Scholars@Duke
Erin Davisson

Erin Davisson

Research Scientist
Center for Child and Family Policy
ekb8@duke.edu
Box 90420, Durham, NC 27708-0420
2024 W. Main St, Erwin Mill Building, Bay B Box 90420, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

Motivated misperception: Self-regulatory resources affect goal appraisals

Journal Article Journal of Experimental Social Psychology · January 1, 2014 Three studies examine how self-regulatory resources affect goal appraisals, finding support for the hypothesis that when low in self-regulatory resources, individuals endorse statements that rationalize either inaction or less effortful goal pursuit. Study ... Full text Cite

Self-Control and Forgiveness: A Meta-Analytic Review

Journal Article Social Psychological and Personality Science · January 1, 2014 In the 12 years since scholars first investigated the link between self-control and forgiveness (Finkel & Campbell, 2001), the literature investigating this relation has grown rapidly. The present article reports a meta-analytic review of this link across ... Full text Cite

Riding other people's coattails: individuals with low self-control value self-control in other people.

Journal Article Psychological science · June 2013 Two laboratory experiments and one dyadic study of ongoing relationships of romantic partners examined how temporary and chronic deficits in self-control affect individuals' evaluations of other people. We suggest that when individuals lack self-control re ... Full text Cite

Compensating, resisting, and breaking: a meta-analytic examination of reactions to self-esteem threat.

Journal Article Personality and social psychology review : an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc · February 2011 Much research has identified how people react to receiving threatening information about the self. The purpose of this article is to discuss such experiences in the context of a model of state self-esteem regulation. The authors propose that people engage ... Full text Cite