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Mediators Between Adversity And Well-Being Of College Students, Maria Kalpidou, Adam M. Volungis, Cassandra Bates
Mediators Between Adversity And Well-Being Of College Students, Maria Kalpidou, Adam M. Volungis, Cassandra Bates
Psychology Department Faculty Works
Although the concurrent link between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and both physical and mental health is established, little is known about the mechanisms that explain it. We investigated the relationship between ACEs and well-being and the mediating roles of coping, executive function (EF), and cognitive failure in a non-clinical sample of college students. Participants (N = 194) completed behavioral measures and self-reports. More than half of the sample had at least one ACE. Correlational and mediational analyses examined the relationships between ACEs, college adaptation, psychopathology, substance use, coping, and cognitive failure. ACEs did not correlate with indices of EF …
Psychological Factors And Consumer Behavior During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Adolfo Di Crosta, Irene Ceccato, Daniela Marchetti, Pasquale La Malva, Roberta Maiella, Loreta Cannito, Mario Cipi, Nicola Mammarella, Riccardo Palumbo, Maria Cristina Verrocchio, Rocco Palumbo, Alberto Di Domenico
Psychological Factors And Consumer Behavior During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Adolfo Di Crosta, Irene Ceccato, Daniela Marchetti, Pasquale La Malva, Roberta Maiella, Loreta Cannito, Mario Cipi, Nicola Mammarella, Riccardo Palumbo, Maria Cristina Verrocchio, Rocco Palumbo, Alberto Di Domenico
Management, Marketing, and Organizational Communication Department Student Works
The COVID-19 pandemic is far more than a health crisis: it has unpredictably changed our whole way of life. As suggested by the analysis of economic data on sales, this dramatic scenario has also heavily impacted individuals’ spending levels. To better understand these changes, the present study focused on consumer behavior and its psychological antecedents. Previous studies found that crises differently affect people’s willingness to buy necessities products (i.e., utilitarian shopping) and non-necessities products (i.e., hedonic shopping). Therefore, in examining whether changes in spending levels were associated with changes in consumer behavior, we adopted a fine-grained approach disentangling between necessities …
The Long Reach Of Peer Influence On Emerging Adults' Sexual Activity, Angela M. Kaufman-Parks, Monica A. Longmore, Wendy D. Manning, Peggy C. Giordano
The Long Reach Of Peer Influence On Emerging Adults' Sexual Activity, Angela M. Kaufman-Parks, Monica A. Longmore, Wendy D. Manning, Peggy C. Giordano
Sociology and Criminology Department Faculty Works
Researchers, parents, and adolescents recognize that peers are central to adolescent development (e.g., Waldrip, Malcolm, & Jensen-Campbell, 2008) and often influence sexual activity (e.g., Dishion, Ha, & Veronneau, 2012). Yet, despite this abundance of evidence, several questions remain. First, most research has explored the influence of peers during adolescence in predicting sexual behaviors. Much less has examined whether and to what extent peers affect emerging adults' sexual behaviors both long term and contemporaneously (see Chapter 9, this volume). Second, of that research which does include an examination of peer influence on sexual activity among emerging adults, the issue of whether …
Urban Neoliberal Debt Peonage: Prisoner Reentry, Work, And The New Jim Crow, Francis B. Prior
Urban Neoliberal Debt Peonage: Prisoner Reentry, Work, And The New Jim Crow, Francis B. Prior
Sociology and Criminology Department Faculty Works
In this study, I analyze the experiences of people leaving prison and jail, using the concept of urban neoliberal debt peonage. I define urban neoliberal debt peonage as the push of race-class subjugated (RCS) formerly incarcerated people into the low-wage labor market. I argue that urban neoliberal debt peonage is a social process of economic extraction from and racial control of RCS groups structured by state bureaucracies and corporate employers. I provide evidence for this argument using participant observation and interview methods in a large northeastern U.S. city at an employment-oriented prisoner reentry organization that I call “Afterward.” People came …
Struggling To Make Good: The Dilemmas Of Fatherhood For Formerly Incarcerated African American Men, Francis B. Prior, Steven Farough
Struggling To Make Good: The Dilemmas Of Fatherhood For Formerly Incarcerated African American Men, Francis B. Prior, Steven Farough
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While some have argued that absent low socioeconomic status black fathers are to blame for urban crime and poverty, others have highlighted how mass incarceration disproportionately separates low socioeconomic status black fathers from their children. Less frequently heard and acknowledged in the public conversations about low socioeconomic status black fatherhood and mass incarceration are the voices of those same fathers who have been impacted by the system. How do formerly incarcerated black fathers view their role as fathers? Based on 30 interviews of formerly incarcerated black men recruited from a prisoner reentry organization in a large northeastern city in the …
Labor And Social Reproduction, Smriti Rao
Labor And Social Reproduction, Smriti Rao
Economics, Finance and International Business Department Faculty Works
This essay discusses the importance of embedding the concept of social reproduction within critical agrarian studies. I begin by reviewing the debate over the definition of social reproduction and then discuss what we know about the possible specificities of social reproduction in agrarian societies of the global South. I make the argument that societal transformations in the contemporary agrarian South can be usefully understood as the unfolding of the dynamics of social reproduction. If that is the case, a successful politics would have to take those dynamics into account.
Work And Social Reproduction In Rural India: Lessons From Time-Use Data, Smriti Rao, Smita Ramnarain, Sirisha Naidu, Anupama Uppal, Avanti Mukherjee
Work And Social Reproduction In Rural India: Lessons From Time-Use Data, Smriti Rao, Smita Ramnarain, Sirisha Naidu, Anupama Uppal, Avanti Mukherjee
Economics, Finance and International Business Department Faculty Works
Even as the literature on work in the Global South acknowledges the importance of forms of non-waged work, it has not sufficiently incorporated consideration of the labor of social reproduction. We propose understanding work through four conceptual dyads: waged productive labor, non-waged productive labor, waged reproductive labor, and non-waged reproductive labor. Through an in-depth description of three specific cases from a Time Use Survey we conducted in rural Punjab, India, we argue not only that all four dyads are required to encompass the world of work, but that this more expansive conceptualization can help us produce richer analyses of the …
How (Not) To Count Indian Women's Work: Gendered Analyses And The Periodic Labour Force Survey, Smriti Rao
How (Not) To Count Indian Women's Work: Gendered Analyses And The Periodic Labour Force Survey, Smriti Rao
Economics, Finance and International Business Department Faculty Works
Unit-level Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data have been helpful in depicting the intensity of the employment crisis in India even before the Covid-19 related economic collapse. However, from the perspective of effective gendered analyses of the economy, the PLFS has failed to improve upon the old Employment–Unemployment Survey (EUS), and in one way has taken a step back, making it more difficult to understand the range and extent of women’s economic activities. It is past time that the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) adopted the now well-established recommendations of feminist economists, and reformed its data definition and data collection …
Practical Considerations For Researchers At Teaching-Focused Colleges, Cody Morris, Karen M. Lionello-Denolf
Practical Considerations For Researchers At Teaching-Focused Colleges, Cody Morris, Karen M. Lionello-Denolf
Psychology Department Faculty Works
Growth in the discipline of behavior analysis depends on research production in basic, translational, and applied areas from a variety of perspectives and research groups. Although doctoral programs in behavior analysis prepare students to become productive researchers, leading behavior-analytic journals tend to publish articles from a more circumscribed set of researchers than might be expected given the recent growth in the field. One reason may be that as new researchers graduate from their training programs, they take positions in very different environments from those of their training, such as teaching-focused colleges or clinical settings. Establishing and maintaining research production in …
Expansion Of Sidman's Theory: The Inclusion Of Prompt Stimuli In Equivalence Classes, Simone K. Palmer, R. W. Maguire, Karen M. Lionello-Denolf, Paula Braga-Kenyon
Expansion Of Sidman's Theory: The Inclusion Of Prompt Stimuli In Equivalence Classes, Simone K. Palmer, R. W. Maguire, Karen M. Lionello-Denolf, Paula Braga-Kenyon
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Stimulus equivalence is defined as the ability to relate stimuli in novel ways after training in which not all of the stimuli had been directly linked to one another. Sidman (2000) suggested all elements of conditional discrimination training contingencies that result in equivalence potentially become class members. Research has demonstrated the inclusion of samples, comparisons, responses, and reinforcers in equivalence classes. Given the evidence that all elements of a conditional discrimination become part of the class, the purpose of this study was to determine if class-specific prompts would also enter into their relevant equivalence classes. Experiment 1 investigated the inclusion …
Social Desirability And The Celebrity Attitude Scale, Robert T. Hitlan, Lynn E. Mccutcheon, Adam M. Volungis, Anupama Joshi, C. Brendan Clark, Marta Pena
Social Desirability And The Celebrity Attitude Scale, Robert T. Hitlan, Lynn E. Mccutcheon, Adam M. Volungis, Anupama Joshi, C. Brendan Clark, Marta Pena
Psychology Department Faculty Works
The possibility of social desirability bias has often been neglected in the construction and evaluation of attitudinal scales and personality inventories in psychology and related disciplines. The present study aimed to explore the potential influence of such biases on respondents’ self-reported celebrity worship. Specifically, we had a student sample (n = 187) complete a) measures of two different forms of social desirability bias (externally-oriented “Impression management” vs. internally-oriented “self-deceptive positivity”) and b) the Celebrity Attitude Scale (CAS). Results showed that neither measure correlated significantly with the CAS. Furthermore, neither gender nor delivery mode (online vs. paper-and-pencil) mediated the non-significant …
An Update On The Search For Symmetry In Nonhumans, Karen M. Lionello-Denolf
An Update On The Search For Symmetry In Nonhumans, Karen M. Lionello-Denolf
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Sidman et al.'s (1982) failure to find evidence for symmetry (bidirectional associations between stimuli) in monkeys and baboons set the stage for decades of work on emergent relations in nonhumans. They attributed the failure to the use of procedures that did not (1) promote stimulus control based on the relation between the sample and correct comparison and (2) reduce control by irrelevant stimulus features. Previous reviews of symmetry in nonhumans indicated that multiple exemplar training and successive matching might encourage appropriate stimulus control. This review examined 16 studies that investigated symmetry in 94 subjects, including pigeons, rats, capuchin monkeys, and …
Reciprocity With Unequal Payoffs: Cooperative And Uncooperative Interactions Affect Disadvantageous Inequity Aversion, Carla Jordão Suarez, Marcelo Frota Benvenuti, Kalliu Carvalho Couto, José Oliveira Siqueira, Josele Abreu-Rodrigues, Karen M. Lionello-Denolf, Ingunn Sandaker
Reciprocity With Unequal Payoffs: Cooperative And Uncooperative Interactions Affect Disadvantageous Inequity Aversion, Carla Jordão Suarez, Marcelo Frota Benvenuti, Kalliu Carvalho Couto, José Oliveira Siqueira, Josele Abreu-Rodrigues, Karen M. Lionello-Denolf, Ingunn Sandaker
Psychology Department Faculty Works
Cooperation among unrelated individuals can evolve through reciprocity. Reciprocal cooperation is the process in which lasting social interactions provide the opportunity to learn about others' behavior, and to further predict the outcome of future encounters. Lasting social interactions may also decrease aversion to unequal distribution of gains – when individuals accept inequity payoffs knowing about the possibility of future encounters. Thus, reciprocal cooperation and aversion to inequity can be complementary phenomena. The present study investigated the effects of cooperative and uncooperative interactions on participants' aversion to disadvantageous inequity. Participants played an experimental task in the presence of a confederate who …
The Establishment Of Auditory-Visual Equivalence Classes With A Go/No-Go Successive Matching-To-Sample Procedure, Karina N. Zhelezoglo, Robbie J. Hanson, Caio F. Miguel, Karen M. Lionello-Denolf
The Establishment Of Auditory-Visual Equivalence Classes With A Go/No-Go Successive Matching-To-Sample Procedure, Karina N. Zhelezoglo, Robbie J. Hanson, Caio F. Miguel, Karen M. Lionello-Denolf
Psychology Department Faculty Works
The current study evaluated the effectiveness of a go/no-go successive matching-to-sample procedure (S-MTS) to establish auditory–visual equivalence classes with college students. A sample and a comparison were presented, one at a time, in the same location. During training, after an auditory stimulus was presented, a green box appeared in the center of the screen for participants to touch to produce the comparison. Touching the visual comparison that was related to the auditory sample (e.g., A1B1) produced points, while touching or refraining from touching an unrelated comparison (e.g., A1B2) produced no consequences. Following AB/AC training, participants were tested on untrained relations …
Individual Differences, Economic Stability, And Fear Of Contagion As Risk Factors For Ptsd Symptoms In The Covid-19 Emergency, Adolfo Di Crosta, Rocco Palumbo, Daniela Marchetti, Irene Ceccato, Pasquale La Malva, Roberta Maiella, Mario Cipi, Paolo Roma, Nicola Mammarella, Maria Cristina Verrocchio, Alberto Di Domenico
Individual Differences, Economic Stability, And Fear Of Contagion As Risk Factors For Ptsd Symptoms In The Covid-19 Emergency, Adolfo Di Crosta, Rocco Palumbo, Daniela Marchetti, Irene Ceccato, Pasquale La Malva, Roberta Maiella, Mario Cipi, Paolo Roma, Nicola Mammarella, Maria Cristina Verrocchio, Alberto Di Domenico
Management, Marketing, and Organizational Communication Department Student Works
On January 30th 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 pandemic a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Italy has been one of the most affected countries in the world. To contain further spread of the virus, the Italian government has imposed an unprecedented long-period lockdown for the entire country. This dramatic scenario may have caused a strong psychological distress, with potential negative long-term mental health consequences. The aim of the present study is to report the prevalence of high psychological distress due to the COVID-19 pandemic on the general population, especially considering that this aspect is …
Hobbes, Aristotle, And The Politics Of Metaphysics, Geoffrey M. Vaughan
Hobbes, Aristotle, And The Politics Of Metaphysics, Geoffrey M. Vaughan
Political Science Department Faculty Works
This is a book review of Hobbes's Kingdom of Light: A Study of the Foundations of Modern Political Philosophy by Devin Stauffer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018).
America, The Republican Nation: A Response To Critics Of The Nation-State, Bernard Dobski
America, The Republican Nation: A Response To Critics Of The Nation-State, Bernard Dobski
Political Science Department Faculty Works
Dedication to America’s national form is not about the thoughtless valorizing of one’s own that is so often at the heart of uglier forms of nationalism. It is about an understanding of the critical role played by size, scope, and dimensionality in the creation of stable and secure communities, the emergence of a citizenry attached to the public good, the rule of reasoned law, the preservation of diversity and minorities, and political transparency and accountability, the very things that critics of the nation tacitly seek to preserve. Critics of the national form thus fail to appreciate the conditions necessary to …
America Is A Republic, Not A Democracy, Bernard Dobski
America Is A Republic, Not A Democracy, Bernard Dobski
Political Science Department Faculty Works
America is a republic and not a pure democracy. The contemporary efforts to weaken our republican customs and institutions in the name of greater equality thus run against the efforts by America’s Founders to defend our country from the potential excesses of democratic majorities. American republicanism and the ordered liberty it makes possible are grounded in the Federalists’ recognition that non-majoritarian parts of the community make legitimate contributions to the community’s welfare, and that preserving these contributions is the hallmark of political justice. But, the careful balance produced by our mixed republic is threatened by an egalitarianism that undermines the …
"The Cool And Deliberate Sense Of The Community": The Federalist On Congress, Greg Weiner
"The Cool And Deliberate Sense Of The Community": The Federalist On Congress, Greg Weiner
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The American civic canon holds that the Constitution creates three branches of government that are both separate and “equal.” Publius’s essays on Congress cast serious doubt on this supposition, at least with respect to the extent of each branch’s influence on the workings of the national regime. It is no mistake that both the Constitution and The Federalist treat Congress as the first branch of government. It is “justly regarded” as such, Louis Fisher says, primarily because of the appropriations power elucidated in Federalist 58. The Federalist understands Congress, George W. Carey writes, “to be the heart of the proposed …
Parental Self-Efficacy And Parenting Through Adversity, Christian Scannell
Parental Self-Efficacy And Parenting Through Adversity, Christian Scannell
Human Services and Rehabilitation Studies Department Faculty Works
This review examines the relationship between life adversities, parental well-being, parental self-efficacy, and social support as potential factors mediating parent-child relationships and children’s outcomes. Generally, research on adversity has focused on children’s experiences and the long-term impact of adversity on development and health trajectories. More recently, a focus on resilience and growth after adversity has received increasing attention. Existing literature has identified how parents can best support their children through adverse events and suggested parenting programs that emphasize skill-building to parent children who have experienced adversity. Yet often overlooked is the critical impact of adverse events on the parent and …
Security Culture: Surveillance And Responsibilization In A Prisoner Reentry Organization, Francis B. Prior
Security Culture: Surveillance And Responsibilization In A Prisoner Reentry Organization, Francis B. Prior
Sociology and Criminology Department Faculty Works
As they have become increasingly common, prisoner reentry organizations have become a topic of interest to ethnographers, particularly those focused on race crime and justice. Reentry organizations are typically understood in terms of the social services they provide with the purpose of easing their clients’ social reintegration after incarceration. However, ethnographers of nonprofit prisoner reentry organizations have interpreted them as linked to a broader project of disciplinary poverty governance. Based on participant observation and interview evidence of a government-run prisoner reentry organization in a large northeastern city, I argue that an overarching security culture structured not only the organization’s security …
Barely Bonded: Affective Politics And The Gendered Struggle For Water In Villa El Salvador, Lima, Peru, Kyle Woolley, Kelly Moore
Barely Bonded: Affective Politics And The Gendered Struggle For Water In Villa El Salvador, Lima, Peru, Kyle Woolley, Kelly Moore
Sociology and Criminology Department Faculty Works
Affect is increasingly understood as a critical element of political life and collective action in Latin America and elsewhere. It is critical to generating participation in collective action projects, sustaining or collapsing action, and how participants interpret the meanings and values of a project and the social relationships within it. More broadly, affective political experiences are markers of the sense of belonging or disaffection from others and broader political systems that are central to civic life. The meanings of participation after projects fade are often attributed mainly to the collective events themselves, and draw on one-off interviews after the events …
Beyond The Coronavirus: Understanding Crises Of Social Reproduction, Smriti Rao
Beyond The Coronavirus: Understanding Crises Of Social Reproduction, Smriti Rao
Economics, Finance and International Business Department Faculty Works
From a feminist political economy perspective, the unfolding of the coronavirus is a further reminder of the fundamental contradiction between a capitalist system that prioritizes profits, and a feminist ethic that prioritizes life-making or social reproduction. This paper argues for a more systematic understanding of crises of social reproduction under capitalism, stressing the difference between such crises for labour, and those for capital. The coronavirus crisis represents an extraordinary example of a crisis of social reproduction for capital, but this paper examines crises of social reproduction for capital and labour that arise from the more ordinary workings of capitalism. The …
Pissing In Political Cisterns, Or Laughing Into The Pot Of "The Flight 93 Election", Christopher J. Gilbert
Pissing In Political Cisterns, Or Laughing Into The Pot Of "The Flight 93 Election", Christopher J. Gilbert
English Department Faculty Works
Laughter can provoke both cultural catharsis and sociopolitical critique. However, in an era of Trumpism, laughter has become troubled by vulgar rhetoric of shrugging off comic possibilities insofar as the act of “laughing-at” has overtaken US media culture. This essay argues that political laughter in the shadow of President Donald J. Trump is at risk of being enervated by an overwhelming sense of humorless ridicule. Nowhere is this more apparent than the infamous manifesto, “The Flight 93 Election,” which makes Trumpism into the laughable outgrowth of a crude comicality so prevalent in democratic—and anti-democratic—affairs.
A Preliminary Two-Phase Test Of How Inequity Aversion Is Modulated By Previous Dyadic Interactions, Marcelo Benvenuti, José De Oliveira Siqueira, Carla Jordão Suarez, Cesar Augusto Villela Silva Do Nascimento, Karen M. Lionello-Denolf, Josele Abreu-Rodrigues
A Preliminary Two-Phase Test Of How Inequity Aversion Is Modulated By Previous Dyadic Interactions, Marcelo Benvenuti, José De Oliveira Siqueira, Carla Jordão Suarez, Cesar Augusto Villela Silva Do Nascimento, Karen M. Lionello-Denolf, Josele Abreu-Rodrigues
Psychology Department Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
The Signs Of Suicide (Sos) Prevention Program Pilot Study: High School Implementation Recommendations, Adam M. Volungis
The Signs Of Suicide (Sos) Prevention Program Pilot Study: High School Implementation Recommendations, Adam M. Volungis
Psychology Department Faculty Works
Suicide is the second leading cause of death for high school aged youth. There are many suicide prevention programs available, but few are evidence-based. The Signs of Suicide (SOS) Prevention Program is one of the few youth suicide prevention programs that have shown improvement in students’ knowledge and adaptive attitudes about suicide risk and depression, including a reduction in self-reported suicide attempts. With this being the high school’s first formal attempt at implementing a psychoeducation prevention program, they wanted to use an evidence-based program targeting a primary mental health concern – depression and suicide. One goal of the initial implementation …
How Prior Testing Impacts Misinformation Processing: A Dual-Task Approach, Leamarie Gordon, Vivek K. Bilolikar, Taylor Hodhod, Ayanna K. Thomas
How Prior Testing Impacts Misinformation Processing: A Dual-Task Approach, Leamarie Gordon, Vivek K. Bilolikar, Taylor Hodhod, Ayanna K. Thomas
Psychology Department Faculty Works
Research suggests that testing prior to the presentation of misinformation influences how that misinformation is processed. The present study examined the relationship between testing, the demands of misinformation narrative processing, and memory for original and post-event information. Using response latencies to a secondary task, we tested whether prior testing influenced the available resources for secondary task processing. Additionally, we investigated whether changes in narrative processing were specific to critical details tested earlier. Participants engaged in an eyewitness memory paradigm in which half were tested prior to receiving the post-event narrative. Participants responded to the secondary task at specified time points …
Review Of Thomas Hobbes And The Natural Law By Kody Cooper, Geoffrey M. Vaughan
Review Of Thomas Hobbes And The Natural Law By Kody Cooper, Geoffrey M. Vaughan
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No abstract provided.
A Madisonian Reform, Greg Weiner
A Madisonian Reform, Greg Weiner
Political Science Department Faculty Works
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Reframing Disability Through An Ecocritical Perspective In Sara Mesa'a Cara De Pan, Maryanne L. Leone
Reframing Disability Through An Ecocritical Perspective In Sara Mesa'a Cara De Pan, Maryanne L. Leone
Modern and Classical Languages and Cultures Department Faculty Works
This article establishes a dialogue between disability studies and ecocriticism to analyze Sara Mesa’s novel Cara de pan (2018), which narrates the relationship between a thirteen-year-old girl bullied at school and a fifty-four-year-old man with an atypical appearance who fixates on limited topics. The analysis examines the hegemony of normativity and dominant social narratives about disability, gender, and sexuality. Grounded in the idea that people with disabilities actively intervene in their environment, the essay argues that the characters’ environmental empathy supports the need for a diversity of experiences and perspectives, positively resituating disability and autism.