friends. Stories about romantic problems were four times more prevalent than stories about romantic nonproblems, and relationship instability was the most frequent type of romantic problem. Furthermore, discussions of romantic problems (versus nonproblems) were particularly likely to be soft…
Intimacy and Distancing: Young Men’s Conversations About Romantic Relationships
This study examinedhow 32 pairs of 19-to 22-year-oldEuro-Americanmale friends constructed intimacy when telling romantic-relationship stories in casual conversations. Analyses centered on the emergence of two types of conversational positions: intimate positions and distancing positions. Intimate positions constructed young men as warm, caring, and emotionally vulnerable; distancing positions functioned to diminish intimacy, care, and vulnerabili…
Contents Vol. 47, 2004
Putting the Person into Social Identity
Commentaries| December 03 2004 Putting the Person into Social Identity Subject Area: Psychiatry and Psychology , Women's and Children's Health Avril Thorne Avril Thorne University of California, Santa Cruz, Calif., USA Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Human Development (2004) 47 (6): 361–365. https://doi.org/10.1159/000081038 Article history Published Online: December 03 2004 Content Tools Views Icon Views…
When Remembering Is Not Enough: Reflecting on Self‐Defining Memories in Late Adolescence
This study examined which kinds of self‐defining memories show spontaneous references to larger meanings, and listener responses to two kinds of meaning—lessons and insights. Narratives of three self‐defining memories and episodes of telling the memories to others were collected from each of 168 late adolescents ( M age=19). Narratives were coded for event type (relationship, mortality, achievement, and leisure) and for references to tension and …
Introduction to Stephen G. West's Murray Award Address
I am honored to introduce Stephen G. West, the winner of the Henry A. Murray Award for Outstanding Contributions to Personology and the Study of Human Lives. Steve's contributions as a methodologist and statistician are appreciated by anyone who has struggled with complex interactions and unusual research designs. These empirical innovations have contributed enormously to broadening and deepening the kinds of data that can be used to study person…
Late adolescents' self-defining memories about relationships
This study examined late adolescents' self-defining memories about relationships. Participants were 88 European Americans (mean age = 19 years) who reported 3 self-defining memories of their choosing and were selected for the study because they reported a memory about parents and/or peers. Memory narratives were coded for themes of separation, closeness, and conflict and for 2 kinds of meaning: learning lessons and gaining insight. Parent memorie…
Gendered Reminiscence Practices and Self-Definition in Late Adolescence
Personal Memory Telling and Personality Development
Although personal memories have been appreciated bypsychologists for nearly a century, their significance for personality development has tended to be relegated to internalized representations of early childhood experiences. Recent research, however, suggests that adolescence and early adulthood are the most memorable parts of the life span and perhaps the broadest period of memory telling. This article integrates recent work in cognitive and dev…
Young Adults' Relationship Memories and the Life Story: Examples or Essential Landmarks
Personal memories increasingly have been implicated in the process of identity-making, but systematic study of stability and change in memory telling is rare. Comparisons of relationship memories told by 46 young adults during two interviews separated by about 6 months found moderate thematic consistency across the two sets of memories. The similarity obtained despite a high turnover in the specific events that were selected for telling each time…
Developmental Truths in Memories of Childhood and Adolescence
This study of age‐related changes in memories of personally important encounters showed “developmental truths,” that is, patterns that converged with prior developmental theories and research. Participants were 47 males and 48 females in their early 20s. An average of 16 memories were collected from each person during an intensive personal interview. Memories were coded for age at the time of the episode, the identity of the other person with who…
The press of personality: A study of conversations between introverts and extraverts.
The press of personality: A study of conversations between introverts and extraverts.
In a study of the transactional impact of personality, 52 women were grouped in pairs to get acquainted in two conversations, one with an introvert and one with an extravert. The women were selected from their scores on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and were asked to provide accounts of their conv
In the shadow of the past: Psychology portrays the sexes
What People Say About the Play
How relevant is a semantic similarity interpretation of personality ratings
Basking in reflected glory: Three (football) field studies
The tendency to in reflected (BIRG) by publicly announcing one's associations with successful others was investigated in three field experiments. All three studies showed this effect to occur even though the person striving to bask in the glory of a successful source was not involved in the cause of the source's success. Experiment 1 demonstrated the BIRG phenomenon by showing a greater tendency for university students to wear schoolidentifying a…
Basking in reflected glory: Three (football) field studies
The tendency to in reflected (BIRG) by publicly announcing one's associations with successful others was investigated in three field experiments. All three studies showed this effect to occur even though the person striving to bask in the glory of a successful source was not involved in the cause of the source's success. Experiment 1 demonstrated the BIRG phenomenon by showing a greater tendency for university students to wear schoolidentifying a…
Late adolescents' self-defining memories about relationships
This study examined late adolescents' self-defining memories about relationships. Participants were 88 European Americans (mean age = 19 years) who reported 3 self-defining memories of their choosing and were selected for the study because they reported a memory about parents and/or peers. Memory narratives were coded for themes of separation, closeness, and conflict and for 2 kinds of meaning: learning lessons and gaining insight. Parent memorie…
Intimacy and Distancing: Young Men’s Conversations About Romantic Relationships
This study examinedhow 32 pairs of 19-to 22-year-oldEuro-Americanmale friends constructed intimacy when telling romantic-relationship stories in casual conversations. Analyses centered on the emergence of two types of conversational positions: intimate positions and distancing positions. Intimate positions constructed young men as warm, caring, and emotionally vulnerable; distancing positions functioned to diminish intimacy, care, and vulnerabili…
A longitudinal study of conversations with parents about sex and dating during college
Emerging adulthood is a time of sexual and romantic relationship development as well as change in the parent-child relationship. This study provides a longitudinal analysis of 30 young adults' (17 women, 13 men) sexual experiences, attitudes about sexuality and dating, and reported conversations with parents about sexuality and dating from the 1st and 4th years of college. Self-report questionnaires revealed increases in general closeness with pa…
How late-adolescent friends share stories about relationships: The importance of mitigating the seriousness of romantic problems
This narrative study explored how late adolescents (N = 64 dyads) jointly told stories about romantic relationships during casual conversations with same-sex friends. Stories about romantic problems were four times more prevalent than stories about romantic nonproblems, and relationship instability was the most frequent type of romantic problem. Furthermore, discussions of romantic problems (versus nonproblems) were particularly likely to be soft…
In the shadow of the past: Psychology portrays the sexes
Gendered Reminiscence Practices and Self-Definition in Late Adolescence
Young Adults' Relationship Memories and the Life Story: Examples or Essential Landmarks
Personal memories increasingly have been implicated in the process of identity-making, but systematic study of stability and change in memory telling is rare. Comparisons of relationship memories told by 46 young adults during two interviews separated by about 6 months found moderate thematic consistency across the two sets of memories. The similarity obtained despite a high turnover in the specific events that were selected for telling each time…
The Negotiation of Compulsory Romance in Young Women Friends' Stories about Romantic Heterosexual Experiences
For young women in western cultures, satisfying the dictates of traditional romantic norms while sustaining intimacy with same-sex friends and a sovereign sense of self can be daunting. The present study explored how 23 pairs of young adult, white female friends (ages 19— 25) attending a public university in Northern California positioned themselves vis-à-vis norms of compulsory romance as they told spontaneous stories about their own and others'…
Channeling identity: A study of storytelling in conversations between introverted and extraverted friends
How relevant is a semantic similarity interpretation of personality ratings
Patterns of Intimacy and Distancing as Young Women (and Men) Friends Exchange Stories of Romantic Relationships
Caught in the act: How extraverted and introverted friends communally cope with being recorded
Basking in reflected glory: Three (football) field studies
The tendency to in reflected (BIRG) by publicly announcing one's associations with successful others was investigated in three field experiments. All three studies showed this effect to occur even though the person striving to bask in the glory of a successful source was not involved in the cause of the source's success. Experiment 1 demonstrated the BIRG phenomenon by showing a greater tendency for university students to wear schoolidentifying a…
How relevant is a semantic similarity interpretation of personality ratings
What People Say About the Play
In the shadow of the past: Psychology portrays the sexes
The press of personality: A study of conversations between introverts and extraverts.
The press of personality: A study of conversations between introverts and extraverts.
In a study of the transactional impact of personality, 52 women were grouped in pairs to get acquainted in two conversations, one with an introvert and one with an extravert. The women were selected from their scores on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and were asked to provide accounts of their conv
Developmental Truths in Memories of Childhood and Adolescence
This study of age‐related changes in memories of personally important encounters showed “developmental truths,” that is, patterns that converged with prior developmental theories and research. Participants were 47 males and 48 females in their early 20s. An average of 16 memories were collected from each person during an intensive personal interview. Memories were coded for age at the time of the episode, the identity of the other person with who…
Young Adults' Relationship Memories and the Life Story: Examples or Essential Landmarks
Personal memories increasingly have been implicated in the process of identity-making, but systematic study of stability and change in memory telling is rare. Comparisons of relationship memories told by 46 young adults during two interviews separated by about 6 months found moderate thematic consistency across the two sets of memories. The similarity obtained despite a high turnover in the specific events that were selected for telling each time…
Personal Memory Telling and Personality Development
Although personal memories have been appreciated bypsychologists for nearly a century, their significance for personality development has tended to be relegated to internalized representations of early childhood experiences. Recent research, however, suggests that adolescence and early adulthood are the most memorable parts of the life span and perhaps the broadest period of memory telling. This article integrates recent work in cognitive and dev…
Gendered Reminiscence Practices and Self-Definition in Late Adolescence
Introduction to Stephen G. West's Murray Award Address
I am honored to introduce Stephen G. West, the winner of the Henry A. Murray Award for Outstanding Contributions to Personology and the Study of Human Lives. Steve's contributions as a methodologist and statistician are appreciated by anyone who has struggled with complex interactions and unusual research designs. These empirical innovations have contributed enormously to broadening and deepening the kinds of data that can be used to study person…
Late adolescents' self-defining memories about relationships
This study examined late adolescents' self-defining memories about relationships. Participants were 88 European Americans (mean age = 19 years) who reported 3 self-defining memories of their choosing and were selected for the study because they reported a memory about parents and/or peers. Memory narratives were coded for themes of separation, closeness, and conflict and for 2 kinds of meaning: learning lessons and gaining insight. Parent memorie…
Contents Vol. 47, 2004
Putting the Person into Social Identity
Commentaries| December 03 2004 Putting the Person into Social Identity Subject Area: Psychiatry and Psychology , Women's and Children's Health Avril Thorne Avril Thorne University of California, Santa Cruz, Calif., USA Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Human Development (2004) 47 (6): 361–365. https://doi.org/10.1159/000081038 Article history Published Online: December 03 2004 Content Tools Views Icon Views…
When Remembering Is Not Enough: Reflecting on Self‐Defining Memories in Late Adolescence
This study examined which kinds of self‐defining memories show spontaneous references to larger meanings, and listener responses to two kinds of meaning—lessons and insights. Narratives of three self‐defining memories and episodes of telling the memories to others were collected from each of 168 late adolescents ( M age=19). Narratives were coded for event type (relationship, mortality, achievement, and leisure) and for references to tension and …
Intimacy and Distancing: Young Men’s Conversations About Romantic Relationships
This study examinedhow 32 pairs of 19-to 22-year-oldEuro-Americanmale friends constructed intimacy when telling romantic-relationship stories in casual conversations. Analyses centered on the emergence of two types of conversational positions: intimate positions and distancing positions. Intimate positions constructed young men as warm, caring, and emotionally vulnerable; distancing positions functioned to diminish intimacy, care, and vulnerabili…
The Life Story as a Community Project
Channeling identity: A study of storytelling in conversations between introverted and extraverted friends
How late-adolescent friends share stories about relationships: The importance of mitigating the seriousness of romantic problems
This narrative study explored how late adolescents (N = 64 dyads) jointly told stories about romantic relationships during casual conversations with same-sex friends. Stories about romantic problems were four times more prevalent than stories about romantic nonproblems, and relationship instability was the most frequent type of romantic problem. Furthermore, discussions of romantic problems (versus nonproblems) were particularly likely to be soft…
The Negotiation of Compulsory Romance in Young Women Friends' Stories about Romantic Heterosexual Experiences
For young women in western cultures, satisfying the dictates of traditional romantic norms while sustaining intimacy with same-sex friends and a sovereign sense of self can be daunting. The present study explored how 23 pairs of young adult, white female friends (ages 19— 25) attending a public university in Northern California positioned themselves vis-à-vis norms of compulsory romance as they told spontaneous stories about their own and others'…
Caught in the act: How extraverted and introverted friends communally cope with being recorded
A longitudinal study of conversations with parents about sex and dating during college
Emerging adulthood is a time of sexual and romantic relationship development as well as change in the parent-child relationship. This study provides a longitudinal analysis of 30 young adults' (17 women, 13 men) sexual experiences, attitudes about sexuality and dating, and reported conversations with parents about sexuality and dating from the 1st and 4th years of college. Self-report questionnaires revealed increases in general closeness with pa…
I'm Outgoing and She's Reserved: The Reciprocal Dynamics of Personality in Close Friendships in Young Adulthood
Close college-age friendships provide differential opportunities for reinforcing dispositional tendencies and fostering accommodation or change. This finding was obtained from a cross-sectional study of 66 pairs of same-sex college-age friends (58% female). Each pair of friends was extreme and either very similar or different with regard to extraversion-introversion. Interviews with each friend were analyzed for references to each other's role in…
Patterns of Intimacy and Distancing as Young Women (and Men) Friends Exchange Stories of Romantic Relationships
“So it’s like, do you like Jeff a lot or, I mean…”: How Women Friends Interactionally Position Personal Identity While Conversing About Desire
Despite Erikson’s (1968) proposal that identity is a psychosocial task, most existing research in developmental psychology has conceptualized personal identity as an individual, “internalized” phenomenon. The present case study aimed to elucidate how emerging adult friends co-construct personal identities by multiply positioning themselves while dialoguing about their romantic and sexual desires. The participating friends were two White, heterose…
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