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Submissions from 2013
Governance and Organizational Effectiveness: Toward a Theory of Government Performance, Laurence E. Lynn Jr. and Robbie W. Robichau
Evaluation of a Classroom Exercise on Social Distance and Discrimination, Trent W. Maurer
A Comparison of Student Academic Motivations across Three Course Disciplines, Trent W. Maurer, Deborah Allen, Delena Bell Gatch, Padmini Shankar, and Diana Sturges
Employing Music in the Cause of Social Justice: Ruth Crawford Seeger and Zilphia Horton, Karen M. McCurdy and Julia Schmidt-Pirro
The Effect of Per Se Recusal Rules on Donor Behavior in Judicial Elections, Banks Miller and Brett W. Curry
Measuring Novel Drug Perceptions: Salvia divinorum, Gender, and Peer Delinquency., Bryan Miller, John H. Boman IV, and John Stogner
Antecedents of Consumer Attitude Toward Cause-brand Alliances and Post-Brand Attitude, Beth Myers and Wi‐Suk Kwon
Mormon Mental Health, Michael Nielsen
Religiousness, Social Psychology, and Behavior, Michael Nielsen, Arthur T. Hatton Sr., and M. J. Donahue
Psychology, Religion and the Internet, Michael Nielsen and Brandon Randolph-Seng
Do Boys Fight and Girls Cut? A General Strain Theory Approach to Gender and Deviance, Chad Posick, Amy Farrell, and Marc L. Swatt
Victim Injury, Emotional Distress, and Satisfaction with the Police: Evidence for a Victim-Centered, Emotionally-Based Police Response, Chad Posick and Christina Policastro
One Scale Fits All? Assessing Racial Differences in the Measurement of Attitudes toward the Police, Chad Posick, Michael Rocque, and Jack McDevitt
Trinidad and Religious Pluralism: Sociology and Faith in a Caribbean Island, Ned Rinalducci
Unraveling Change: Social Bonds and Recidivism Among Released Offenders, Michael Rocque, David M. Bierie, Chad Posick, and Doris L. MacKenzie
Measuring Up: Assessing the Measurement Properties of Two Self-Control Scales, Michael Rocque, Chad Posick, and Gregory M. Zimmerman
Constraints and Opportunities in India-Bangladesh Transit Dispute, Nalanda Roy
India and Bangladesh Corridor Dispute: Finding a Way Forward?, Nalanda Roy
Attitudes toward Suicide and Emotional Expressivity: Gender and Culture Specific Associations with Suicide Proneness for Japanese and American College Students, Motoko Saito, Jeff J. Klibert, and Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling
Perception vs. Reality: An investigation of the misperceptions concerning the frequency of novel drug use among college students., Amber Sanders, John Stogner, and Bryan Miller
Online teaching communities within sociology: A counter trend to the marketization of higher education, April M. Schueths
Passionate Pedagogy and Emotional Labor: Students’ Responses to Learning Diversity From Diverse Instructors, April M. Schueths, Tanya Gladney, Devan Crawford, Katherine L. Bass, and Helen A. Moore
Awareness of Novel Drug Legality in a Young Adult Population, Michael Singleton, John Stogner, and Bryan Miller
Continuity and Change in a Southern Beachy Amish-Mennonite Congregation, William L. Smith
A Spicy Kind of High: A Profile of Synthetic Cannabinoid Users, John Stogner and Bryan Miller
Investigating the “Bath Salt” Panic: The rarity of Synthetic Cathinone Use among Students, John Stogner and Bryan Miller
Learning to E-Cheat: A Criminological Test of Internet Facilitated Academic Dishonesty., John Stogner, Bryan Miller, and Catherine Marcum
Allied Health Students' Perceptions of Class Difficulty: The Case of Undergraduate Human Anatomy and Physiology Classes, Diana Sturges and Trent W. Maurer
Overtraining and the Use of Feature and Geometric Cues for Reorientation, Bradley R. Sturz, Katherine A. Gaskin, and Kent D. Bodily
Stroop Interference in a Delayed Match-To-Sample Task: Evidence for Semantic Competition, Bradley R. Sturz, Marshall Lee Green, Lawrence Locker Jr., and Ty W. Boyer
Environment Size and the Use of Feature and Geometric Cues for Reorientation, Bradley R. Sturz and Debbie M. Kelly
Does Constraining Field of View Prevent Extraction of Geometric Cues for Humans during Virtual-Environment Reorientation?, Bradley R. Sturz, Zachary A. Kilday, and Kent D. Bodily
Third Generation Gangs Strategic Note No. 15: Primeiro Comando da Massachusetts (PCM) Emerges in Massachusetts, John P. Sullivan, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz, and Robert J. Bunker
Professor-Student Rapport Scale: Six Items Predict Student Outcomes, Janie H. Wilson and Rebecca G. Ryan
Editor’s Introduction, M. Jared Wood
Sokkia CX-105 Total Station User-Friendly User’s Manual, M. Jared Wood
Probabilistic Cue Combination: Less is More, Daniel Yurovsky, Ty W. Boyer, Linda B. Smith, and Chen Yu
Submissions from 2012
History, Language, and Globalization in the North Carolina Cherokee Communities, Heidi M. Altman
Guidelines for Learning Outcomes for Therapeutic Recreation, Lynn Anderson, Candy Ashton, Marcia Carter, Jo Ann Coco-Ripp, Fran Stavola-Daly, Linda Heyne, Terry Long, Neil Lundberg, Cathi McMahan, Brent Wolfe, and Ramon Zabriskie
The Night the Raving Died: The Social Construction of a Local Drug Panic, Julie Baldwin, Bryan Miller, John Stogner, and Steve Hach
Gender Disparity in Professional City Management: Making the Case for Enhancing Leadership Curriculum, LeAnn Beaty and Trenton J. Davis
The Roles of Beaconing and Dead Reckoning in Human Virtual Navigation, Kent D. Bodily, Thomas A. Daniel, and Bradley R. Sturz
On the Operational Validity of Perceptual Peer Delinquency Measurement: Exploring Projection and Elements Contained in Perceptions., John H. Boman IV, John Stogner, Bryan Miller, O. Griffin, and Marvin Krohn
Chapter 75: Online Abuse: Cyberstalking, Harassment, and Stalking, Adam Bossler and Thomas J. Holt
Patrol Officers' Perceived Role in Responding to Cybercrime, Adam Bossler and Thomas J. Holt
Predicting Online Harassment Victimization among a Juvenile Population, Adam Bossler, Thomas J. Holt, and David C. May
Research Note: Religious Affiliation and Poverty Explanations: Individual, Structural, and Divine Causes, Ted Brimeyer
Longitudinal Modeling of Frame Changing and Media Salience: Coverage of Worker Displacement, 1980–2007, Ted Brimeyer, Glenn W. Muschert, and Stephen Lippmann
Religion, Race, Social Class, and Gender Differences in Dating and Hooking Up among College Students, Ted Brimeyer and William L. Smith
Conclusion: What Now? Implications of the Long Turn to the Right, Ronald W. Cox and Daniel Skidmore-Hess
On the Receiving End: Discrimination toward the Non-Religious in the U.S., Ryan T. Cragun, Barry Kosmin, Ariela Keysar, Joseph H. Hammer, and Michael Nielsen
Review of "Defending Congress and the Constitution", Brett W. Curry
Apparent Authority to Consent, Rebecca Davis
Exigent Circumstances, Rebecca Davis
Georgia v. Randolph, Rebecca Davis
Critical Issue in the American Criminal Justice System: HIV/AIDS Among Prison Population, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz and Becky Kohler da Cruz
Isaac Parker, Laurie A. Gould
What Do Boiled Peanuts and Mother’s Day Have to Do With the After School Curriculum, Alice Hall
Police Perceptions of Computer Crimes in Two Southeastern Cities: An Examination from the Viewpoint of Patrol Officers, Thomas J. Holt and Adam Bossler
Predictors of Patrol Officer Interest in Cybercrime Training and Investigation in Selected United States Police Departments, Thomas J. Holt and Adam Bossler
Low Self-Control, Deviant Peer Associations, and Juvenile Cyberdeviance, Thomas J. Holt, Adam Bossler, and David C. May
Galician Political Culture as a Legacy of Class-Based Political Mobilization, Jacek Lubecki
Pilsudski: Poland’s Napoleonic First Marshal, Jacek Lubecki
Sports and Social Class in the South, Nancy L. Malcom
Adapting Process-Oriented Guided-Inquiry Learning (POGIL) to Family Science, Trent W. Maurer
Students’ Academic Motivations in Allied Health Classes, Trent W. Maurer, Deborah Allen, Delena Bell Gatch, Padmini Shankar, and Diana Sturges
Faculty and student perceptions of post-exam attendance, Trent W. Maurer, Laura Frost, Diana Sturges, Simone Charles, Debbie Allen, Michelle Cawthorn, and Cherry C. Brewton
Coal Disasters: Geology and Politics in Uneasy Collaboration, Karen M. McCurdy
Civil Death: An Examination of Ex-felon Disenfranchisement and Reintegration., Bryan Miller and Joseph Spillane
Governing the Restoration of Civil Rights for Ex-felons: An Evaluation of the Executive Clemency Board in Florida, Bryan Miller and Joseph Spillane
Creating Successful Cause-brand Alliances: the Role of Cause Involvement, Perceived Brand Motivations, and Cause-brand Alliance Attitude, Beth Myers, Wi‐Suk Kwon, and Sandra Forsythe
Teaching Psychology of Religion at a State University, Michael Nielsen
The Discipline of Difference: Ethnolinguistic Heterogeneity and Corporal Punishment, Matthew Pate and Laurie A. Gould
Special Use Permits: The Prisoner’s Dilemma, John Peden
The Discipline of Difference: Ethnolinguistic Heterogeneity and Corporal Punishment, Matthew Pete and Laurie A. Gould
Latinos, the Academic Ethic, and the Transition to College, Nathan W. Pino, Gloria P. Martinez- Ramos, and William L. Smith
The Evil Wet Nurse: Preoedipal Development and Primo Levi’s Science Fiction, Robert Pirro
Navigating around educational road blocks: Mentoring for Pre-K to 20+ Latino/a students, April M. Schueths
Republican Party, Daniel Skidmore-Hess
The Corporate Centrism of the Obama Administration, Daniel Skidmore-Hess
Dousing the Fiery Woman: The Diminishing of the Prophetess Deborah, Daniel Skidmore-Hess and Cathy Skidmore-Hess
Health Risk Behaviors in Insured and Uninsured Community Health Center Patients in the Rural US South, K. Bryant Smalley, Jacob C. Warren, and Jeff J. Klibert
Examining the Effect of Regulating a Novel Drug: An Evaluation of Changes in Use of Salvia divinorum in the First Year of Florida’s Ban., John Stogner, David Khey, O. Griffin, Bryan Miller, and John H. Boman IV
On Discriminating between Geometric Strategies of Surface-Based Orientation, Bradley R. Sturz and Kent D. Bodily
Enclosure Size and the Use of Local and Global Geometric Cues for Reorientation, Bradley R. Sturz, Martha R. Forloines, and Kent D. Bodily
More than a Feeling: Incidental Learning of Array Geometry by Blindfolded Adult Humans Revealed through Touch, Bradley R. Sturz, Marshall L. Green, Katherine A. Gaskin, Alicia C. Evans, April A. Graves, and Jonathan E. Roberts
No Evidence that Consistent Auditory Cues Facilitate Learning of Spatial Relations among Locations, Bradley R. Sturz, Zachary A. Kilday, Kent D. Bodily, and Debbie M. Kelly
The Human-Environment Dialog in Award-winning Children’s Picture Books, J. Allen Williams Jr., Christopher Podeschi, and Nathan S. Palmer
Developing Student-Teacher Rapport in the Undergraduate Classroom, Janie H. Wilson and Rebecca G. Ryan
Formative Teaching Evaluations: Is Student Input Useful?, Janie H. Wilson and Rebecca G. Ryan
Should Principles of Challenge by Choice Be Integral to All Adventure Program Experiences?, Brent Wolfe and D. A. Samdahl
Learning by Design: Leadership Development Through the Use of Technology Based Activities, Brent Wolfe and L. A. Sparkman
Editor’s Introduction, M. Jared Wood
Editor’s Introduction, M. Jared Wood
The Lewis Larson Collection from Long Swamp, 9CK1, M. Jared Wood
Submissions from 2011
Aviation Drug-Trafficking Control Act, Laura E. Agnich
Methadone Control Act, Laura E. Agnich
Moving Around the Room: Cherokee Language, Worldview and Memory, Heidi M. Altman and Thomas N. Belt