Dara N Greenwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 767951 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dara N Greenwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dara N |
| FAMILY NAME | Greenwood |
| SIGNATURE | GREENWOOD D N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Joking in the face of death
Terror management theory has spawned a body of experimental research documenting a multitude of defensive responses to mortality salience manipulations (e.g., rigid adherence to dominant cultural values, self-esteem bolstering). Another substantive body of work suggests that humor functions as a natural and often effective means of down-regulating stressful or traumatic experiences. Integrating a terror management paradigm with a cartoon captioni…
A Song to Remember
The present study employs a mixed methods approach to understanding the psychological functions and contexts of music use. Seventy-six emerging adults selected a single piece of music that they considered personally significant and elaborated on the reasons for this significance in response to written prompts. A constant comparative analysis of these retrospective accounts revealed three major themes. Specifically, participants selected music tha…
Young women's attachment style and interpersonal engagement with female TV stars
The present study builds on an emerging body of research that finds adult attachment style predictive of interpersonal engagement with fictional media personas in ways that are congruent to patterns that emerge in real life relationships. Results of a questionnaire study indicate that a preoccupied attachment style among college women is associated with increased idealization of a favorite female character's behavior and physical appearance. Addi…
Are Female Action Heroes Risky Role Models? Character Identification, Idealization, and Viewer Aggression
Young women's attachment style and interpersonal engagement with female TV stars
The present study builds on an emerging body of research that finds adult attachment style predictive of interpersonal engagement with fictional media personas in ways that are congruent to patterns that emerge in real life relationships. Results of a questionnaire study indicate that a preoccupied attachment style among college women is associated with increased idealization of a favorite female character's behavior and physical appearance. Addi…
Are Female Action Heroes Risky Role Models? Character Identification, Idealization, and Viewer Aggression
A Song to Remember
The present study employs a mixed methods approach to understanding the psychological functions and contexts of music use. Seventy-six emerging adults selected a single piece of music that they considered personally significant and elaborated on the reasons for this significance in response to written prompts. A constant comparative analysis of these retrospective accounts revealed three major themes. Specifically, participants selected music tha…
Are Female Action Heroes Risky Role Models? Character Identification, Idealization, and Viewer Aggression
Young women's attachment style and interpersonal engagement with female TV stars
The present study builds on an emerging body of research that finds adult attachment style predictive of interpersonal engagement with fictional media personas in ways that are congruent to patterns that emerge in real life relationships. Results of a questionnaire study indicate that a preoccupied attachment style among college women is associated with increased idealization of a favorite female character's behavior and physical appearance. Addi…
A Song to Remember
The present study employs a mixed methods approach to understanding the psychological functions and contexts of music use. Seventy-six emerging adults selected a single piece of music that they considered personally significant and elaborated on the reasons for this significance in response to written prompts. A constant comparative analysis of these retrospective accounts revealed three major themes. Specifically, participants selected music tha…
Joking in the face of death
Terror management theory has spawned a body of experimental research documenting a multitude of defensive responses to mortality salience manipulations (e.g., rigid adherence to dominant cultural values, self-esteem bolstering). Another substantive body of work suggests that humor functions as a natural and often effective means of down-regulating stressful or traumatic experiences. Integrating a terror management paradigm with a cartoon captioni…
Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Media Influence and Health (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Idealization (2 works) · Media, Gender, and Advertising (2 works) · Action (physics (1 works) · Aggression (1 works)