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Overview

Jim Blascovich is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States.

Best Publications

  • Measures of self-esteem.

    Jim Blascovich;Joseph Tomaka

  • Immersive Virtual Environment Technology as a Methodological Tool for Social Psychology

    Jim Blascovich;Jack Loomis;Andrew C. Beall;Kimberly R. Swinth

  • Subjective, physiological, and behavioral effects of threat and challenge appraisal.

    Joe Tomaka;Jim Blascovich;Robert M. Kelsey;Christopher L. Leitten

  • The Biopsychosocial Model of Arousal Regulation

    Jim Blascovich;Joe Tomaka

  • African Americans and High Blood Pressure: The Role of Stereotype Threat:

    Jim Blascovich;Steven J. Spencer;Diane Quinn;Claude Steele

  • Interpersonal Distance in Immersive Virtual Environments

    Jeremy N. Bailenson;Jim Blascovich;Andrew C. Beall;Jack M. Loomis

  • Immersive virtual environment technology as a basic research tool in psychology.

    Jack M. Loomis;James J. Blascovich;Andrew C. Beall

  • Cardiovascular reactivity and the presence of pets, friends, and spouses: the truth about cats and dogs.

    Karen Allen;Jim Blascovich;Wendy B. Mendes

  • Perceiver threat in social interactions with stigmatized others.

    Jim Blascovich;Wendy Berry Mendes;Sarah B. Hunter;Brian Lickel

  • Cognitive and physiological antecedents of threat and challenge appraisal.

    Joe Tomaka;Jim Blascovich;Jeffery L. Kibler;John M. Ernst

  • Presence of human friends and pet dogs as moderators of autonomic responses to stress in women.

    Karen M. Allen;Jim Blascovich;Joe Tomaka;Robert M. Kelsey

  • The Use of Immersive Virtual Reality in the Learning Sciences: Digital Transformations of Teachers, Students, and Social Context

    Jeremy N. Bailenson;Nick Yee;Jim Blascovich;Andrew C. Beall

  • Challenge and Threat Appraisals: The Role of Affective Cues

    Jim Blascovich;Wendy Berry Mendes

  • Equilibrium Theory Revisited: Mutual Gaze and Personal Space in Virtual Environments

    Jeremy N. Bailenson;Jim Blascovich;Andrew C. Beall;Jack M. Loomis

  • Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds, and the Dawn of the Virtual Revolution

    Jim Blascovich;Jeremy Bailenson

  • Social “Facilitation” as Challenge and Threat

    Jim Blascovich;Wendy Berry Mendes;Sarah B. Hunter;Kristen Salomon

  • How Attributional Ambiguity Shapes Physiological and Emotional Responses to Social Rejection and Acceptance

    Wendy Berry Mendes;Brenda Major;Shannon McCoy;Jim Blascovich

  • The independent and interactive effects of embodied-agent appearance and behavior on self-report, cognitive, and behavioral markers of copresence in immersive virtual environments

    Jeremy N. Bailenson;Kim Swinth;Crystal Hoyt;Susan Persky

  • Effects of justice beliefs on cognitive appraisal of and subjective, physiological, and behavioral responses to potential stress.

    Joe Tomaka;Jim Blascovich

  • Effects of self-esteem and performance feedback on future affective preferences and cognitive expectations.

    Dean B. McFarlin;Jim Blascovich

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeremy N. Bailenson
Jeremy N. Bailenson Stanford University
Wendy Berry Mendes
Wendy Berry Mendes University of California, San Francisco
Crystal L. Hoyt
Crystal L. Hoyt University of Richmond
Jack M. Loomis
Jack M. Loomis University of California, Santa Barbara
Rosanna E. Guadagno
Rosanna E. Guadagno Stanford University
Brian Lickel
Brian Lickel University of Massachusetts Amherst
Peter J. Carnevale
Peter J. Carnevale University of Southern California
Brenda Major
Brenda Major University of California, Santa Barbara
John T. Jost
John T. Jost New York University
Phillip R. Shaver
Phillip R. Shaver University of California, Davis

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