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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2022
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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)

9 h-index 26 pubs 1,331 cited

  • Adult
  • Aggression
  • Cues
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Personality
  • Reaction Time
  • Inhibition, Psychological
  • Internal-External Control
  • Prejudice
  • Stereotyping
  • Adolescent
  • Empathy
  • Hostility
  • Psychological Theory

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

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.

Metrics

  • h-index: 9
  • Publications: 26
  • Citations: 1,331

Positions

Selected Publications

  • 0047 Relationship of Emotions, Social Isolation, and COVID-Related Media to Subjective Sleep Quality during the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022)
    SLEEP DOI OpenAlex
  • New Statistics, Old Schools: An Overview of Current Introductory Undergraduate and Graduate Statistics Pedagogy Practices (2021)
    Teaching of Psychology 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • 189 Changes in Sleep Hygiene and Sleepiness Following Social Distancing Related to COVID-19 (2021)
    SLEEP 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Transportation (2020)
    The International Encyclopedia of Media Psychology DOI OpenAlex
  • Home is just a phone away: Mobile phones and severity of social pain experiences (2020)
    Poetics 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • This is the Way the World “Friends”: Social Network Site Usage and Cultivation Effects (2020)
    2 citations OpenAlex
  • Relationships between video game play factors and frequency of lucid and control dreaming experiences. (2019)
    Dreaming 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • 0186 The Relationships between General Technology Use, Technology Use at Bedtime, and Sleep (2019)
    SLEEP DOI OpenAlex
  • 0205 A Population Comparison of Active and Passive Bedtime Social Technology Use (2018)
    SLEEP DOI OpenAlex
  • Transportation Theory (2017)
    The International Encyclopedia of Media Effects 37 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Emotion and transportation into fact and fiction (2012)
    Scientific Study of Literature 81 citations DOI OpenAlex

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