Notes. Co-authors who were graduate students in the SWELL lab when the research was conducted are underlined. Prior to 2008, Dr. Stinson published as “D.B. Anthony.”
2025
Fisher, A.N., Stinson, D.A., Kalajdzic, A., Dupuis, H.E., Lowey, E.E., Desgrosseilliers, E., & MacIntosh, A. (2025) “A Recipe for Disaster?”: Female-breadwinner relationships threaten heterosexual scripts. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 91, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-025-01560-y [Open Access]
Desgrosseilliers, E. & Stinson, D.A. (2023). Burdened and blamed: Empowerment messaging increases attributions of women’s responsibility for gender inequality in the Canadian Armed Forces. Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science/Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement 57, 23-33. https://doi.org/10.1037/cbs0000390 [Download]
- Editor’s Choice Awardee, American Psychological Association, awarded to papers representing the best science in each area of psychology, reflecting science that is exceptionally important, impactful, and deserves additional visibility for the whole field.
2023
Flanagan, K., Stinson, D. A., & Prest, A. (2023). Adapting actor education for pandemic-friendly mediums: A play about self-preservation and self-presentation. In B. W. Andrews (Ed.), Arts Education: A Global Affair (pp. 37-57). Brill of Leiden.
2022
Cameron, J.J. & Stinson, D.A. (2022). Ethical gender/sex measurement in Canadian research. Canadian Psychology/Psychology canadienne, 63, 536-544. [Download]
Hoplock, L.B. & Stinson, D.A. (2022). Rules of engagement: A content analysis of accepted and rejected marriage proposals. Journal of Family Psychology, 36, 258-267. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000903 [Download]
Stinson, D.A., Cameron, J.J., & Hoplock, L.B. (2022). The friends-to-lovers pathway to romance: Prevalent, preferred, and overlooked by science. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13, 562-571. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506211026992 [Open Access Download]
Stinson, D.A., Hoplock, L.B., & Huang, E.T. (2022). The tell-tale heart: Self-esteem, arousal, and relationship initiation. Self and Identity, 21 , 775-791. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2021.1992494 [Download]
Sturgess, C.M.B. & Stinson, D.A. (2022). Fat embodiment for resistance and healing from weight stigma. Body Image, 41, 52-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2022.02.007 [Download]
2021
Fisher, A.N., Stinson, D.A., Wood, J.V., Holmes, J.G., & Cameron, J.J. (2021). Singlehood and attunement of self-esteem to friendships. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12, 1326-1334. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550620988460 [Download]
(2021) Homeostasis, Interrupted: Living with and Recovering from a Stigmatized Identity, Psychological Inquiry, 32, 253-259, https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2021.2004822 [Download]
2020
Fisher, A.N., Boc, M., Stinson, D.A., Kalajdzic, A., Huber, E., & Robertson, M. (2020). Client experiences in Recovery Addiction Support Services. Report prepared for Island Health. [Download]
Fisher, A.N. & Stinson, D.A. (2020). Ambivalent attraction: Beauty determines whether men romantically desire or dismiss high-status women. Personality and Individual Differences, 154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.109681 [Download]
Stinson, D. A. & Cameron, J. J. (2020). Teaching and Learning Guide for: Guidelines for respecting gender diversity in psychological research. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 14, e12535. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12535 [Download]
Stinson, D.A. & Fisher, A.N. (2020). Self-esteem and health. In K. Sweeney and M.L. Robbins (Eds.), Wiley Encyclopedia of Health Psychology (615-621). New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc. [Download]
2019
Cameron, J. J. & Stinson, D. A. (2019). Gender (mis)measurement: Guidelines for respecting gender diversity in psychological research. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 13, e12506.https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12506 [Download]
Fisher, A.N., Stinson, D.A., & Kalajdzic, A. (2019). Unpacking backlash: Individual and contextual moderators of bias against female professors. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 41, 305-325. https://doi.org/10.1080/01973533.2019.1652178 [Download]
Hoplock, L.B., Stinson, D.A., & Joordens, C.T. (2019). “Is she really going out with him?”: Attractiveness exchange and commitment scripts for romantic relationships. Personality and Individual Differences, 139, 181-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.11.014 [Download]
Hoplock, L.B., Stinson, D.A., Marigold, D.C., & Fisher, A.N. (2019). Self-Esteem, epistemic needs, and responses to social feedback. Self and Identity, 18, 467-493. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2018.1471414 [Download]
2016-2018
Cameron, J.J. & Stinson D.A. (2017). Sociometer theory. In V. Zeigler-Hill and T.K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. New York, NY: Springer. DOI: 1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1187-1 [Download]
Stinson, D.A. & Swann, W.B. Jr. (2017). Leveraging self psychology to strengthen positive psychology: Conceptual analysis of three paths to well-being. In F. Guay, H. Marsh, D.M. McInerney, and R.G. Craven (Eds.), International Advances in Self Research, 6th Edition: Driving Positive Psychology and Well-Being. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing. [Download]
Fisher, A.N., Stinson D.A., & Cameron, J.J. (2017). Self-esteem reflects assessments of valuation. In T.K. Shackelford and V.A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. New York, NY: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1444-1 [Download]
Cheung, I., Campbell, L., LeBel, E… Hoplock, L.B... Stinson, D.A… et al. (2016). Registered Replication Report: Study 1 from Finkel, Rusbult, Kumashiro, & Hannon (2002). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11, 750-764. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691616664694 [Download]
Cameron, J.J., Stinson, D.A., Hoplock, L.B., 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. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2016.1175373 [Download]
Stinson D.A. (2016). Stinson, Danu Anthony [biographical entry]. In V. Zeigler-Hill and T.K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. New York, NY: Springer, Cham.
Stinson, D.A., Holmes, J.G., & He, T.H. (2016). Rejection in romantic relationships. In K.D. Williams & S.A. Nida (Eds.) Ostracism, exclusion, and rejection (pp. 164-176). New York, NY: Psychology Press. [Download]
2013-2015
Logel, C., Stinson, D.A., & Brochu, P.M. (2015). Weight loss is not the answer: A well-being solution to the “obesity problem.” Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 9, 678-695. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12223 Download
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. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2014.969301 [Download]
Stinson, D.A., Cameron, J.J., & Huang, E.T. (2015). Your sociometer is telling you something: How the self-esteem system functions to resolve important interpersonal dilemmas. In V. Zeigler-Hill, L. Welling, & T. Shackelford (Eds.) Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Psychology (pp. 137-147). New York: Springer Publishing. [Download]
Stinson, D.A., Cameron, J.J., & Robinson, K.J. (2015). The good, the bad, and the risky: Self-esteem, rewards and costs, and interpersonal risk-regulation during relationship initiation. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 32, 1109-1136. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407514558961 [Download]
Logel, C., Stinson, D. A., Gunn, G. R., Wood, J. V., Holmes, J. G. and 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 [Download]
- Winner of the 2016 Best Paper Prize, awarded by the International Association for Relationship Research.
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, 685-691. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550613476309 [Download]
2010-2012
Gaucher, D., Wood, J.V., Stinson, D.A., Forest, A.L., Holmes, J.G., & Logel, C. (2012). Perceived regard explains self-esteem differences in expressivity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 1144 – 1156. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167212445790 [Download]
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. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550611427772 [Download]
Stinson, 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. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797611417725 [Download]
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. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0020310 [Download]
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. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0018558 [Download]
Stinson, D.A. & Holmes, J.G. (2010). Sociometer Theory. In J.M. Levine and M.A. Hogg (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. New York: Sage Publications Inc. [Download]
2006-2009
Stinson, D.A., Cameron, J.J., Wood, J.V., Gaucher, G. & Holmes, J.G. (2009) Deconstructing the “reign of error:” Interpersonal warmth explains the self-fulfilling prophecy of anticipated acceptance. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 1165-1168. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167209338629 [Download]
Murray, S.L., Aloni, M., Holmes, J.G., Derrick, J.L., Stinson, D.A., & Leder, S. (2009) Fostering partner dependence as commitment insurance: The implicit contingencies of the exchange principle in close relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 324- 348. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0012856 [Download]
Stinson, D.A., Wood, J.V., & Doxey, J.R (2008). In search of clarity: Self-esteem and domains of confidence and confusion. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 1541-1555. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167208323102 [Download]
Stinson, D.A., Logel, C., Zanna, M.P., Holmes, J.G., Cameron, J.J., Wood, J.V., & Spencer, S.J. (2008). The cost of lower self-esteem: Testing a self-and-social-bonds model of health. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 412-428. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.94.3.412 [Download]
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. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.92.6.1024 [Download]
Anthony, D.B., Wood, J.V., & Holmes, J.G. (2007). Testing sociometer theory: Self-esteem and the importance of acceptance for social decision-making. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 425 – 432. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2006.03.002 [Download]
Holmes, J.G. & Anthony, D.B. (2006). Affect and the regulation of interdependence in personal relationships. In J.P Forgas (Ed.), Affect in social thinking and behavior (pp. 327-343). New York: Psychology Press. [Download]
Wood, J.V., Anthony, D.B., & Foddis, W.F. (2006). Should people with low self-esteem strive for high self-esteem? In Kernis, M.H. (Ed.), Self-Esteem issues and answers: A source book of current perspectives (pp. 288-296). New York: Psychology Press. [Download]