Marc A. Sestir
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Associate Professor of Psychology
Also affiliated: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2005–2019); Hobart and William Smith Colleges (2010); Gettysburg College (2010)
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Biography and Research Information
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Marc A. Sestir's research investigates the psychological and neurological correlates of aggression, media consumption, and bias. His work has explored the effects of violent video game exposure on desensitization to violence and its link to personality traits, empathy, and aggressive behavior. Sestir has also examined how identification and transportation into media narratives can temporarily alter self-concept, and how emotional engagement with both fact and fiction influences transportation effects.
Further research by Sestir has focused on stereotype activation and the cognitive control of racial bias, including the impact of alcohol on inhibitory processes. He has published 24 works with a total of 1,325 citations and an h-index of 9. Sestir has collaborated with Jennifer Peszka (Hendrix College) on three publications, David Mastin (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) on two publications, and Joanna G. Bartley (Hendrix College) on one publication. He remains an active researcher, with his most recent publication in 2022.
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- h-index: 9
- Publications: 26
- Citations: 1,331
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Associate Professor of Psychology publications 2017–2022University of Central Arkansas Institution web page
Selected Publications
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0047 Relationship of Emotions, Social Isolation, and COVID-Related Media to Subjective Sleep Quality during the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022)
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New Statistics, Old Schools: An Overview of Current Introductory Undergraduate and Graduate Statistics Pedagogy Practices (2021)
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189 Changes in Sleep Hygiene and Sleepiness Following Social Distancing Related to COVID-19 (2021)
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Transportation (2020)
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Home is just a phone away: Mobile phones and severity of social pain experiences (2020)
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This is the Way the World “Friends”: Social Network Site Usage and Cultivation Effects (2020)2 citations OpenAlex
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Relationships between video game play factors and frequency of lucid and control dreaming experiences. (2019)
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0186 The Relationships between General Technology Use, Technology Use at Bedtime, and Sleep (2019)
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0205 A Population Comparison of Active and Passive Bedtime Social Technology Use (2018)
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Transportation Theory (2017)
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Emotion and transportation into fact and fiction (2012)
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- New Statistics, Old Schools: An Overview of Current Introductory Undergraduate and Graduate Statistics Pedagogy Practices
- Relationships between video game play factors and frequency of lucid and control dreaming experiences.
- 189 Changes in Sleep Hygiene and Sleepiness Following Social Distancing Related to COVID-19
- 0205 A Population Comparison of Active and Passive Bedtime Social Technology Use
- 0186 The Relationships between General Technology Use, Technology Use at Bedtime, and Sleep
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
- New Statistics, Old Schools: An Overview of Current Introductory Undergraduate and Graduate Statistics Pedagogy Practices
- 189 Changes in Sleep Hygiene and Sleepiness Following Social Distancing Related to COVID-19
- 0205 A Population Comparison of Active and Passive Bedtime Social Technology Use
- 0186 The Relationships between General Technology Use, Technology Use at Bedtime, and Sleep
- 0047 Relationship of Emotions, Social Isolation, and COVID-Related Media to Subjective Sleep Quality during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- 189 Changes in Sleep Hygiene and Sleepiness Following Social Distancing Related to COVID-19
- 0205 A Population Comparison of Active and Passive Bedtime Social Technology Use
- 0186 The Relationships between General Technology Use, Technology Use at Bedtime, and Sleep
- 0047 Relationship of Emotions, Social Isolation, and COVID-Related Media to Subjective Sleep Quality during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Emotion and transportation into fact and fiction
- Transportation Theory
- Transportation
- 189 Changes in Sleep Hygiene and Sleepiness Following Social Distancing Related to COVID-19
- 0047 Relationship of Emotions, Social Isolation, and COVID-Related Media to Subjective Sleep Quality during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Emotion and transportation into fact and fiction
- Relationships between video game play factors and frequency of lucid and control dreaming experiences.
- New Statistics, Old Schools: An Overview of Current Introductory Undergraduate and Graduate Statistics Pedagogy Practices
- Transportation
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