Danu Anthony Stinson is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She is a social-personality psychologist who conducts research concerning (1) self-esteem, (2) interpersonal relationships, and (3) health and well-being.
Early Life and Educational Background
Stinson was born in Findhorn, Scotland, and was raised in Vancouver, Canada. She earned her B.A. in Psychology from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, in 2001. She earned her Ph.D. in social-personality psychology from the University of Waterloo in 2007 under the supervision of John G. Holmes and Joanne V. Wood.
Professional Career
Following her doctoral studies, Stinson was awarded a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, which she completed at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, working with Sandra L. Murray. She began her current faculty position at the University of Victoria...
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Anthony, D. B., Holmes, J. G., & Wood, J. V. (2007). Social acceptance and self-esteem: Tuning the sociometer to interpersonal value. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 1024–1039.
Cameron, J. J., Stinson, D. A., Gaetz, R., & Balchen, S. (2010). Acceptance is in the eye of the beholder: Self-esteem and motivated perceptions of acceptance from the opposite sex. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 513–529.
Cameron, J. J., Stinson, D. A., Hole, L., & Schellenberg, J. (2016). The robust self-esteem proxy: Impressions of self-esteem inform judgments of personality and social value. Self and Identity, 15, 561–578.
Logel, C., Stinson, D. A., Gunn, G. R., Wood, J. V., Holmes, J. G., & Cameron, J. J. (2014). A little acceptance is good for your health: Interpersonal messages and weight change over time. Personal Relationships, 21, 583–598. https://doi.org/10.1111/pere.12050.
Stinson, D. A., Wood, J. V., & Doxey, J. R. (2008a). In search of clarity: Self-esteem and domains of confidence and confusion. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 1541–1555.
Stinson, D. A., Logel, C., Zanna, M. P., Holmes, J. G., Cameron, J. J., Wood, J. V., & Spencer, S. J. (2008b). The cost of lower self-esteem: Testing a self-and-social-bonds model of health. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 412–428.
Stinson, D. A., Logel, C., Holmes, J. G., Wood, J. V., Forest, A., Gaucher, D., Fitzsimons, G., & Kath, J. (2010). The regulatory function of self-esteem: Testing the acceptance and epistemic signaling systems. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 993–1013.
Stinson, D. A., Logel, C., Shepherd, S., & Zanna, M. P. (2011). Rewriting the self-fulfilling prophecy of social rejection: Self-affirmation improves relational security and social behavior up to 2 months later. Psychological Science, 22, 1145–1149.
Stinson, D. A., Gaucher, D., Wood, J. V., Reddoch, L. B., Holmes, J. G., & Little, D. C. G. (2012). Sex, “lies”, and videotape: Self-esteem and successful presentation of gender roles. Social Psychology and Personality Science, 3, 503–509.
Stinson, D. A., Cameron, J. J., Hoplock, L. B., & Hole, C. (2015). Warming up and cooling down: Self-esteem and behavioral responses to social threat during relationship initiation. Self and Identity, 14, 189–213.
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Stinson, D.A. (2020). Stinson, Danu Anthony. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_2040
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