Dr Emily Cross
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Dr Emily Cross (She/her) joined the Psychology Department at Essex in September 2022. She received her B.A. (Honours) in Psychology and Politics in 2013, her MSc (Psychology) in 2014, and PhD in Social Psychology in 2019 all from the University at Auckland, New Zealand. Emily then moved to Canada and worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at York University in the Faculty of Health (2019-2021) and then in the Schulich School of Business (2022). Emily's research focus on the intersection between social attitudes and interpersonal functioning. Much of her research has explored how sexist attitudes and traditional gender-based attitudes impact people's thoughts, feelings and behaviour within intimate relationships, and the effects this has on people's health and wellbeing. Emily adopts diverse methods to capture the interplay between social attitudes and relationship processes as they unfold naturally over the course of social interactions and people’s lives, including behavioural observation, daily diary and experience sampling methods, speed dating paradigms, and longitudinal designs.
Qualifications
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PhD University of Auckland, (2018)
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MSc University of Auckland, (2022)
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BA (Honours) University of Auckland, (2013)
Appointments
University of Essex
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Lecturer, Psychology, University of Essex (1/9/2022 - present)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Romantic Relationships
Sexism and Gender Attitudes
Aggression and Family Violence
LGBTQIA+ Interpersonal Dynamics
Prejudice
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Social Psychology and Economics (EC957)
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Social Psychology (PS407)
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Advanced Social Psychology (PS923)
Publications
Journal articles (17)
Low, RST., Overall, NC., Cross, EJ. and Henderson, AME., Emotion regulation, conflict resolution, and spillover on subsequent family functioning.. Emotion. 19 (7), 1162-1182
Cross, EJ., Overall, NC., Low, RST. and McNulty, JK., An interdependence account of sexism and power: Men’s hostile sexism, biased perceptions of low power, and relationship aggression.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 117 (2), 338-363
Hammond, MD., Overall, NC. and Cross, EJ., Internalizing sexism within close relationships: Perceptions of intimate partners’ benevolent sexism promote women’s endorsement of benevolent sexism.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 110 (2), 214-238
Sasaki, E., Overall, NC., Reis, HT., Righetti, F., Chang, VT., Low, RST., Henderson, AME., McRae, CS., Cross, EJ., Jayamaha, SD., Maniaci, MR. and Reid, CJ., (2023). Feeling loved as a strong link in relationship interactions: Partners who feel loved may buffer destructive behavior by actors who feel unloved.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Gordon, AM., Cross, E., Ascigil, E., Balzarini, R., Luerssen, A. and Muise, A., (2022). Feeling Appreciated Buffers Against the Negative Effects of Unequal Division of Household Labor on Relationship Satisfaction. Psychological Science. 33 (8), 1313-1327
Overall, NC., Maner, JK., Hammond, MD., Cross, EJ., Chang, VT., Low, RST., Girme, YU., Jayamaha, SD., Reid, CJ. and Sasaki, E., (2022). Actor and partner power are distinct and have differential effects on social behavior.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 124 (2), 311-343
Cross, EJ., Overall, NC., Jayamaha, SD. and Sibley, CG., (2021). Does low self-esteem predict lower wellbeing following relationship dissolution?. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. 38 (7), 2184-2204
Cross, EJ., Muise, A. and Hammond, MD., (2021). Do Scales Measuring Sexist Attitudes have Equivalent Meaning for Sexual Minorities and Majorities?. Sex Roles. 85 (11-12), 707-720
Harrington, AG., Overall, NC. and Cross, EJ., (2021). Masculine gender role stress, low relationship power, and aggression toward intimate partners.. Psychology of Men & Masculinities. 22 (1), 48-62
Cross, EJ., Overall, NC., Low, RST. and Henderson, AME., (2021). Relationship problems, agreement and bias in perceptions of partners’ parental responsiveness, and family functioning.. Journal of Family Psychology. 35 (4), 510-522
Overall, NC., Chang, VT., Cross, EJ., Low, RST. and Henderson, AME., (2021). Sexist attitudes predict family-based aggression during a COVID-19 lockdown.. Journal of Family Psychology. 35 (8), 1043-1052
McRae, CS., Overall, NC., Henderson, AME., Low, RST. and Cross, EJ., (2021). Conflict-coparenting spillover: The role of actors’ and partners’ attachment insecurity and gender.. Journal of Family Psychology. 35 (7), 972-982
Hammond, MD., Cross, EJ. and Overall, NC., (2020). Relationship (in)security is central to the sources and outcomes of sexist attitudes. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 14 (3)
Cross, EJ. and Overall, NC., (2019). Women experience more serious relationship problems when male partners endorse hostile sexism. European Journal of Social Psychology. 49 (5), 1022-1041
Cross, EJ. and Overall, NC., (2018). Women's attraction to benevolent sexism: Needing relationship security predicts greater attraction to men who endorse benevolent sexism. European Journal of Social Psychology. 48 (3), 336-347
Cross, EJ., Overall, NC., Hammond, MD. and Fletcher, GJO., (2017). When Does Men’s Hostile Sexism Predict Relationship Aggression? The Moderating Role of Partner Commitment. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 8 (3), 331-340
Cross, EJ., Overall, NC. and Hammond, MD., (2016). Perceiving Partners to Endorse Benevolent Sexism Attenuates Highly Anxious Women’s Negative Reactions to Conflict. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 42 (7), 923-940