This collection contains the publications produced by faculty members in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Georgia Southern University.
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Submissions from 2018
Computer Aided Design: Does It Enhance or Hinder Flexibility and Creativity in Design Process?, Sibel Dazkir and A. Scott
Place Meaning, sense of belonging, and personalization among university students in Turkey, Sibel Seda Dazkir
A Case Study of Two Office Spaces in Augusta, GA, A. Harmon and Sibel Dazkir
Immigration and Security—Post 9/11 United States, Nalanda Roy
The Motivation of European Union Mediation in Civil Conflicts, Jamie Scalera and Krista E. Wiegand
The Case for Local and Sustainable Seafood: A Georgia Example, Jennifer Sweeney Tookes, Peggy Bartlett, and Tracy Yandle
Submissions from 2017
Does Breaking Gender Stereotypes Contribute to Victimization at School?, Laura E. Agnich, Lindsay L. Kahle, Anthony A. Peguero, Jennifer L. Murphy, Olivia Foroughi, and Jennifer N. Nester
Progress and Backlash in the Wake of Obergefell: Reaching Conservative Southern Teachers through the Power of Literature, Scott A. Beck, Dina C. Walker-DeVose, Laura E. Agnich, Caren Town, and Trina Smith
Infants’ Motor Simulation of Observed Actions Is Modulated by the Visibility of the Actor’s Body, Ty W. Boyer, Samuel M. Harding, and Bennett I. Bertenthal
Attention to Body-Parts Varies With Visual Preference and Verb–Effector Associations, Ty W. Boyer, Josita Maouene, and Nitya Sethuraman
Support Network Connectedness in the Lives of Community Dwelling Rural Elders and Their Families, Adrienne L. Cohen and Colleen R. Bennett
An Evaluation of a Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Program in the Rural South, Shanna N. Felix, Laura E. Agnich, and April M. Schueths
Psychological Prison Programs, Emily N. Lasko and Chad Posick
Reappraising the Impact of Offending on Victimization: A Propensity Score Matching Approach, Chad Posick
Putting HEART Into Policing: A 21st Century Model for Effective and Fair Policing, Chad Posick and Heather Hatfield
Paradigm Shift or Normal Science? The Future of (Biosocial) Criminology, Michael Rocque and Chad Posick
The Police-Community Interaction Survey: Measuring Police Performance in New Ways, Dennis P. Rosenbaum, Jon Maskaly, Daniel S. Lawrence, Justin H. Escamilla, Georgina Enciso, Thomas E. Christoff, and Chad Posick
Fantasy or Fiction: Marching of the Dragon in the South China Sea, Nalanda Roy
Review of Defeat is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War, Hurst, and Company by Myra Macdonald, Nalanda Roy
Review of The Bangladesh Liberation War: The Sheikh Mujib Regime, and Contemporary Controversies by Caf Dowlah, Nalanda Roy
Review of The Political Development of Modern Thailand by Federico Ferrara, Nalanda Roy
The Dragon’s Charm Diplomacy in the South China Sea, Nalanda Roy
Triumph, Tragedy, and the Unknown: The Future of Timor-Leste, Nalanda Roy and Chase Sherrod
Negotiating Membership in the WTO and EU: The Politics of Accession, Jamie Scalera
Geometric Encoding, Bradley R. Sturz
Do Eye Movements During Shape Discrimination Reveal an Underlying Geometric Structure?, Bradley R. Sturz, Ty W. Boyer, John F. Magnotti, and Kent D. Bodily
Does the Strength of the Victim-Offender Overlap Depend on the Relationship Between the Victim and Perpetrator?, Gregory M. Zimmerman, Chelsea Farrell, and Chad Posick
Submissions from 2016
The Effects of Adoption Openness and Type on the Mental Health, Delinquency, and Family Relationships of Adopted Youth, Laura E. Agnich, April M. Schueths, Tiffany D. James, and Jeff J. Klibert
Infants' Observation of Others' Actions: Brief Movement-Specific Visual Experience Primes Motor Representations, Ty W. Boyer and Bennett I. Bertenthal
Elementary School Students' Quantitative Reasoning: Processing Whole Numbers and Proportions, Ty W. Boyer and Natalie Branch
Risk-Taking, Ty W. Boyer and James P. Byrnes
Placing the Criminalization of School Discipline in Economic Context, John J. Brent
Social Supports as Enabling Factors in Nursing Home Admissions: Rural, Suburban, and Urban Differences, Adrienne L. Cohen and Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda
Predictors of Opposition to and Support for the Ordination of Women: Insights from the LDS Church, Ryan T. Cragun, Stephen M. Merino, Michael Nielsen, Brent D. Beal, Matthew Streamer, and Bradley Jones
Motivating Public Service Employees in the Era of the New Normal, Trenton J. Davis and Gerald T. Gabris
Isolated Processing of Geometric Shapes and Their Corresponding Shape Words: Evidence from a Delayed Match-To-Sample Task, Joshua E. Edwards, Ty W. Boyer, Z. Kade Bell, and Bradley R. Sturz
Psychological Victimization among College Students, Shanna N. Felix, Christina Policastro, Laura E. Agnich, and Laurie Gould
Exploring the Relationship Between Gender Violence and State Failure: A Cross-National Comparison, Laurie A. Gould and Laura E. Agnich
State Fragility Around the World: Fractured Justice and Fierce Reprisal, Laurie Gould and Matthew Page
Stroop-Like Interference in a Match-to-Sample Task: Further Evidence for Semantic Competition?, Marshall L. Green, Lawrence Locker, Ty W. Boyer, and Bradley R. Sturz
Spatial Attention to Social Cues is not a Monolithic Process, Samuel M. Harding, Ty W. Boyer, and Bennett I. Bertenthal
"War on Terror" in Our Backyard: Effects of Framing and Violent ISIS Propaganda on Anti-Muslim Prejudice, Arthur Hatton and Michael E. Nielsen
Chapter 30: Technology and violence. In Cuevas, Carlos and Rennison, Thomas J. Holt and Adam Bossler
Identifying Predictors of Unwanted Online Sexual Conversations among Youth Using a Low Self-Control and Routine Activity Framework, Thomas J. Holt, Adam Bossler, Rebecca Malinski, and David C. May
Power-Control Theory, Kayla Kane and Brenda Blackwell
Social Class and Crime, Bryan Lee Miller
Unpaid Debt to Society: Exploring How Ex-Felons View Restrictions on Voting Rights after the Completion of Their Sentence, Bryan Lee Miller and Laura E. Agnich
Exploring Butane Hash Oil Use: A Research Note, Bryan Lee Miller, John M. Stogner, and J. Mitchell Miller
School Crime and Security, Thomas Mowen, John J. Brent, and Aaron Kupchik
Who Seeks Counseling for Intimate Partner Violence? The Role of Emotional Distress, Chad Posick, Laura E. Agnich, Christina Policastro, and Heather Hatfield
Self-Control and Crime: Theory, Research, and Remaining Puzzles, Michael Rocque, Chad Posick, and Alex R. Piquero
All Bark and No Bite: Analyzing the Role of ASEAN in Mitigating Disputes in Asia, Nalanda Roy
Review of The Royal Semi-Authoritarian Democracy of Bhutan by Dhurba Rizal, Nalanda Roy
The Story of Democratic Transition and Social Movements in Indonesia, Nalanda Roy
Predictors of “Success” Among Drug-Seeking Patients, Amber N. Sanders, John M. Eassey, John M. Stogner, and Bryan Lee Miller
Crisis of Confidence: The 2008 Global Financial Crisis and Public Trust in the European Central Bank, Jamie Scalera and Melissa Crosby Dixon
Crisis of Confidence: The 2008 Global Financial Crisis and Public Trust in the European Central Bank, Jamie Scalera and Melissa D. Dixon
Optimism in Independence: The European Central Bank after the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, Jamie Scalera and Melissa D. Dixon
Synthetic and NovelDrugs: Emerging Issues, Legal Policy, and Public Health, John Stogner, Bryan Lee Miller, and David N. Khey
They Were Getting High on What? Evaluating Novel Psychoactive Drug Knowledge among Practitioners, John M. Stogner, David N. Khey, Laura E. Agnich, and Bryan Lee Miller
Detecting the Perception of Illusory Spatial Boundaries: Evidence From Distance Judgment, Bradley R. Sturz and Kent D. Bodily
Risk Factors for and Behavioral Consequences of Direct versus Indirect Exposure to Violence, Gregory M. Zimmerman and Chad Posick
The Power of (Mis)Perception: Rethinking Suicide Contagion in Youth Friendship Networks, Gregory M. Zimmerman, Carter Rees, Chad Posick, and Lori A. Zimmerman
Submissions from 2015
A Comparative Analysis of Attempted and Completed School-Based Mass Murder Attacks, Laura E. Agnich
Alcohol Use and Crime, Laura E. Agnich
Gender-Based Violence in Schools, Laura E. Agnich, Jun Sung Hong, and Anthony A. Peguero
The Development of Social Attention in Human Infants, Bennett I. Bertenthal and Ty W. Boyer
The Importance of Parenting in the Development of Self-Control in Boys and Girls: Results from a Multinational Study of Youth, Ekaterina Botchkovar, Ineke Haen Marshall, Michael Rocque, and Chad Posick
Prompting Children to Reason Proportionally: Processing Discrete Units as Continuous Amounts, Ty W. Boyer and Susan C. Levine
Criminology’s Theoretical Incarceration: Qualitative Methods as Liberator, John J. Brent and Peter Kraska
Signal Clarity: An Account of the Variability in Infant Quantity Discrimination Tasks, Lisa Cantrell, Ty W. Boyer, Sara Cordes, and Linda B. Smith
Student Journals: A Means of Assessing Transformative Learning in Aging Related Courses, Adrienne L. Cohen, Pamela Pitman Brown, and Justin P. Morales
The Nonreligious – Nonspiritual Scale (NRNSS): Measuring Everything from Atheists to Zionists, Ryan T. Cragun, Joseph H. Hammer, and Michael Nielsen
Evidence Consistent With the Multiple-Bearings Hypothesis From Human Virtual Landmark-Based Navigation, Martha R. Forloines, Kent D. Bodily, and Bradley R. Sturz
Power-Control Theory, Laurie A. Gould and Brenda Blackwell
Can Differences in Attachment to Parents and Level of Self-Control Explain the Gender Gap in Juvenile Delinquency? Testing a Gendered Attachment-Self-Control Theory, Helmut Hirtenlehner, Brenda Blackwell, and Johannes Kepler
Cybercrime in Progress: Theory and Prevention of Technology-Enabled Offenses, Thomas J. Holt and Adam Bossler
Cybercrime and Digital Forensics: An Introduction, Thomas J. Holt, Adam Bossler, and Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar
Policing Cybercrime and Cyberterror, Thomas J. Holt, George W. Burruss, and Adam Bossler
Developing a Service-Learning Student Facilitator Program: Lessons Learned, Jerri J. Kropp Dr., Nancy M. Arrington, and Veena Shankar
The Aftermath of Newtown: More of the Same, Aaron C. Kupchik, John J. Brent, and Thomas J. Mowen
Religiousness and Social Support: A Study in Secular Norway, Marianne Nilsen Kvande, R. Johansen, A. Lehre, Michael E. Nielsen, and Geir Arild Espnes
Church Attendance and Religious Experience: Differential Associations to Well-Being for Norwegian Women and Men?, Marianne Nilsen Kvande, Christian Andreas Klöckner, and Michael Nielsen
User Experience and Wayfinding in an Academic Library, Seunghae Lee and Sibel Dazkir
Examining the Mediating Effects of Social Learning on the Low Self-Control – Cyberbullying Relationship in a Youth Sample, Carrie K.W. Li, Thomas J. Holt, Adam Bossler, and David C. May
Initial exploration of course valuing, approaches to study and academic performance in Construction Management classes., Marcel Maghiar, Diana Sturges, and Trent Maurer
The impact of the Immediate Feedback Assessment Technique on course evaluations, Trent Maurer and Jerri Kropp
Disfluent Fonts Don't Help People Solve Math Problems, Andrew Meyer, Shane Frederick, Terence C. Burnham, Juan D. Guevara Pinto, Ty W. Boyer, Linden J. Ball, Gordon Pennycook, Rakefet Ackerman, Valerie A. Thompson, and Jonathon P. Schuldt
Cheating Around the World: A Cross-National Analysis of Principal Reported Cheating, Bryan Lee Miller, Laura E. Agnich, Chad Posick, and Laurie A. Gould
Marketing a Panic: Media Coverage of Novel Psychoactive Drugs (NPDs) and Its Relationship with Legal Changes, Bryan Lee Miller, John M. Stogner, Laura E. Agnich, Amber Sanders, Joseph D. Bacot, and Shanna N. Felix
Creating a Game for Psychology, Michael Nielsen
Perceptions, In-Groups, and Out-Groups: Challenges and Opportunities for Division 36, Michael Nielsen
Strategies and Resources for Teaching Psychology of Religion, Michael Nielsen and Christopher F. Silver
A Service-Learning Partnership for Wilderness Education in Coastal Georgia, John Peden, Madalyn Russell, and Monica Harris
On the General Relationship between Victimization and Offending: Examining Cultural Contingencies, Chad Posick and Laurie A. Gould
Empathy, Crime, and Justice, Chad Posick, Michael Rocque, and Matt Delisi
An Integrated Framework for Intersectorality: Nonprofitness and Its Influence on Society and Public Administration Programs, Robbie Robichau, Kandyce M. Fernandez, and Patsy Kraeger
Marriage and County-level Crime Rates: A Research Note, Michael Rocque, Chad Posick, Steven E. Barkan, and Ray Paternoster
The Role of the Brain in Urban Violent Offending: Integrating Biology with Structural Theories of 'The Streets', Michael Rocque, Chad Posick, and Shanna Felix