Jessica J. Cameron is currently a Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Manitoba, Canada. In her academic career, Jessica Cameron has focused on studying self-esteem and other forms of security in interpersonal contexts such as romantic relationship initiation, communication, and person-perception.
Basic and Educational Background
Jessica Cameron was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the heart of the Canadian prairies. In 1998, Jessica Cameron earned her BA (honors) from the University of Manitoba and then pursued her graduate training at the University of Waterloo under the supervision of John G. Holmes and Michael Ross. In 2003, she received her PhD, making her the second woman in her family to earn a graduate education.
Professional Career
Since 2003, Jessica Cameron has worked in the Social and Personality area in the Department of Psychology at the University of Manitoba. She has published her research in prestigious outlets such as the Journal of...
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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., Holmes, J. G., & Vorauer, J. D. (2011). Cascading metaperceptions: Signal amplification bias as a consequence of reflected self-esteem. Self and Identity, 10, 1–17.
Cameron, J. J., Stinson, D. A., & Wood, J. V. (2013). The Bold and the bashful: Self-esteem, gender, and relationship initiation. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4(6), 685–692. https://doi.org/10.1177/1 948550613476309.
Cameron, J. J., Stinson, D. A., Hoplock, L., Hole, C., & 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.
Robinson, K. J., & Cameron, J. J. (2012). Self-esteem is a shared relationship resource: Additive effects of dating partners’ self-esteem levels predict relationship quality. Journal of Research in Personality, 46, 227–230.
Vorauer, J. D., Cameron, J. J., Holmes, J. G., & Pearce, D. G. (2003). Invisible overtures: Fears of rejection and the signal amplification bias. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 793–812.
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Cameron, J.J. (2020). Cameron, Jessica J.. 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_330
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