Daniel S Bailis
Biographic Data
| ID | 769091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel S Bailis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel S |
| FAMILY NAME | Bailis |
| SIGNATURE | BAILIS D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7963-4441 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 149 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Self-Compassion and the Experience of Giving Things Up
We propose that higher self-compassion reduces individuals’ perceptions of a downside risk to self-change. In Study 1 (N = 490), we surveyed participants’ self-compassion and goal perceptions while recently giving up an important attachment. In Study 2 (N = 163), we examined these topics prospectively over 10 baseline and 10 challenge days, in which participants tried to restrict their social media use to ≤30 min/day. Both studies controlled for …
How self-compassion informs decision-making in ordinary times
When Self‐Compassion Lacks Ferocity
OBJECTIVE: Self-compassion can help people when they make mistakes, but does it affect how people respond when falsely accused of making a mistake? In this research, we tested the hypothesis that self-compassion is associated with lower levels of anger after a false accusation which, in turn, lowers the likelihood that people will attempt to challenge the accusation. METHOD: In Studies 1A (N = 422) and 1B (N = 492), participants imagined that the…
Going for broke
Although self-compassion is adaptive in coping with past mistakes, few studies have examined its relationship to future risks. In gambling, self-compassion toward possible losses could lead to greater or lesser risk-taking, and the direction of this relationship could depend on the presence of problem gambling. Across 3 laboratory studies, using multi-level modeling, this research tested how self-compassion relates to the progression of risk-taki…
More Questions About Multiple Passions
Daily self-compassion protects Asian Americans/Canadians after experiences of Covid-19 discrimination
Asians are not immune to racial discrimination and discrimination against Asians has heightened during the COVID-19 pandemic because they were blamed as the origin of the virus. A pre-registered 14-day diary explored if self-compassion was associated with subjective well-being and protective behaviors for Asians (U.S. & Canada) who faced COVID-19 discriminations (N = 82 & ndiaries =711). Participants reported discriminations experience for 28% (U…
Testing the dualistic model of passion using a novel quadripartite approach
OBJECTIVE: Passion research has focused extensively on the unique effects of both harmonious passion and obsessive passion (Vallerand, 2015). We adopted a quadripartite approach (Gaudreau & Thompson, 2010) to test whether physical and psychological well-being are distinctly related to subtypes of passion with varying within-person passion combinations: pure harmonious passion, pure obsessive passion, mixed passion, and non-passion. METHOD: In fou…
Passionately motivated reasoning
OBJECTIVE: When facing setbacks and obstacles, the dualistic model of passion outlines that obsessive passion, and not harmonious passion, will predict greater levels of defensiveness. Our aim was to determine whether these passion dimensions predicted defensiveness in the same way when confronted with threatening messages targeting the decision to pursue a passion. METHOD: Across four studies with passionate Facebook users, hockey fans, and runn…
Predicting stability and change in loneliness in later life
This study examined potential discriminators of groups of older adults showing different patterns of stability or change in loneliness over 5 years: those who became lonely, overcame loneliness, were persistently lonely, and were persistently not lonely. Discriminant function analysis results showed that the persistently lonely, compared with the persistently not lonely, were more often living alone, widowed, and experiencing poorer health and pe…
Age, Relative Autonomy and Change in Health Locus of Control Beliefs
Health locus of control (HLC) describes an individual's characteristic attribution of health outcomes to internal or external causes. This four-year longitudinal study examined changes in HLC beliefs among 124 members of a health-promotion facility, related to their age (22-81) and relative autonomy toward health-related goals. HLC beliefs changed with age as developmental theories of control striving would predict. Holding age aside, the pursuit…
Exploring the Commonalities Between Adaptive Resources and Self-Enhancement in Older Adults' Comparative Judgments of Physical Activity
Objective. This study examines the extent to which optimism, control beliefs and motivation, and downward social comparison contribute independently to the maintenance of older adults positive self-evaluations in a functional domain. Method. Adaptive resources/strategies and life satisfaction were measured in personal interviews with 164 community-dwelling older adults. Participants judged their physical activity compared with the average person …
Collective self-esteem and the onset of chronic conditions and reduced activity in a longitudinal study of aging
Two views of self-rated general health status
Compensating for Losses in Perceived Personal Control Over Health
Collective self-esteem (CSE) refers to an individual's self-evaluation of his or her social identity. We speculate that a positive social identity, or high CSE, facilitates accommodation to negative health-related circumstances in later life, especially when one feels unable to alter these circumstances directly. Accordingly, we hypothesized that CSE would be associated with fewer chronic conditions and greater perceived health for those with low…
Air bag safety
Federal regulation of air bags has followed an uncertain course in recent years; air bags have been perceived as a panacea but are now considered potential killers. The authors examine the interplay of media coverage, lay perceptions of risk, and public policy in the context of air bag regulation. They review communications research on media presentations of health and safety risks and the relationship of these findings to social psychological re…
Air bag safety
Perceived control in relation to socioeconomic and behavioral resources for health
Two views of self-rated general health status
Perceived control in relation to socioeconomic and behavioral resources for health
Predicting stability and change in loneliness in later life
This study examined potential discriminators of groups of older adults showing different patterns of stability or change in loneliness over 5 years: those who became lonely, overcame loneliness, were persistently lonely, and were persistently not lonely. Discriminant function analysis results showed that the persistently lonely, compared with the persistently not lonely, were more often living alone, widowed, and experiencing poorer health and pe…
Collective self-esteem and the onset of chronic conditions and reduced activity in a longitudinal study of aging
Compensating for Losses in Perceived Personal Control Over Health
Collective self-esteem (CSE) refers to an individual's self-evaluation of his or her social identity. We speculate that a positive social identity, or high CSE, facilitates accommodation to negative health-related circumstances in later life, especially when one feels unable to alter these circumstances directly. Accordingly, we hypothesized that CSE would be associated with fewer chronic conditions and greater perceived health for those with low…
Age, Relative Autonomy and Change in Health Locus of Control Beliefs
Health locus of control (HLC) describes an individual's characteristic attribution of health outcomes to internal or external causes. This four-year longitudinal study examined changes in HLC beliefs among 124 members of a health-promotion facility, related to their age (22-81) and relative autonomy toward health-related goals. HLC beliefs changed with age as developmental theories of control striving would predict. Holding age aside, the pursuit…
Air bag safety
Federal regulation of air bags has followed an uncertain course in recent years; air bags have been perceived as a panacea but are now considered potential killers. The authors examine the interplay of media coverage, lay perceptions of risk, and public policy in the context of air bag regulation. They review communications research on media presentations of health and safety risks and the relationship of these findings to social psychological re…
Air bag safety
Perceived control in relation to socioeconomic and behavioral resources for health
Compensating for Losses in Perceived Personal Control Over Health
Collective self-esteem (CSE) refers to an individual's self-evaluation of his or her social identity. We speculate that a positive social identity, or high CSE, facilitates accommodation to negative health-related circumstances in later life, especially when one feels unable to alter these circumstances directly. Accordingly, we hypothesized that CSE would be associated with fewer chronic conditions and greater perceived health for those with low…
Two views of self-rated general health status
Exploring the Commonalities Between Adaptive Resources and Self-Enhancement in Older Adults' Comparative Judgments of Physical Activity
Objective. This study examines the extent to which optimism, control beliefs and motivation, and downward social comparison contribute independently to the maintenance of older adults positive self-evaluations in a functional domain. Method. Adaptive resources/strategies and life satisfaction were measured in personal interviews with 164 community-dwelling older adults. Participants judged their physical activity compared with the average person …
Collective self-esteem and the onset of chronic conditions and reduced activity in a longitudinal study of aging
Age, Relative Autonomy and Change in Health Locus of Control Beliefs
Health locus of control (HLC) describes an individual's characteristic attribution of health outcomes to internal or external causes. This four-year longitudinal study examined changes in HLC beliefs among 124 members of a health-promotion facility, related to their age (22-81) and relative autonomy toward health-related goals. HLC beliefs changed with age as developmental theories of control striving would predict. Holding age aside, the pursuit…
Predicting stability and change in loneliness in later life
This study examined potential discriminators of groups of older adults showing different patterns of stability or change in loneliness over 5 years: those who became lonely, overcame loneliness, were persistently lonely, and were persistently not lonely. Discriminant function analysis results showed that the persistently lonely, compared with the persistently not lonely, were more often living alone, widowed, and experiencing poorer health and pe…
Testing the dualistic model of passion using a novel quadripartite approach
OBJECTIVE: Passion research has focused extensively on the unique effects of both harmonious passion and obsessive passion (Vallerand, 2015). We adopted a quadripartite approach (Gaudreau & Thompson, 2010) to test whether physical and psychological well-being are distinctly related to subtypes of passion with varying within-person passion combinations: pure harmonious passion, pure obsessive passion, mixed passion, and non-passion. METHOD: In fou…
Passionately motivated reasoning
OBJECTIVE: When facing setbacks and obstacles, the dualistic model of passion outlines that obsessive passion, and not harmonious passion, will predict greater levels of defensiveness. Our aim was to determine whether these passion dimensions predicted defensiveness in the same way when confronted with threatening messages targeting the decision to pursue a passion. METHOD: Across four studies with passionate Facebook users, hockey fans, and runn…
More Questions About Multiple Passions
Daily self-compassion protects Asian Americans/Canadians after experiences of Covid-19 discrimination
Asians are not immune to racial discrimination and discrimination against Asians has heightened during the COVID-19 pandemic because they were blamed as the origin of the virus. A pre-registered 14-day diary explored if self-compassion was associated with subjective well-being and protective behaviors for Asians (U.S. & Canada) who faced COVID-19 discriminations (N = 82 & ndiaries =711). Participants reported discriminations experience for 28% (U…
Going for broke
Although self-compassion is adaptive in coping with past mistakes, few studies have examined its relationship to future risks. In gambling, self-compassion toward possible losses could lead to greater or lesser risk-taking, and the direction of this relationship could depend on the presence of problem gambling. Across 3 laboratory studies, using multi-level modeling, this research tested how self-compassion relates to the progression of risk-taki…
How self-compassion informs decision-making in ordinary times
When Self‐Compassion Lacks Ferocity
OBJECTIVE: Self-compassion can help people when they make mistakes, but does it affect how people respond when falsely accused of making a mistake? In this research, we tested the hypothesis that self-compassion is associated with lower levels of anger after a false accusation which, in turn, lowers the likelihood that people will attempt to challenge the accusation. METHOD: In Studies 1A (N = 422) and 1B (N = 492), participants imagined that the…
Self-Compassion and the Experience of Giving Things Up
We propose that higher self-compassion reduces individuals’ perceptions of a downside risk to self-change. In Study 1 (N = 490), we surveyed participants’ self-compassion and goal perceptions while recently giving up an important attachment. In Study 2 (N = 163), we examined these topics prospectively over 10 baseline and 10 challenge days, in which participants tried to restrict their social media use to ≤30 min/day. Both studies controlled for …
Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (6 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions (5 works) · Political science (5 works)