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2024 Publications
(SSW & CISS Affiliate) First Decade of Supportive Services for Veteran Families Program and Homelessness, 2012–2022 (American Journal of Public Health, May 2024) Byrne and his colleagues examine lessons learned from the first decade (2012–2022) of the Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program, a cornerstone in the VA continuum of homeless services aimed at both preventing homelessness among those at risk and providing rapid rehousing for veterans and their families who are currently experiencing homelessness.
(STH, Psychology of Religion and Theology & CISS Affiliate) Mindfulness and Other Virtues in the Development of Intercultural and Interreligious Competence (Mindfulness, May 2024) Sandage and his co-authors offer commentary on Oman’s article, “Mindfulness for Global Public Health: Critical Analysis and Agenda focusing on engaging and extending some of Oman’s questions and ideas about connections between mindfulness and intercultural and interreligious competence.
Luke Glowacki (CAS, Anthropology & CISS Affiliate) Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real: a comment on Anderson et al. (2023) The Myth of Man the Hunter (Evolution and Human Behavior, May 2024) Glowacki and his colleagues question the existence of gendered division of labor altogether. As a diverse group of hunter-gatherer experts, we find that claims that foraging societies lack or have weak gendered divisions of labor are contradicted by empirical evidence.
Ana Villarreal (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) The Two Faces of Fear (Oxford University Press, May 2024) In her book, Villarreal puts forth a new approach to the study of fear as a problem rather than a paradox, provides an in-depth qualitative study of how people recreate their lives in the face of rising violence and fear, and draws on a cross-class sample of observations and interviews to reveal the rapid aggravating impact of violence and fear on class, racial, and urban divides
Kathleen Corriveau (Wheelock Applied Human Development & CISS Affiliate) How does caregiver-child conversation during a scientific storybook reading impact children’s mindset beliefs and persistence? (Child Development, May 2024) Corriveau and her co-authors explore how caregiver-child scientific conversation during storybook reading focusing on the challenges or achievements of famous female scientists impacts preschoolers’ mindset, beliefs about success, and persistence.
Taylor Boas (CAS, Political Science & CISS Affiliate) Who Participates in Focus Groups? Diagnosing Self-Selection (Political Science & Politics, May 2024) Boas recommends that scholars diagnose self-selection into focus groups whenever possible; that they compare participants to relevant baselines when working with samples of convenience; and that they always provide descriptive statistics and details on how focus-group members were recruited.
(CAS, Sociology) “Fighting demons”: Stigma and shifting norms in explicit mention of overdose in obituaries, 2010–2019 (Social Science & Medicine, June 2024) In this article, Lucy explores whether the presentation of overdose deaths in obituaries changes alongside the shift in the public framing of the opioid crisis as medical rather than criminal.
Thomas Byrne (SSW & CISS Affiliate) Capturing the Dynamics of Homelessness Through Ethnography and Mobile Technology: Protocol for the Development and Testing of a Smartphone Technology–Supported Intervention (JMRPublications, April 2024) Byrne and his colleagues aim to develop and test a smartphone app to collect longitudinal data from veterans experiencing homelessness (VEH) and to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of using the app in a population that is unstably housed or homeless.
Virginia Sapiro (CAS, Political Science Professor Emerita) Integrating ethics, methods, and the dynamics of power in political science fieldwork (PS: Political Science & Politics, April 2024) Professor Emerita Sapiro underscores at least three common points about understanding and combatting sexual harassment in the context of social science fieldwork
(CISS postdoctoral scholar). The need to appear healthy: Concealment of chronic illness, privacy, and self-sufficiency among chronically ill older Nigerians (Innovation in Aging, April 2024). Mahmoud and her coauthors interviews older adults who are chronically ill and receiving clinical care, to examine the role of social networks in how chronically ill older Nigerians cope with their diagnosis.
Robert Grace (CAS, Political Science) Armed actor interventions in humanitarian and public health crises: examining perspectives of crisis-affected community members (Conflict and Health, April 2024) Grace and his coauthors nuance the relevant literature characterizing NSAGs as disruptive agents, and also the relevant literature that does not fully consider the nuances of gender and armed actor roles as deeply relevant to crisis-affected community perspectives on armed actors.
(CAS, Economics & CISS Affiliate) A Novel Machine Learning Algorithm for Creating Risk-Adjusted Payment Formulas (JAMA Health Forum, April 2024) Ellis and his coauthors develop a machine learning (ML) algorithm, building on Diagnostic Item (DXI) categories and Diagnostic Cost Group (DCG) methods, that automates development of clinically credible and transparent predictive models for policymakers and clinicians.
Andreana Cunningham (CAS, Anthropology, Archaeology, and African American & Black Diaspora Studies) Postmortem Racialization: Reconceptualizing Frantz Fanon’s Black Subject (University of Chicago Press, April 2024) Cunningham proposes a theoretical model that elucidates the positionality of the skeletal remains of Afro-descendants, or Black postmortem subjects.
Ronald Richardson (CAS, History) Being-In-America: White Supremacy and the American Self (Peter Lang Inc., February 2024) Richardson contends dislodging white supremacy, which the author contends is the greatest danger facing America, can only be accomplished by making concurrent and significant modifications in American individualism.
John M. Marston (CAS, Archaeology) and alumna, Kathleen M. Forste (GRS’21) Cultivating the Hills and the Sands: A Comparative Archaeobotanical Investigation of Early Islamic Agriculture in Palestine (Environmental Archaeology, April 2024). Martson and Forste integrate archaeobotanical assemblages from a range of settlements across Early Islamic (c. 636–1099 CE) Palestine to argue that the production and consumption of plant resources were affected more by a settlement’s socioeconomic function than by its environmental setting.
Linda McClain(WGSSP) Introduction: Researching Gender and COVID-19 (The Routledge Companion to Gender and COVID-19, Routledge Press, April 2024) McClain and her coauthor provide background on the importance of bringing an intersectional gender lens to the COVID-19 pandemic, an outline of the book, and an overview of chapters.
Thomas Byrne (SSW & CISS Affiliate) Legal Services for Veterans (LSV): Protocol for evaluating the grant-based LSV initiative supporting community organizations’ delivery of legal services to veterans (PlosOne, April 2024) Byrne and his coauthors describe the protocol for evaluating the LSV initiative, enacted in 2021, authorizing VA to fund legal services for Veterans. The evaluation will fulfill congressional reporting requirements, and inform continued implementation and sustainment of LSV over time.
Andrew Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) Excess Mortality as a Tool to Monitor the Evolution of Health Emergencies: Choices, Challenges, and Future Directions (American Journal of Public Health, April 2024) Stokes and his associate discuss excess Mortality as a Tool to Monitor the Evolution of Health Emergencies
Michel Anteby (Questrom Management & Organizations & CISS Affiliate) The Interloper: Lessons from Resistance in the Field (Princeton University Press, April 2024) Anteby explains how community members often disclose more than intended when they close ranks and create obstacles and shares practical and theoretical insights into the value of having the door slammed in your face.
Anne Short Gianotti (CAS, Earth and Environment & CISS Affiliate) Activating uncertainty: Scientific evidence and environmental values in wildlife management (GeoForum, May 2024) Short Gianotti and her colleagues examine the entanglement of science and politics through a case study of a controversy over hunting as a form of environmental management in a suburban town in the northeastern United States.
Deborah Carr (CAS, Sociology & CISS Director) and Ian Sue Wing (CAS, Earth & Environment & CISS Affiliate) Population Aging and Heat Exposure in the 21st Century: Which World Regions Are at Greatest Risk? (Journals of Gerontology, March 2024) Carr, Sue Wing and their colleagues describe the outsized impacts of extreme heat on older adults’ well-being, document how the geographic patterning of population aging and rising temperatures places particular regions at risk, and urge tailored preventative efforts and adaptations to protect older adults.
(CAS, Archaeology & CISS Affiliate) and Kathleen Forste (CAS, Archeology) Cultivating the Hills and the Sands: A Comparative Archaeobotanical Investigation of Early Islamic Agriculture in Palestine (Environmental Archeology, March 2024) In this article, Marston and his colleagues investigate how agricultural choices were driven by political, social and environmental conditions in Palestine during the Early Islamic period (c. 636–1099 CE) through the analysis of charred archaeobotanical assemblages from three archaeological sites in the southern Levant.
Lily Belisle (CAS ’24, Sociology/WGS and CISS Communications Manager) The Illegibility of Queer Nonconformity: An Analysis of Boundary Maintenance in the Context of LGBTQ+ Artists (Ampersand, March 2024). Belisle unpacks the controversies generated by music videos from Sam Smith and Lil Nas X, showing that both make their queerness legible in specific ways that both challenge and reinforce hegemonic norms.
(CISS Postdoctoral Associate) Community-level predictors of doubled-up homelessness (Journal of Urban Affairs, February 2024). Richard and their co-author explore how structural factors, like rental housing costs and access to public assistance, are associated with metropolitan area prevalence of doubled-up homelessness, a measure of hidden homelessness not often included in homelessness research.
Danielle Rousseau (CAS, & CISS Affiliate) Embodied Resilience: A Quasi-Experimental Exploration of the Effects of a Trauma-Informed Yoga and Mindfulness Curriculum in Carceral Settings (International Journal of Yoga Therapy, March 2024) Rousseau and her colleagues explore the effect of a trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness curriculum in carceral settings.
(CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) How Segregation Ruins Inference: A Sociological Simulation of the Inequality Equilibrium (Social Forces, March 2024) Mijs and his coauthor show that, under circumstances typical to highly stratified societies, individuals will underestimate the extent of economic and racial inequality, downplay the importance of inherited advantages, and overestimate the relative importance of individual ability.
(CAS, Sociology) Navigating the Dynamics of Private Security in Turkey: Reflections from a Field in Flux (International Journal of Middle East Studies, March 2024) Mülayim discusses his fieldwork on Istanbul’s private security market in Turkey.
Timothy Longman (Pardee School of Global Studies & CISS Affiliate) I Lived to Tell the World: Stories from Survivors of Holocaust, Genocide, and the Atrocities of War (Oregon State University Press, March 2024) Longman and his co-author offer in-depth profiles drawn from hours of interviews and oral histories with the survivors from Rwanda, Myanmar, Bosnia, Syria, and more -“different stories, different conflicts, but similar paths through loss and violence to a new, not always easy, life in the United States.”
(CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Revisiting and Revisioning Silence and Narrative in Psychological Anthropology (Routledge, Innovations in Psychological Anthropology, February 2024) In this chapter, Shohet and her coauthor highlight the generativity of narrative analysis in a critical, engaged psychological anthropology.
(CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate), Bridget A. Logan (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate), Sandy Neargarder (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate), Shraddha B. Kinger (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate), Amie K. Larum (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) Robert D. Salazar (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) Self-perceived stigma in Parkinson’s Disease in an online sample: Comparison with in-person sample, role of anxiety, and relative utility of four measures of stigma perception (Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, February 2024) Cronin-Golomb and her coauthors investigate whether online assessment would replicate in-person findings of younger age and depression as predictors of stigma perception. We further assessed the predictive value of anxiety, and compared predictors across four stigma measures.
(Sargent & CISS Affiliate) and Jesse D. Moreira-Bouchard (Sargent), Sophie Godley (SPH) LGBTQ+ Faculty, Queering Health Sciences Classrooms: Student Perspectives (Advances in Physiology Education, February 2024) DeBiasse and her colleagues suggest a positive effect on student sense of belonging, and therefore student retention, when faculty authenticity and intentionality create inclusive classroom environments in the health sciences.
(CAS, Political Science & CISS Affiliate) Theorization and Causality (Doing Good Qualitative Research, Oxford University Press, edited by Jennifer Cyr, and Sara Wallace Goodman, February 2024) In this chapter, Martin offers an example of how qualitative methods help us to perform important tasks of research, from design to theoretical development to assessments of causality.
(SSW & CISS Affiliate) Low-Income Residents of Inclusionary Housing Face More Bias (HUD User- Bringing Housing and Community Research Home to You, February 2024)
H. Denis Wu (COM & CISS Affiliate) Does world system theory rein in social media? Identifying factors contributing to country mentions on X (International Political Science Review, February 2024) Wu and his colleagues examined how social media content has shaped the representation of countries for publics around the world.
(CAS, Earth and Environment & CISS Affiliate) Municipal finance shapes urban climate action and justice (Nature Climate Change, February 2024) Short Gianotti and her co-author use US cities as a case study to examine how climate finance impacts, and is impacted by, the pursuit of urban climate action and climate justice.
(SPH, Department of Health Law, Policy, and Management & CISS Affiliate) Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID (Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, February 2024) Callaghan reviews this book by Shana Kushner Gadarian, Sarah Wallace Goodman, and Thomas B. Pepinsky.
Cheryl Knott (CAS, Anthropology) Tropical field stations yield high conservation return on investment (Durham University Research Online, February 2024). Knott and her colleagues suggest that the thousands of field stations worldwide can play key roles at the frontline of biodiversity conservation and have high intrinsic value.
Christopher Robertson (LAW & CISS Affiliate) Should Current Laws Be Revised to Address Occupational Hazards Caused by Hand-Tool Size Mismatch Among Surgeons? (JAMA Surgery, February 2024) Robertson and his co-authors explain why female surgeons may leave their practice early, contributing to shortages of surgeons, especially in gynecology in which female surgeons constitute a larger portion of the workforce.
Ian Sue Wing (CAS, Earth & Environment & CISS Affiliate) The Economics of Power System Transitions (Environmental Economics and Policy, February 2024) Sue Wing and his colleagues discuss ways to design a power system and electricity market that can address this inefficiency.
Dilip Mookherjee (CAS, Economics & CISS Affiliate) Declining Clientelism of Welfare Benefits? Targeting and Political Competition based Evidence from an Indian State (City Research Online, February 2024) Mookherjee and his co-authors fail to find evidence that the new “central” programs introduced after 2014 were better targeted than traditional “state” programs, or that the targeting of state programs improved after 2014.
Thomas Byrne (SSW & CISS Affiliate) Temporary Financial Assistance Reduced The Probability Of Unstable Housing Among Veterans For More Than 1 Year (Health Affairs, February 2024) Byrne and his colleagues find that temporary financial assistance rapidly reduced the probability of unstable housing, but the effect attenuated after forty-five days, but suggest more intervention is needed.
Timothy Callaghan (SPH, Department of Health Law, Policy, and Management & CISS Affiliate) 131. Teen-Parent Dynamics in Adolescent COVID-19 Vaccine Decision-Making: A Qualitative Study (Journal of Adolescent Health, January 2024) Callaghan and his co-authors examine joint and independent adolescent and parental vaccine attitudes needed for evidence-based vaccine promotion efforts.
Andrew Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) Dielle J. Lundberg (SPH, Department of Global Health), Zhenwei Zhou (SPH, Department of Biostatistics), Rafeya Raquib (SPH, Department of Global Health), M. Maria Glymour (SPH, Department of Epidemiology) Excess natural-cause mortality in US counties and its association with reported COVID-19 deaths (PNAS, January 2024) Stokes and his colleagues support the suggestion that many excess deaths reported to non-COVID-19 natural causes during the first 30 months of the pandemic in the United States were unrecognized COVID-19 deaths.
Randall P. Ellis (CAS, Economics & CISS Affiliate) Scope and Incentives for Risk Selection in Health Insurance Markets With Regulated Competition: A Conceptual Framework and International Comparison (Medical Care Research and Review 1–20, January 2024) Ellis and his colleagues provides a framework for analyzing the scope (i.e., potential actions by insurers and consumers) and incentives for risk selection in such markets.
Spencer Piston (CAS, Political Science & CISS Affiliate) and Laura Mattioli (CAS, Political Science) The limits of criminal justice reform: an analysis of elite rhetoric in four cities (Journal of Public Policy, January 2024) Piston, Mattioli and their co-authors analyze rhetoric in public statements across four liberal metropolitan areas during the spring and summer of 2020 finding a long-standing discourse of racially paternalist penal welfarism, retrofitted to pandemic times and accompanied by a distinction between “deserving” and “undeserving” criminals.
David Carballo (CAS, Anthropology, Archaeology, & Latin American Studies & CISS Affiliate) Collective Action and the Reframing of Early Mesoamerica (Cambridnge University Press, Elements in Anthropological Archaeology in the 21st Century, January 2024) Carballo recently published a short book in the Cambridge University Press Elements series.
Timothy Callaghan (SPH, Department of Health Law, Policy, and Management & CISS Affiliate) and Matt Motta (SPH, Department of Health Law, Policy, and Management & CISS Affiliate) Quantifying the Prevalence and Determinants of RSV Vaccine Hesitancy in US Adults Aged 60 or Older (SocArXiv ezaur, Center for Open Science, January 2024) Motta and Callaghan, along with their co-authors, find that a majority of seniors (53%) intend to refuse an RSV vaccine.
Pratyusha Tummala-Narra (CAS, Psychological & Brain Studies) Racial Socialization Experiences Among 1.5 and 2nd Generation Indian Americans (The Counseling Psychologist, January 2024) Tummala-Narra and her colleagues underscore underscore how the minimization of racism within and outside of Indian American contexts, a colonial mentality transmitted intergenerationally, and negative impacts of casteism, sexism, and racism may influence one’s racial consciousness and racial socialization.
Andrew C. Stokes
(SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) Electronic cigarette use and chest pain in US adults: Evidence from the PATH study (Tobacco Induced Diseases, January 2024) Stokes and his colleagues examine the association of self-reported chest pain with multiple cigarette and e-cigarette use patterns.
Cynthia Becker (CAS, AAS&DS) The Spirit of Fi Yi Yi and the Mandingo Warriors (Routledge, Methodology, Ideology and Pedagogy of African Art, January 2024) In this chapter, Becker considers how Africa has been seen and understood in New Orleans in relation to racial politics through the lens of Black Masking Indians.
Luke Glowacki (CAS, Anthropology & CISS Affiliate) Author’s response: The challenge of peace (January 2024) Glowacki replies to commentators who propose how to extend his framework or focus on the cognitive and psychological prerequisites for peace.
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Maxwell Palmer (CAS, Political Science & CISS Affiliate) A dataset of geocoded Medicaid office locations in the United States (Data In Brief, January 2024) Palmer and his co-authors identified and geocoded all Medicaid offices in the United States, which can then be paired with other spatial data (e.g., demographics, Medicaid participation, health care use, health outcomes) to explore policy-relevant research questions.
Zach Rossetti (Wheelock Special Education & CISS Affiliate) “Not Sure How to Approach Them the Right Way”: Nondisabled Students’ Perspectives on Friendship With Peers With I/DD (Remedial and Special Education, January 2024) Rossetti examines non-disabled students’ perspectives on friendship via four focus group interviews with 44 first to eleventh graders.
Timothy Callaghan (SPH, Department of Health Law, Policy, and Management & CISS Affiliate) Professional Partisans? Primary Care Physicians, State Governments, and COVID-19 Responsibility and Response (State Politics & Policy Quarterly, January 2024) Callaghan and his colleagues explore primary care physicians’ trust in state government for handling the pandemic, as well as their evaluations of their state government’s treatment responsibility for the pandemic and their state’s policy response.
Alice Cronin-Golomb (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) The MAPP Room Memory Test: Examining Contextual Memory Using a Novel Computerized Test in Cognitively-Unimpaired Individuals with Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer’s Disease (The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease, January 2024) Cronin-Golomb and her colleagues evaluate visuospatial contextual memory finding that that their MAPP Room Memory Test may be sensitive to subtle cognitive changes associated with risk of AD.
David Manuel Carballo (CAS, Archeology & CISS Affiliate) Collective Action and the Reframing of Early Mesoamerica (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Elements: Elements in Anthropological Archaeology in the 21st Century, January 2024) Carballo and his coauthor consider a suite of interdisciplinary frameworks for how and why people work together to manage resources, cooperate as groups larger than families, and sustain governing institutions that are relatively trusted and more pluralistic, meaning providing a voice in decision-making to more people.
Michael Lyons (CAS, Psychological & Brain Studies) Probable chronic pain, brain structure, and Alzheimer’s plasma biomarkers in older men (The Journal of Pain, January 2024) Lyons and his co-authors provide one of the first assessments in humans, examining the associations of probable chronic pain with hippocampal volume, integrity of the locus coeruleus (LC)—an upstream site of tau deposition—and Alzheimer’s Disease (AD)-related plasma biomarkers.
Kathleen Corriveau
(Wheelock Applied Human Development & CISS Affiliate) Sona C. Kumar (Wheelock Applied Human Development), and Amanda S. Haber (Wheelock Applied Human Development) Exploring How Teachers’ Scientific Questions Differ by Child Gender in a Preschool Classroom (Mind, Brain and Education, January 2024) Corriveau an her colleagues explores differences in messages that preschool teachers send girls and boys about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
Catherine Caldwell-Harris
(CAS, Psychology & CISS Affiliate) Expanding the emergentist Account:Reply to open peer commentaries (Brain And Language, January 2024) Caldwell-Harris and her colleague suggest that modern technology can eventually provide data that will better explain how emergentism provides a framework for understanding how language learning processes vary across developmental age and linguistic levels.
Hefner, Robert W
. (CAS, Anthropology) Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia: Democracy and the Quest for an Inclusive Public Ethics (Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, January 2024) Hefner examines the conditions facilitating democracy, women’s rights, and inclusive citizenship in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim-majority country and the third largest democracy in the world. The book shows that Muslim understandings of Islamic traditions and ethics have coevolved with the understanding and practice of democracy and citizen belonging.
2023 Publications
Celeste Curington (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Methods of Intersectional Research (Routledge Press, Intersectional Experiences and Marginalized Voices: Research, Analysis, and Praxes, edited by Sarah B. Donley, Melencia Johnson, December 2023). Curington and her colleague provide a number of different blueprints for designing intersectional research, which can be adapted for different purposes.
Nathan Jones (SED & CISS Affiliate) Surfacing Principals’ Beliefs About Instruction for Students With Disabilities: A Qualitative Analysis (Exceptional Children, December 2023) Jones and his colleagues highlight how underlying beliefs regarding the purpose of special education and students, teaching, and learning drove principals’ visions of instructional quality more than specific practices did.
Catherine Caldwell-Harris (CAS, Psychology & CISS Affiliate) Listening to autistic voices regarding competing for social status (Autism, December 2023) Caldwell-Harris and her coauthor review writings by autistic people and suggest that autistic people find status-seeking illogical, and prefer egalitarian relationships.
Deborah Carr (CAS, Sociology & CISS Director) and Shinae Choi (Previous Visiting Scholar, Professor of Consumer Sciences & CISS Affiliate) Just the Two of Us? The Psychological Impact of Martial Dissolution on Childless Older Adults (Innovation in Aging, December 2023) Carr and Choi discuss implications for understanding late-life mental health, underscoring that childlessness does not uniformly compromise mental health among unmarried persons, and that some parent-child relations (especially step-relations) may be a source of stress rather than solace.
Alice Cronin-Golomb (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) Neuroscience in the Everyday World: Lateralization of Brain Activity During Dual-Task Walking (Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, December 2023) Cronin-Golomb and her coauthors examined whether FCSRT learning slopes were associated with brain pathology in a sample of ADAD carriers and non-carriers.
Alice Cronin-Golomb (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) Religious Stress Coping, Memory, and Markers of Brain Pathology in Individuals with Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer’s Disease from the Colombia-Boston Biomarker Study (Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, December 2023). Cronin-Golomb and her coauthors examined religious stress coping in cognitively unimpaired mutation carriers from the world’s largest ADAD kindred and its relation to markers of brain pathology and memory.
(CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) Memory Learning Curve and in vivo Brain Pathology in Non-Demented Individuals with Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer’s Disease: Findings from the Colombia-Boston Biomarker Study (Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, December 2023) Cronin-Golomb and her coauthors used fNIRS to measure brain activity in prefrontal and motor region of interests (ROIs) during single- and dual-task walking, with the goal of identifying neural correlates.
Kristin Long (CAS, Physiological & Brain Sciences) Siblings FORWARD: Development of a New Program to Engage Siblings of Autistic Adults in Future Planning (Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, January 2024) Long and her coauthors consider the Siblings FORWARD (Focusing on Relationships, Well-being, and Responsibility aheaD) program concept for supporting siblings of autistic adults finding strong enthusiasm for the Siblings FORWARD concept warrants moving forward to examine preliminary acceptability and feasibility
William Grimes (CAS, Political Science & Pardee) The varieties of financial statecraft and middle powers: assessing South Korea’s strategic involvement in regional financial cooperation (The Pacific Review, January 2024) Grimes and his coauthors posit that middle powers’ relative position within their home regions explains such differences among the financial statecraft of emerging powers.
Frank Korom (CAS, Anthropology) Miraculous Stories and the Re-enchantment of the World: Oral Hagiographies of Guru Bawa (The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance, Routledge, December 2023) In this chapter, Korom aims to demonstrate the quintessential role that oral storytelling plays within a newly emergent religious community after the death of its charismatic founder.
Catherine Caldwell-Harris (CAS, Psychology & CISS Affiliate) Why Autistic Sociality is Different: Reduced Interest in Competing for Social Status (Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture, December 2023) Caldwell-Harris and her co-author reject the premise of social deficits but follow recent pleas in the literature to investigate how different categories of social behavior may show a range of outcomes that differ from the neurotypical norm.
Claudia Andersen (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) How punitive is pretrial? Measuring the relative pains of pretrial detention (Punishment and Society, December 2023) Andersen and her collaborators advance theory and policy discussions by enumerating the experiences and harms that emerge during pretrial detention and how closely they align with punishment.
Celeste Curington (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Methods of intersectional research (Routledge Press, Intersectional Experiences and Marginalized Voices: Research, Analysis, and Praxes, edited by Sarah B. Donley, Melencia Johnson, December 2023) Curington provides a number of different blueprints for designing intersectional research.
Nathan Jones (SED & CISS Affiliate) A Research Framework for the Study of Special Education Teacher Preparation (Routledge Press, Handbook of Research on Special Education Teacher Preparation, edited by Erica D. McCray, Elizabeth Bettini, Mary T. Brownell, James McLeskey, Paul T. Sindelar, December 2023) In this chapter, Jones puts forward a vision for special education teacher education research.
Timothy Callaghan (SPH, Department of Health Law, Policy, and Management & CISS Affiliate) Public Attitudes, Inequities, and Polarization in the Launch of the 988 Lifeline (Journal of Health Politics, Policy, & Law, November 2023) Callaghan and his colleagues examine the influence of mental health status, partisan identification, and demographic characteristics on public awareness, public support, and intended use of the new 988 lifeline.
Mary Elizabeth Collins (SSW, Social Welfare Policy & CISS Affiliate) Disconnected Youth in Urban Areas: Can Youth Councils Enhance Connection to School and Work? (Journal of Applied Youth Studies, November 2023) Collins and her co-authors find that most urban areas had operating youth councils and that youth disconnection rates were lower in areas with youth councils.
Michelle Amazeen (COM, Director, Communication Research Center & CISS Affiliate) Refuting Misinformation: Examining Theoretical Underpinnings of Refutational Interventions (Current Opinion in Psychology, November 2023) Amazeen and her co-author examine the theoretical grounding and advancements in the literature on prebunking and debunking interventions.
Annika Schmeding (GRS ‘2020, Anthropology) Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority & Political Change in Afghanistan (Stanford University Press, November 2023) Schmeding offers a rare on-the-ground view into how Sufi leaders react to moments of transition within a highly insecure environment, and how humanity shines through the darkness during times of turmoil.
Erica Larsen (GRS ’19, Anthropology) Ethics of Belonging: Education, Religion & Politics in Manado, Indonesia (Hawaii University Press, November 2023) Larson investigates the dynamics of ethical deliberation about religious coexistence. In this analysis, schools are understood as central sites for exchange about the ethics and politics of belonging in the nation.
Thomas Barfield (CAS, Anthropology) Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History (Princeton University Press, 2023) Barfield offers an original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times
Merry I. White (CAS, Anthropology) Ways of Eating: Exploring Food Through History & Culture (University of California Press, November 2023) White and her co-author introduce readers to world food history and food anthropology offering new ways to understand food in relation to its natural and cultural histories and the social rules that shape our meals.
Louis Chude-Sokei
(CAS, African American and Black Diaspora Studies) Technologie Und Race: Essays Der Migration (Translated by Utku Mogultay) (August Verlag, May 2023) Chude-Sokei shares penetrating investigations into the interconnections of slavery, its afterlife and technological development, the story of the slave who was present at the “birth of America” and became a national attraction from 1835 onwards.
John Thornton
(CAS, History) Afonso I Mvemba a Nzinga, King of Kongo: His Life and Correspondence (Translated by Luis Madureira) (Hackett Publishing, November 2023) Thornton offers translations of the extant letters of the king of Kongo’s history, Afonso I (r. 1506–1542), and analysis of what these letters tell us about the life and times of one of the most important rulers anywhere in the world during the sixteenth century.
Anne Short Gianotti (CAS, Earth and Environment & CISS Affiliate) Animating the urban: between infrastructure and encounter (Urban Geography, November 2023) Short Gianotti and her colleagues offer generative tools grounded in another-than-human standpoint inviting us to “think cities”differently.
Mary Elizabeth Collins (SSW, Social Welfare Policy & CISS Affiliate) The global context of youth engagement: A scoping review of youth councils in municipal government (Children and Youth Services Review, November 2023) Collins and her colleagues demonstrate the promise of youth engagement in policy decision-making, but also the need for more systematic research documenting the best practices and impacts of municipal youth councils.
Amanda Tarullo (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) Child biological stress and maternal caregiving style are associated with school readiness (Early Childhood Research Quarterly, November 2023) Tarullo and her c0-authors provide new evidence that biological stress is related to academic competency in early childhood and demonstrate the importance of structured, non-intrusive parenting when preparing children for long-term academic success.
Tarek Hassan (CAS, Economics) The Immigrant Next Door (American Economic Review, November 2023) Hassan and his colleagues study how decades-long exposure to individuals of a given foreign descent shapes natives’ attitudes and behavior toward that group, showing that long-term exposure to a given foreign ancestry leads to more generous behavior specifically toward that group’s ancestral country.
Frank Korom (CAS, Anthropology) Oral Hagiographies of Guru Bawa (The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance, edited by Lauren Miller, David Syring, November 2023) In this chapter, Korom explores how storytelling plays a vital and fundamental role in what Weber calls “routinization”.
Joshua R. Robinson (CAS, Archeology) A Context for Connectivity: Insights to Environmental Heterogeneity in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene of Southern Africa Through Measuring Isotope Space and Overlap (Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, November 2023) In this publication, Robinson tests whether sites within the same environmental zones overlap in isotope space and finds that there is greater intra-regional environmental heterogeneity than expected.
Jonathan Mijs (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Does Informing Citizens About the Non-meritocratic Nature of Inequality Bolster Support for a Universal Basic Income? Evidence From a Population-Based Survey Experiment (European Societies, November 2023) Mijs and his co-authors theorize that citizens’ precarization and policymakers’ enthusiasm for a universal basic income (UBI) due to people overestimating society’s meritocratic nature, finding that a UBI may be deemed too radical an approach to addressing inequality.
Fallou Ngom (CAS, Anthropology) and Daivi Rodima-Taylor (BU NEH Ajami Project Manager) Ajami Literacies of Africa: The Wolof, Mandinka, Hausa, and Fula Traditions (Islamic Africa, November 2023) Ngom and Rodima-Taylor co-edited a special issue in Islamic Africa (vols. 14.2 and 15.1), situating African Ajami studies within participatory multimedia and digital archiving approaches, and centers around the knowledge generated through the African Ajami research project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Thomas Byrne (SSW & CISS Affiliate) Rates and predictors of returns to homelessness among veterans, 2018-2022 (American Journal of Preventive Medicine, November 2023) Byrne and his co-author examine rates and predictors of returns to homelessness among veterans finding that the most critical period seems to be the first year [after placement], when 1 in 10 veterans return to homelessness.
Mary Elizabeth Collins (SSW, Social Welfare Policy & CISS Affiliate) Post-secondary vocational education for youth leaving care: Examining a potential pathway to successful outcomes (British Educational Research Journal, November 2023) In this paper, Collins and her co-authors examine PSVE for care leavers by reviewing available data, examining policy context and utilising relevant theories. We offer next steps in policy, practice and theory development.
Michael Otto (CAS, Physiological & Brain Sciences) Caveat emptor: Mental health specialty certifications and the public’s preferences for clinical care (American Psychologist, November 2023) Otto and his colleagues examine preferences for mental health clinicians among potential consumers and factors that may inform these preferences, specifically comparing preferences for doctoral-level mental health clinicians and masters-level clinicians with and without specialty certification for treating anxiety symptoms.
Kathleen Corriveau (Wheelock Applied Human Development & CISS Affiliate) Are dominant figures more trustworthy? Examining the relation between parental authoritarianism and children’s trust preferences in the United States and China (Infant and Child Development, November 2023) Corriveau and her authors propose that different levels of authoritarianism – advocacies to obey authorities – in Western and Eastern cultures may explain the potential difference in children’s selective trust.
Andrew C. Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) Issues for Studies on E-cigarettes and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder (American Journal of Preventative Medicine, November 2023) Stokes and his colleagues contend that the article “Cigarettes, ENDS use, and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Incidence: A Prospective Longitudinal Study,” Cook et al.1 stating that e-cigarette use has no relation to COPD is not well supported.
Molly Richard (CISS Postdoctoral Fellow) Race matters in addressing homelessness: A scoping review and call for critical research (American Journal of Community Psychology, August 2023) Richard reviews research at the intersections of race and homelessness to advance efforts to understand and address racial inequities. In addition to charting findings and implications, included studies are appraised against research principles developed by Critical Race Theory scholars, mapping the potential of existing research on race and homelessness to challenge racism.
William Grimes (Pardee & CISS Affailiate) Financial cooperation in the Asia-Pacific as regime complex: explaining patterns of coverage, membership, and rules (International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, November 2023) and his co-author focus on the issue area of emergency liquidity provision, where global (International Monetary Fund), regional (Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralization), and bilateral arrangements co-exist and overlap in complicated ways, forming a regime complex.
David Glovsky (CAS, History & CISS Affiliate) The Fuuta Jalon ʿAjamī Tradition (Islamic Africa, November 2023) Glovsky and his co-author situate Fula ʿAjamī texts in the broader history of Fuuta Jalon, emphasizing the role of these texts in the region’s history and processes of knowledge production.
Stefan G. Hofmann (CAS, Physiological & Brain Sciences) and Michael Otto (CAS, Physiological & Brain Sciences) What good are positive emotions for treatment? A replication test of whether trait positive emotionality predicts response to exposure therapy for social anxiety disorder (Behaviour Research and Therapy, November 2023) Hofmann and his colleagues conduct a secondary analysis of an exposure therapy trial for social anxiety disorder to test the hypothesis that patients endorsing higher trait positive emotions at baseline would display the greatest treatment response.
Hiroaki Kaido (CAS, Economics & CISS Affiliate) Applications of Choquet expected utility to hypothesis testing with incompleteness (Japanese Economic Review, November 2023) Kaido and his colleague apply the Maximin and Choquet expected utility theories to hypothesis testing in incomplete models.
Kathleen Corriveau (Wheelock Applied Human Development & CISS Affiliate) and Amanda Tarullo (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) The development and diversity of religious cognition and behavior: Protocol for Wave 1 data collection with children and parents by the Developing Belief Network (PLoS One, November 2023) Correveau and her co-authors describe the study protocol for the Developing Belief Network’s first wave of data collection, which aims to explore the development and diversity of religious cognition and behavior.
Rosella Cappella Zielinski (CAS, Political Science & CISS Affiliate) American arms and industry in a changing international order (Defense Studies, November 2023) Cappella Zielinski and her colleagues discuss the rise of the People’s Republic of China as a peer competitor and the emerging demand that the U.S. deter and, if necessary, win one or more protracted conflicts requires that Washington take a more intentional and direct role in shaping the capability, capacity, and resilience of the U.S. defense industrial base.
Joshua R. Robinson (CAS, Archeology) A Context for Connectivity: Insights to Environmental Heterogeneity in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene of Southern Africa Through Measuring Isotope Space and Overlap (Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, November 2023) Robinson analyzes the local manifestations of regional climatic conditions in Southern Africa aiming to test whether sites within the same environmental zones overlap in isotope space and finds that there is greater intra-regional environmental heterogeneity than expected.
Jonathan Mijs (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Does informing citizens about the non-meritocratic nature of inequality bolster support for a universal basic income? Evidence from a population-based survey experiment (European Societies, November 2023) Mijs and his coauthors suggest that a universal basic income may be deemed too radical an approach to addressing inequality and discuss theoretical and policy implications.
Andrew C. Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) E-Cigarette Use Among US Adults in the 2021 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey (JAMA Network Online, November 2023) Stokes and his co-authors examine recent patterns in current and daily e-cigarette use among US adults in 2021.
Steven Sandage (STH, Psychology of Religion and Theology & CISS Affiliate) A constructive replication of client change during psychodynamic treatment in an outpatient setting (Counseling and Psychotherapy Research, October 2023) Sandage and his colleagues responded to the need for replication in psychotherapy research by extending a prior naturalistic study documenting the effectiveness of long-term psychodynamic treatment.
Laurence Kotlikoff (CAS, Economics) Social Security Horror Stories: Protect Yourself from the System — and Avoid Clawbacks (K&S Productions, LLC, November 2023) Kotlikoff and his co-author examine the government’s attempts to claw back mistaken overpayments to hundreds of thousands of Americans every year.
André de Quadros (CAS, AA&BDS) Can I Speak, When and How? Colonization, Subalternity, and Contested Practice (Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, October 2023) de Quadros describes his role as a music teacher who seeks a transgressive pathway in the fragile territory of a new awareness of diversity that continues to perpetuate subtle epistemic violence.
Mary Elizabeth Collins (SSW, Social Welfare Policy & CISS Affiliate) Surviving Violence, Ambiguity and Oneself: The Experience of Child Protection Workers in Chile (The British Journal of Social Work, November 2023) Collins and her colleague identify three major complexities that shape and construct the strategies of survival that the Chilean child welfare workers deploy in a neo-liberalised labour context.
Nathan Jones (SED & CISS Affiliate) Examining Relationships Between Field Placements and Preservice Teachers’ Self-Efficacy and Career Plans (Teacher Education and Special Education, November 2023) Jones and his co-authors argue field placements are the most crucial component of traditional preservice special education teacher preparation by examining how preservice special educators’ experiences of support from cooperating teachers and university supervisors relate to their teacher self-efficacy and their plans to teach.
Deborah Carr (CAS, Sociology & CISS Director) Disability and Utilization of Telehealth and Traditional Medical Care Services Among Older Americans During the COVID-19 Pandemic (American Council on Consumer Interests, Consumer Interests Annual, November 2023) Carr and her colleagues evaluate how sensory, physical, and cognitive impairments affect older adults’ use of telehealth only, traditional in-person care only, neither, or both (i.e., combined care); and whether these effects differ on the basis of socioeconomic and social resources that may facilitate telehealth use.
Johannes Schmieder (Professor of Economics & CISS Affiliate) When Institutions Interact: How the Effects of Unemployment Insurance are Shaped by Retirement Policies (National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2023) Schmeider and his colleagues show empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in a first-order way on the structure of retirement policies.
Thomas Byrne (SSW & CISS Affiliate) Temporary Financial Assistance for Housing Expenditures and Mortality and Suicide Outcomes Among US Veterans (Journal of General Internal Medicine, November 2023) Byrne and his co-authors find that providing housing-related financial assistance to individuals facing housing instability is associated with improvements in important health outcomes such as all-cause mortality and suicidal ideation.
Michel Anteby (Questrom Management & Organizations & CISS Affiliate) and Micah Rajunov (Questrom Management & Organizations, PhD) The Darker Side of Strong Organizational Cultures: Looking Forward by Looking Back (Handbook of Handbook of the Sociology of Morality, Volume 2, 2023, November 2023) Organizational cultures encompass the norms, values, and beliefs that guide the thinking and actions of organizational members. In this chapter, Anteby and Rajunov highlight the moral power and ambiguity of such cultures.
Amanda Tarullo (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) Sleep, Poverty, and Biological Stress: Mitigating Sleep Health Disparities in Early Childhood (Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, November 2023) Tarullo and her co-authors argue that in the first years of life, poverty increases the risk of sleep problems such as late bedtimes and frequent night awakenings and that, in turn, children with sleep problems are more likely to go on to have poor physical and mental health outcomes as adults.
Makarand Amrish Mody (SPH, Hospitality Administration & CISS Affiliate) Is Authenticity the New Luxury? Examining the Components and Dynamics of the Luxury Accommodation Experience (Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, November 2023) Mody and his colleagues develop a model to capture the components and dynamics of the evolving nature of luxury in the accommodations industry and find that authenticity serves as the primary antecedent of extraordinary experiences in the luxury accommodations industry.
Michelle Amazeen (COM, Director, Communication Research Center & CISS Affiliate) The misinformation recognition and response model: an emerging theoretical framework for investigating antecedents to and consequences of misinformation recognition (Human Communication Research, 2023) theorizes that how people cope with exposure to misinformation and/or intervention messages is conditioned by both dispositional and situational individual characteristics and is part of a process mediated by informational problem identification, issue motivation, and—crucially—recognition of misinformation.
Cathie Jo Martin (CAS, Political Science & CISS Affiliate) Education for All?: Literature, Culture and Education Development in Britain and Denmark (Cambridge Studies in the Comparative Politics of Education) (Cambridge University Press, September 2023) Martin argues that fiction writers and their literary narratives inspired education campaigns throughout the nineteenth-century in Denmark. She uses a multidisciplinary perspective to offer a unique gaze into historical policymaking.
Deborah Carr (CAS, Sociology & CISS Director) Elinore Avni
(GRS, Sociology & CISS affiliate) Aging and morality (Handbook of Sociology of Mortality, 2nd ed., October 26, 2023). The authors demonstrate the ethical and moral concerns raised by global population aging.
Laurence Kotlikoff (CAS, Economics) Public economic gains from tax-financed investments in childhood immunization in the United States (PLOS Global Public Health, October 2023) Kotlikoff and his colleagues calculated, for each dollar invested in childhood immunization, the public economic yield attributed to childhood Covid vaccination in the U.S.
Phillipe Copeland (SSW & CISS Affiliate) A systematic review of diversity, equity, and inclusion and antiracism training studies: Findings and future directions (Translational Behavioral Medicine, October 2023) Copeland and his co-authors evaluate training characteristics, measures, and results of peer-reviewed studies (published between 2000 and 2022) testing DEI or antiracism trainings.
Iván Fernández-Val (CAS, Economics) Fischer-Schultz Lecture: Generic Machine Learning Inference on Heterogenous Treatment Effects in Randomized Experiments, with an Application to Immunization in India (HAL Open Source, October 2023) Fernández-Val and his colleagues propose strategies to estimate and make inference on key features of heterogeneous effects in randomized experiments.
Christopher Robertson (LAW & CISS Affiliate) The effects of price transparency and debt collection policies on intentions to consume recommended health care: A randomized vignette experiment (Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, October 2023) Robertson and his colleagues test the effect of price disclosure and debt-collection disclosures on willingness to obtain recommended care, finding that disclosing a higher-than-anticipated price increases the probability of declining recommended care.
Anne Short Gianotti (CAS, Earth and Environment & CISS Affiliate) Socio-Political and Ecological Dimensions of Municipal Wildlife Management (Society and Natural Resources, October 2023) Short Gianooti and her co-authors find that landscape features, Lyme disease incidence, and an array of concerns about deer prompt municipal governments to explore options for deer management. We show that management champions and small-scale politics are crucial in translating concern to management action.
Jonathan Mijs (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Anna Dominique (Nikki) Herrera Huang (CAS ’22 & CISS UG Research Intern 2022) and William Regan (CAS ’24 & CISS UG Research Intern 2022) Confronting Racism of Omission (Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, October 2023) Mijs, Huang and Regan study whether (willful) ignorance about racial and ethnic inequality can be addressed through the provision of information.
Benjamin Siegel (CAS, History & CISS Affiliate) Woven, Mined, Milled, and Packed: The Global Destinies of Indian Commodities, 1500–2023 (India in the World,
Alice Cronin-Golomb (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) A – 30 Risk Factors for Poor Sleep Quality and Subjective Cognitive Decline during the COVID-19 Pandemic in an Ethnoracially Diverse US Sample (Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, September 2023) Cronin-Golomb and her colleagues examined associations between sociodemographic characteristics, sleep changes during the COVID-19 pandemic (i.e., increased problems/poorer quality), and SCD in ethnoracially diverse older individuals in the US.
Alice Cronin-Golomb (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) A – 21 Sex Differences in Cortical Thickness and Cognition in Individuals with Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer’s Disease (Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, September 2023) Cronin-Golomb and her colleagues found sex differences in the relation between cortical thickness and cognition in ADAD carriers, which may be relevant to the differential vulnerability and progression of AD in females and males.
Alice Cronin-Golomb (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) and David Somers (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences) B – 61 Increased Cortical Efficiency in the Absence of Behavioral Improvement on Working Memory Task Revealed by Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, September 2023) Cronin-Golomb and her colleague sused fNIRS during a working memory task to assess learning effect over time by assessing brain activity (fNIRS signal) and task performance.
Alice Cronin-Golomb (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) Side of motor symptom onset predicts sustained Attention deficits and motor improvements after Attention training in Parkinson’s disease (Neuropsychologia, September 2023) Cronin-Golomb and her co-authors find that participants with left-side onset Parkinson’s Disease exhibited worse performance than those with ride-side onset Parkinson’s Disease on the extended continuous performance task, indicating specific deficits in sustaining attention.
Makarand Amrish Mody (SPH, Hospitality Administration & CISS Affiliate) The implications of generative artificial intelligence in academic research and higher education in tourism and hospitality (Tourism Economics, September 2023) Mody and his colleague critically review the effect of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) tools on higher education and research in the tourism and hospitality (TH) field.
Andrew David (CAS, History) Evaluation of 30 urban land surface models in the Urban-PLUMBER project: Phase 1 results (Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society , September 2023) David and his colleagues evaluate 30 land surface models’ ability to simulate surface energy fluxes critical to atmospheric meteorological and air quality simulations and establish minimum and upper performance expectations for participating models using simple information-limited models as benchmarks.
Ian Sue Wing (CAS, Earth & Environment & CISS Affiliate) The Long Shadow of a Major Disaster: Modeled Dynamic Impacts of the Hypothetical HayWired Earthquake on California’s Economy (International Regional Science Review, September 2023) Sue Wing and his co-authors develop and apply a dynamic economic simulation model to analyze the multi-regional impacts of, and mechanisms of recovery from, a major disaster, the HayWired scenario — a hypothetical Magnitude 7.0 earthquake affecting California’s San Francisco Bay Area.
Joseph Harris (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) UHC is the right goal, but is not the same as the right to health (The Lancet Global Health, September 2023) In this publication, Harris speaks to the tensions between the right to health and UHC concepts, stating “The two concepts are not the same thing, and they should not be conflated.
Taylor Beauvais (GRS, Sociology) Hybrid representative sampling of social media (Bulletin of Sociological Methodology, September 2023) Beauvais illuminates stark polarization resulting from algorithmic opinion aggregation, with implications in online extremism, media literacy, demographic representation in public discourse, and more.
David M. Glick
(CAS, Political Science) The Profits of Distrust: Citizen-Consumers, Drinking Water, and the Crisis of Confidence in American Governmentby Manuel P Teodoro, Samantha Zuhlke and David Switzer (Political Science Quarterly, September 2023) Glick reviews The Profits of Distrust: Citizen-Consumers, Drinking Water, and the Crisis of Confidence in American Government by Manuel P Teodoro, Samantha Zuhlke and David Switzer.
Spencer Piston (CAS, Political Science & CISS Affiliate) Trickle-Down Racism: Trump’s Effect on Whites’ Racist Dehumanizing Attitudes (Ecological and Social Psychology, September 2023) In this publication, Piston and his coauthor show that Trump’s 2016 victory had a polarizing effect on whites’ expression of dehumanizing views of Black people, with important implications for scholars’ understanding of the sociopolitical factors that can affect dehumanizing attitudes and the normalization of racism in the U.S. today.
Wesley J. Wildman (STH & CISS affiliate) The Winding Way Home (Wildhouse Fiction, September 2023) Wildman ventures into fiction with his new book which is being called a moving story with rare spiritual depth.
Abigail Sullivan (CAS, Earth & Environment & CISS Affiliate) Collective action improves elite-driven governance in rural development within China (Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, September 2023) Sullivan and her colleagues indicate that collective action is a mediator, but is more influential in linking governing elites than in linking economic elites with rural development.
James Cummings (COM & CISS Affiliate) The Power of Personal Ontologies: Individual Traits Prevail Over Robot Traits in Shaping Robot Humanization Perceptions (International Journal of Social Robotics, September 2023) In this study, Cummnings and his coauthor examine facets of robot humanization, defined as how people think of robots as social and human-like entities through perceptions of liking, human-likeness, and rights entitlement.
Claudia Andersen (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Establishing Key Facts About Restrictive Housing—A Systems-Level Descriptive Analysis of Restrictive Housing and the Implications for Theory, Research, and Policy (Crime & Delinquency, September 2023) Anderson and her colleagues argue that a more detailed understanding of restrictive housing usage is required to advance theory, research, and evidence-based policy and bring data to bear on questions about the prevalence and trends in the use of the most routine forms of restrictive housing in Ohio prisons.
David Manuel Carballo (CAS, Archeology & CISS Affiliate) Characterization of Obisdian Sub-Source Variability at El Paredon, Mexico (Archeometry, September, 2023) Carballo and his co-authors present a methodology that allows the identification of obsidian sub-sources revealing that Tlaxcalan populations took advantage of a specific obsidian deposit called Tres Cabezas, Puebla.
H. Denis Wu (COM & CISS Affiliate) The “populist imbecile” versus the “heartless shrew”: Polarizing election coverage and voters’ evaluation in Taiwan (NRJ, September 2023) Wu and his colleagues analyze the news coverage of two major presidential candidates—one populist challenger, the other female incumbent—in the 2020 Taiwan election and shed new light on populist vis-à-vis gendered election coverage in the context of an Asian democracy.
Makarand Amrish Mody (SPH, Hospitality Administration & CISS Affiliate) Rethinking the role of hospitality in society: the HOST model (International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, September 2023) Mody and his coauthors provide a critical reflection on the role of hospitality in society. Specifically, criticizing contemporary conceptualizations of hospitality in academic research and practice and suggesting a reconceptualized approach for capturing the full potential of hospitality to elicit transformative social change.
Paula Austin (CAS, History) Growing Up Jim Crow (The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023) generates much-needed conversation about childhood in Jim Crow era America.
Arianne Chernock (CAS, History & CISS Affiliate) The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women Queen Victoria and the Women’s Movement (Cambridge University Press, September 2023) Chernock reveals Queen Victoria as a ruler who captured the imaginations of nineteenth-century feminists and draws attention to the intricate and often overlooked connections between the histories of women, the monarchy, and the state.
Kristin Long (CAS, Psychological and Behavior Science) Associations between parental depression, communication, and self-worth of siblings bereaved by cancer (Journal of Family Psychology, September 2023) Long and her colleagues examine the differences in parental depressive symptoms, parent–child communication, and sibling self-worth between bereaved and nonbereaved families and the indirect effects of parental depressive symptoms and communication quality on the association between bereavement and sibling self-worth.
Christine Slaughter (CAS, Political Science & CISS Affiliate) Black Women: Keepers of Democracy, the Democratic Process, and the Democratic Party (Politics & Gender, September 2023) Slaughter and her co-authors find that Black women are motivated by civic duty to participate in elections, whereas civic duty does not motivate Black men and white women.
Luke Glowacki (CAS, Anthropology & CISS Affiliate) Universal interpretations of vocal music (Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, September 2023) Glowacki and his colleagues demonstrate that the behavioral contexts of three common forms of music are mutually intelligible cross-culturally and imply that musical diversity, shaped by cultural evolution, is nonetheless grounded in some universal perceptual phenomena.
Sanne Cornelia J Verschuren (Pardee & CISS Affiliate) Challenges to the Nuclear Order: Between Resilience and Contestation (Routledge Handbook of the Future of Warfare, Eds. Artur Gruszczak and Sebastian Kaempf, 2024) Verschuren discusses the challenges of nuclear order.
Elliot Chudyk (GRS, Sociology) Genderplay: Reclaiming and Reconfiguring Femininity through the Gendered Labor Practices of Transmasculine Sex Workers (Social Problems, 2023) Chudyk explores the gendered labor of transmasculine sex workers as they navigate client requests for genderplay, an eroticized form of gender misrecognition.
Nicholas J. Wagner (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) Testing reciprocal associations between child anxiety and parenting across early interventions for inhibited preschoolers (The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, August 2023) Wagner and his co-authors find that the development of child anxiety may result from child-to-parent influences rather than the reverse, and highlight the importance of targeting parent and child factors simultaneously in early interventions for young, inhibited children.
Claudia Andersen (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Disentangling the relationship between serious disorder problems and the use of supermax prisons (Criminology & Public Policy, August 2023) Andersen suggests that a prison facility’s level of serious disorder strongly corresponds with its reliance on supermax prisons and that indicators of serious rule breaking, and not minor forms of it, are strongly associated with a person’s odds of experiencing a supermax transfer.
Alice Cronin-Golomb (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate), Swathi Kiran (Sargent), Yuanyuan Gao (BU Neurophotonics Center), Vaibhav Tripathi (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences, ’23), Theresa Ellis, (Director, Center for Neurorehabilitation), Alexander von Lühmann (BU Neurophotonics Center), Meryem Yücel,(ENG, Biomedical Engineering), David Boas, (Director, BU Neurophotonics Center), David Somers (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences) Observability of Visual Working Memory Brain Circuitry With Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (Journal of Vision, August 2023) Cronin-Golomb and her colleagues provide a basis for establishing a set of best practices for the application of fNIRS to the study of visual working memory.
Léa Tân Combette (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) and Deborah Kelemen (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) Early Education and Natural Selection: Examining Conceptual Understanding and Mindset Effects (Center for Open Science, August 2023) Combette and Kelemen argue that formal education on natural selection should commence at an early age as research has shown that misconceptions about evolution can emerge in early childhood and persistently hinder later scientific learning and reasoning.
Michel Anteby (Questrom Management & Organizations & CISS Affiliate) Rebooting One’s Professional Work: The Case of French Anesthesiologists Using Hypnosis (Administrative Science Quarterly, August 2023) Anteby and co-authors analyze how anesthesiologists were able to change their views and reinvent their work.
Heidi C. Meyer (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences) Intermixed safety cues facilitate extinction retention in adult and adolescent mice (Physiology & Behavior, August 2023) Meyer and her co-author inform the parameters by which conditioned safety and extinction learning may be merged to augment the inhibition of fear.
Wade Campbell (CAS, Archeology & CISS Affiliate) Chasing Copeland and Roger’s “Trial Balloons”: Multi-Scalar Considerations of Early Navajo Rock Art in Dinétah (Landscape Archeology, August 2023) Campbell and his co-author draw on previous research to weigh in on early Navajo rock art with the goal of bolstering discussions of Navajo rock art in Dinétah.
Merav Shohet (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Structural and Psychosocial Challenges Among Underserved Hemodialysis Patients During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic:A Qualitative Study (Kidney Medicine, August 2023) Shohet and her colleagues show that Psychosocial and environmental factors, including institutional racism and stigmatization, play significant roles in amplifying the burdens shouldered by racial and ethnic minority individuals with kidney disease who now also face the COVID-19 pandemic turned endemic.
Todd Farchione (BU Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders) and Timothy A Brown (BU Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders) The Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders and Physical Health Comorbidity (Applications of the Unified Protocol in Health Conditions, ed. Jorge Osma and Todd J. Farchione, August 2023) Farchione and his co-authors introduce the unified protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of emotional disorders.
Alice Cronin-Golomb (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) Cognitive–Behavioral Treatment for Anxiety and Depression in Parkinson’s Disease (Applications of the Unified Protocol in Health Conditions, ed. Jorge Osma and Todd J. Farchione, August 2023) Cronin-Golomb and her fellow authors discuss treatments for anxiety and depression Parkinson’s patients.
Claudia Andersen (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Restrictive housing for prison rule violators: Specific deterrence or defiance? (Journal of Experimental Criminology, August 2023) Andersen and her colleagues examine whether segregation (restrictive housing/RH) for first-time prison rule violators in Ohio shapes his/her odds of violations thereafter finding that RH placement corresponded with significantly but modestly lower odds of any misconduct within 12 months after release from RH, but effects on more serious offenses (particularly violence) were weak.
Todd Farchione (CAS, Psychological & Brain Sciences) Are changes in joviality associated with cognitive behavioral treatment outcomes? Examining an emerging treatment target (Psychotherapy, August 2023) Farchione and his co-authors find that, for most patients receiving CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy), joviality increased more rapidly in individuals with more severe anxiety but not severe depression.
Stefan G. Hofmann (CAS, Physiological & Brain Sciences) Effect of cognitive behavioural therapy and yoga for generalised anxiety disorder on sleep quality in a randomised controlled trial: the role of worry, mindfulness, and perceived stress as mediators (Journal of Sleep Research, August 2023) Hofman and his colleagues examined the effects of Kundalini yoga (KY), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and stress education (SEdu) on subjective sleep quality finding that sleep changes were not significantly greater for CBT or KY compared to SEdu.
Claudia Andersen (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Disparities in Segregation for Prison Control: Comparing Long Term Solitary Confinement to Short Term Disciplinary Restrictive Housing (Justice Quarterly, August 2023) Andersen and her co-authors examined related disparities in the use of extended restrictive housing in Ohio (SC conditions) while expanding the analysis to short term restrictive housing, a substantially more common prison experience.
Thomas Byrne (SSW & CISS Affiliate) Husserl’s Other Phenomenology of Feelings: Approval, Value, and Correctness (Husserl Studies, August 2023) Byrne highlights how Husserl’s examinations of approval – as an intention that performs both an axiological and a seemingly cognitive function – lead him to extraordinary observations about the execution of feelings and the truth of judgments.
Stefan G. Hofmann (CAS, Physiological & Brain Sciences) Comparing Kundalini Yoga, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Stress Education for Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Anxiety and Depression Symptom Outcomes (Psychiatry Research, August 2023) Hofmann and his colleagues summarize seven additional, secondary outcomes measuring anxiety and depression symptoms finding that participants receiving CBT (Cognitive-Behavior Therapy) displayed significantly lower symptom severity.
Kristin Long (CAS, Psychological and Behavior Science) Children with Exceptionalities (Bloomsbury Publishing, Marriage and Divorce in America: Issues, Trends, and Controversies, Ed. Jaimee L. Hartenstein, August 2023) In this article, Long delves into the issue of children’s wellness in divorce situations.
Stefan G. Hofmann (CAS, Physiological & Brain Sciences) The Compassion Balance: Understanding the Interrelation of Self- and Other-Compassion for Optimal Well-being (Mindfulness, July 2023) Hofman and his colleagues examine the role of self-other harmony in the relations between self-compassion, other-compassion, and well-being.
Catherine Caldwell-Harris (CAS, Psychology & CISS Affiliate) Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder, which affects 1 in 44 children and may cause severe disabilities. Besides socio-communicational difficulties and repetitive behaviors, ASD also presents as atypical sensorimotor function and pain reactivity. While chronic pain is a frequent co-morbidity in autism, pain management in this population is often insufficient because of difficulties in pain (Etiology and Treatment for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder, August 2023) Caldwell-Harris and her co-authors discuss various co-morbidities in ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder), a neurodevelopmental disorder, and show how individuals with ASD face significant inequities in healthcare, despite their high rate of medical co-morbidities.
Kathleen Corriveau (Wheelock Applied Human Development & CISS Affiliate) I copy you as I believe you know about our culture: Combining imitation and selective trust literatures (Infant and Child Development, August 2023) In this paper, Corriveau and her colleagues contend that children’s imitative tendency may be due to their selection of in‐group members as
Neha Gondal (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate), Noor Toraif (SSW), Pujan Paudel (ENG), and Alison Frisellaa (ENG) From colorblind to systemic racism: Emergence of a rhetorical shift in higher education discourse in response to the murder of George Floyd (PLOS ONE, August 2023) Gondal and her co-authors reveal two striking rhetorical shifts on race discourse in Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder.
Ian Sue Wing (CAS, Earth & Environment & CISS Affiliate) Intensive and extensive margins of the peak load: Measuring adaptation with mixed frequency panel data (Energy Economics, August 2023) In this work, Sue Wing and his colleagues investigate the response of daily electricity peak load to daily maximum temperatures across states in Europe and India and project that in response to climate change around 2050 the peak load may increase by up to 20 India, depending on the degree of warming and the evolution of socio-economic conditions.
Nathan Jones (SED & CISS Affiliate) Using Performance Tasks to Provide Feedback and Assess Progress in Teacher Preparation (ETS Research Report Series, July 2023) Jones and his colleagues explore the potential for using a new type of short performance task to explore uses both as part of teacher preparation and for assessing key competencies needed for effective teaching.
Ian Sue Wing (CAS, Earth & Environment & CISS Affiliate) and Adam B. Pollack (CAS) Potential Benefits in Remapping the Special Flood Hazard Area: Evidence from the U.S. Housing Market (Journal of Housing Economics, September 2023) Sue Wing, Pollack and their co-authors distinguish capitalization effects of policy-driven (SFHA) versus quasi-objective (First Street) indicators of flood hazard.
Steven Sandage (STH, Psychology of Religion and Theology & CISS Affiliate) Elise J. Y. Choe (The Albert and Jessie Danielsen Institute), Stephen Waldron (STH), Choi Hee (STH) Intellectual humility and religion/spirituality: a scoping review of research (The Journal of Positive Psychology, July 2023) Sandage, Choe, Waldron and Hee find that definitional confusion around Intellectual Humility is exacerbated by inconsistencies in how it is related to Religion and Spirituality and that empirical research has been mostly limited to cross-sectional studies, consistent with previous reviews and critiques.
Henry Tonks (Ph.D. Candidate CAS, History) Review Essay: Can American Liberalism Reinvent Itself? (Public Seminar, June 2023) Tonks reviews Illusions of Progress by Brent Cebul, University of Pennsylvania Press.
Thomas Byrne (SSW & CISS Affiliate) Systematic review of access to healthcare and social services among US women Veterans experiencing homelessness (Women’s Health, August 2023) Byrne and his colleague find that although women Veterans had similar or better outcomes with permanent housing programming compared to men, gaps remain in the provision of emergency and short-term housing accommodations.
Todd Farchione
(CAS, Psychological & Brain Sciences) and Andrew David (CAS, History) Is Prolonged Grief Disorder an Emotional Disorder? (Loss and Trauma, August 2023) Farchione and his colleagues argue that PGD Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) should be conceptualized as an emotional disorder.
Andrew C. Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) COVID-19 and All-Cause Mortality by Race, Ethnicity, and Age Across Five Periods of the Pandemic in the United States (Population Research and Policy Review, August 2023) Stokes and his co-authors find a disproportionate COVID-19 mortality burden on racial and ethnic minority populations early in the pandemic, which led to an increase in all-cause mortality disparities and a temporary elimination of the Hispanic mortality advantage at certain age groups.
Leping Wang (GRS, Sociology and CISS Graduate Affiliate). Measuring Wellbeing Among College Students (LearningWell, July 2023). Wang provides a detailed analysis of the measures and scales used to measure psychological well-being among young adults.
Nazli Kibria (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Decolonizing Migration Studies: Visions and Strategies, Decolonizing Migration Studies: A Brief Introduction (Sociology Forum, July 2023) Kirbria discusses the challenges of shifting the field of Sociology away from its focus on migrant integration within national borders and proposes a variety of decolonizing strategies, from interrogating established categories of migration to integrating scholarship from the global South.
Michel Anteby (Questrom Management & Organizations & CISS Affiliate) In the Eyes of the Beholder: When Broad vs. Local Perception of Occupational Stigma Differ (Academy of Management Annual MeetingProceedings, July 2023) Anteby and his co-author explore how an occupational membership, amongst instructors in supplementary education in South Korea, may signify varying meanings across different social contexts, resulting in disparate experiences of stigmatization amongst members and find that even when the broad, outside audience’s evaluation of the occupation is overall positive or neutral, some members experience localized stigma.
Michel Anteby (Questrom Management & Organizations & CISS Affiliate) The Rise of Neo-Experts: Sources, Characteristics, and Implications (Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, July 2023) Anteby and his co-author offer more conceptual clarity around the question of expertise by detailing its varying sources, characteristics, and implications in light of the rise what they label “neo-experts”.
Arianne Chernock (CAS, History & CISS Affiliate) Suffrage as Philosophy: Women Theorizing the Vote in Britain, 1792–1918 (The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century, with editors Lydia Moland and Alison Stone, July 2023) Chernock examines the centrality of theory, broadly construed, to suffragist and suffragette activity.
David ManuelCarballo (CAS, Archeology) Mesoamerican Urbanism Revisited: Environmental Change, Adaptation, Resilience, Persistence, and Collapse (PNAS, July 2023) Carballo and his colleagues call for a dialogue among Mesoamerican urban archaeologists, sustainability scientists, and researchers interested in urban adaptation to climate change through a synthetic perspective on the organizational diversity of urbanism, seeking insights into what facilitates and hinders urban adaptation to environmental change.
Todd Farchione (CAS, Physiological & Brain Sciences) Effects of a Contextual Adaptation of the Unified Protocol in Multiple Emotional Disorders in Individuals Exposed to Armed Conflict in Colombia, A Randomized Clinical Trial (JAMA Psychiatry, July 2023) Farchione and his co-authors show a significant pretreatment-to-posttreatment reduction when comparing treatment and waitlist on posttraumatic stress disorder.
Andrew C. Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) Excess Mortality With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias as an Underlying or Contributing Cause During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US (JAMA Neurology, July 2023) In this article, Stokes and his co-authors ask how mortality with Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRD) as an underlying or contributing cause change during the COVID-19 pandemic, finding that large increases in mortality with ADRD as an underlying or contributing cause of death occurred in COVID-19 pandemic year 1, but were largely mitigated in pandemic year 2.
Stefan G. Hofmann (CAS, Physiological & Brain Sciences) The role of experiential avoidance in the early stages of an online mindfulness-based intervention: Two mediation studies (Psychotherapy Research, July 2023) Hofmann and his colleagues examine whether experiential avoidance mediated the effects of MBIs on emotional distress during an early stage of the intervention, finding significant improvement.
Kathleen Corriveau (Wheelock Applied Human Development & CISS Affiliate) and Sona Kumar (Ph.D. Candidate, Wheelock Applied Human Development) A Social Cognitive Perspective on Intergroup Relations with Immigrant Learners in Early Childhood (Contemporary Perspectives on Research on Immigration in Early Childhood Education, Information Age Publishing, Ch. 10, pp. 171-185, July 2023) Corriveau and Kumar explore potential barriers to the acculturation and inclusion of young immigrant children into educational settings, concluding with suggestions for ways to mitigate early ingroup biases and promote positive relationships between immigrant and non-immigrant children in classrooms settings.
Peter Blake (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) The influence of friendship on children’s fairness concerns in three societies (Evolution and Human Behavior, July 2023) Blake and his co-authors compared the responses of children between 7 and 9 years of age from rural communities in India, Peru and Canada, that are known to have divergent norms of fairness, to disadvantageous allocations (less for self) and advantageous allocations (more for self) suggesting that friendship may shape the expression of fairness concerns in young children, though its influence varies across societies.
Jonathan Mijs (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Deliberating Inequality: A Blueprint for Studying the Social Formation of Beliefs about Economic Inequality (Social Justice Research, July 2023) Mijs and his co-authors offer this updated version of their publication which helps explain how understandings of inequality arise.
Makarand Amrish Mody (SPH, Hospitality Administration & CISS Affiliate) Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Hospitality and Tourism Industry: Developing a Framework for Future Research (Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, July 2023) Mody and his colleagues offer a critical examination of the effects of GAI applications across a broad spectrum of stakeholders in the HT industry, in an effort to integrate practical and academic insights and foresights and drive academic research forward.
Deborah Carr (CAS, Sociology & CISS Director) Telehealth Use Among Older Adults with Sensory, Cognitive, and Physical Impairments: A Substitute or Supplement to Traditional Care? (The Journals of Gerontology, July 2023) In this article, Carr and her co-authors study if older adults with disabilities face obstacles to effective telehealth use.
Nathan D. Jones (Wheelock College & CISS Affiliate) Measuring Teachers’ Momentary Affect: An Exploratory Experience Sampling Study (Contemporary Educational Psychology, July 2023) Jones and his colleagues use the experience sampling method to explore the momentary emotions of 238 United States teachers to consider ways in which professional role, professional activity, and affective appraisals relate to teachers’ momentary affective experiences.
Rosella Cappella Zielinski (CAS, Political Science & CISS Affiliate) Battlefield Coalitions: Preparation, Organisation, Execution (Taylor & Francis, Understanding Battlefield Coalitions, July 2023) Capella Zielinski and her colleagues discuss battlefield coalitions.
Rosella Cappella Zielinski (CAS, Political Science & CISS Affiliate) Regime Type, War Aims, and Coalition Member Effort in Combat (Taylor & Francis, Understanding Battlefield Coalitions, July 2023) Capella Zielinski and her colleagues discuss battlefield coalitions.
Neha Gondal (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) The Gap Between Public Evaluations and Interactional Status in Social Networks (Social Network Analysis and Mining, July 2023) Gondal finds that evaluations ‘undervalue’ both elite and mid-ranked departments relative to their structural positions and discusses potential explanations and implications of these findings.
Alice Cronin-Golomb (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) Equal Prevalence of Depression in Men and Women with Parkinson’s Disease Revealed by Online Assessment (Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, July 2023) Cronin-Golomb and her co-authors challenge the prediction that online anonymity might elicit more gender-based parity in depression endorsement, especially in men who consistently report lower rates of depression than women in in-person studies, due to stigma-related underreporting.
Robert Weller (CAS, Anthropology & CISS Affiliate) Religion in the Folded City: Origami and the Boundaries of the Chronotope (Cambridge University Press, Comparative Studies in Society and History, July 2023) Weller and his co-author rethink the chronotope approach by examining what happened to religious space-times in a Chinese urban development project that completely transformed what had once been five relatively rural townships.
Eva Garrett (CAS, Anthropology & CISS Affiliate) Human Subsistence and Signatures of Selection on Chemosensory Genes (Communications Biology, July 2023) Garrett and her colleagues explore the effects of subsistence behaviors on olfactory (OR) and taste (TASR) receptor genes among rainforest foragers and neighboring agriculturalists in Africa and Southeast Asia.
Michael Lyons (CAS, Psychological & Brain Studies) Long-term Blood Pressure Patterns in Midlife and Dementia in Later Life: Findings from the Framingham Heart Study (Alzheimer & Dementia, July 2023) Lyons and his co-authors find that cumulative BP over the course of midlife predicts risk of dementia in later life and that long-term blood pressure (BP) patterns are strong indicators of vascular risks.
Brooke L. Blower (CAS, History) Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am’s Yankee Clipper (Oxford University Press, 2023) In her book, Blower offers a vivid narrative of the ill-fated Pan American flight during World War II that captures the dramatic backstories of its passengers and, through them, the impact of Americans’ global connections.
Luke Glowacki (CAS, Anthropology & CISS Affiliate) Why Did Foraging, Horticulture and Pastoralism Persist after the Neolithic Transition? The
Oasis Theory of Agricultural Intensification (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, June 2023) In this article, Glowacki and his co-authors suggest that in certain ecologies intensive agriculture may be difficult or impossible to develop but that generally lower rainfall and biodiversity is favorable for its emergence.
James Cummings (COM & CISS Affiliate) Means vs. Outcomes: Leveraging Psychological Insights for Media-Based Behavior Change Interventions (Springer Nature, Nudging Choices Through Media, pp. 137–157, June 2023) In this chapter, Cummings provide an overview to a wide assortment of psychological considerations relevant to media-based behavior interventions.
Christopher Robertson (LAW & CISS Affiliate) 5: The Ballot of Donald and Hillary: Hateful Memories of Celebrity Leaders (Bristol University Press,Interpreting Contentious Memory, Editors: Thomas DeGloma and Janet Jacobs, pp. 89–110, June 2023) Robertson and his co-authors argue that candidates with celebrity reputations and who have been previously well-known are particularly likely to be targets of intense discursive abuse.
Deborah Kelemen (CAS, Psychological & Brain Studies & CISS Affiliate) Are Humans Part of the Natural World? U.S. Children’s and Adults’ Concept of Nature and its Relationship to Environmental Concern (Topics in Cognitive Science, June 2023) In this publication, Kelemen and her co-authors explore the extent to which U.S. adults and children understand their role in nature and the relationship of their nature concepts and other individual differences to environmental moral concern and biocentric reasoning.
Sam Ling (CAS, Psychological & Brain Sciences) Spatial Frequency Tuning in Early Visual Cortex in Individuals with Amblyopia (Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, June 2023) Ling and his colleagues consider how voxel-wise spatial frequency tuning varies between the amblyopic and fellow eye and how this tuning varies as a function of receptive field size and eccentricity.
Nicholas Wagner (CAS, Psychological and Brain Disorders) Comparison of Behaviorally Inhibited and Typically Developing Children’s Play Behaviors in the Preschool Classroom (Front. Psychol.Sec. Developmental Psychology, June 2023) Wagner and his co-authors find that children identified as BI (behavioral inhibition) did not receive fewer bids for social interaction than their typically developing peers, thereby suggesting that children who are inhibited have difficulty capitalizing on opportunities to engage in social interaction with familiar peers.
Alice Cronin-Golomb (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) and David Somers (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences) NinjaNIRS: An Open-Source Ecosystem for Wearable, Whole-Head and High Density fNIRS with EEG Co-Localization (Biophotonics Congress: Optics in the Life Sciences 2023, June 2023) Cronin-Golomb and her colleagues seek to provide an open-source ecosystem to increase adoption of functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) with integrated EEG in the real world.
Kristin Long (CAS, Psychological and Behavior Science) Trajectories of Traumatic Stress Symptoms Among Siblings of Children With Cancer: The First Two Years Post-Diagnosis (Journal of Pediatric Psychology, June 2023) In this publication, Long and her co-authors identify and describe trajectories of cancer-related post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) among siblings of children with cancer within two years of diagnosis.
Mary Elizabeth Collins (SSW, Social Welfare Policy & CISS Affiliate) Understanding youth circumstances in workforce development programs: Opportunities for social work (Journal of Social Work, June 2023) Collins and her colleagues report results from two research studies in the United States focused on the workforce development system serving the disconnected youth population.
Heather Schoenfeld (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Early 21st century penal reform: A comparative analysis of four states’ responses to the problems of mass incarceration (Law & Policy, University of Denver, June 2023) Schoenfeld and her co-authors examine how different states responded to mounting problems caused by mass incarceration, highlighting the importance of autonomy from external pressures that allowed penal administrators to respond to mounting problems in ways that reduced their state’s reliance on imprisonment.
Steven Sandage (STH, Psychology of Religion and Theology & CISS Affiliate) and Todd Farchione (BU Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders) Therapist experiences and perspectives on moving beyond symptoms and into flourishing: a grounded theory analysis (Counselling Psychology Quarterly, June 2023) Sandage, Farchione and their co-authors suggest how flourishing can be pursued by guiding clients toward their experiences of suffering in order to engage in meaning making and to identify their values.
Stefan G. Hofmann (CAS, Psychological and Brain Disorders and Director, Psychotherapy and Emotion Research Laboratory) and Michael Otto (CAS, Psychological and Brain Disorders) Using pre-treatment de novo threat conditioning outcomes to predict treatment response to DCS augmentation of exposure-based CBT (Journal of Psychiatric Research, June 2023) Hofmann and Otto, along with their co-authors, evaluate the value of de novo threat conditioning outcomes—degree of threat acquisition, extinction, and extinction retention—for predicting treatment response to exposure-based CBT for social anxiety disorder, applied with and without DCS augmentation in a sample of 59 outpatients.
Makarand Amrish Mody (SPH, Hospitality Administration & CISS Affiliate) The impact of business models and state regulations on the accommodation sector: theory and empirical evidence from the recent pandemic (International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, June 2023) Mody and his co-authors investigated the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on key performance metrics of accommodation properties by elaborating on the roles of business models (i.e. franchised, chain-managed and independent hotels, and the sharing economy) and state-level restrictions in the US.
Andrew C. Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) Missing Americans: Early death in the United States— 1933–2021 (PNAS Nexus, June 2023) In this article, Stokes and his colleagues assess how many U.S. deaths would have been averted each year, from 1933–2021, if U.S. age-specific mortality rates had equaled the average of 21 other wealthy nations.
Spencer Piston (CAS, Political Science & CISS Affiliate) The Politics of Racist Dehumanization in the United States (Annual Review of Political Science, June 2023) Piston and his co-author focus on the racist dehumanization of Indigenous and Black people, arguing that processes of dehumanization have long been implicated in both the practice of race-making and concurrent efforts to exploit and dominate racialized groups.
James J. Feigenbaum (CAS, Economics) Racial Inequality in the Prime of Life: Infectious Disease Mortality in U.S. Cities, 1906–1933 (Social Science History, Cambridge University Press, Social Science History, June 2023) Feigenbaum and his co-authors show that, in the first half of the twentieth century, as infant mortality declined and life expectancy rose, racial inequality in infectious disease mortality increased in American cities.
Hyeouk Chris Hahm (School of Social Work) Home away from Home: International Students’ experiences during the COVID-19 Pandemic and the role of US Higher Education (Frontiers in Psychology, Sec. Educational Psychology, June 2023) Focused on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on international students’ overall experiences, Hahm and her co-authors find that that the pandemic exacerbated existing stressors and reveals the importance of US higher education institutions in supporting international students during the pandemic, particularly in terms of their sense of belonging.
Rachel Brulé (GDP & CISS Affiliate) Women and Power in the Developing World (Annual Review of Political Science, June 2023) Brulé and her co-authors survey the literature on women’s negotiation of power in the developing world find that in the past and present, the developing world provides striking models of women’s negotiation of power that turn conventions of development upside down.
Steven Sandage (STH, Psychology of Religion and Theology & CISS Affiliate) Conviction, Competence, Context: A Three-Level Model to Promote Racial Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Among Christians (Journal of Psychology & Christianity, June 2023) Sandage and his colleagues discuss the problem of racial division within the context of American Christianity and present a three-part model for supporting Christians who want to work toward racial diversity/equity/inclusion (DEI), offering some ideas about what a program based on their model might look like.
Rosella Cappella Zielinski (CAS, Political Science) Paying the Defense Bill: Financin American and Chinese Geostrategic Competition (Texas National Security Review: Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2023) Capella Zielinski and her co-author discuss the decades-long geostrategic competition between the United States and China and consider the cost of financing defense spending.
Nicholas Wagner (CAS, Psychological and Brain Disorders) Vagal Flexibility Moderates the Links between Observed Sensitive Caregiving in Infancy and Externalizing Behavior Problems in Middle Childhood (Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, June 2023) Wagner and his co-authors explore how patterns of physiological stress reactivity underpin individual differences in sensitivity to early rearing experiences and childhood risk for psychopathology.
Stefan G. Hofmann (CAS, Psychological and Brain Disorders and Director, Psychotherapy and Emotion Research Laboratory) CBT for Social Anxiety: Simple Skills for Overcoming Fear and Enjoying People (New Harbinger Publications, 2023) In his upcoming book, Hofmann explains how avoidance might lessen social anxiety in the short-term, but can make anxiety worse in the long run, and offers research-proven skills to address social anxiety.
Amalia Pérez-Juez (CAS, Archeology) and Paul Goldberg (CAS, Archaeology) The fabric of Torre d’en Galmés, Menorca, Spain (Geoarcheology, June 2023) Pérez-Juez and her co-author demonstrate that by examining the different fabrics of the site of Torre d’en Galmés on the Spanish Island of Menorca one can gain a better understanding of the geoarchaeology.
Andrew C. Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) Comprehensive review of the national surveys that assess E-cigarette use domains among youth and adults in the United States (The Lancet Regional Health – Americas, July 2023) Stokes and his colleagues identify 13 nationally epidemiologic surveys which assess e-cigarette use among U.S. youth and/or adults instrumental in e-cigarette surveillance to provide a resource for the tobacco regulatory science community.
Pratyusha Tummala-Narra (CAS, Psychological & Brain Studies) Women immigrants: Developmental Shifts in the New Culture (Psychological Health of Women of Color, Bloomsbury Publishing, Ch. 13, May 2023) In this chapter, Tummala-Narra discusses mental health among women immigrants.
Arianne Chernock (CAS, History & CISS Affiliate) Forum: The Death of Queen Elizabeth II: Meaning and Media (Journal of British Studies 62, April 2023) Chernock and her colleagues offer this roundtable on the death of Queen Elizabeth II, presented at the North American Conference on British Studies in Chicago in November 2022, which includes an account of the many meanings of Queen Elizabeth II for her subjects and discussion of why so many at home and in the Commonwealth were devoted to her.
Deborah Kelemen (CAS, Psychological & Brain Studies & CISS Affiliate) Is Book Reading Always Best? Children Learn and Transfer Complex Scientific Explanations from Books or Animations (Evolution: Education and Outreach, May 2023) Kelemen and her co-authors examined second graders’ abilities to learn about the concepts of adaptation and speciation via both static storybooks and animated storybooks, concluding that the animated versions are “just as good (and may even be better) than static storybooks”.
Catherine Caldwell-Harris (CAS, Psychology & CISS Affiliate) “Religion evolving: Cultural, cognitive, and ecological dynamics. ” Religion Is of Reduced Importance When Not Needed to Solve the Problems of Social Living (Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, May 2023) Caldwell-Harris and her co-author conclude when these problems are absent or are solved by secular mechanisms, religion is absent or of reduced importance.
Frank Korom (CAS, Anthropology) “Ghanaram, Dharmamaṅgal.” Reading matters: An Unfestschrift for Regina Bendix – (Gottingen University Press, Ulrich Marzolph, pp. 211-215, May 2023) Korom provides the first ever translation of a description of the hero Lausen’s horse from the oldest surviving major work of French literature, The Song of Roland (Fr. La Chanson de Roland), the eleventh century epic poem based on the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778 CE.
Katherine Levine Einstein (CAS, Political Science & CISS Affiliate) Policing and the Punitive Politics of Local Homelessness Policy (Policing and Punitive Politics of Local Homelessness Policy Brief, BU Initiative on Cities, May 2023) Levine Einstein, along with Alisa Dewald (BU Initiative on Cities) and Charley E. Willison (Cornell University), investigate the involvement of the police in responses to homelessness in cities across the country finding that the police are highly influential in city homelessness policymaking and are frequently involved in implementing homelessness policy
Kathleen Corriveau (Wheelock Applied Human Development & CISS Affiliate) Indirect Effects of Early Shared Reading and Access to Books on Reading Vocabulary in Middle Childhood (Scientific Studies of Reading, May 2023) Corrieau and her colleagues investigate the effects of early shared reading and access to books on reading vocabulary in middle childhood and the pathways associated with later reading success.
Ibram X. Kendi (Founder/Director of the Center for Antiracist Research) An Illusion of Equity: The Legacy of Eugenics in Today’s Education (The University Press of Kentucky, May 2023) Written by Wendy Zagray Warren, this author builds on the work of BU member Ibram X. Kendi in her discussion of inequity and the rhetoric around it.
Thomas Byrne (SSW & CISS Affiliate) Impact of the monetary value of housing assistance on adult health outcomes (Health Services Research, May 2023) Byrne and his co-authors assess the impact of the dollar value of federal low-income housing assistance on adult health outcomes and whether this impact varies across housing assistance programs.
Jessica Silbey (LAW & CISS Affiliate) Questions of Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values in the Digital Age (Marquette Intellectual Property & Innovation Law Review 27, May 2023) Silbey’s shares her thoughts on intellectual property in the digital age.
David Carballo (CAS, Archaeology, Anthropology, and Latin American Studies) Looking Forward to New Orleans (Archeological Record 2023, May 2023) Carballo celebrates the 89th annual meeting of the Society of American Archeology which will be coming to New Orleans in April 2024.
Nicolette Manglos-Weber (School of Theology) An Invitation to the Sociology of Religion: Important Questions Answered by Scholars in the Field (The American Sociologist, May 2023) Manglos-Weber and her colleagues explore what people consider the most important questions in the study of religion and invite readers to discover scholars’ dialogue around those questions.
Pascual Restrepo (CAS, Economics) Advanced Technology Adoption: Selection or Causal Effects? (AEA Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 113, pp. 210-14, May 2023) Restrepo and his colleagues show that firms that adopt advanced technologies are larger in terms of employment than other firms in their same industry and cohort.
Robert Reinhart (CAS, Physiological & Brain Sciences) A meta-analysis suggests that tACS improves cognition in healthy, aging, and psychiatric populations (Science Translational Medicine, May 2023) Reinhart and his co-authors suggest that transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) has potential for improving cognition, but further studies are needed to confirm this finding.
Hyeouk Chris Hahm (School of Social Work) Effect of vicarious discrimination on race-based stress symptoms among Asian American young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic (APA PsycNet, May 2023) Hahm and her colleagues demonstrate that witnessing racial discrimination (“vicarious discrimination”), including via social media, can cause race-based stress symptoms. They conclude that providers should provide the opportunity to address these situations, reducing any trauma experienced.
Kristin Long (CAS, Physiological & Brain Sciences) Validation of the Psychosocial Assessment Tool Sibling Module Follow-Up Version (Journal of Pediatric Psychology, May 2023) Acknowledging that psychosocial screening is recommended to connect siblings of youth with cancer to psychosocial services, Long and her co-authors aim to validate and establish a clinical cutoff for the recently developed Psychosocial Assessment Tool (PAT) Sibling Module, concluding the follow-up version is a reliable and valid screener for sibling psychosocial risk following cancer diagnosis.
Kyle Gobrogge (CAS, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies) Neurodevelopmental Model Explaining Associations between Sex Hormones, Personality, and Eating Pathology (Brain Sciences, May 2023) Gobrogge and his co-author investigate the relationships between sex hormones, personality, and eating disorders for decades, showing that that aggressiveness, impulsivity, and obsessive-compulsiveness may mediate or moderate the relationships between sex hormones and eating pathology, but only among females.
Stefan G. Hofmann (CAS, Physiological & Brain Sciences) The Relationship Between Psychological Inflexibility and Well-Being in Adults: A Meta-Analysis of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ) (Behavior Therapy, May 2023) Hoffman and his co-authors’ findings support the hypothesized link between psychological inflexibility and worse well-being.
Charles Dellheim (CAS, History) Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern (Austrian History Yearbook, Brandeis University Press, 2021. Pp. 653., May 2023) Historian Charles Delheim recounts the story of the 1900 commission of artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir by two Jewish brothers’, despite his anti-Semitic views, and the doubt about Renoir’s willingness to accept a commission from Jewish patrons.
Deborah Carr (CAS, Sociology & CISS Director) Estimating Prevalence of Bereavement, Its Contribution to Risk for Binge Drinking, and Other High-Risk Health States in a State Population Survey, 2019 Georgia Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, May 2023) Carr and her associates use a cross-sectional, population-based survey to estimate the prevalence of binge drinking and its association with new bereavement.
Ray Fisman (CAS, Economics & CISS Affiliate) Universalism and Political Representation: Evidence from the Field (NBER Working Paper Series, May 2023) In this paper, Fisman and his co-authors find that spatial heterogeneity in universalism is a substantially stronger predictor of geographic variation in political outcomes than traditional economic variables such as income or education.
Christopher Robertson (LAW, Health Law, Policy, and Management & CISS Affiliate) JD-Next: A valid and reliable tool to predict diverse students’ success in law school (Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, May 2023) In the study, Robertson and his co-authors test the validity and reliability of the JD-Next exam as a potential admissions tool for juris doctor programs of education, finding that the JD-Next exam is a valid and reliable predictor of law school performance, comparable to legacy exams.
Abigail Sullivan (CAS, Earth & Environment & CISS Affiliate) Modeling agent decision and behavior in the light of data science and artificial intelligence (Environmental Modelling & Software, May 2023) Sullivan and her colleagues call for further developments of Agent-based modeling (ABM), especially modeling agent behaviors, in the light of data science and artificial intelligence.
Mary Elizabeth Collins(SSW, Social Welfare Policy & CISS Affiliate) Centering Race Equity Within Youth Workforce Development: Utilizing Critical Race Theory (Community, Work & Family, May 2023) In this article, Collins and her co-authors offer suggestions to further race equity in employment and training for youth.
Heather Schoenfeld (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) The security mindset: Corrections officer workplace culture in late mass incarceration (Theoretical Criminology, May 2023) Schoenfeld and her co-author, Grant Everly, find that prison officials’ practice in jail settings “may work against” the positive relationships necessary for prisoner rehabilitation.
John M Marston (CAS, Archaeology & CISS Affiliate) Crop introductions and agricultural change in Anatolia during the long first millenniumCE (Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, May 2023) Marston and his co-author explore regional differences in agricultural practices from the Roman through the Ottoman periods and document the timing of crop introductions.
Deborah Kelemen (CAS, Psychological & Brain Studies & CISS Affiliate) Why we should care about moral foundations when preparing for the next pandemic: Insights from Canada, the UK and the US (PLOS One, May 2023) Kelemen and her co-authors demonstrate the impact of moral foundations on preventative health behaviors across a range of western democracies.
Jonathan Mijs (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Learning About Inequality in Unequal America: How Heterogeneity in College Shapes Students’ Beliefs About Meritocracy and Racial Discrimination (Science Direct, May 2023) In this article, Mijs illustrates that growing inequality produces socioeconomically homogeneous settings, which then reduces some peoples’ experience with inequality. This lack of experience and understanding helps to explain why many Americans have not rallied against inequality.
Timothy Longman (Pardee School of Global Studies & CISS Affiliate) Memorializing Violence as a Political Tool: Public Memory and the Genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda (Violence and Public Memory, May 2023) In this chapter, Longman centers on the political manipulation of the public memory of the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda contending that the government narrative is undermined by the lived experience of Rwandans, many of whom view the RPF as an authoritarian party that benefits an ethnic and national minority.
Marc Rysman (CAS, Economics
Neha Gondal (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) & Kristen Tzoc (CAS, Sociology) In Search of the Suitable Candidate: The Role of Status, Upstream and Downstream Diversity in Recruitment Partnerships (Socio-Economic Review, May 2023) BU Sociology faculty Gondal and Tzoc argue that while elite higher education recruitment strives for diversity, there are no imperatives to encourage partnering with diverse accounting firms to ensure diverse management toolkits.
Andrew C. Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) COVID-19 Mortality by Race and Ethnicity in US Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas, March 2020 to February 2022 (JAMA Network Open, May 2023) Stokes and his colleagues assess to what extent national decreases in racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 mortality between the initial pandemic wave and subsequent Omicron wave reflect reductions in mortality vs other factors, such as the pandemic’s changing geography.
Kathleen Corriveau (Wheelock Applied Human Development & CISS Affiliate) Expressions of uncertainty in invisible scientific and religious phenomena during naturalistic conversation (Cognition, May 2023) Corriveau and her co-authors studied the potential effects of culture in the differences in belief of the existence of invisible entities (such as germs or angels) with findings indicating that adults in markedly different belief communities express less confidence in religious entities, rather than scientific entities.
Deborah Car (CAS, Sociology & CISS Director) and Ian Sue Wing (CAS, Earth & Environment & CISS Affiliate) Population Aging and Heat Exposure in the 21st Century: Which U.S. Regions Are at Greatest Risk and Why? (The Gerontoligist, May 2023) In this article, Carr and her associates identify the extent to which rising heat exposures are attributable to climate change rather than population aging.
Alice Cronin-Golomb (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) Associations of Category Fluency Clustering Performance with In Vivo Brain Pathology in Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer’s Disease (Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, April 2023) Cronin-Golomb and her co-authors examine the association between category fluency clustering performance and brain pathology in individuals with autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease (ADAD).
Katherine Levine Einstein (CAS, Political Science & CISS Affiliate) 2022 Menino Survey of Mayors: Economic Opportunity, Poverty & Well-Being (Economic Opportunity, Poverty & Well-Being, April 2023) The 2022 Menino Survey of Mayors represents the ninth nationally representative survey of American mayors and is based on interviews with 118 sitting mayors from 38 states. The 2022 Survey explores mayoral views on climate and energy, poverty and rising costs of living, and health and safety. The second and final set of findings, released in April 2023, analyzes mayors’ views on key economic challenges – including poverty and the rising cost of living – and tools they can use at the local level. It also investigates what mayors perceive to be the main public health and public safety challenges in their communities. The 2022 Survey continues with the support of The Rockefeller Foundation.
Nathan D. Jones
(Wheelock College & CISS Affiliate) A Descriptive Portrait of the Paraeducator Workforce in Washington State (National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research Working Paper, April 2023) Jones and his colleagues discuss the status of para-educators in the state of Washington.
Catherine Caldwell-Harris (CAS, Psychology & CISS Affiliate) Understanding Quasiregularity and Continua in Language: Beyond “Words and Rules” (Language Studies in India, April 2023) In this article, Caldwell-Harris discusses quasiregularity and continua in language.
Wade Campbell (CAS, Archeology & CISS Affiliate) Chasing Copeland and Roger’s “Trial Balloons”: Multi-Scalar Considerations of Early Navajo Rock Art in Dinétah (Documenting the Dinétah: Papers in Honor of James M. Copeland, Papers of the Archaeological Society of New Mexico, Vol. 49, 2023, April 2023) Campbell and his co-author draw on previous research to weigh in on early Navajo rock art with the goal of bolstering discussions of Navajo rock art in Dinétah.
Daryl R. Ireland (CAS, Theology & CISS Affiliate) Visions of Salvation: Chinese Christian Posters in an Age of Revolution (Baylor University Press, April 2023) In his new book, Ireland offers a fresh look at Chinese history by taking a look at Christian propaganda posters from the 1920 ‘s through the 1940’s meant to catch the public’s attention and compete with alternative ideologies about how best to save the nation.
Kathleen Corriveau (Wheelock Applied Human Development & CISS Affiliate) Social Learning and Religion (The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution, Oxford University Press, April 2023) Corriveau and her co-authors argue that children develop a belief in the existence of God through the cultural input to which they are exposed, highlighting research showing the impact of learning through interaction with family, peers, and the larger environment.
Andrew C. Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) Patterns of Tobacco Product Use and Substance Misuse among Adolescents in the United States (Preventative Medicine Reports, April 2023) Stokes and his co-authors find a substantive correlation between e-cigarette use and substance misuse among adolescents, further strengthening the basis for tobacco prevention efforts.
Thomas Byrne (SSW & CISS Affiliate) Change in Homeless and Health Services Use Following Migration Among Veterans with Experience of Homelessness (Journal of General Internal Medicine, April 2023) Byrne and his colleagues explore changes among Veterans, or the larger homeless population, in the utilization of health and homelessness services in relation to a change in housing.
Makarand Amrish Mody (SPH, Hospitality Administration &CISS Affiliate) Hospitality as the bridge: advancing transformative service research towards human flourishing (The Service Industries Journal, April 2023) In his article, Mody offers a new structure – Hospitality-Oriented Systems of Transformation In Services (HOSTIS) which addresses the potential of service organizations to contribute to a society’s growth, development, and holistic well-being.
Kathleen Corriveau (Wheelock Applied Human Development & CISS Affiliate) Social Robots As Social Learning Partners: Exploring Children’s Early Understanding and Learning from Social Robots (Behavioral and Brain Sciences, April 2023) Corriveau and her co-author argue that children do not view “social robots”, such as voice assistants like Siri or Alexa, as toys but rather as instructors and sources of reliable learning.
Thomas Byrne (SSW & CISS Affiliate) Returns to Homelessness: Key Considerations for Using This Metric to Improve System Performance (American Journal of Public Health, April 2023) In this article, Byrne and his co-author pose questions that aim to define and measure homelessness recidivism in a way that enables improvements in homelessness assistance.
Allison Wigen (CAS, Sociology doctoral candidate) Negotiating Unequal Exchange: Relational Work in Cross-Class Sibling Relationships. (Sociological Forum, March 2023) Wigen examines exchanges of support in cross-class adult sibling relationships, and identifies four types of indirect economic support—proxy support, dependent support, compensatory support, and shared resources—which contribute to our understanding of the dynamics of sibling exchange.
Thomas Byrne (SSW & CISS Affiliate) Quantifying the Impact of Evictions and Eviction Filings on Homelessness Rates in the United States (Housing Policy Debate, April 2023) Byrne and his co-authors examine the relationship between eviction filings and homelessness finding that, though the relationship is more nuanced than previously considered, the concerns presented from eviction processes suggest a need for early intervention.
Charles B. Chang (CAS, Linguistics & CISS Affiliate) Individual Differences in Vowel Compactness Persist Under Intoxication Across First and Second Languages (Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences #20, April 2023) In this article, Chang and his co-authors examine how alcohol intake affects vowel compactness in bilingual speakers.
Luke Glowacki (CAS, Anthropology & CISS Affiliate) Myths About the Evolution of War Apes Foragers and the Stories We Tell (EcoEvoRxiv, March 2023) Glowacki and his coauthors demonstrate that despite differing points of view, our human ancestors likely experienced a range of relationship, including warfare.
Thomas Byrne (SSW & CISS Affiliate) Examining the Relationships Between Exposure to Homelessness and Housing Insecurity and Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Homelessness Among Low- and Moderate-Income People (Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness , March 2023) Byrne and his co-authors examine the correlation between perceptions of homeless and home insecurity and the experiences of those exposed to homelessness themselves, finding an increase in sympathetic interactions.
Phillipe Copeland (SSW & CISS Affiliate) Creation and Validation of the Anti-Racism Efficacy Measure: Factor Analysis and Measurement Invariance (SN Social Sciences, March 2023) Copeland and his coauthors discuss the need for a self-efficacy scale on antiracism to assess the extent to which people feel they are capable of impacting racism in society. Additionally, they show that many students score more positively than expected.
Steven Sandage (STH, Psychology of Religion and Theology & CISS Affiliate) Compassion and Humility as Predictors of Justice and Diversity Commitments Among Seminary Faculty (Pastoral Psychology, March 2023) In this article, Sandage and his coauthors study the importance of understanding the diversity and justice commitments and goals of seminary faculty.
Rachel Brulé (GDP & CISS Affiliate) Extreme Weather Expands Women’s Autonomy 2 Where Households are Labor-Constrained: 3 Evidence on the Impact of Droughts in Bangladesh (Research Square, March 2023) Brulé and her co-author study the effects on men and women’s roles due to weather fluctuations, and the resultant loss of income, caused by climate-change in rural and urban Bangladesh homes.
Andrew C. Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) Sociodemographic Differences in e-Cigarette Uptake and Perceptions of Harm (American Journal of Preventive Medicine, March 2023) Stokes and his colleagues conclude that Hispanic, Black, and/or adults of lower socioeconomic status are less likely to transition to e-cigarettes in order to aid in quitting cigarettes and indicate preliminary evidence in harm perceptions may be a cause.
Ian Sue Wing (CAS, Earth & Environment & CISS Affiliate) Air-conditioning Adoption and Electricity Demand Highlight Climate Change Mitigation-adaption Tradeoffs (Scientific Reports, March 2023) Sue Wing and co-authors discuss the affects climate change has on cooling needs, increasing the demand for power generation and energy carriers, raising concerns about the ability to meet those needs while avoiding disruptions in service.
Benjamin Siegel (CAS, History & CISS Affiliate) Review: On an Empty Stomach: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief, by Tom Scott-Smith (Gastronimica, March 2023) Siegel reviews Scott-Smith’s work finding it an “…essential primer on efforts to feed the hungry in the modern world, and of assured interest to a wide range of food scholars.”
Jessica T. Simes (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Analyzing Child Firearm Assault Injuries by Race and Ethnicity During the COVID-19 Pandemic in 4 Major Us Cities (JAMA Network Open, March 2023) Simes is a co-author of this research letter that focuses on how pandemic-related increases in firearm assaults may have disproportionately affected Black, Hispanic, and Asian children.
Charles B. Chang (CAS, Linguistics & CISS Affiliate) Exploring the Onset of Phonetic Drift in Voice Onset Time Perception (Languages, March 2023) In his research, Chang studies how recent exposure to a second or foreign language can influence production and/or perception in the first language, a phenomenon referred to as phonetic drift.
Neha Gondal (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Diffusion of Innovations Through Social Networks: Determinants and Implications (Sociology Compass, March 2023) In this article, Gondal takes stock of the social network field and reviews ongoing debates on the role of social networks in the diffusion of innovations to summarize the sociological implications of the diffusion of innovations through the field.
Andrew Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) Associations Between Mortality From COVID-19 and Other Causes: A State-Level Analysis (PLOS one, March 2023) In this article, Stokes compiles research and information that may help to inform state-level responses aimed at easing the full mortality burden of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Steven J. Sandage (STH, Psychology of Religion and Theology & CISS Affiliate) (Re)Framing Resilience: A Trajectory-Based Study Involving Emerging Religious/Spiritual Leaders (Religions, March 2023) Sandage and coauthors examine longitudinal patterns of change in resilience during the pandemic in a sample of emerging leaders. In doing so, they offered a conceptual and methodological approach based on historical and critical evaluations of the study of resilience.
David M. Carballo (CAS, Archaeology & CISS Affiliate) Sustainability and Duration of Early Central Places in Prehispanic Mesoamerica (Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, March 2023) During the last millennium BCE, central places were found across many regions of western (non-Maya) Mesoamerica. David M. Caraballo and coauthors compare a subset of these regional centers and find marked differences in their sustainability–defined as the duration of time that they remained central places in their respective regions.
Deborah Kelemen (CAS, Psychological & Brain Studies & CISS Affiliate) Don’t Bug Me!: The Role of Names, Functions, and Feelings in Shaping Children’s and Adults’ Conservation Attitudes About Unappealing Species (Journal of Environmental Psychology, May 2023) In this article, Kelemen and coauthors drew on cognitive and developmental research to explore the causal influence of scientific naming, and conceptual information about anthropocentric or biocentric functional effects on US urban adults’ and 9- to 11-year-old children’s attitudes about conserving recently discovered insects.
Steven J. Sandage (STH, Religion and Theology & CISS Affiliate) Relational Spirituality Model in Psychotherapy: Overview and Case Application (Handbook of Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapies, 2023) This chapter of the Handbook of Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapies summarizes the contours of the relational spirituality model (RSM) of psychotherapy and offers a case application.
Ray Fisman (CAS, Economics & CISS Affiliate) Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It (Yale University Press, January 2023) Unraveling the mysteries of insurance markets, Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, and Ray Fisman explore such issues as why insurers want to know so much about us and whether we should let them obtain this information; why insurance entrepreneurs often fail (and some tricks that may help them succeed); and whether we’d be better off with government-mandated health insurance instead of letting businesses, customers, and markets decide who gets coverage and at what price.
Merav Shohet
(CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Patients’ Perspectives on Race and the Use of Race-Based Algorithms in Clinical Decision-Making: A Qualitative Study (Journal of General Internal Medicine, February 2023) Shohet and colleagues observed twenty-three adult patients recruited at a safety-net hospital in Boston, MA to examine patients’ perspectives on race and the use of race-based algorithms in clinical decision-making.
Alize Arican (CAS, Anthropology & CISS Affiliate) Counterfactual Future-Thinking (Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, February 2023) In this article, Arican follows two urban experts and homes in on the portrayed landscape of construction. She asks: what makes urban experts stay with a project that might not materialize? The answer lies in what she calls “counterfactual future-thinking”: a way of articulating the future in relation to what might have happened.
Zach Rossetti (Wheelock Special Education & CISS Affiliate) Parent Perceptions of Remote Instruction for Students With Extensive Support Needs (Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, February 2023) In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, schools shifted to nontraditional education overnight, disrupting learning for millions of children in the United States. Rossetti and colleagues interviewed eight mothers of students with extensive support needs (ESN) to learn how nontraditional education impacted the educational experiences of students with ESN. Our findings included the overall perception that nontraditional education was highly unsuccessful and could not replace in-person learning for participants’ children.
Katherine Levine Einstein (CAS, Political Science & CISS Affiliate) 2022 Menino Survey of Mayors: Mayors and the Climate Crisis (Mayors and the Climate Crisis, January 2023) The 2022 Menino Survey of Mayors represents the ninth nationally representative survey of American mayors and is based on interviews with 118 sitting mayors from 38 states. The 2022 Survey explores mayoral views on climate and energy, poverty and rising costs of living, and health and safety. The first set of findings, released in January 2023, delves into mayors’ current views on local climate action, focusing on their beliefs about the underlying issues and threats, their sense of the tools they have at their disposal, and their enthusiasm for using them. The 2022 Survey continues with the support of The Rockefeller Foundation.
Timothy Longman (Pardee School of Global Studies & CISS Affiliate) Researching Under Constraints: Recent Books on Post-genocide Rwanda (Journal of Human Rights, February 2023) Rwanda has been a focus of substantial scholarly attention, but recent regulations there have made conducting research increasingly challenging. Four books from diverse disciplines show that, despite the ways in which the authoritarian context places constraints on what research can be undertaken and how it can be done, solid scholarship on Rwanda can continue to be produced. They also show that the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi remains the focal point of nearly every book on the country, even those focused on society since 1994.
Catherine Caldwell-Harris (CAS, Psychology & CISS Affiliate) Emotions in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies 1 (The Routledge Handbook of Translation, Interpreting and Bilingualism, 2023) In this article, Caldwell-Harris discusses how decision-making is an integral part of the translator’s job: from what texts they choose to translate and when and where, to how they choose to translate every word within the text and greater utilitarian responding in the foreign language has been borne out by randomly assigning bilinguals to answer trolley dilemmas in their native or foreign language.
Michelle Amazeen (COM, Director, Communication Research Center & CISS Affiliate) Perpetuating the Twenty-First Century Infodemic (The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture, 2023) In this article, Amazeen and colleagues address that new publishers are creating content mimicking the look and feel of their reporters’ own journalism while obscuring the content’s bias and one-sidedness casts native advertising within the realm of disinformation.
Charles B. Chang (CAS, Linguistics & CISS Affiliate) Examining the Role of Phoneme Frequency in First Language Perceptual Attrition (Languages, 2023) In this paper, Chang and co-authors follow up on previous findings concerning first language (L1) perceptual attrition to examine the role of phoneme frequency in influencing variation across L1 contrasts. They also discuss the implications of the findings for future research examining frequency effects in L1 perceptual change.
Deborah Carr
(CAS, Sociology & CISS Director) Aging in America (University of California Press, February 2023) Population aging affects every aspect of life in the US and worldwide. This new book shows why the population is older than ever before, and the social policies needed to ensure that older adults enjoy good health and financial security. It also shows the vast diversity in older adults’ economic well-being, health, social relationships, and more.
Deborah Carr
(CAS, Sociology & CISS Director) Midlife Mental Health (Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology, Elsevier, 2023) This chapter identifies sources of midlife stress that may affect mental health, and highlights practices and policies to treat and maintain midlife mental health, including clinical interventions and public supports for family caregivers.
Deborah Carr (CAS, Sociology & CISS Director) Death and Dying (Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology, Elsevier, 2023) Carr and co-author Zachary Baker provide an overview of contemporary death and dying patterns, the psychological consequences of bereavement, and social policies to facilitate a “good death.”
Nancy J. Smith-Hefner (CAS, Anthropology & CISS Affiliate) Waithood: Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing (Berghahn Press, January 2023) Nancy J. Smith Hefner and Marcia C. Inhorn edit 15 chapters by authors who offer examples of waithood, which refers to the dramatic prolongation of the period of time between childhood and the beginning of socially-recognized adulthood, from different areas of the world.
Neha Gondal (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Health-Based Homophily in Public Housing Developments (BMC Public Health, February 2023) Neha Gondal and Brenda Heaton discover that social networks within public housing developments are homophilous across oral health, weight, and consumption of added sugar. Because of the effectiveness of behavior diffusion within homophilous communities, Gondal and Heaton suggest that interventions specifically designed for social networks could optimize the reduction of chronic disease in vulnerable communities.
H. Denis Wu
(COM & CISS Affiliate) Assessing China’s News Coverage and Soft Power in Latin America in the Wake of the Belt and Road Initiative (2013–2021) (International Communication Gazette, January 2023) Denis Wu and co-author Andrea Morante analyze the effect of China’s communication strategies with Latin America, finding Latin American sentiment toward the East Asian nation to have actually deteriorated since China its strategies.
Jessica Silbey (LAW & CISS Affiliate) Foreword in “Copyright in the Street: An Oral History of Creative Processes in Street Art and Graffiti Subcultures” (Scholarly Commons at BU School of Law, February 2023) Silbey, author herself of intellectual property-focused books Against Progress and The Eureka Myth, contributes the foreword to author Enrico Bonadio’s new book, opining that the book inspirationally captures the outsider world of street and graffiti artists who often go against the grain traditional copyright system and its capitalistic supports.
Alice Cronin-Golomb (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) Changes in Apathy, Depression, and Anxiety in Parkinson’s Disease From Before to During the COVID-19 Era (Brain Sciences, January 2023) In this publication, data was collected on apathy, depression, and anxiety in a large sample of persons with PD before the beginning of the COVID-19 era. Anxiety and depression, but not apathy, were correlated with the impact of COVID-19.
Alice Cronin-Golomb (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) Memory for Semantically Related Objects Differentiates Cognitively Unimpaired Autosomal Dominant Mutation Carriers From Non-carrier Family Members (The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease, January 2023) In this article, Cronin-Golomb and co-authors used a computerized cognitive test developed by their group to evaluate if cognitively unimpaired carriers of an autosomal dominant AD (ADAD) mutation performed worse on this test than non-carrier family members.
Kathleen Corriveau (Wheelock Applied Human Development & CISS Affiliate) The Impact of Visualizing the Group on Children’s Persistence in and Perceptions of Stem (Acta Psychologica, January 2023) Corriveau and co-authors investigate a perceptual mechanism that may contribute to the underrepresentation of women in STEM fields across the world, beginning in early childhood.
Eugenio Menegon (CAS, History & CISS Affiliate) Catalogue of Chinese Documents in the “Propaganda Fide” Historical Archives (Urbaniana University Press, 2022) Eugene Menegon’s introductory essay gives a full explanation of the entire structure and contents of the Archives pertaining to the China missions, and sketches the activity of Propaganda Fide missionaries in China up to the early 19th century.
Andrew Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) Differences Between Reported COVID-19 Deaths And Estimated Excess Deaths in Counties Across the United States, March 2020 to February 2022 (medRxiv – Preprint, January 2023) Estimates from this study can be used to inform targeting of resources to areas in which the true toll of the COVID-19 pandemic has been underestimated.
Taylor Boas (CAS, Political Science & CISS Affiliate) Evangelical and Electoral Politics in Latin America: A Kingdom of This World (Cambridge University Press, January 2023) Focusing on evangelical Christians in Latin America, this book argues that religious minorities seek and gain electoral representation when they face significant threats to their material interests and worldview, and when their community is not internally divided by cross-cutting cleavages.
Christopher Robertson (LAW, Health Law, Policy, and Management & CISS Affiliate) Pulse Oximeters and Violation of Federal Anti-discrimination Law (JAMA, January 2023) Robertson and co-authors discuss how biased oximeters have remained in use for decades without legal or regulatory action and why a recently proposed rule by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) may finally facilitate change.
Rachel Brulé (GDP & CISS Affiliate) Climate Shocks and Gendered Political Transformation: How Crises Alter Women’s Political Representation (Politics & Gender, January 2023) Brulé argues not only can climate change induce migration, but, climate shocks—which she defines as discrete, unanticipated destruction due to weather such as floods, drought, or windstorms—can also destabilize gendered social systems.
Catherine Caldwell-Harris (CAS, Psychology & CISS Affiliate) Autistic Discussion Forums: Insights into the Topics That Clinicians Don’t Know About (PsychArXIV, January 2023) Caldwell and co-authors review 342 posts primarily from Reddit and Quora, highlighting examples in which novel autism concepts were discussed prior to their inclusion in the DSM 5 text revision. Common forum themes are reviewed and the efficacy of using forums for research is emphasized.
Catherine Caldwell-Harris (CAS, Psychology & CISS Affiliate) Adults with Autism Discuss Their Experience of Foreign Language Learning: An Exploration of the “Different Strategies” Hypothesis (PsychArXIV, January 2023) Caldwell and co-authors review forum posts from autistic and non-autistic individuals to determine how they differ in their learning. Among their findings are that autistic individuals found reading/writing more rewarding than speaking/listening, consistent with auditory, attentional, and social deficits present in autism.
Catherine Caldwell-Harris (CAS, Psychology & CISS Affiliate) When Autistic Writing is Superior to Neurotypical Writing: the Case of Blogs (PsychArXIV, February 2023) Caldwell-Harris and co-author Solomon D. Posner analyze the differences between a sample of 30 neurotypical bloggers and and 30 self-identified autistic bloggers. The study finds that autistic bloggers tend to write significantly more often about abstract or scientific topics compared to neurotypical authors who were primarily concerned with daily life events.
Michelle Amazeen (COM, Director, Communication Research Center & CISS Affiliate) Processing Vaccine Misinformation: Recall and Effects of Source Type on Claim Accuracy via Perceived Motivations and Credibility (International Journal of Communication, 2022) This study leverages the persuasion knowledge model (PKM) as a theoretical framework to examine how individuals process attempts at correcting measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine-related misinformation on Facebook. Amazeen concludes her study with a discussion of how the PKM could be reimagined as a model better suited for misinformation research.
H. Denis Wu (COM & CISS Affiliate) Post-truth Public Diplomacy: A Detrimental Trend of Cross-National Communication and How Open Societies Address It (The Journal of International Communication, January 2023) In this article, H. Denis Wu divulges a new form of public diplomacy with post-truth content overseen by host countries to influence the cognitive and affective condition of publics in target countries.
Hiroaki Kaido (CAS, Economics & CISS Affiliate) Nonparametric Identification of Random Coefficients in Aggregate Demand Models for Differentiated Products (The Econometrics Journal, January 2023) This paper studies nonparametric identification in market level demand models for differentiated products with heterogeneous consumers.
2022 Publications
Ana Villarreal
(CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) The Logistics of Fear: Violence and the Stratifying Power of Emotion. (Emotions & Society, November 2022) Villarreal carried out qualitative fieldwork in the midst of a violent criminal war in urban Mexico, and traced the restructuring of metropolitan nightlife as a three-stage process: destruction, dispersion, and classed re-concentration.
Thomas Byrne (SSW Social Welfare Policy & CISS Affiliate) Predictors of Homeless Service Utilization and Stable Housing Status Among Veterans Receiving Services From a Nationwide Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (Evaluation and Program Planning, 2022) Byrne and co-authors examine findings that have implications on how to allocate homelessness prevention and RRH resources in the most efficient manner to help households maintain or obtain stable housing.
Robert A. Margo (CAS, Economics & CISS Affiliate) JUE Insight: Condominium Development Does Not Lead To Gentrification (Journal of Urban Economics, December 2022) Many politicians and voters believe that condominium development hastens gentrification. In this article, Margo and co-authors leverage the introduction of municipal regulations to study the causal effect of condo conversions on neighborhood attributes.
James J. Cummings (COM, Emerging Media Studies & CISS Affiliate) Psychological Predictors of Consumer-Level Virtual Reality Technology Adoption and Usage (Virtual Reality, December 2022) In this article, the findings of Cummings and co-authors expand upon the limited work previously investigating the role of individual differences in adoption of virtual reality and mark the promise of psychometrics for understanding the diffusion and continued usage of consumer-facing VR devices.
Andrew C. Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) Psychosocial Stressors and E-cigarette Use in the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (BMC Public Health, December 19, 2022) Stokes and co-authors examined the associations between psychosocial stressors and e-cigarette use among adolescents in the United States. This study demonstrated a significant association between psychosocial stressors and e cigarette use.
Steven J. Sandage (STH, Psychology of Religion and Theology & CISS Affiliate) Intellectual Humility in Applied Sociocultural Contexts: A Reply to Ballantyne (The Journal of Positive Psychology, December 2022) Sandage and co-author Choi Hee An offer a brief reply to Ballantyne’s overview of intellectual humility (IH) research with an appreciation for the definitional, conceptual, and methodological issues he has highlighted across numerous areas of work.
Andrew C. Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) Monthly Excess Mortality Across Counties in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic, March 2020 to February 2022 (The National Library of Medicine, November 2022) The research of Stokes and co-authors found that excess mortality decreased in large metropolitan counties, but increased in non-metro counties, between the first and second years of the pandemic.
Nathan D Jones (Wheelock College & CISS Affiliate) Professional Development at Scale: The Causal Effect of Obtaining an SEI Endorsement Under Massachusetts’s RETELL Initiative (Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, December 2022) Jones and collaborators apply a difference-in-difference design to measure the causal effect of a teacher obtaining an endorsement in Sheltered English Immersion under Massachusetts’s Rethinking Equity in the Teaching of English Language Learners initiative on student’s learning outcomes.
Johannes Schmieder (Professor of Economics & CISS Affiliate) Inequality and income dynamics in Germany (Quantitative Economics, December 2022) Schmieder and co-authors provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades.
Zach Rossetti (Wheelock Special Education & CISS Affiliate) Augmentative and Alternative Communication and Friendships: Considerations for Speech-Language Pathologists (Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, December 2022) Rossetti and colleagues indicate that speech-language pathologists may better help their clients form friendships by having a “friendship mindset” and providing needed tools such as augmentative and alternative communication to assist clients with their communication and thus friendship formation.
Andrew C. Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) Cigarette‒E-cigarette Transitions and Respiratory Symptom Development (American Journal of Preventive Medicine, December 2022) Stokes and co-authors determine that E-cigarette use increases rate of wheezing and respiratory morbidity in non-users that are non-smokers but may reduce morbidity in smokers who substitute E-cigarettes for cigarettes.
Shinae Choi (Visiting Scholar, Professor of Consumer Sciences & CISS Affiliate) Financial Hardship and Change in Emotional Well-Being Before to During COVID-19 Pandemic Among Middle-Aged and Older Americans: Moderating Effects of Internal Coping Resources (Social Science & Medicine, November 2022) Choi and co-author Yoon G. Lee find that financial hardship increased negative emotion during COVID-19, optimism had no protective effect, but that internal coping strategies and mastery increased positive affect.
Shinae Choi (Visiting Scholar, Professor of Consumer Sciences & CISS Affiliate) Telehealth Uptake Among Middle-Aged Older Americans During COVID-19: Chronic Conditions, Social Media Communication, and Race/Ethnicity (Aging & Mental Health, November 2020) Choi and co-authors find that using social media and telehealth are potential venues to reduce health disparities between different racial/ethnic groups.
Makarand Amrish Mody (SPH, Hospitality Administration & CISS Affiliate) The Resilience of the Lodging Industry During the Pandemic: Hotels vs. Airbnb (International Journal of Hospitality Management, December 2022) Mody and co-authors investigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lodging industry, finding that Airbnb property rentals were largely unaffected by the pandemic. Conversely, the pandemic significantly affected hotel occupancy. Methods to increase hotel competitiveness with peer-to-peer rentals are suggested.
Benjamin Siegel (Assistant Professor of History & CISS Affiliate) Nico Slate. Lord Cornwallis Is Dead: The Struggle for Democracy in the United States and India. (American Historical Review, November 2022) Benjamin Siegel writes a review of Nico Slate’s book which intertwines two centuries of history in America and India, examining the dual struggle for civil rights and liberty.
Andrew C. Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) Bariatric Surgery and Weight Loss in the Short‐and Long‐Term: Evidence From NHANES 2015–2018 (Clinical Obesity, October 2022) Stokes and co-authors examine the efficacy of bariatric surgery in the reduction of obesity both in the understudied contexts of population-based data and long-term outcomes. In the nationally presentative sample of US adults, Stokes and co-authors determined that bariatric surgery consistently showed strong weight reduction effects that persist over the long term.
Steven J. Sandage (STH, Psychology of Religion and Theology & CISS Affiliate) A Practice‐Based Study of Cultural Humility and Well‐Being Among Psychotherapy Clients (Counselling & Psychotherapy Research, November 2022) In this study, Sandage and co-authors examined client change in cultural humility and well-being using group-based trajectory modeling. They also examined differentiation as a predictor of trajectory membership and compared trajectories on levels of symptoms.
Steven J. Sandage (STH, Psychology of Religion and Theology & CISS Affiliate) Differentiation of Self and Cultural Competence: A Systematic Review of the Empirical Literature (Practice Innovations, 2022) This article reviews empirical studies that examine the relationship between the differentiation of self and cultural competence. Sandage and colleagues conclude by discussing limitations, areas for future research, and implications for clinical practice.
Loretta Lees
(Initiative on Cities’, Director) Quantifying State-Led Gentrification in London: Using Linked Consumer and Administrative Records to Trace Displacement From Council Estates (Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, November 2022) In this article, Lees and colleagues report on an attempt to use consumer-derived data to infer relocations at a high spatial resolution. The evidence presented suggests that around 85% of those displaced remain in London, with most remaining in borough, albeit there is evidence of an increasing number of moves out of London to the South-East and East of England.
Deborah Carr
(CAS, Sociology & CISS Director) Ageism and Late-Life Mortality: How Community Matters (Social Science & Medicine, November 2022) This commentary reviews recent evidence (Kellogg et al.,) showing that county-level explicit age bias is associated with lower mortality rates among older adults, with effects limited to older adults residing in counties with relatively younger populations.
Thomas Byrne (SSW, Social Welfare Policy & CISS Affiliate) and Mario Wenning, editors. The Right to Resist: Philosophies of Dissent (Bloomsbury Publishing, January 2023) This volume addresses new forms of resistance at a level that combines a rootedness in the philosophical tradition and a sensitivity to rethinking the possibility of emancipation in today’s age. The work focuses on contemporary social and political philosophy from a perspective informed by critical theory.
Christopher Robertson
(LAW, Health Law, Policy, and Management & CISS Affiliate) Arizona’s Debt Collection Reform—a Small Step Towards Health Justice (The BMJ, November 2022) Robertson and co-authors address a new law that will protect people in Arizona from the harsh consequences of medical debt. They also discuss how the policies of individual states cannot substitute for the United States implementing a more humane system of universal health insurance coverage.
Meghann Lucy (CAS, Sociology) Divestment as Investment: “Kondo-Ing” Selves in the Context of Over Accumulation (Journal of Consumer Culture, November 2022) This article uses narrative and content analyses of a critical case, Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, a Netflix program designed to help families with cluttered homes sort through their things, to explore the meanings associated with accumulating “too much”, and the importance of divestment.
James J. Cummings
(Professor of Emerging Media Studies) Capturing Social Presence: Concept Explication Through an Empirical Analysis of Social Presence Measures (Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, November 2022) Cummings and co-author Erin Wertz find that social presence, in practice, most commonly consists of the perceptual salience of another social-actor. They then consider implications for the measurement and theorizing of social presence, and its distinction from other social experiences with media.
Thomas Byrne
(SSW, Social Welfare Policy & CISS Affiliate) Identifying Graduation Rates and Practices in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing Program (Community Mental Health Journal, November 2022) Byrne and colleagues examined graduation rates, practices and policies in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs-Housing and Urban Development Supportive Housing, summarizing that there may be value in developing standards for graduation criteria.
Steven Sandage (STH, Psychology of Religion and Theology & CISS Affiliate) Integrating Positive Psychology, Religion/Spirituality, and a Virtue Focus Within Culturally Responsive Mental Healthcare (Handbook of Positive Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality, November 2022) Sandage and co-authors contribute a chapter overviewing terms and synthesizing “meta-analytic evidence for spiritually integrated interventions (SSIs), positive psychology interventions (PPIs), and virtue-based interventions (VBIs).” They also discuss new clinical and community applications of SSIs, PPIs, and VBIs.
Charles B. Chang (CAS, Department of Linguistics) Unity and Diversity in Asian American Language Variation (Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, November 2022) Chang and co-author Danielle Dionne describe sociophonetic variation in a sample of four ethnicities of Asian Americans within Boston, MA. English production was analyzed in casual and careful speech, and the features of R-deletion, L-vocalization, L/R-conflation, and low back raising were all examined in detail, revealing similarities and differences in speech among Asian American ethnicities.
Jessica Silbey (LAW & CISS Affiliate) Centering Black Women in Patent History (BU School of Law, November 2022) Silbey reviews Stanford Professor Kara Swanson’s article Centering Black Women Inventors: Passing and the Patent Archive, opining that the piece forever changes the way the patent archive can be read.
Andrew C. Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) “Pandemic of the Unvaccinated?” At Midlife, White People are Less Vaccinated but Still at Less Risk of Covid-19 Mortality in Minnesota (medRxiv, June 2022) Stokes and co-authors dissect inequitable mortality outcomes in Minnesota population data in which white populations were less vaccinated but paradoxically suffering less mortality than non-white populations. The authors describe COVID-19 not only a pandemic of the unvaccinated but a pandemic of the disadvantaged with urgent need to focus on health equity in policy development moving forward.
Randall P. Ellis (CAS, Economics & CISS Affiliate) Managed Competition in the United States: How Well is It Promoting Equity and Efficiency? (GitHub, October 2022) Ellis and co-authors examine how managed competition, as seen effected by Affordable Card Act, Medicaid managed care organizations, and Medicare Advantaged Plans have been conducive to their goals. They suggest that the existing programs have imperfections which must first be addressed before additional expansion.
Ian Sue Wing (CAS, Geography and Environment & CISS Affiliate) Economic Consequences of the HayWired Earthquake Scenario (ASCE Lifelines Conference, 2022) Wing and co-authors look at the hypothetical economic effects on the San Francisco Bay Region and general California economy in the event of the HayWired earthquake scenario.
Abigail Sullivan (CAS, Earth & Environment & CISS Affiliate) Are Lakes a Public Good or Exclusive Resource? Towards Value-based Management for Aquatic Invasive Species (Environmental Science & Policy, January 2023) Sullivan and co-authors analyze decision-making among stakeholders impacted by starry stonewort, a freshwater alga and key emerging invader in lakes. They present a typology of two “lake ethics” and explore their implications for future efforts to manage the starry stonewort, providing suggestions supporting value-based approaches.
Deborah Carr (CAS, Sociology & CISS Director) To Tell or Not: Chinese Older Adults’ Preferences for Disclosing or Concealing Serious Illness Diagnoses (The Gerontologist, November 2022) Carr and co-authors examine midlife and older Chinese adults’ preferences for disclosure of their own and significant others’ diagnoses, and the sociodemographic, economic, and cultural factors associated with these preferences.
Thomas Byrne (SSW, Social Welfare Policy & CISS Affiliate) Enhancing Community Integration After Incarceration: Findings From a Prospective Study of an Intensive Peer Support Intervention for Veterans With an Historical Comparison Group (Health & Justice, November 2022) Byrne and co-authors developed and pilot tested a peer support intervention designed to provide support and promote linkage and engagement in healthcare for returning citizens. They tested the intervention with US military veterans in Massachusetts who were being released from prison and jail.
Jacob Tischer (CAS, Anthropology) Pandemic Inoculation: How Taiwan Is Nerfing the Pandemic With Cute Humour (East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 2022) Tischer analyzes how the Taiwanese government is using memes in its efforts to fight the spread of disinformation, especially in the wake of the COVID 19 pandemic.
Kathleen Corriveau (Wheelock Applied Human Development & CISS Affiliate) Considering Individual Differences and Variability is Important in the Development of the Bifocal Stance Theory (Behavioral and Brain Sciences, November 2022) Corriveau and colleagues offer a bifocal stance theory of cultural evolution for understanding how individuals flexibly choose between instrumental and ritual stances in social learning. They argue that the role of culture, developmental age-related differences, and the intersectionality of these and other individual’s identities need to be more fully considered in this theoretical framework.
Christopher Robertson (LAW, Health Law, Policy, and Management & CISS Affiliate) The Effectiveness of Financial Incentives for COVID-19 Vaccination: A Systematic Review (PsyArXiv, November 2022) Robertson and co-authors examine how financial incentives are a controversial strategy for increasing vaccination. In this review, they evaluate the effect incentives had on COVID-19 vaccinations; whether effects differed based on study design, incentive type and timing, or sample sociodemographic characteristics; and the cost of incentives per additional vaccine administered.
Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability Industrial Clusters for Deep Decarbonization (Science, November 2022) This article details how industry is in great need of concerted efforts toward deep decarbonization and draws on recent advancements in the coevolution of net-zero cluster planning, policy implementation, and technical development in the UK.
Luke Glowacki (CAS, Anthropology & CISS Affiliate) Mutual Intelligibility in Musical Communication (PsyArXiv, November 2022) Glowacki and co-authors demonstrate that the behavioral contexts of three common forms of music are mutually intelligible across cultures and imply that musical diversity, shaped by cultural evolution, is nonetheless grounded in some universal principles.
James Cummings (Emerging Media Studies & CISS Affiliate) The Effects of Voice Qualities in Mindfulness Meditation Apps on Enjoyment, Relaxation State, and Perceived Usefulness (Technology, Mind, and Behavior, November 2022) James Cummings and co-author Stephanie Menhart explore the effects of synthesized and human vocalization on user experiences with mindfulness applications. In their research they find that human voices are generally more effective and explore the finding’s implication in application design.
Jonathan Mijs (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Earning Rent with Your Talent (The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream, 2022) Jonathan Mijs contributes a chapter regarding American inequality responding to the power to “define, transfer, and institutionalize” talent.
Steven Sandage (STH, Psychology of Religion and Theology & CISS Affiliate) New Horizons in Group Psychotherapy Research and Practice from Third Wave Positive Psychology: A Practice-Friendly Review (Research in Psychotherapy, November 2022) Sandage and co-authors review the importance and value of positive psychology and its unique application in group therapy. Of specific interest are the ways in which virtues and cultural constructs can differ from individual to individual within a group which necessitate therapist self awareness and cultural humility.
Thomas Byrne (SSW, Social Welfare Policy & CISS Affiliate) The Impact of Temporary Housing Assistance Expenditures on Subcategories of Health Care Cost for U.S. Veterans Facing Housing Instability (Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, November 2022) Byrne and co-authors conducted a retrospective cohort study of Veterans who entered the Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program and assessed the effect of TFA on health care costs. The results can inform policy debates regarding proper solutions to housing instability.
Andrew C. Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) COVID-19 Vaccination and Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Mortality at Midlife in Minnesota (American Journal of Preventive Medicine, November 2022) Stokes and co-authors discuss the discrepancy between vaccination and mortality patterning by race/ethnicity and suggest that if the current period is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, it also remains a pandemic of the disadvantaged in ways that can decouple from vaccination rates. Their research implies an urgent need to center health equity in the development of COVID-19 policy measures.
Jonathan Jan Benjamin Mijs (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Why More Inequality Leads to Lower Levels of Concern (The Media and Inequality, November 2022) Mijs describes the dramatic increase in income inequality in the West. He discusses the sets of insights to develop an alternative explanation for people’s growing tolerance of inequality and their resistance to redistributing income and wealth and shows that citizen’s beliefs and popular beliefs about inequality explain a large part of their concerns.
Andrew C. Stokes (SPH Global Health & CISS Affiliate) Association of Volatile Organic Compound Levels With Pod-Based Electronic Cigarette-Induced Changes in Vascular Function of Young Adults (Circulation, October 2022) Professor Stokes and co-authors use their findings to demonstrate that pod-based e-cigarette use has acute and chronic vascular effects in healthy young adults including those who never used combustible cigarettes. Select VOC metabolites were associated with the vascular changes and altered nitric oxide production suggesting relevance to vascular health.
Luke Glowacki (CAS, Anthropology & CISS Affiliate) Interpersonal Conflicts and Third-party Mediation in a Pastoralist Society (Pre-Print, October 2022) Glowacki and co-author Zachary Garfield identify the causes of interpersonal conflict and the features associated with both third-party mediation and conflict outcomes. They underscore the importance of third-party mediators and gender dynamics as well as subsistence economics and kin-based social structures in shaping interpersonal conflicts and resolution.
Andrew C. Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) Electronic Cigarette Use and Chest Pain Report in US Adults (Circulation, October 2022) Stokes and co-authors assess the association of chest pain reports across tobacco product use groups. Their findings suggest that compared to non-use, exclusive e-cigarette use has similar rates of chest pain; whereas dual use and combustible cigarette use have increased rates of chest pain outcomes.
Charles B. Chang (CAS, Linguistics & CISS Affiliate) Expressing Diminutive Meaning in Heritage Twi: The Role of Complexity and Language-Specific Preferences (Formal Approaches to Complexity in Heritage Language Grammars, October 2022) Chang and co-authors examined whether English-dominant, second generation speakers of Twi in the US would express diminutive meaning in Twi differently from first-generation speakers. Their findings suggest that both the complexity of linguistic options within a bilingual language range and cross-linguistic influence at the level of preferences play a role in explaining second generation’s diminutive production.
John M Marston (CAS, Archaeology & CISS Affiliate) Urban Agricultural Economy of the Early Islamic Southern Levant: A Case Study of Ashkelon (Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, October 2022) In his study, Marston and co-authors draw on the spatial analysis of plant remains in Early Islamic deposits to characterize how agriculture sustained long-lived cities during the 1st millennium CE.
Steven J. Sandage (STH, Psychology of Religion and Theology & CISS Affiliate) Distress and Satisfaction in Women Who Perceive that Their Male Partners Use Pornography: The Roles of Attitude, Religious Commitment and Conservative Religiosity (The Journal of Sex Research, October 2022) Sandage and colleagues examined the contributions of perceived frequency of male partners’ solitary pornography use (PFREQ), women’s attitudes toward their partners’ pornography use, conservative religiosity, and religious commitment to women’s pornography-related distress, and relationship and sexual satisfaction in women in relation to their partner.
Jessica Silbey (LAW & CISS Affiliate) How Did Prince and Andy Warhol Wind Up Before the Supreme Court? (Boston University School of Law, October 2022) LAW expert Jessica Silbey explains what to watch for during the oral arguments of the US Supreme Court case Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., v. Goldsmith, which hinges on a portrait of the artist Prince by photographer Lynn Goldsmith and its second uses of print.
Rick Reibstein (CAS, Earth and Environment & CISS Affiliate) Reconstructing Environmental Governance (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, September 2022) This book explains how principles of reformed environmental law have been demonstrated successfully but the lessons of success have not been learned. The approach of the book is to collate examples of environmental governance, policy-making and ethics and demonstrate paths towards a more progressive environmental and climate agenda.
Johannes F. Schmieder (CAS, Economics & CISS Affiliate) Evidence on Job Search Models from a Survey of Unemployed Workers in Germany (The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022) Schmieder and co-authors conducted a large text-message-based survey of unemployed workers in Germany to observe how search effort evolve in individuals over the unemployment spell. They find the patterns are well captured by a model of reference-dependent job search or by a model with duration dependence in search cost.
Thomas Byrne (SSW, Social Welfare Policy & CISS Affiliate) Providers’ Reflections on Infrastructure and Improvements to Promote Access to Care for Veterans Experiencing Housing Instability in Rural Areas of the United States: A Qualitative Study (Health & Social Care in the Community, October 2022) This study explores how infrastructure-including features related to the physical and digital environment-impacts the ability of rural Veterans experiencing housing instability to access healthcare and related services.
Andrew C. Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) Increased All-Cause Mortality Following Occupational Injury: A Comparison of Two States (Occupational & Environmental Medicine, October 2022) Stokes and co-authors measure the impact of lost-time occupational injuries on all-cause mortality in Washington State and determine whether the estimated impact was similar to previous estimates for New Mexico.
Joanna Davidson (CAS, Anthropology & CISS Affiliate) Opting Out: Women Messing with Marriage Around the World (Rutgers University Press, November 2022) Davidson and co-authors offer nuanced ethnographic accounts of how women move the needle on marital norms and practices. Across diverse geographic contexts in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, Opting Out offers sensitive and powerful portrayals of women as they escape or reshape marriage into a more rewarding arrangement.
Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability Energy Security, Climate Change, and the Future of Ukraine Reconstruction (IGS Research, October 2022) This article incorporates key findings from publications on Ukraine’s approaches to recovery and reconstruction post-war. The authors draw on these insights to offer suggestions for consideration as Ukraine further researches and hones its plans for a climate-resilient recovery.
Michele DeBiasse (Sargent College & CISS Affiliate) Dress Codes Written for Dietetics Education Programs: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (Feminism & Psychology, October 2022) DeBiasse and co-authors conducted a Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of dress codes written for US dietetics academic and supervised practice programs. They identified a number of ways that these current dress codes oppress students of color and nonbinary/transgender students and dietetic interns and provide suggestions for improvement.
Charles B. Chang (CAS, Linguistics & CISS Affiliate) Regressive Cross-Linguistic Influence in Multilingual Speech Rhythm: The Role of Language Similarity (October 2022) Chang and co-author Megan M. Brown propose the Similarity Convergence Hypothesis (SCH), which claims that previously acquired languages that are more similar to a later-acquired language are relatively more vulnerable to rCLI from this language.
David M. Carballo (CAS, Archeology & CISS Affiliate) Sacred Landscape and Cultural Astronomy on the Marcahuasi Plateau, Peru (Journal of Anthropological and Archaeological Sciences, October 2022) Carballo and co-authors present ethnohistorical documentation of the cultural prominence of stone features and celestial alignments to the inhabitants of the Marcahuasi plateau, and propose that such notions extend to the pre-hispanic era at Marcahuasi.
Luke Glowacki (CAS, Anthropology & CISS Affiliate) Norm Violations and Punishments Across Human Societies (Pre-Print, October 2022) Glowacki and co-authors investigate the degree to which punishment systems were correlated with socioecology and cultural history, interpreting their results within a cultural ecological framework to emphasize the importance of socio-ecological context for understanding diversity in human punishment systems.
Michelle Amazeen (COM, Director, Communication Research Center & CISS Affiliate) Narrative Counters: Understanding the Efficacy of Narratives in Combating Anecdote-Based Vaccine Misinformation (Public Relations Review, October 2022) Amazeen and co-author investigate the efficacy of narratives in countering vaccine-related narrative misinformation on Facebook, as well as two narrative counter strategies to address misinformation about the safety of the MMR vaccine. Implications for public relations theory are also discussed.
Ian Sue Wing (CAS, Earth and Environment & CISS Affiliate) New Empirical Models for Flood Loss Prediction and Implications for the Coterminous United States (Research Square, October 2022) Wing and co-authors find that a major bottleneck in flood-loss estimation is the development and validation of flood-loss models for both damaged and undamaged homes, a gap FEMA could help close.
Ian Sue Wing (CAS, Earth and Environment) Inequality in the Availability of Residential Air Conditioning Across 115 US Metropolitan Areas (PNAS Nexus, October 2022) Wing and co-authors address the challenges that vulnerable urban populations face in adapting to climate-change driven heat stress amplification related to residential air conditioning.
Alice Cronin-Golomb (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) Telehealth Transdiagnostic Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression in Parkinson’s Disease: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial (International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society, October 2022) Cronin-Golomb and co-authors conducted a pilot randomized controlled trial evaluating the efficacy, feasibility, and acceptability of telehealth transdiagnostic CBT intervention for depression in PwPD. The results showed that telehealth transdiagnostic CBT was an effective intervention for PwPD with depression.
Jonathan Jan Benjamin Mijs
(CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Organizing a Weak Anti-Prison Movement? Surrogate Representation and Political Pacification at a Nonprofit Prison Reentry Organization (Emerald Insight, October 2022) Mijs focuses on the intricate dynamics of client-staff interactions. Through the lens of a government-funded prison reentry organization, Mijs illustrates the nonprofit organization’s dual political role and its implications for social movements and political change.
Thomas Byrne (SSW, Social Welfare Policy & CISS Affiliate) Text messaging to increase patient engagement in a large health care for the homeless clinic: Results of a randomized pilot study (Digital Health, October 2022) Byrne and co-authors assess the feasibility and effectiveness of text messaging to increase outpatient care engagement and medication adherence in an urban homeless population in Boston.
Krishna Dasaratha (CAS, Economics & CISS Affiliate) Learning from Viral Content (arXiv, October 2022) The authors study learning on social media, focusing on how much the algorithm relies on virility when generating news feeds and its effect on steady states.
Zachary Rossetti (Wheelock Special Education & CISS Affiliate) Lessons Learned From Research Collaboration Among People With and Without Developmental Disabilities (Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, October 2022) Rossetti and colleagues detail practices for fostering “purposeful and proactive collaboration” between researchers with and without a developmental disability. They highlight compensation, role differentiation, leveraging expertise, and technology strategies.
Kathleen Corriveau (Wheelock Applied Human Development & CISS Affiliate) Peer Learning and Cultural Evolution (October 2022) Corriveau outlines the role of peer learning in the development of complex instrumental skills and behavioral norms.
Judith Gonyea (SSW & CISS Affiliate) Food insecurity and loneliness amongst older urban subsidized housing residents: The importance of social connectedness (Health & Social Care in the Community, September 2022) Gonyea investigates the prevalence as well as the association between food insecurity and loneliness in the marginalized and often underserved population of older residents of urban subsidized housing.
Kevin Lang (CAS, Economics & CISS Affiliate) Borrowing in an Illegal Market: Contracting with Loan Sharks (MIT Press Direct, September 2022) Using over 11,000 unlicensed loans to over 1,000 borrowers in Singapore, Lang and co-authors provide basic information about an understudied market: illegal money lending, touching on the relationship between borrowers and lenders.
Nicolette Manglos-Weber (STH, Religion and Society & CISS Affiliate) Religious Life in African Societies (The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Africa, Oxford Academic, September 2022) Manglos-Weber discussed religion in African societies to better understand the significance of global religion, especially as it relates to the legacies of global imperialism and the challenges of religious pluralism.
Steven Sandage (STH, Psychology of Religion and Theology & CISS Affiliate) Longitudinal Associations For Right-Wing Authoritarianism, Social Justice, and Compassion Among Seminary Students (Archive for the Psychology of Religion, September 2022) Steven Sandage and colleagues explored the relationship between right-wing authoritarianism (RWA), social justice, and compassion through self-surveys of 580 graduate students from 18 North American Christian seminaries over two and a half years. The researchers found that RWA “exerted a negative influence on social justice commitment and compassion” over the time frame.
Andrew Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) Impact of the Massachusetts Menthol Ban on Perceptions and Cigarette Use Behavior at a Large Safety-net Hospital: A Longitudinal Survey and Qualitative Study (Research Square – Preprint, September 2022) Andrew Stokes and colleagues examined Massachusetts’ ban of menthol cigarettes and its effect on both perception and use among a sample of current smokers. Among their findings was that perception remained mixed but that the ban decreased smoking rates. The research indicates that banning all flavors “is a critical step to reducing tobacco-related health disparities and promoting health equity.”
Randall Ellis
(CAS, Economics & CISS Affiliate) Prevalence and Associated Expenditures for Treatment of Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia in the Commercially Insured Young Population (Journal of Vascular Surgery, October 2022) Ellis and co-authors evaluate the cost-effectiveness of Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia endovascular interventions for young people.
Peter Blake (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) Developmental Risk Sensitivity Theory: The Effects of Socio-Economic Status on Children’s Risky Gain and Loss Decisions (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, September 2022) Blake and co-author find that children from families with lower socioeconomic status take more risks than children from families with higher socioeconomic status. In general, the authors find that children from higher socioeconomic status families are more risk averse.
Andrew Stokes
(SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) Dynamics of Racial Disparities in All-Cause and Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic (PNAS, September 2022) Stokes and co-authors evaluate “dynamics in mortality disparities during the pandemic and whether changes in disparities persist.” They fund that there is a dynamic nature between racial/ethnic disparities in mortality. They also highlight how the pandemic has exacerbated mortality inequities for Indigenous groups.
Alize Arican
(Society of Fellows, CAS, Anthropology) Fragment as Verb, Method and Knowing in the City (Society + Space, September 2022) Alize reviews Colin McFarlane’s book Fragments of the City.
Claudia Diezmartínez
(CAS, Earth and Environment) and Anne Short Gianotti (CAS, Earth and Environment & CISS Affiliate) US Cities Increasingly Integrate Justice Into Climate Planning and Create Policy Tools for Climate Justice (Nature Communications, September 2022) The authors evaluate how climate justice has been integrated or not in the climate plans of large cities. They find the pairing of climate plans with climate justice principles (i.e., “recognition of structural and historical injustices”) increasingly popular in large cities. They discuss four policy tools that pioneer cities have developed to operationalize just climate policies on the ground.
Ian Sue Wing
(CAS, Earth and Environment) Inequality in the Availability of Residential Air Conditioning Across 115 US Metropolitan Areas (PNAS Nexus, September 2022)As climate change is increasingly affecting us, Sue Wing and co-authors The authors constructed the “empirically derived probabilities of residential AC for 45,995 census tracts across 115 metropolitan areas” to better understand the intra-urban variation in AC prevalence.
Robert Weller (CAS, Anthropology & CISS Affiliate) Seasonal Temperature Variability Observed at Abyssal Depths in the Arabian Sea (Scientific Reports, September 2022) Weller and coauthors describe the first in-situ time-series record of seasonal warming and cooling in the Arabian Sea at a depth of 4000 m.” They also found interannual variability. They conducted studies to see if the surface process had an effect on the near-seabed temperature through deep meridional overturning circulation modulated by the Indian monsoon or by Rossby wave propagation.”
Thomas Byrne
(SSW, Social Welfare Policy & CISS Affiliate) The Impact of Patient-Centered Care of the Relationship Between Access to Care and Subjective Health Outcomes Amongst People Experiencing Homelessness: A Mediation Analysis (Health and Social Care in the Community, September 2022) Byrne and co-authors how people experiencing homelessness access primary and mental healthcare. They find that access to healthcare was positively associated with physical health status and negatively associated with psychological distress.
Michel Anteby (Questrom Management & Organizations & CISS Affiliate) Heroes From Above But Not (Always) From Within? Gig Workers’ Reactions to the Sudden Public Moralization of Their Work (Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, September 2022) Anteby and co-authors study how worked react when their work is moralized work (i.e. Instacart shoppers lauded as heroes in the pandemic). They find that “workers either reject, adopt, or wrestle with the hero narrative.”
Kathleen Corriveau (Wheelock Applied Human Development & CISS Affiliate) Development of Religious Cognition (Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, September 2022) Corriveau and co-author review of the development and religious cognition. They argue because religion is (i) not directly observable or unavailable for experimentation and (ii) involves deeply held commitments by the adults in their communities.
Andrew Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) COVID-19 Mortality and Excess Mortality Among Working-Age Residents in California, USA, by Occupation Sector: A Longitudinal Cohort Analysis of Mortality Surveillance Data (The Lancet Public Health, September 2022) Stokes and co-Authors study if the trend of essential workers having higher rates of SARS-CoV-2 infections holds when looking at infections from SARS-CoV-2 variants. They find that the trend did hold, commenting, “Workers in essential sectors have continued to bear the brunt of high COVID-19 and excess mortality throughout the pandemic, particularly in the agriculture, emergency, manufacturing, facilities, and transportation or logistics sectors.”
Abigail Sullivan (CAS, Earth & Environment & CISS Affiliate) Bridging the Divide Between Rural and Urban Community-Based Forestry: A Bibliometric Review (Forest Policy and Economics, November 2022) Sullivan conducts a bibliometric review to better understand the difference between rural and urban community-based forest management. She finds that the literature is rather segmented. She recommends that scholars and practitioners that study rural and urban community-based forestry need to work together to improve forests and reduce inequality.
Susan Eckstein (CAS, Sociology) Cuban Privilege: The Making of Immigrant Inequality in America (Cambridge University Press, June 2022) Eckstein discloses the racial and political biases embedded within U.S. immigration policy.
Christopher Robertson (LAW, Health Law, Policy, and Management & CISS Affiliate) JD-Next: a Valid and Reliable Tool to Predict Diverse Students’ Success in Law School (Arizona Legal Studies, August 2022) Robertson and coauthors tested the validity and reliability of the JD-Next exam as a potential admissions tool for Juris Doctor programs, comparable to the legacy exams (i.e., LSAT or GRE). They discuss the advantages of JD-Next and how it may help to “reduce the risk that capable students will be excluded from legal education and the legal profession.”
Steven Sandage (STH, Psychology of Religion and Theology & CISS Affiliate) Development and Evaluation of the Clinician-Rates Humility Scale (Journal of Psychology and Theology, August 2022) Sandage and coauthors analyzed the development of the clinician-related humility scale (CRHS) with a sample of clergy working in a mental health center in the United States.
Thomas Byrne (SSW, Social Welfare Policy & CISS Affiliate) Performance of 2 Single-Item Screening Questions to Identity Future Homelessness Among Emergency Department Patients (JAMA Network, August 2022) Byrne and coauthors evaluate if a single-item screening question could identify future homelessness risk among emergency department patients.
James Cummings (COM Emerging Media Studies & CISS Affiliate) An Exploratory Analysis of Interface Features Influencing Mobile Location Data Disclosure (International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, August 2022) Cummings and co-author conduct an online experiment to understand users’ willingness to disclose location data in exchange for using a service.
Deborah Carr (CAS, Sociology & CISS Director) Paternal Occupation and Delirium Risk in Older Adults: A Potential Marker of Early Life Exposures (Innovation in Aging, August 2022) Carr and co-authors study the link between paternal occupation and delirium risk. They find a link between blue-collar paternal occupation and a higher risk and severity of delirium. They also discuss the broader implications of how childhood exposures may lead to different health outcomes later in life.
Jonathan F. Zaff
(Wheelock, Applied Human Development & CISS Affiliate) Impact of Community Well-being on Individual Well-Being: A Longitudinal Multinational Study with 155 Countries (Journal of Community Psychology, August 2022) Zaff and coauthor investigate the relationship between subjective community well-being (CWB) and subjective individual well-being (IWB).
Jonathan F. Zaff (Wheelock, Applied Human Development & CISS Affiliate) “My Story Started When I was Younger…”: A Qualitative Analysis of Youth’s Differential Journeys Away from School (Journal of Adolescent Research, August 2022) Zaff and co-authors study how individuals perceive the role of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and how they may have impacted the individual’s decision to leave high school prior to graduating.
Andrew Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) Xie and Stokes reply to: Taking for Granted Conclusions from Studies that Cannot Prove Causality of Respiratory Symptoms and Vaping (American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, August 2022) Stokes and co-author address concerns raised by Campagna and Cazci about their previous study, Association of Electronic Cigarette Use with Respiratory Symptom Development among U.S. Young Adults. They argue that smoking history was sufficiently adjusted for in their study.
Andrew Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) Prospective Association Between E-cigarette Use Frequency Patterns and Cigarette Smoking Abstinence Among Adult Cigarette Smokers in the United States (Addiction, August 2022) Stokes and coauthors study the relationship between e-cigarette use and cigarette smoking abstinence. They find that there is a correlation between vaping frequency and smoking abstinence.
Michelle Amazeen
(COM, Director, Communication Research Center & CISS Affiliate) Cutting the Bunk: Comparing the Solo and Aggregate Effects of Prebunking and Debunking Covid-19 Vaccine Misinformation (Science Communication, July 2022) Amazeen and coauthors evaluate general and targeted inoculation approaches around covid-19 misinformation. They find that targeted campaigns for those with preexisting condition work to inoculate those individuals again misinformation. They found that general inoculation campaigns are less beneficial as they benefits erode when the individual encounters debunking messages.
Andrew Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) Motivations for E-Cigarette Use and Associations with Vaping Frequency and Smoking Abstinence Among Adults Who Smoke Cigarettes in the United States (Drug and Alcohol Dependence, July 2022) Stokes and co-authors studied the reasons that people vape. They found that participants vaped for convenience, in order to quit smoking, and for experimentation. They also found that motivations for vaping where not associated with abstinence from smoking.
Luke Glowacki
(CAS, Anthropology & CISS Affiliate) Acoustic Regularities in Infant-Directed Speech and Song Across Cultures (Nature Human Behavior, July 2022) Glowacki and co-authors find cross-cultural similarities in the ways adults communicate with infants. They collected 1,615 recordings produced by 410 people in 21 urban, rural, and small-scale societies. They argue that across cultures, adults change the acoustic sound of their voices in similar ways.
Andrew Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) E-cigarette Use Among High School Students in the United States Prior to the Covid-19 Pandemic: Trends, Correlates, and Sources of Acquisition (Preventative Medicine Reports, July 2022) Stokes and co-authors find an increase in e-cigarette usage and nicotine dependence, including in US high school students. Within the high school population, they find that usage individuals with substance abuse or psychosocial stressors (e.g. bullying). They also find an increasing number of youth obtaining e-cigarettes via borrowing or obtaining via other people, often working to evade age-restrictions.
Makarand Amrish Mody (SPH, Hospitality Administration &CISS Affiliate) How Do Consumers Select Between Hotels and Airbnb? A Hierarchy of Importance in Accommodation Choice (International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, July 2022) Mody and coauthors study consumer choices when deciding between hotels and Airbnbs for vacation accommodations.
Steven Sandage (STH, Psychology of Religion and Theology & CISS Affiliate) Supporting Chaplains on the Frontlines of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed-Method Practice-Based Pilot Intervention Study (Psychological Services, July 2022) Sandage and co-authors evaluate spiritually integrated support group intervention for chaplains across multiple industries using sessions co-facilitated by psychotherapists. They find a significant decrease in burnout and spiritual/moral struggles and an increase in resilience and flourishing.
John M. Marston (CAS, Archaeology & CISS Affiliate) Early Millet Cultivation, Subsistence Diversity, and Wild Plant Use at Neolithic Anle, Lower Yangtze, China (The Holocene, July 2022) Marston and co-author Yiyi Tang (CAS, ’21, GRS ’21) focus on non-rice plant resources in Anle, Lower Yangtze, China. The researchers study how plants were exploited for food and medicinal purposes. The authors look at how people in this region developed a “seasonal sequence of temporally compatible crops, constructing niches for two crops (rice and millet) and actively structuring opportunities to exploit available wild plant resources in their immediate environment.”
David M. Carballo
(CAS, Archeology & CISS Affiliate) Mesoamerican Urbanism: Indigenous Institutions, Infrastructure, and Resilience (Urban Studies, July 2022) Carballo and co-authors compare Mesoamerican cities, studying the correlation between collective government institutions and city longevity.
Alya Guseva (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) From the New Editors (Socioeconomic Review, July 2022) Guseva and co-author introduce themselves as the new co-editors-in-chief of Socioeconomic Review, the flagship journal of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. They share their vision for the future of the journal and the new initiatives they will pursue.
Andrew Stokes
(SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) Longitudinal Evidence on Treatment Discontinuation, Adherence, and Loss of Hypertension Control in Four Middle-Income Countries (Science Translational Medicine, July 2022) Stokes and co-authors evaluate longitudinal data of individuals with hypertension in China, Indonesia, Mexico, and South Africa. They found that most individuals in their sample lost blood pressure control during the study. Furthermore, many individuals chose to discontinue treatment. The authors discuss the implications of this research as it pertains to hypertension control, improving diagnosis, and initiating treatment.
Andrew Stokes
(SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) COVID-19 Mortality Among Working-Age Americans in 46 States, by Industry and Occupation (Ebase, 2022) Stokes and coauthors evaluate the claim that being an essential worker was a risk factor for contracting SARS-CoV-2, subsequent disease, or mortality. They also discuss workplace policies to help reduce workers’ risk of contracting SARs-CoV-2.
Raymond Fisman
(CAS, Economics & CISS Affiliate) Experimental Evidence of Physician Social Preferences (PNAS Economical Sciences, April 2022) Fisman and co-authors look at the tradeoffs between altruism, equality, and efficiency that physicians make when working to allocate limited medical resources. To do so, they studied physician preferences with a nationwide sample of practicing physicians. This sample was then compared to three other populations: a representative sample of Americans, an “elite” sample of Americans, and a nationwide sample of medical students. They find that physicians score higher for altruism that the other three populations, something that cannot be explained by age or income.
Kimberly Rhoten
(CAS, Sociology) A Queer-Feminist Analysis of BDSM Jurisprudence in Common Law Courts (Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law, 2022) Rhoten and co-author evaluate how the legal systems in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States engage with litigants who practice bondage, discipline, and domination, and submission and sadomasochism (BDSM). They argue that BDSM participants are viewed as sexually deviant, and therefore approaches to censure or legally punish their activities are pursued.
Jonathan Jan Benjamin Mijs (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate & CISS Affiliate) Merit and Ressentiment: How to Tackle the Tyranny of Merit (Theory and Research in Education, July 2022) Mijs discusses Michael Sandel’s The Tyranny of Meritocracy, pushing back on the concept that people are disillusioned with meritocracy but rather than people are disillusioned due to the “broken promise of liberalism and democracy.” Mijs also discusses some of the practical limitations of Sandel’s suggestions regarding elite university admissions.
Mary Elizabeth Collins (SSW, Social Welfare Policy & CISS Affiliate) Ethical Responses to COVID Pandemic: Compassion, Solidarity, and Justice (The Global and Social Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Ethical and Philosophical Reflection, 2022) Mary Elizabeth Collins and Co-author evaluate Covid-19 pandemic responses, looking specifically at the effects on marginalized persons. They also make suggestions for policies that are more compassionate and just.
Jessica T. Simes (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) “We’re Here to Help”: Criminal Justice Collaboration Among Social Science Service Providers Across the Urban-Rural Continuum (Social Science Review, June 2022) Simes and co-author discuss the collaboration and reliance of social service providers on law enforcement, especially in areas with weak social and economic infrastructures. The authors evaluate the implication of this relationship on mass incarceration and prison reintegration efforts.
David M. Carballo (CAS, Anthropology & CISS Affiliate) Big Gods and Big Science: Further Reflections on Theory, Data, and Analysis (Religion, Brain & Behavior, June 2022) Carballo and co-authors test the Big Gods Hypothesis with respect to the evolution of socio-political complexity (SPC) in world history. They find two main drivers of this evolution: intensity of warfare and agricultural productivity.
Steven Sandage (STH, Psychology of Religion and Theology & CISS Affiliate) Attachment Neuroscience and Matin Luther King, Jr.’s Nonviolent Philosophy: Implications for the 21st Century and Beyond (Journal of Black Psychology, June 2022) Sandage and coauthors merge Martine Luther King’s theory of non-violence and modern neuroscience into the Kingian Neuro-Relational Theory (KNRT). This framework was developed to “aid research and develop strategies for reducing many forms of societal violence, with eventual outcomes of improving mental and physical health via stress reduction, and subsequent creation of a more socially just world.”
Alice Cronin-Golomb (CAS, Psychological and Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) Perceived Stigma and Quality of Life in Parkinson’s Disease with Additional Health Conditions (General Psychiatry, June 2022) Cronin-Golomb and coauthors study individuals with Parkinson’s Disease and one additional health condition. They find that individuals with other health conditions (i.e. thyroid disease, depression, anxiety, etc) were at heightened risk of perceived stigma and poorer quality of life.
Mary Elizabeth Collins
(SSW, Social Welfare Policy & CISS Affiliate) COVID Impacts on U.S. You Workforce: Challenges and Opportunities (Journal of Education and Work, June 2022) Collins and co-authors evaluate the effect of COVID-19 on community-based workforce development programming for youth (not in school or in the workforce). In this article, they discuss innovations and challenges brought on by COVID-19 and provide policy and practical recommendations.
Thomas Byrne (SSW, Social Welfare Policy & CISS Affiliate) Examining the Intersection of Housing Instability and Violence Among LGBTQ Adults (Journal of Homosexuality, June 2022) Thomas Byrne and co-authors study the relationship between housing instability and LGBTQ status. They found that LGBTQ persons were more likely to sleep outdoors in a car. They also found that LGBTQ individuals were more likely to need alternative hosting due to violence from family/friends, substance abuse, and mental health issues.
Andrew Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) Depressive Symptoms and Multi-Joint Pain Partially Mediate the Relationship Between Obesity and Opioid Use in People with Knee Osteoarthritis (Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, June 2022) Stokes and co-authors conducted a longitudinal study of over 2,300 participants, looking specifically at the relationships between obesity, opioid use, and depressive symptoms. They found that multi-joint pain and depressive symptoms partially explained greater opioid use among obese persons.
Center for Antiracist Research (CAR)
Moving Towards Antibigotry: Collected Essays from the Center for Antiracists Research’s Antibigotry Convening (Center for Antiracist Research, June 2022) Ibram X. Kendi and other scholars discuss ableism, ageism, anti-Asian American racism, anti-blackness/colorism, anti-fat bigotry, anti-pacific islander bigotry, antisemitism, classism, heterosexism and transphobia, islamophobia, linguicism, religious tolerance, and sexism.
David Mayers (CAS, Political Science & CISS Affiliates) Freelance Revolutionist: Agnes Smedley in Wartime China (1937-1941) (Diplomacy & Statecraft, June 2022) Mayers discusses the life and career of Agnes Smedley in the context of current Sino-American relations.
Ian Sue Wing (CAS, Earth & Environment & CISS Affiliate) When and How to Use Economy-Wide Models for Environmental Policy Analysis (Annual Review of Resource Economics, June 2022) Sue Wing and co-authors provide a framework for when to use computational general models (CGE) for environmental policy analysis, comparing the approach to partial equilibrium or engineering models.
Robert Margo
(CAS, Economics & CISS Affiliate) “Mechanization Takes Command?” Powered Machinery and Production Times in Late Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing (Journal of Economic History, June 2022) Margo and co-authors evaluated hand labor production and machine labor production, working to estimate the frequency and impact of the use of inanimate power of production operation times. They find that the switch to machine labor production accounted for one-quarter to one-third of all productivity advantage gained at this time. They also discuss other, often related factors that worked alongside this mechanization that increased productivity.
Thomas Byrne (SSW, Social Welfare Policy & CISS Affiliate) Examining Perceived Coercion in Drug Treatment Courts (International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, June 2022) Byrne and co-authors look to validate a scale that measures the perceptions of teamwork skills. Their test population consists of Spanish students enrolled in vocational training.
Deborah Carr
(CAS, Sociology & CISS Director) Older Adults’ Relationship Trajectories and Estate Planning (Journal of Family and Economic Issues, June 2022) Carr and co-author Shinae Choi evaluate whether rates of estate planning (i.e., having a will or trust) differ on the basis of one’s romantic relationship trajectory. They find that long-term married and widowed persons have the highest rates of estate planning, and persons who require estate planning most — divorced, cohabiting, and lifelong single persons — have low rates of estate planning. The authors discuss the implications for the financial security of older adults and their families.
John Marston
(CAS, Archeology & CISS Affiliate) First Archeological Identification of Nixtamalized Maize, From Two Pit Latrines at the Ancient Maya Site of San Bartolo, Guatemala (Journal of Archeological Science, July 2022) Marston and co-authors discovered archaeological evidence of nixtamalization of maize, the method used to create masa dough for tortillas and tamales, from a 9th-century context at the Maya site of San Bartolo, Guatemala. This is the first direct evidence for nixtamalization ever documented archaeologically.
Mary Elizabeth Collins (SSW, Social Welfare Policy & CISS Affiliate) Understanding Relations Between State-Level Variation in TANF Spending and Substantiated Child Maltreatment in the USA (Journal of Social Service Research, June 2022) The Temporary Assistant for Needy Families (TANF) is supposed to alleviate poverty. Collins and co-authors evaluate if TANF can indirectly affect child maltreatment. They study this relationship with the states’ racial composition as a moderator. The authors also discuss the implications of their findings on anti-racist poverty policy and the prevention of child abuse.
Steven Sandage
(STH, Psychology of Religion and Theology & CISS Affiliate) The Moderating Influence of Religiousness/Spirituality on Covid-19 Impact and Change in Psychotherapy (Religions, May 2022) Sandage and co-authors look into current literature linking religiousness/spirituality, COVID-19 impact, symptoms, and well-being. They expand on the current debate by looking specifically among psychotherapy clients, studying 185 individuals.
Andrews Stokes
(SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) Association of Cigarette-e-Cigarette Transitions with Respiratory Symptom Incidence: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Path Study, 2014-2019 (A25 Tobacco and THC Health Science, ATS Journals, May 2022) Stokes and co-authors evaluated a nationally representative sample over a five year period to assess the risk of respiratory symptoms associated with the transition from nonuse to e-cigarette use and cigarette use. They discuss the risk of e-cigarette initiation and the potential harm-reduction benefits associated with e-cigarettes relative to cigarettes.
H. Denis Wu
(COM Communication & CISS Affiliate) The Images of News Media Perceived by People as Antecedent of News Use (Journalism & Communication Monographs, May 2022) Wu discusses the article News Media Image: Typology of Audience Perspectives by Soo Young Shin, highlighting the contributions Shin has made to the field as well as some of the drawbacks of this typology.
Christopher Robertson (LAW, Health Law, Policy, and Management & CISS Affiliate) What The Harm Principle Says About Vaccination and Healthcare Rationing (Boston University School of Law’s Research Paper Series, May 2022) During the Covid-19 pandemic, there were acute shortages of healthcare resources leading to decisions surrounding who should receive care and who should not. Within this decision, is the reality that some individuals chose to be vaccinated and others refused. Robertson argues that healthcare providers that do not consider vaccination status are harming the patients who did choose to get vaccinated. Robertson discusses how to evaluate who should receive care and how this criterion can be scaled along with other criteria.
Randall Ellis
(CAS, Economics & CISS Affiliate) Treatment of Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia in the Commercially Insured Younger Population (Journal of Vascular Surgery, June 2022) Ellis and co-authors evaluated the patient data of over 43 million patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI). They evaluate the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of different interventions.
Andrew Stokes
(SPH, Global Health) Evaluation of Age Patterns of COVID-19 Mortality by Race and Ethnicity From March 2020 to October 2021 in the US (JAMA Network Open, May 2022) Stokes and coauthors evaluate a large decrease in covid death rates for those aged 80 and older paired with an increase in the covid death rate in younger adults. They discuss why we may be seeing an increase in younger adults.
Jessica T. Simes (CAS, Sociology) Prenatal Healthcare After Sentencing Reform: Heterogeneous Effects for Prenatal Healthcare Access and Equity (BMC Public Health, May 2022) Simes and co-author use Pennsylvania’s criminal sentencing reform as a way to evaluate the role of imprisonment in whether a birthing people will attain early and adequate prenatal care. They find that communities where prison admissions numbers decreased, there was an increase in early and adequate prenatal care. They also found that this trend was most noticeable among those with lower educational attainment and Black birthing people.
Kathleen Corriveau (Wheelock Human Development & CISS Affiliate) Persistence in Science Play and gender: Findings from Early Childhood Classrooms in Ireland (Early Education and Development, May 2022) Corriveau and co-authors evaluated whether science tasks were introduced to girls in terms of action or identity impacted engagement in the activities. They found that language framing of the activities did not impact student engagement. The authors instead argue that other factors may be at play including potential negative feedback.
Charles Chang (CAS, Linguistics & CISS Affiliate) Sociophonetic Variation Amount Asian Americans: The Role of Ethnicity and Style (The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, May 2022) Danielle Dionne (CAS, Linguistics) and Chang study sociophonetic variation of 23 Asia Americans, representing four ethnic groups (Chinese, Filipino, Korean, and Vietnamese), finding similarities and difference in speech production.
Heather Mooney
(CAS, Sociology) So You’ve Provincialized the Canon. Now What? (Teaching Sociology, May 2022) Mooney and co-author write about how to teach the canon of social theories today. They discuss instructors’ attempts to “provincialize” classic texts in their courses and incorporate critics and diversity the authors they teach. Mooney and co-author raise new concerns surrounding the teaching of canonical works and provide a framework.
Steven Sandage (STH, Psychology of Theology and Religion & CISS Affiliate) The Psychometric Challenges of Implementing Wellbeing Assessment into Clinical Research and Practice: A Commentary on “Assessing Mental Wellbeing using the Mental Health Continuum–Short Form: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling.” (Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, May 2022) Sandage and coauthors comment on Iasiello et al’s Assessing Mental Wellbeing using the Mental Health Continuum—Short Form: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modelling.
Andrew Stokes (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Estimated Excess Mortality From External Causes in the US, March to December 2020 (JAMA Internal Medicine, May 2022) Stokes and coauthors work to understand the racial and ethnic disparities in estimated excess deaths from external causes during the COVID-19 pandemic. They take a deeper look into homicides, drug overdoses, and transportation fatalities. They find that the pandemic contributed to these racial and ethnic disparities in various ways.
Steven Sandage (STH, Psychology of Theology and Religion & CISS Affiliate) Religious Differences in Spiritually Integrated Couple Therapy (Spiritual Diversity in Psychotherapy, May 2022) Sandage edited and published in this publication. This book focuses on how spirituality and religion can be integrated into psychotherapy practice.
James J Cummings (COM Emerging Media Studies & CISS Affiliate) All Too Real: A Typology of User Vulnerabilities in Extended Reality (Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Novel Challenges of Safety, Security, and Privacy in Extended Reality, April 2022) Cummings and coauthor investigate the potential threats to agency, privacy, and safety posed by the development and use of the metaverse.
Thomas Byrne (SSW, Social Work & CISS Affiliate) A Randomized Controlled Trial of Moral Reconation Therapy to Reduce the Risk for Criminal Recidivism amount Justice-Involved Adults in Mental Health Residential Treatment (Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, April 2022) Byrne and coauthors run a randomized control trial with 341 justice-involved patients in a mental health residential treatment programs to test the efficacy of moral reconation therapy (MRT). While MRT is widely used within criminal justice settings, this is the first randomized control trial of MRT.
Heba Gowayed (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Refuge (Princeton University Press, April 2022) In her book, Gowayed spends three years following the lives of Syrian refugees who fled to Canada, the United States, and Germany. While centering her discussion on the human experience of displacement, Gowayed shows how each country handles its refugee population and how that impacts the families’ integration into the new society.
Andrew Stokes
(SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) E-Cigarette Use and Combustible Cigarette Smoking Initiation among Youth: Accounting for Time-Varying Exposure and Time-Dependent Confounding (Epidemiology, March 2022) Stokes and co-authors look at the relationships between e-cigarette use and the subsequent use of combustible cigarette smoking in youth, focus on understudied time-varying and time-dependent factors.
Deborah Carr (CAS, Sociology & CISS Director) The Effect of Physical Limitations on Depressive Symptoms over the Life Course: Is Optimism a Protective Buffer? (The Journal of Gerontology: Series B, April 2022) Carr and co-authors find that optimism protects against depressive symptoms among midlife adults with disability, yet the same protective effects do not extend to older adults.
Luke Glowacki (CAS, Anthropology & CISS Affiliate) Key Individuals Catalyse Intergroup Violence (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, April 2022) Glowacki and co-author argue that key individuals initiating violence help coalitionary aggression emerge. They discuss some traits and processes in which key individuals acts as a catalyst, and assist in the development of coalitionary violence.
Luke Glowacki (CAS, Anthropology & CISS Affiliate) Are Strangers Just Enemies You Have Not Yet Met? Group Homogeneity, Not Intergroup Relations, Shapes Ingroup Bias in Three Natural Groups (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, April 2022) Glowacki and co-authors study the relationship between homogeneity and ingroup bias, finding that ingroup bias appears as positive concern for members of their ingroup which is further amplified when an ingroup is homogenous.
Jonathan Jan Benjamin Mijs (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Deliberating Inequality: A Blueprint for Studying the Social Formation of Beliefs about Economic Inequality (Social Justice Research, April 2022) Mijs and coauthors work to understand why people underestimate the extent of economic inequality and as a result are less likely to support increased taxes and wealth redistribution to address inequality. The authors work to understand how social interactions help us develop our understanding of wealth and income inequality.
Katherine Levine Einstein (CAS, Political Science & CISS Affiliate), Maxwell Palmer (CAS, Political Science & CISS Affiliate) and David M. Glick (CAS, Political Science) 2021 Menino Survey of Mayors: Closing the Racial Wealth Gap (OpenBU, March 2022) The 2021 Menino Survey of Mayors is a nationally representative survey of American mayors and is based on interviews with 126 sitting mayors from 39 states. In this edition, the Survey discusses mayors’ opinions on COVD-19 recovery, equity and small business, closing the racial wealth gap, and housing and homelessness.
Kathleen Corriveau (Wheelock & CISS Affiliate) The Scientists Are Going to Figure it Out: Parent Explanations in Time of Pandemic Uncertainty (School of Psychology, March 2022) Corriveau and coauthors explore how parents from different cultures (Northern Ireland, USA, and Colombia) explain the origins, spread, and mitigation of COVID-19. The authors compare these parents’ explanations with their reports on their children’s anxiety-related behaviors.
Randall P. Ellis
(CAS, Economics & CISS Affiliate) Development and Assessment of a New Framework for Disease Surveillance, Prediction and Risk Adjustments: The Diagnostic Items Classification System (JAMA Health Forum, March 2022) Ellis and co-authors evaluate the International Classification, tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) to see if it is organized in a way to allow for more accurate and useful predictive models when evaluating disease surveillance and plan payment.
James J. Cummings (COM Emerging Media Studies & CISS Affiliate) Stimulus Sampling and Research Integrity (Research Integrity: Best Practices for Social and Behavioral Sciences, Oxford University Press, 2022) In this book chapter, Cummings and co-author discuss issues of stimulus sampling and how that affects the integrity of social and behavioral research. They argue that while there is significant attention paid to population/people sampling, we also need to focus on making stimuli representative in order to ensure the robustness of scientific results.
Jonathan Jan Benjamin Mijs
(CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Adolescents’ Future in the Balance of Family, School, and the Neighborhood: A Multidimensional Application of Two Theoretical Perspectives (Social Science Quarterly, March 2022) Mijs and co-author evaluate whether cultural resources (family, school, and neighborhood) foster or depress educational aspirations, expectations, and performance.
Joseph Harris
(CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) and Jonathan Shaffer (CAS, Sociology) Comparing Disciplinary Engagement in Global Research Across the Social Sciences (Social Science Quarterly, March 2022) Harris and Shaffer review contributions to global health made by individuals in the major social science disciplines, which they define as anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology.
Loretta Lees (Initiative on Cities’, Director) Defensible Space on the Move: Mobilisation in English Housing Policy and Practice (J. Wiley & Sons, February 2022) Lees and her co-author reveal defensible space to be ambiguous, uncertain in nature, neither proven or disproven scientifically.
Katherine Levine Einstein
(CAS, Political Science & CISS Affiliate), Maxwell Palmer (CAS, Political Science & CISS Affiliate) and David M. Glick (CAS, Political Science) Developing a Pro-Housing Movement? Public Trust of Developers, Fractured Coalitions, and the Challenges of Measuring Political Power (Interest Groups & Advocacy, March 2022) Levine-Einstein, Glick, and Palmer evaluate the increasing power that homeowners and homeowner interest groups have to influence federal, state, and local policy. The authors argue that developers and their perceived profit-seeking behavior may have worked to limit the development of new housing and may lead to the rise of housing reform coalitions.
Mary Elizabeth Collins
(SSW & CISS Affiliate) Family Engagement in Child Welfare System-Level Change: A Review of Current Models (Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, February 22, 2022) Collins and co-authors contribute to research on the program- and system-level family models by analyzing publicly available data to document U.S. state efforts to engage families.
Ian Sue Wing (CAS, Earth & Environment & CISS Affiliate) Heterogeneous climate change impacts on electricity demand in world cities circa mid-century (Scientific Reports, March 2022) Sue Wing and co-author evaluate energy consumption patterns during hot and cold hours in 36 cities. They find that the large temperature increases in tropical cities are offset by consumers’ willingness to consume regardless of changing prices or income. This contributes to lower air conditioning penetration.
Christopher T. Robertson (LAW, Health Law, Policy, and Management & CISS Affiliate) Patient Assistance Programs and the Anti-Kickback Statute: Charting a Pathway Forward (JAMA, March 2022) Robertson and co-authors discuss the need for Congress to address increasingly high drug prices and how patient assistance programs and the anti-kickback statute could be adjusted to help ensure that necessary medication is accessible to those who need it.
Jessica Silbey
(LAW & CISS Affiliate) Against Progress: Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values in the Internet Age (Stanford University Press, June 2022) In this book, Jessica Silbey discusses how intellectual property laws interact with contemporary fundamental values (i.e. equality, privacy, and justice). Silbey examines case law and the stories of everyday creators/innovators as they navigate the IP laws. She argues that we need to redefine what progress is regarding IP law and how IP law can be used to meet the urgent needs of our society today.
Christopher Robertson (LAW, Health Law, Policy, and Management & CISS Affiliate) The Future of Medical Device Regulation: Innovation and Protection (Cambridge University Press, April 2022) In this volume, Robertson, and co-contributors provide a multidisciplinary evaluation of the ethical, legal, and regulatory concerns surrounding medical devices in the US and EU.
Johannes Schmieder (CAS, Economics & CISS Affiliate) Inequality and Income Dynamics in Germany (Center for Economic Policy Research, March 2022) Schmieder and c0-authors provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades. In the first part of the paper, they discuss gender differences in earnings and inequality over time. In the second part of the paper, they evaluate income inequality and dynamics between self-employed individuals, business owners, and landlords.
Randall Ellis (CAS, Economics & CISS Affiliate) Primary Healthcare Effects of a Well-Designed Anti-Corruption Program (World Development Perspectives, March 2022) Ellis and co-authors find no evidence that Brazil’s Corregedoria-Geral da União’s (CGU) anti-corruption program fosters better health sector outcomes. Their work corroborates the general view that the legal system is slow to identify, prosecute, and punish criminal activities.
Andrew Stokes
(SPH & CISS Affiliate) County-Level Estimates of Excess Mortality Associated with COVID-19 in the United States (SSM-Population Health, March 2022) Stokes and colleagues conclude that estimates of excess mortality at the local level can inform the allocation of resources to areas most impacted by the pandemic and contribute to positive behavior feedback loops, such as increases in mask-wearing and vaccine uptake.
Jonathan Jan Benjamin Mijs (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Belief in Meritocracy Reexamined: Scrutinizing the Role of Subjective Social Mobility (Social Psychology Quarterly, February 18, 2022) Mijs and co-authors study how meritocratic beliefs about success relate to individuals’ social mobility experiences. They find that subjective upward mobility is associated with stronger meritocratic beliefs, and downward mobility is associated with stronger structuralist beliefs—but has no bearing on people’s meritocracy beliefs.
Landon Lauder
(Doctoral candidate, CAS, Sociology)Cruising Boston and Providence: The Roles of Place and Desire for Reflexive Queer Research(ers)(Ethnography, February 10, 2022) Lauder argues for a continuous, although never complete, use of reflexivity that addresses the researcher’s personal desires and orientations—there before the research started—that can influence what topics we study, the questions we ask, the methods and sites we choose, how we interact with others in the field, and our analyses.
Kimberly Rhoten
(Doctoral candidate, CAS, Sociology) U.S. Family Law Along the Slippery Slope: The Limits of a Sexual Rights Strategy for Polyamorous Parents (Sexualities, January 2022) Rhoten and co-authors use the concept of sexual citizenship to frame the analysis of U.S. family courts’ normative construction of family, identifying striking parallels between family courts’ historical and contemporary prejudicial treatment of LGBTQ parents and the institution’s similar delegitimization and denigration of polyamorous parents today.
Wesley Wildman
(STH & CISS affiliate) It’s WEIRD How Much Joseph Henrich Needs Computational Simulation (Religion, Brain and Behavior, January 28, 2022) Wildman shows how computer simulation models can help understand whether high-cost lifestyles can be sustainable (i.e., a high-cost equilibrium exists in the energy landscape) for an entire society under specifiable conditions.
David M. Carballo
(CAS, Archaeology, Anthropology, and Latin American Studies & CISS affiliate) Governance Strategies in Precolonial Central Mexico (Frontiers in Political Science, February 2022) Carballo shows how governance varied synchronically and diachronically in central Mexico across these axes, and especially in relation to resource dilemmas, fiscal financing, the relative strength of corporate groups versus patron-client networks, and how rulership was legitimated.
David M. Carballo
(CAS, Archaeology, Anthropology, and Latin American Studies & CISS affiliate) Communication, Computation, and Governance: A Multiscalar Vantage on the Prehispanic Mesoamerican World (Journal of Social Computing, February 2022) Carballo and co-author Gary M. Fennman illustrate how institutional differences in governance had a marked effect on the specific modes and technologies through which prehispanic Mesoamerican peoples communicated across time and space.
Michele DeBiasse
(Sargent College & CISS Affiliate) Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Identifying Students, Interns, and Practitioners of Dietetics (Journal of Critical Dietetics, February 2022) The authors call for better data collection, improved coursework/training on inclusion and greater content on nutrition/healthcare needs for LGBTQ-identifying patients and clients. Read here.
Peter Blake (CAS, Psychological & Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) From “Haves” to “Have Nots”: Developmental Declines in Subjective Social Status Reflect Children’s Growing Consideration of What They Do Not Have (Cognition, February 2022) Blake and colleagues find that children may increasingly consider what they lack to determine their status.
Parker Shipton
(CAS, Anthropology & CISS Affiliate) Land and the Mortgage: History, Culture Belonging (Berghahn Books, February 2022) In this edited volume anthropologists, historians, and economists explore origins, variations, and meanings of the land mortgage, and the risks to homes and livelihoods.
Makrand Mody
(SHA & CISS Affiliate) Using the Health Belief Model to Examine Travelers’ Willingness to Vaccinate and Support for Vaccination Requirements prior to Travel (Tourism Management, February 2022) Mody and collaborators provide a theoretically informed understanding of the dynamics that may enable the success of important health-related travel policy in the wake of COVID-19.
Christopher Robertson
(LAW, Health Law, Policy, and Management & CISS Affiliate) Threat and Emotions: Mobilizing and Attitudinal Outcomes of a Ballistic Missile Scare (Social Problems, February 2022) Robertson and his co-author examine the false ballistic missile alert that occurred in Hawaii in 2018, which presented a unique opportunity for assessing the civic and mobilizing outcomes of a threat. They conclude that emotions may serve as a bridge that can connect personal, concrete, lived-experiences to more abstract, complex, or future-oriented issues and grievances.
Steven Sandage
(STH, Psychology of Religion and Theology & CISS Affiliate) The Influence of Experiential Avoidance, Humility and Patience on the Association Between Religious/Spiritual Exploration and Well-Being (Journal of Happiness Studies, January 18, 2022) Sandage and co-authors conclude that encouraging engagement in humility and patience self-cultivation practices could move them toward greater well-being.
Joseph Harris
(CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) American Medical Sociology and Health Problems in the Global South (Sociological Perspectives, January 2022) Harris and co-author Rebecca Farber (CAS, Sociology Ph.D., 2019) examine the reasons why U.S. medical sociology journals and conferences pay scant attention to global health concerns, despite their intensifying importance.
Laurence Kotlikoff (CAS, Economics) Money Magic: An Economist’s Secrets to More Money, Less Risk, and a Better Life (Little, Brown & Co., January 2022) In his latest book, Kotlikoff harnesses the power of economics and advanced computation to deliver a host of spellbinding but simple money magic tricks to transform readers’ financial future.
Heba Gowayed
(CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) and Ashley Mears (CAS, Sociology) Pause, Pivot, and Shift: Situational Human Capital and Responses to Sudden Job Loss (American Behavioral Scientist, January 14, 2022) The authors, with co-author Nicholas Occhiuto, examine how workers respond to rapid changes in the labor market in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. They find government unemployment benefits to be insufficient as they focus on workers’ pauses, yet neglect to support workers as they pivot and shift during periods of labor market instability and disruption.
Jessica Simes
(CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) The Consequences of Medicaid Expansion under the Affordable Care Act for Police Arrests (PLOS One, January 12, 2022) Simes and Jacquelyn Jahn show that expanded Medicaid insurance reduced police arrests, particularly drug-related arrests. They conclude that broad health policy reforms can meaningfully reduce contact with the criminal justice system under historic conditions of mass criminalization.
Luke Glowacki (CAS, Anthropology & CISS Affiliate) How Small-Scale Societies Achieve Large-Scale Cooperation (Current Opinion in Psychology, April 2022) Glowacki and co-author Sheina Lew-Levy explore mechanisms promoting cooperation in small-scale societies, including social norms that encourage prosocial behavior, reciprocal exchange relationships, reputation that facilitates high-cost cooperation, and relational wealth.
Deborah Carr
(CAS, Sociology & CISS Director) Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Advance Care Planning: Assessing the Role of Subjective Life Expectancy (Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, January 9, 2022) Carr and Yifan Lou show that persons who are unsure of their future survival are less likely to do advance care planning, although these perceptions do not explain away persistent race disparities in ACP. Doctor-patient conversations about the likely course of one’s illness may inform patients’ knowledge of their SLE, which may motivate timely ACP.
Neha Gondal (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Multiplexity as a Lens to Investigate the Cultural Meanings of Interpersonal Ties (Social Networks (forthcoming, January 2022) The measurement and analysis of multiplexity is a useful tool for testing the validity of this assumption and exploring the cultural meanings of ties using traditional survey data.
2021 Publications
Stephen Kalberg
(Professor Emeritus, CAS, Sociology) Max Weber’s Sociology of Civilizations: A Reconstruction (Routledge, July 2021) Kalberg examines civilizations through the broad lens articulated by the works of Max Weber. This volume reconstructs Weber’s sociology in a manner that provides clear guidelines to researchers seeking to investigate civilizations systematically.
Merav Shohet (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Silence and Sacrifice (University of California Press, April 2021) In this book, Shohet evaluates the role of sacrifice in keeping families together in turbulent times (war, political and economic upheaval, etc.). Drawing on decades of research in Vietnam, Shohet discusses the role of female domestic sacrifices and their silent suffering help to forge a sense on continuity ion the face of change and trauma.
Jonathan Mijs
(CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Belief Change in Times of Crisis: Providing Facts about COVID-19-Induced Inequalities Closes the Partisan Divide but Fuels Intra-partisan Polarization about Inequality (Social Science Research, December 2021) Mijs and co-authors ask whether the stress of COVID-19 has made people responsive to information about inequality, even if that entails crossing ideological divides. They conclude that disagreement over inequality may be rooted not in fundamentally incompatible worldviews but in different perceptions of how things are.
BU Sociology faculty and graduate students are the creative force behind Accounts, the quarterly newsletter of the Economic Sociology section of the American Sociological Association. In the Fall 2021 issue, read interviews with Professor Alya Guseva, articles by graduate students Elif Birced, Ya-Ching Huang, Meghann Lucy, and Gokhan Mulayim. Professor Ashley Mears is the section’s chair-elect and Professor Neha Gondal is Secretary-Treasurer.
Andrew Stokes
(SPH & CISS Affiliate) Mortality Following Workplace Injury: Quantitative Bias Analysis (Annals of Epidemiology, December 2021) Stokes and collaborators find that work place injuries predict mortality risk, although these effects are partially accounted for by risk factors including smoking and obesity. The results underscore the importance of adjusting for confounds to isolate the distinctive effects of injury.
Curtis Runnels (CAS, Archeology) The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere (Journal of Island and Coastal Archeology, Nov 2021) Runnels and co-author reviews Paulette F. C. Steeves’s book The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere, arguing that it should be required reading for all archeologists. Steve’s book looks at how archeological conceptualizations surrounding when humans moved to the Americas has led to indigenous erasure.
Abigail Sullivan (CAS, Earth & Environment & CISS Affiliate) Collective Action for Changing Forests: A Spatial, Social-ecological Approach to Assessing Participation in Invasive Plant Management (Global Environmental Change, November 2021) The work of Sullivan and co-author Abigail York highlights the importance of considering social and biophysical factors across space and time to inform the design of institutions that will be effective in addressing collection action problems tied to environmental change.
Jessica Simes
(CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) The Population Prevalence of Solitary Confinement (Science Advances, November 26, 2021) Simes and her co-authors find that 11% of all black men in Pennsylvania, born 1986 to 1989, were incarcerated in solitary confinement by age 32. Their work suggests that harsh conditions of U.S. incarceration have population-level effects on black men’s well-being.
Steven Sandage (STH, Psychology of Religion and Theology & CISS Affiliate) Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapies in Real-World Clinical Practice: Synthesizing the Literature to Identify Best Practices and Future Research Directions (Psychotherapy, November 29, 2021) Sandage and his co-authors provide a comprehensive review of the practice-based evidence for spiritually integrated psychotherapy (SIP) is necessary in order to catalyze research and training in this important diversity area.
Steven Sandage (STH, Psychology of Religion and Theology & CISS Affiliate) Religious Diversity and Well-Being in Positive Psychology: Implications for Clinical Practice (Counseling Psychology Quarterly, November 23, 2021) Sandage and his co-authors assert that greater attention ought to be paid to more particular understandings of well-being, especially those emerging from religious traditions, and highlight ways to merge religious and clinical approaches in psychotherapeutic contexts.
Max Greenberg (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Other Statistical Lives (International Journal of Health Research and Public Health, October 2021) Greenberg draws on ethnographic and interview data collected in interpersonal violence prevention programs. He theorizes three “other lives” of statistically produced risk factors: the past lives of risk factors as quantifiable lived experience, the professional lives of risk as a practical vocabulary shaping social interactions, and the missing lives of risk as a meaningful social category for those marked as at risk. Greenberg considers how understanding these other lives of statistical risk can help public health scholars better understand barriers to social equity.
Japonica Brown-Saracino (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Changing Social Context and Queer Recruitment Panics (Contexts, Summer 2021) Brown-Saracino and co-authors explore the parallels between how Americans identify their gender and sexuality, and how we define these same identities.
Ana Villarreal (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Domesticating Danger: Coping Codes and Symbolic Security amid Violent Organized Crime in Mexico (Sociological Theory, December 2021) The article draws on qualitative fieldwork conducted in the midst of a gruesome turf war in Monterrey, Mexico, to conceptualize coping in the face of danger.
Deborah Carr (CAS, Sociology & CISS Director) Physical Disability at Work: How Functional Limitation Affects Perceived Discrimination and Interpersonal Relationships in the Workplace (Journal of Health and Social Behavior, December 2021) Carr and co-author Eun Ha Namkung show the complex ways that physical disability affects workplace experiences including perceived job discrimination, unequal workplace opportunities, and supervisor and coworker support.
David Glick (CAS, Political Science), Katherine Levine Einstein (CAS, Political Science & CISS Affiliate), and Maxwell Palmer (CAS, Political Science & CISS Affiliate) Building Back Back Better: 2021 Menino Survey of Mayors (Initiative on Cities, November 2021) The authors find that among long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, America’s mayors are most concerned with residents’ mental health and learning loss.
Nancy Ammerman (Professor Emerita, CAS, Sociology and Religion) Studying Lived Religion: Contexts and Practices (New York University Press, December 2021) Ammerman examines religious practices wherever they happen—both within religious spaces and in everyday life.
Steve Sandage (STH, Psychology of Religion and Theology & CISS Affiliate) Minority Stress & Mental Health for Sexual Minority Adults from Religious Families: the Role of Religious Coping (International Journal of Systemic Therapy, October 13, 2021) Sandage and colleagues explore how lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer adults use religious coping strategies for dealing with life’s stressors such as interpersonal rejection in family and religious settings.
Michele DeBiasse (Sargent College & CISS Affiliate) Letter to Editor: Let’s Design, Conduct, and Report Research with Diversity and Inclusion in Mind (Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, November 10, 2021) DeBiasse and colleagues call for the use of gender-inclusive language within manuscripts and engagement with diverse individuals in nutrition research. Read the full text here.
Thomas Byrne (SSW & CISS Affiliate) Invited Commentary: Data Sources for Estimating Numbers of People Experiencing Homelessness in the United States—Strengths and Limitations (American Journal of Epidemiology, November 2021) Byrne and colleagues weigh in on the strengths, limitations, and potential applications of data sources used to enumerate homelessness in the U.S.
Japonica Brown-Saracino
(CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Unsettling Definitions of Qualitative Research (Qualitative Sociology, October 30, 2021) This essay encourages scholars to embrace collective uncertainty and debate about how to define qualitative research as one way toward critical conversations about the boundaries between different methods, as well as about the utility of the research categories on which we rely.
Christopher Robertson (LAW, Health Law, Policy, and Management & CISS affiliate) Are Vaccine Lotteries Worth the Money? (Economic Letters, December 2021) Robertson and co-authors find that 10 of the 12 statewide lotteries studied (i.e., all but Arkansas and California) generated a positive, statistically significant, and economically meaningful impact on vaccine uptake after thirty days. On average, the cost per marginal vaccination across these programs was approximately $55.
Andrew Stokes (SPH & CISS Affiliate) Loneliness, Social Isolation, and All-Cause Mortality in the United States (SSM – Mental Health, December 2021) Social isolation and loneliness are both established risk factors for mortality; this novel study shows how the two conditions interact with each other.
Max Greenberg (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Not Seeing Like a State: Mandated Reporting, State-Adjacent Actors and the Production of Illegible Subjects (Social Problems, November 2021) Drawing on ethnographic and interview data from violence prevention programs in Los Angeles high schools, the author examines the street-level enactment of third-party mandated reporting, which tasks state-adjacent actors with reporting when a student discloses harm.
Jessica Simes (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Punishing Places: The Geography of Mass Imprisonment (University of California Press, October 2021) Punishing Places applies a unique spatial analysis to mass incarceration in the United States. Dr. Simes demonstrates that our highest imprisonment rates are now in small cities, suburbs, and rural areas.
BU’s Global Policy Development Center Task Force on Climate, Development and the International Monetary Fund have released their inaugural strategy report in October 2021.
Joseph Harris (CAS, Sociology & CISS Affiliate) Universal Healthcare Does Not Look the Same Everywhere: Divergent Experiences with the Private Sector in Brazil and Thailand (Global Public Health, September 2021) In this article, the authors explore the changing landscape of the health sector in Brazil and Thailand before UHC reform and after. The article offers lessons for policymakers seeking to achieve and maintain robust UHC programs in other contexts.
Deborah Carr (CAS, Sociology & CISS Director) Physical Disability and Older Adults’ Perceived Food and Economic Insecurity During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, September 2021) Older adults with disabilities experienced heightened food insecurity during the pandemic due to both financial and logistical obstacles.