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Submissions from 2015
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
Book Review "From the Gulag to Guantanomo: Political, Social and Economic Evolutions of Mess Encarceration" by Wesley Kendal, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
Book Review of "Governing Military Technologies in the 21st Century" by Richard Michael O'Meara, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
Book Review of "Iran’s Strategic Penetration of Latin America", Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
Book Review of "The Islamist Phoenix: The Islamic State and the Redrawing of the Middle East" by Loretta Napoleoni, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
Book Review "The Politics of Civil-Military Cooperation: Canada in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan" Christopher Ankersen, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
From Ideology to Geopolitics: Russia’s Interests in Latin America, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
Iran, Latin American, and U.S. National Security, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
Strategic Insights: Brazil's Election 2014: Continuity or Change for the "Sleeping Giant"?, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
Strategic Insights: Guyana-Venezuela: The Essequibo Region Dispute, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
Economics of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Nikki DiGregorio
Same-Sex Marriage Policies and Lesbian Family Life, Nikki DiGregorio
Honors Inquiry in Ireland: Developing a Research-Based Study Abroad Experience for Honors Students, Steven Engel and Howard Keeley
Violence and warfare in the European Mesolithic and Paleolithic, Virginia Estabrook
Deconstructing the LGBT-Victimization Association: The Case of Sexual Assault and Alcohol-Related Problems, Shanna N. Felix, Justin Hoyle, Chad Posick, Bryan Lee Miller, and John Stogner
Pharmaceutical Autonomy: Technology, Alliances, and Norms, Matthew B. Flynn
A Survey of Texas HIV, Sexually Transmitted Disease, Tuberculosis, and Viral Hepatitis Providers’ Billing and Reimbursement Capabilities, Matthew B. Flynn, Robin Atwood, Jennifer B. Greenberg, Tara Ray, and Karol Kaye Harris
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
Organized Interests and Administrative Rulemaking: The State of Wisconsin’s Lobbyists and Coalitions, Nathan Grasse, Brett Curry, and Brianne Heidbreder
Intentionally Changing Dramatic Play, Alice Hall
Twenty-five Years of Out-of-school Time Jargon and Acronyms, Alice Hall
Virgina’s Fairfax County SACC Reviewed: Celebrating 40 Years of High-quality Afterschool Programming, Alice Hall
What Afterschool is Reading? [Review of the book "Who was Steve Jobs?" by Pam Pollack and Meg Belviso], Alice Hall
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
The Roots of Narcissus: Old and New Models of the Evolution of Narcissism, Nicholas S. Holtzman and M. Brent Donnellan
Exploring Political Ideologies of Senators With Semantic Analysis Tools: Further Validation of CASS, Nicholas S. Holtzman, Simon Kwong, and Kirsten L. Baird
A Review of Significant Tactical Police Cases: Learning from Past Events to Improve upon Future Responses, Kevin Jennings
Developing a Service-Learning Student Facilitator Program: Lessons Learned, Jerri J. Kropp, 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 Seda 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
Review of "Empowering Revolution: America, Poland, and the End of the Cold War", Jacek Lubecki
The impact of the Immediate Feedback Assessment Technique on course evaluations, Trent W. Maurer and Jerri Kropp
Using Reading Guides and On-line Quizzes to Improve Reading Compliance and Quiz Scores, Trent W. Maurer and Judith Longfield
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
Cause-related Marketing Campaigns: Do Consumer Perceptions and Brand Motivations Matter?, Beth Myers
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
Public Values of the Antarctic Wilderness: A Comparison of University Students in Spain and the United States, John Peden, Tina Tin, Javier Benayas, Luis R. Pertierra, Pablo Tejedo, Jessica O’Reilly, Kees Bastmeijer, and Patrick Maher Dr.
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 B. 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
Age and Crime, Michael Rocque, Chad Posick, and Justin Hoyle
A Comparative, Cross-Cultural Criminal Career Analysis, Michael Rocque, Chad Posick, Ineke Haen Marshall, and Alex R. Piquero
Growing Up Is Hard to Do: an Empirical Evaluation of Maturation and Desistance, Michael Rocque, Chad Posick, and Helene R. White
Measuring Procedural Justice and Legitimacy at the Local Level: The Police–Community Interaction Survey, Dennis P. Rosenbaum, Daniel S. Lawrence, Susan M. Hartnett, Jack McDevitt, and Chad Posick
Dragon-Elephant Relationship in the South China Sea Imbroglio, Nalanda Roy
Review of Sociology of Human Rights by Mark Frezzo, Nalanda Roy
Scramble for Africa: Beijing’s Move in Africa, Nalanda Roy
Barriers to Interracial Marriage? Examining Policy Issues Concerning U.S. Citizens Married to Undocumented Latino/a Immigrants, April M. Schueths
Life and Love outside the Citizenship Binary: Mixed-Status Couples in the U.S., April M. Schueths
Introduction: Living Together, Living Apart: Mixed-Status Families and US Immigration Policy, April M. Schueths and Jodie Lawston
Ballots for Equality: An Approach to the Radical Tradition in U.S. Electoral Politics, Daniel Skidmore-Hess
Review Essay: Advances in Hutterian Scholarship, William L. Smith
Comparative Psychology, Janice N. Steirn, Kent D. Bodily, and Bradley R. Sturz
Assessing the Relationship between Divergent Drinking and Perceptions of Friendship Quality between Students, John Stogner, John H. Boman, and Bryan Lee Miller
Assessing the Dangers of ‘Dabbing’ – Mere Marijuana or Harmful New Trend?, John M. Stogner and Bryan Lee Miller
The Dabbing Dilemma: A Call for Research on Butane Hash Oil and Other Alternate Forms of Cannabis Use, John M. Stogner and Bryan Lee Miller
Youth Drug Trends and Societal Reactions, John M. Stogner and Bryan Lee Miller
Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of 6.43-Acres of the Savannah State University Italian Club Tract, Chatham County, Georgia, Kara Bridgman Sweeney, Charlie Phillips, and Alexander Y. Sweeney
Integrated Cultural Resources Management Plan Update, United States Army Garrison, Okinawa, Japan, 2015-2019, Kara Bridgman Sweeney and Alexander Y. Sweeney
Chapter Nine: Establishing Community-based Organizations, M. West, Patsy B. Kraeger, and T. Dahlstrom
Facilitating Group Experiences, Brent Wolfe
Closely-Spaced Administrative Centers and the Organization of Mississippian Chiefdoms, M. Jared Wood
The Transition from High School to College: Parents’ and Students’ Perceptions of Parents’ Helpfulness, Pidi Zhang and William L. Smith
Investigating the Role of Neighborhood Youth Organizations in Preventing Adolescent Violent Offending: Evidence from Chicago, Gregory M. Zimmerman, Brandon C. Welsh, and Chad Posick
Submissions from 2014
Book Review: Why We Harm, Laura E. Agnich
Review of Amy Fried’s, Muffled Echoes: Oliver North and the Politics of Public Opinion, Barry J. Balleck
When Do Infants Begin to Follow a Point?, Bennett I. Bertenthal, Ty W. Boyer, and Samuel Harding
Institutional Review Board and International Field Research in Conflict Zones, Srobana Bhattacharya
Examining Perceptions of Substance Use in Friendships of Different Gender Structure, John H. Boman IV, Bryan Lee Miller, John M. Stogner, Laura E. Agnich, and Marvin D. Krohn
Chapter 10: Further Examining Officer Perceptions and Support for Online Community Policing, Adam Bossler and Thomas J. Holt
Who Benefits from Honors: An Empirical Analysis of Honors and Non-Honors Students’ Backgrounds, Academic Attitudes, and Behaviors, Ted Brimeyer, April M. Schueths, and William Smith
Conservative Protestant College Students and Their Peers: Similarities and Differences, Ted Brimeyer and William L. Smith
Assessing the Factors Associated with the Possession of an Academic Ethic in College, Kyong Hee Chee, Nathan W. Pino, and William L. Smith
Review of DIY the Search for Control and Self-Reliance in the 21st Century by Kevin Wehr, Adrienne L. Cohen
Review of "Electing Judges: The Surprising Effects of Campaigning on Judicial Legitimacy", Brett W. Curry
Utilizing Experiments in Judicial Research, Brett W. Curry
Of Politics, Self-Preservation, and Symbolism: An Investigation of Jurisdiction-Stripping and Legislative Redistricting, Brett W. Curry and Trenton J. Davis
The Value of Research in the Interior Design Studio: Student Perspectives, Sibel Seda Dazkir
Interviews with Turkish Women: Rise of Consumerism and Its Influence on Home Interiors, Sibel Seda Dazkir and M. Read
Book Review of "Cuban in a Global Context: International Relations, Internationalism, and Transnationalism" by Catherine Krull, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
Book Review of "Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla" by David Kilcullen, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
Book Review of "Studies in Gangs and Cartels" by Robert J. Bunker and John P. Sullivan, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
Iran, Latin American, and U.S. National Security, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
Strategic Insights: The Dragon in the Tropics: China’s Military Expansion into the Western Hemisphere, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
The Age of Digital Conflict: A Review Essay, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
