Deborah S. RichardsonAugusta University · Department of Psychology
Deborah S. Richardson
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July 2019 - present
January 2014 - December 2018
August 2001 - July 2009
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Reacting to the Past (Reacting) is an active-learning pedagogy utilizing elaborate historical role-playing games. This study examined the effect of Reacting on student academic self-efficacy, perspective taking, engagement, and perceived learning, and considered whether these outcomes were impacted by the type of role a student assumed. Students fr...
The authors’ scholarly reflective narrative addresses the rewards and challenges of an immersive experiential active learning pedagogy. They ask, “was it worth it?” for students and for themselves. Although research evidence makes it clear that active learning benefits student learning and engagement, designing a course to incorporate active learni...
What behaviors do students consider as representative of exemplary teaching? Do those representations vary by context? This study evaluates 176 student nominations for a teaching award that asked nominators to articulate specific acts by individual instructors that exemplify “great teaching.” Through an iterative process, our content analysis ident...
This study examined the institutional awareness and impact of a low-stakes teaching award at Augusta University and asked if the perception of the award would vary as a function of teaching context. Faculty members from departments that did or did not include recipients of the "Caught in the Act of Great Teaching" award completed a survey that inqu...
Psychological theories of motivation and performance are relevant to teaching and learning in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The present study applies Dweck's mindset theory of motivation to an examination of the relationship among instructor mindset, instructor motivational attitudes, and the use of effec...
This chapter evaluates two models of Reacting to the Past (RTTP) implementation of the Modernism vs. Traditionalism: Art in Paris, 1888–89 game. The authors examined the impact of different configurations for employing the game in larger courses: the first configuration pairs students so that a single role is played by two students working together...
Many students who declare a psychology major are unaware that they are studying a scientific discipline, precipitating a need for exercises and experiences that help students understand the scientific nature of the discipline. The present study explores aspects of an introductory psychology class that may contribute to students’ understanding of ps...
Most studies of third-party perceptions of intimate partner violence focus on heterosexual relationships and report that male-to-female aggression is perceived more negatively than female-to-male. Since gender of aggressor and gender of victim are consistently confounded in these portrayals, it is not clear whether the gender of the aggressor or th...
Objective:
Lifelong learning is considered to be an element of professionalism for healthcare professionals. Accreditation standards for health professions educational programs require that lifelong learning be promoted in the curriculae; however, tools to assess whether these standards are met are sparse. This study evaluated the internal structu...
Background:
New developments in Subinternship curricula attempt to establish self-directed learning skills that will translate into the 1st year of residency. However, we know little about how well senior medical students' self-directed learning goals match with what is expected of them in residency.
Purposes:
We designed a mixed-methods study t...
Aggression can take a variety of forms; people hurt one another in a variety of ways. This article summarizes a research program that has examined several questions regarding how people harm one another in their day-to-day lives. The evidence shows that (a) the people that we interact with most frequently (e. g., family members, friends, romantic p...
Determine if third-parties perceive perpetrator motivations differently when gender of the perpetrator and of victim are unconfounded.
Abstract The Jefferson Scale of Lifelong Learning — Health Professions Students (JeffSLL-HPS) is intended to measure health professions students' lifelong learning. The authors, with permission, modified the Jefferson Scale of Physician Lifelong Learning-Medical Students Version (JeffSPLL-MS) to assess orientation toward lifelong learning among stu...
Purpose
Psychological flexibility involves mindful awareness of our thoughts and feelings without allowing them to prohibit acting consistently with our values and may have important implications for patient-centered clinical care. Although psychological flexibility appears quite relevant to the training and development of health care providers, pr...
We examined the impact of sex of perpetrator and sex of victim on perceptions of characteristics of combatants in psychological and physical intimate partner violence. Perpetrators of physical aggression were evaluated more negatively than perpetrators of psychological aggression; male perpetrators and male victims were evaluated more negatively th...
This presentation examines third-party perception across same-sex and cross-sex couples.
Abstract Introduction Authoring and publishing manuscripts for publication may expose junior scholars to challenging professional and ethical situations. Faculty members are often advised to determine authorship order when they start a manuscript, but there are times when it may not be possible to follow. Dialogue and discussion of various challeng...
This review of the literature examines the effect of contextual variables (i.e., characteristics of the perpetrator and victims, observer characteristics) on perceptions of physical and psychological aggression in close relationships. Observers view physical aggression as more serious, harmful, abusive, and more deserving of punishment than psychol...
The present study examined the association of love attitudes with the initiation, maintenance, and dissolution of relationships. Respondents completed the Love Attitudes Scale and a questionnaire designed to measure experiences at each stage of relationship development. Ludus was relevant to all stages of relationship development; ludic attitudes w...
This study explored the relationships and differences among two measures of indirect aggression [Bjorkqvist et al., 1994; Richardson and Green, 1997] and one of relational aggression [Crick and Grotpeter, 1995]. Over 300 students (mean age 22.8 years; 61.5% female) from two colleges in the Southeastern United States completed measures of indirect a...
We compared the instructional efficacy of a narrative text (i.e., a story) and an expository text (i.e., a textbook excerpt). Students enrolled in Abnormal Psychology classes read about the disorder, dissociative fugue from a story, a textbook, or both. The story contained literary elements that increased transportation into the story world. We pre...
The central aim of this article is to investigate the relationship between prevolitional processes and aggressive behavior. More specifically, the role of the goal underlying aggressive behavior was examined. A model of attitude, the Extended Model of Goal-directed Behavior, was tested with structural equation models to analyze the process that lea...
This study examines the extent to which implicit measures of aggressiveness predict actual aggressive behavior in response to provocation. Participants (n = 77) completed implicit measures of aggressiveness, were or were not exposed to insult from an exper-imenter, evaluated the performance of the experimenter (i.e., opportunity for aggressive beha...
In a context in which aggressive behavior has been predominantly predicted by self-reports, this paper considers how a theoretical and empirical examination of automatic and deliberative processes in information processing and decision making may contribute to our understanding of aggressive behavior. We review research devoted to distinguishing tw...
Perspective-taking functions as an inhibitor of interpersonal aggression and as a facilitator of prosocial behavior. The present study examined the extent to which perspective-taking enhances nonaggressive responses in a situation in which people typically make aggressive responses. It also examined the relationship between perspective-taking and r...
A considerable research literature has examined gender differences in aggressive behavior. This paper argues that such emphasis on gender effects in human aggression is misplaced, and it presents a focused review of research on (a) gender roles versus gender as predictors of aggression, (b) gender differences in direct and indirect aggression, (c)...
The studies reported in this paper examined the effect of social context—target gender and target relationship—on reports of direct and indirect aggression. In Study 1, participants completed the Richardson Conflict Response Questionnaire (RCRQ; Richardson & Green, 2003), which measured their direct and indirect aggression behavior in response to a...
This paper presents two studies that explore the link between self-reported conflict management strategies and aggression. It was predicted that conflict strategies involving concern for the needs of the other would be inconsistent with aggressive behavior. On the other hand, conflict strategies that involve coercion and domination were predicted t...
Critics of self-report methods suggest that participants are likely to underreport their own negative behaviors given concerns about social desirability. The current study examined the problem of self-report bias by comparing individuals' estimates of their own and others' aggressive behavior. Undergraduate students (95 women, 50 men) completed the...
This article reviews an extensive program of research that has examined gender differences in aggressive behavior. Early research in the aggression laboratory that was designed to explain why females were nonaggressive actually revealed that females did respond to provocation and that they could not accurately be depicted as passive individuals. Su...
This multi-method research linked the Big Five personality dimensions to aggression in early adolescence. Agreeableness was the personality dimension of focus because this dimension is associated with motives to maintain positive interpersonal relations. In two studies, middle school children were assessed on the Big Five domains of personality. St...
A sample of 113 healthy older adults used a variant of the Rochester Interaction Record to describe the social interactions they had each day for two weeks. They also completed various measures of psychological well-being including life satisfaction and loneliness. A series of multilevel random coefficient analyses found that life satisfaction scor...
The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to examine social network correlates of social and emotional loneliness to demonstrate that social and emotional loneliness are different constructs and (b) to investigate the possibility of age differences in the relationship between loneliness and social network characteristics. Results indicated that fo...
This chapter reports on a study that compares instrumental beliefs about and experiences with aggression among university students from the United States and France. Students in the United States were expected to have more instrumental beliefs about aggression than students in France, because of their greater need to justify behavior with which the...
This study examined interpersonally aggressive strategies among older adults and the social and personal context in which these strategies are likely to be employed. Specifically we assessed the relationship of social interaction networks and gender roles to the use of direct and indirect aggression. We predicted that older adults would be more lik...
The present study examined two explanations for gender differences in expression of direct and indirect aggression. The social sanction model suggests that aggressor and target gender effects may be accounted for in terms of social sanctions against behaving aggressively; indirect aggression is the likely outcome of inhibitions against expression o...
The present study examined two explanations for gender differences in expression of direct and indirect aggression. The social sanction model suggests that aggressor and target gender effects may be accounted for in terms of social sanctions against behaving aggressively; indirect aggression is the likely outcome of inhibitions against expression o...
This review examines the relationship between individual determinants and age-related changes in the use of direct and indirect aggression among male and female older adults. To the extent that age-related changes in the use of conflict strategies, gender roles, and emotional responsiveness play a role in the expression of aggression, older adults...
This review examines the relationship between individual determinants and age-related changes in the use of direct and indirect aggression among male and female older adults. To the extent that age-related changes in the use of conflict strategies, gender roles, and emotional responsiveness play a role in the expression of aggression, older adults...
Intoxication of the assailant and/or victim is often mentioned in relation to acquaintance rape. The present study tests how independent observers use this information in their perceptions of acquaintance and stranger rape. One hundred and forty-nine females and 104 males read scenarios depicting a sexual assault and made attributions of responsibi...
When we think of someone causing harm to another person, we usually think of that harm being delivered directly. Many of our experiences as either perpetrators or targets of aggression are likely to have involved direct confrontation; someone says something hurtful or rude to another person or someone hits or throws something at another person. How...
Examined the relationship between social network density and aggression by administering self-report measures of each variable to 148 undergraduates (92 women, 52 men). Males with high-density networks reported more indirect than direct aggression, and less direct aggression than males with low-density networks. Use of direct and indirect aggressio...
The studies presented in this paper examined empathy, especially perspective taking, as a potential inhibitor of interpersonal aggression. The theoretical rationale for these investigations derived from Zillmann's [(1988): Aggressive Behavior 14: 51–64] cognitive excitation model. Study 1 revealed that dispositional empathy correlates negatively wi...
The studies presented in this paper examined empathy, especially perspective taking, as a potential inhibitor of interpersonal aggression. The theoretical rationale for these investigations derived from Zillmann's [(1988): Aggressive Behavior 14: 51–64] cognitive excitation model. Study 1 revealed that dispositional empathy correlates negatively wi...
Richardson and Campbell (1980, 1982), in studying attributions of blame and responsibility for violent interactions, found that intoxicated victims were blamed more and held more responsible for their victimization than their sober counterparts. Two alternative explanations were proposed to account for this finding: the just world hypothesis and th...
83 male and 117 female undergraduates participated in a study using aggressive learning history, provocation, sex of target, sex of S, sex-role orientation, and aggressive tendencies as variables in a multiple factor approach to test additive and multiplicative models as well as to isolate a best predictive model of physical aggression. Multiple re...
A multipte factor approach was used to test additive and multiplicative models as well as to isolate a best predictive model of physical aggression. The variables of aggressive learning history, provocation, sex of target, sex of subject, sex-role orientation, and aggressive tendencies were selected. Eighty-three males and 117 females participated...
This paper presents two studies that explore the link between self-reported conflict management strategies and aggression. It was predicted that conflict strategies involving concern for the needs of the other would be inconsistent with aggressive behavior. O n the other hand, conflict strategies that involve coeraon and domination were predicted t...
The purpose of the present study was to examine the applicability of the Rahim (Academy of Management Journal, 26, 368–376, 1983) Organizational Conflict Inventory for the measurement of conflict responses in social relationships. Three samples of subjects completed versions of the ROCI-II specifying different targets (e.g. parent, friend, sibling)...
This study addressed the extent to which personality factors are related to responses to interpersonal conflict. Two issues were examined: (a) the relationship between personality measures and conflict styles and (b) the consistency of conflict response style across targets. One hundred and fifty-three college students evaluated five different conf...
Equity theory was used to predict the amount of aggression that an individual would emit after being subjected to either positive or negative inequity. Actual and psychological equity restoration techniques were considered. Fifty-four males participated in the experiment. Results indicate that actual equity-restoring techniques were adopted by all...
The present study was designed to test the validity of a typology and measure of styles of loving by examining the relationships among love styles, romantic experience and sensation seeking. Male and female research participants completed the Hendrick's (1986) Attitudes toward Love Scale and a measure of sensation seeking and answered a variety of...
Two studies were conducted to design and validate a measure of perceptions of risk in intimacy. A 10-item scale with high internal consistency was developed and related to romantic involvement, self-esteem, assertiveness, interpersonal trust, sensation seeking, extraversion and attitudes toward love. Individuals who scored high on this `Risk in Int...
We sought an integrative perspective on relations among work and nonwork stress and satisfaction in terms of their similarity in life domain (work vs. non-work) and psychological outcome (satisfaction vs. stress) facets. In a sample of American "insulated sojourners," we hypothesized stronger relations among outcomes (and their putative determinant...
This study examined the effects of sensation seeking on responses to interpersonal conflict. A total of 153 male and female subjects completed the Sensation-Seeking Scale and three versions of the Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventory. Sensation seeking was related to conflict responses for females only; high sensation-seeking females reported do...
This study was designed to determine whether high sensation seekers seek positive or intense stimuli. Research participants were tested on their memory for positive and negative words that were extreme or moderate in intensity. The finding that low sensation-seeking females remembered more words than any of the other groups of research participants...
Although the Taylor and Buss paradigms have been the most widely used measures of human physical aggression, few attempts have been made to establish validity of the measures. The present investigation attempted to demonstrate convergent and discriminant validity of the paradigms. Fifty-five males engaged in five tasks designed to measure helping,...
The present studies examined the effect of differential power to cause harm to one another on individuals' retaliative responding. Participants with less, equal, or greater power relative to their target set shocks for one another in the context of a reaction-time task. Those in the less power condition consistently set higher shocks for their targ...
The present study focused on the effects of two variables that have been proposed as determinants of male violence toward female targets in American society. One target variable, verbal attack, and one aggressor variable, masculine performance, were manipulated. Forty male research participants competed in a reaction-time task with a female confede...
Replies to the comments of Z. Rubin (see record
1985-16257-001) on the present authors' study (see record
1984-00117-001) of the role of debriefing in ameliorating harmful effects of deception or other potentially harmful manipulations in psychology experiments. It is suggested that Rubin misunderstood the purpose of the study, which was to focus...
Replies to the comments of Z. Rubin (see record 1985-16257-001) on the present authors' study (see record 1984-00117-001) of the role of debriefing in ameliorating harmful effects of deception or other potentially harmful manipulations in psychology experiments. It is suggested that Rubin misunderstood the purpose of the study, which was to focus o...
Various studies have suggested that the incidence of marital violence is moderate to high and that such violence often results from spouses making erroneous attributions regarding the behavior of their mates. It has also been found that the type of attributions observers typically make can be modified by directing observers to be more empathic and...
The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of same-sex rivalry and inequity on retaliative aggression directed toward dyad targets. One member of the excluding pair initiated the rejection of the research participant; the other played the role of follower. The rejecting pair consisted of male initiator/female follower, male initiat...
Determined the effects of deception and harm on research participants' perceptions of their experiences in psychology experiments. In addition, the role of debriefing in reducing any negative effects was examined. 464 undergraduates who had participated in psychology experiments during the academic quarter completed questionnaires on their percepti...
Examined the effects of victim and offender intoxication on attributions of blame in a rape incident. 97 female and 90 male undergraduates read scenarios of a rape incident in which victim, offender, both, or neither were intoxicated. Ss were asked to make differential attributions of blame, to rate the traits of the rapist and victim, and to answe...
This study attempted to determine the effects of alcohol, verbal provocation, and target strategy on male aggression toward female targets. Intoxicated and nonintoxicated male research participants competed with a female confederate in a reaction time task designed to measure aggression. Intoxicated participants responded more aggressively than did...
Eighty research participants who were either traditional or nontraditional in their attitudes toward women rated their attraction toward male or female stimulus strangers who were either masculine or feminine in expressed sex-role preferences. Results replicated previous findings of a preference for stimulus persons who express "appropriate" sex-ro...
This bibliography consists of 525 journal articles selected from 11 journals. The articles are arranged under 31 subject headings, with headings arranged alphabetically, and authors listed alphabetically under each heading. For ease of use, articles are numbered consecutively 1-525. This bibliography should be useful for courses emphasizing current...
The aggressive behavior of female subjects who held either liberal or traditional beliefs concerning the role of women in modern society was investigated as a function of provocation by traditional or liberal male opponents. Traditional female subjects responded more aggressively than liberal females. The male opponent's attitude had no effect on f...
This study attempted to determine the effects of husband and wife intoxication on attributions of blame in a wife abuse incident. Participants read case history or newspaper accounts of a violent incident in which either, both, or neither spouse was intoxicated While the majority of blame was assigned to the husband, apparent drunkenness of the spo...
Most studies that have found sex differences in aggression have reported that males are more aggressive than females. Recent evidence, however, suggests that the expectation of female nonaggressiveness may be unwarranted. The present study attempted to reconcile these differences by considering the contingencies of female aggression. Thirty females...
This bibliography consists of 525 journal articles selected from 11 journals. The articles are arranged under 31 subject headings, with headings arranged alphabetically, and authors listed alphabetically under each heading. For ease of use, articles are numbered consecutively 1-525. This bibliography should be useful for courses emphasizing current...
Psychological studies concerned with the possible differential effects of sex of experimenter (E) on S behavior are examined and summarized. The areas surveyed include task performance (for children as well as adult Ss), clinical and psychological testing, social and person perception, and role relationships (e.g., counselor–client, teacher–student...
This bibliography updates a previous one published in this journal (FSPB, 1976, 2, 191-206). The bibliography consists of 730 journal articles selected from 14 journals. The articles are arranged under 38 subject headings, with headings arranged alphabetically. and authors listed alphabetically under each heading. For ease of use the articles are n...
Intoxicated and nonintoxicated subjects competed in a reaction time situation against either a potentially threatening opponent or a nonthreatening opponent. The results indicated that the intoxicated subjects initiated higher levels of attack than the nonintoxicated subjects only in the threatening situation. It was concluded that aggression is no...
40 intoxicated and nonintoxicated male undergraduates competed in a reaction time situation against either a potentially threatening opponent or a nonthreatening opponent. Results indicate that the intoxicated Ss initiated higher levels of attack than the nonintoxicated Ss only in the threatening situation. It is concluded that aggression is not ju...
The present bibliography updates three previous manuscripts which Hendrick helped develop. Articles from five journals are arranged alphabetically by heading and by author under 31 subject headings. The journals are Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of...
This special issue of
International Review of Social Psychology examines the topic of nondirect aggression which includes variety of "new" kinds of aggression, i.e., indirect aggression, covert aggression, and psychological aggression. The articles in this special issue have taken on the task of dealing with a behavior type that is difficult to de...
Typescript. Thesis (M.A.)--College of William and Mary. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-77).
Microfilm. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Kent State University Graduate College, 1978. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-113).