Research Interests for Jorgianne I. Hicks

Research Interests: Hoyle

    My primary research focuses on the influence of rejection or exclusion experiences on self-regulation and self-esteem. Additionally, I am very interested in the complex interplay between self-evaluative and social comparative processes.
    Recently, I have also developed great respect for meta-analytic investigations of social psychological findings and social policy-relevant practices. Accordingly, another one of my academic interests has become research synthesis, broadly-applied.         This semester I am conducting my dissertation research, examining the influence of sustained focus on rejection cues on self-evaluative and self-regulatory outcomes.

Keywords:
self-esteem, self-regulation, social comparison, meta-analysis
Current projects:
(Collaborators appear in parentheses)
Exclusion and self-esteem (R. Hoyle)
Ranking and inclusionary status(R. Smith & C. Powell)
Representative Publications   (search)
  1. Robinson, J. C., Hoyle, R. H., Cooper, H., & Smith, R. H, Self-evaluative consequences of social comparisons of physical attractiveness: A meta-analytic review (Submitted, 2006) [abs].
  2. Cooper, H; Robinson, JC; Patall, EA, Does homework improve academic achievement? A synthesis of research, 1987-2003, Review of Educational Research, vol. 76 no. 1 (2006), pp. 1-62 [doi[abs].
  3. Hoyle, R. H., & Robinson, J. C., Mediated and moderated effects in social psychological research: Measurement, design, and analysis issues, in Handbook of methods in social psychology, edited by C. Sansone, C. Morf, & A. T. Panter (2003), Sage.
  4. Cooper, H., Robinson, J. C., & Dorr, N., Conducting a meta-analysis, in Psychology research handbook: A primer for graduate students and research assistants, (2nd ed.), edited by T. L. Leong & J. T. (2005), Sage.