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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2022
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Marc A. Sestir

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Researcher

Also affiliated: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2005–2019); Hobart and William Smith Colleges (2010); Gettysburg College (2010); Conway School of Landscape Design (2018–2021)

Faculty Researcher

8 h-index 24 pubs 1,321 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 interests include the relationship between emotions, social isolation, and sleep quality, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. His work has investigated changes in sleep hygiene and sleepiness following social distancing measures related to the pandemic. Sestir also has an interest in statistics pedagogy, having published on current practices in introductory undergraduate and graduate statistics education. His scholarship metrics include an h-index of 8, with 24 total publications and 1,298 total citations. He has collaborated with Jennifer Peszka and David Mastin on multiple publications, indicating an active research network.

Metrics

  • h-index: 8
  • Publications: 24
  • Citations: 1,321

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 80 citations DOI OpenAlex

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