The UNL Digital Commons notes with regret the passing of J. Allen Williams (1936-2019), distinguished scholar and teacher in the Sociology Department, beginning in 1970. His published works included studies of civil rights protests, tolerance, nonconformity, environmental sociology, and children's books. In 1979 he received the university’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Along with his teaching and research at Nebraska, Williams was a member of Centennial College, a fellow of the Center for Great Plains Studies, an advisory editor for Great Plains Research, and a member of the Faculty Senate.

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2023

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Does Being Known Matter? Analyzing the Effects of Name Recognition by Instructor and Student, Brandon Bosch

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The Joker Controversy: An Origin Story, Brandon Bosch and Lisa Kort-Butler

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Decline Is Not Inevitable: Changes in Science Identity during the Progression through a U.S. Middle School among Boys and Girls, Julia McQuillan, Patricia Wonch Hill, Joseph C. Jochman, and Grace Kelly

2022

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Substance use, injection risk behaviors, and fentanyl‑related overdose risk among a sample of PWID post‑Hurricane Maria, Roberto Abadie, Manuel Cano, Patrick Habecker, and Camila Gelpí‑Acosta

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Factors Associated with Arkansans’ First Use of Telehealth during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Jennifer A. Andersen, Holly C. Felix, Dejun Su, James P. Selig, Shawn M. Ratcliff, and Pearl A. McElfish

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Relationship between Sociodemographic Factors, Perceived COVID-19 Risk, and Engagement with Health Protective Behaviors, Jennifer A. Andersen, Brett Rowland, Shawn M. Ratcliff, Holly C. Felix, and Pearl A. McElfish

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The False Dichotomy of Sex and Religion in America, Kelsy Burke

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Examining the Influence of Political Affiliation and Orientation on Political Tolerance, Christopher R. H Garneau and Philip Schwadel

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Co-use among confidants: An examination of polysubstance use and personal relationships in southeastern Nebraska, G. Robin Gauthier, Kelly Markowski, Jeffrey A. Smith, Sela R. Harcey, and Bergen Johnston

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Isolation, cohesion and contingent network effects: the case of school attachment and engagement, G. Robin Gauthier, Jeffrey A. Smith, Sela Harcey, and Kelly Markowski

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“Are You …”: An Examination of Incomplete Question Stems in Self-administered Surveys, Nestor Hernandez, Kristen Olson, and Jolene D. Smyth

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U.S. State Policy Contexts and Physical Health among Midlife Adults, Blakelee R. Kemp, Jacob M. Grumbach, and Jennifer Karas Montez

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Pandemic, Politics, and Public Opinion About Crime, Lisa Kort-Butler

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Familial and Individual Risk Markers for Physical and Psychological Dating Violence Perpetration and Victimization Among College Students, Meagan Kunitzer, Kimberly Tyler, and Leslie Gordon Simons

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Associations of Rheumatoid Arthritis and Depressive Symptoms Over Time: Are There Differences by Education, Race/Ethnicity, and Gender?, Julia McQuillan, Jennifer A. Andersen, Terceira A. Berdahl, and Jeff Willett

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Is perceived inability to procreate associated with life satisfaction? Evidence from a German panel study, Julia McQuillan, Jasmin Passet-Wittig, Arthur L. Greil, and Martin Bujard

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A MESSAGE FROM THE EDITORS of Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, Kristen Olson and Katherine Jenny Thompson

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Comparing Readability Measures and Computer-assisted Question Evaluation Tools for Self-administered Survey Questions, Rachel Stenger, Kristen Olson, and Jolene Smyth

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Replicating or franchising a STEM afterschool program model: core elements of programmatic integrity, Nikolaus Stevenson, Amie S. Sommers, Neal Grandgenett, William Tapprich, Julia McQuillan, Michelle Phillips, Rachael Jensen, and Christine Cutucache

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Your Best Estimate is Fine. Or is It?, Jerry Timbrook, Kristen Olson, and Jolene D. Smyth

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Family Violence, Personality Traits, and Risk Behaviors: Links to Dating Violence Victimization and Perpetration Among College Students, Kimberly A. Tyler and Douglas A. Brownridge

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The Relationship Between College Student Characteristics and Reporting Sexual Assault Experiences on Two Different Scales, Kimberly Tyler and Colleen M. Ray

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Why Neighborhoods (and How We Study Them) Matter for Adolescent Development, T.D. Warner and R.A. Settersten

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Accuracy of COVID-19 Relevant Knowledge among Youth: Number of Information Sources Matters, Patricia Wonch Hill, Judy Diamond, Amy N. Spiegel, Elizabeth VanWormer, Meghan Leadabrand, and Julia McQuillan

2021

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Privacy, Confidentiality and Anonymity: Understandings from People Who Inject Drugs Enrolled in a Study of Social Networks and HIV Risk., Roberto Abadie, Celia Fisher, and Kirk Dombrowski

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LGBT Employment Nondiscrimination: Debating Sexuality and Citizenship, Kelsy Burke, Emily Kazyak, and Alice MillerMacPhee

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Constructing Pornography Addiction’s Harms in Science, News Media, and Politics, Kelsy Burke and Alice MillerMacPhee

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Social Integration and Domestic Violence Support in an Indigenous Community: Women’s Recommendations of Formal Versus Informal Sources of Support, G. Robin Gauthier, Sara C. Francisco, Bilal Khan, and Kirk Dombrowski

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Disappearing Chairs and Related Matters: A Visual Essay for Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations (Section 80), Michael R. Hill

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“Pee in Peace” or “Make Everyone Uncomfortable”: Public Perceptions of Transgender Rights, Emily Kazyak, Kelsy Burke, Rosalind Kichler, and Lora McGraw

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Patterns of Missing Data With Ecological Momentary Assessment Among People Who Use Drugs:Feasibility Study Using Pilot Study Data, Kelly Markowski, Jeffrey A. Smith, G. Robin Gauthier, and Sela R. Harcey

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Practical problems and positive experiences with ecological momentary assessment: reflections from people who use drugs, Kelly Markowski, Jeffrey A. Smith, G. Robin Gauthier, and Sela R. Harcey

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Effect of Demographic and Health Dynamics on Cognitive Status in Mexico between 2001 and 2015: Evidence from the Mexican Health and Aging Study, Silvia Mejia-Arango, Jaqualine Avila, Brian Downer, Marc A. Garcia, Alejandra Michaels-Obregon, Joseph L. Saenz, Rafael Samper-Ternent, and Rebeca Wong

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What Does the Research Teach Feminists about the Possibility of Organizational Change?, Barbara J. Risman and Julia McQuillan

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Childhood Disadvantage, Social and Psychological Stress, and Substance Use Among Homeless Youth: A Life Stress Framework, Kimberly A. Tyler and Rachel M. Schmitz

2020

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“Caballo”: risk environments, drug sharing and the emergence of a hepatitis C virus epidemic among people who inject drugs in Puerto Rico, Roberto Abadie and K. Dombrowski

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Adjusting the Late Policy: Using Smaller Intervals for Grading Deductions, Brandon Bosch

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Created by God and Wired to Porn: Redemptive Masculinity and Gender Beliefs in Narratives of Religious Men’s Pornography Addiction Recovery, Kelsy Burke and Trenton M. Haltom

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Devil in the detail of SCOTUS ruling on workplace bias puts LGBTQ rights and religious freedom on collision course, Kelsy Burke and Emily Kazyak

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White Women Who Lead: God, Girlfriends, and Diversity Projects in a National Evangelical Ministry, Kelsy Burke and Amy McDowell

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Race and ethnic variation in college students’ allostatic regulation of racism-related stress, Jacob E. Cheadle, Bridget J. Goosby, Joseph C. Jochman, Cara Tomaso, Chelsea B. Kozikowski Yancey, and Timothy D. Nelson

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BioSkills Guide: Development and National Validation of a Tool for Interpreting the Vision and Change Core Competencies, Alexa W. Clemmons, Jerry Timbrook, Jon C. Herron, and Alison J. Crowe

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What Help Do Faculty Perceive Is Needed to Improve their Community Engagement through Outreach?, Kiyomi D. Deards, Saundra Wever Frerichs, Patricia Wonch Hill, and Julia McQuillan

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Diverse Aging and Health Inequality by Race and Ethnicity, Kenneth F. Ferraro, Blakelee R. Kemp, and Monica M. Williams

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Contextualizing the COVID-19 Era in Puerto Rico: Compounding Disasters and Parallel Pandemics, Catherine Garcia, Fernando I. Rivera, Marc A. Garcia, Giovani Burgos, and María P. Aranda

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Contextualizing the COVID-19 Era in Puerto Rico: Compounding Disasters and Parallel Pandemics, Catherine Garcia, Fernando I. Rivera, Marc A. Garcia, Giovani Burgos, and María P. Aranda

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Educational Benefits and Cognitive Health Life Expectancies: Racial/Ethnic, Nativity, and Gender Disparities, Marc A. Garcia, Brian Downer, Chi-Tsun Chiu, Joseph L. Saenz, Kasim Ortiz, and Rebeca Wong

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The Color of COVID-19: Structural Racism and the Pandemic’s Disproportionate Impact on Older Racial and Ethnic Minorities, Marc A. Garcia, Patricia A. Homan, Catherine Garcia, and Tyson H. Brown

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Nativity and Country of Origin Variations in Life Expectancy With Functional Limitations Among Older Hispanics in the United States, Marc A. Garcia, Adriana M. Reyes, Catherine García, Chi-Tsun Chiu, and Grecia Macias

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Diverse Sources of Social Support and Cognitive Functioning by Race, Ethnicity, and Nativity, G. Robin Gauthier, Marc A. Garcia, and Catherine García

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Exacerbating Inequalities: Social Networks, Racial/ Ethnic Disparities, and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States, G. Robin Gauthier, Jeffrey A. Smith, Catherine Garcia, Marc A. Garcia, and Patricia A. Thomas

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A New Spin on Gender: How Parents of Male Baton Twirlers (Un)Do Gender Essentialism, Trenton M. Haltom

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Effects of Sex, Race, and Education on the Timing of Coming Out among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults in the U.S., Trenton M. Haltom and Shawn M. Ratcliff

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Introduction to special issue “Geographies of Sexualities” [Journal of Lesbian Studies], Emily Kazyak

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Law and Same-Sex Couples’ Experiences of Childbirth, Emily Kazyak and Emma Finken

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Are Biological Consequences of Childhood Exposures Detectable in Telomere Length Decades Later?, Blakelee R. Kemp and Kenneth F. Ferraro

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Why Does the Importance of Education for Health Differ across the United States?, Blakelee R. Kemp and Jennifer Karas Montez

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A note on the fine structure constant, Bilal Khan and Irshadullah Khan

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A note on the fine structure constant, Bilal Khan and Irshadullah Khan

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The Stress Mechanisms of Adolescent Physical, Mental, and Behavioral Health, Lisa Kort-Butler

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Crime in Televised Presidential Campaign Ads: The Making of Visual Metaphor, Lisa A. Kort-Butler

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Medically Defined Infertility Versus Self-Perceived Fertility Problem: Implications of Survey Wording for Assessing Associations with Depressive Symptoms, Michele H. Lowry, A L. Greil, J McQuillan, A Burch, and K M. Shreffler

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Methodological Appendix A for: McQuillan, J., A. L. Greil, A. Rybinsk, S. Tiemeyer, K. M. Shreffler, and C. Warner Colaner. 2020. Is a dyadic stressor experienced as equally distressing by both partners? The case of perceived fertility problems. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. DOI: 10.1177/0265407520953903, Julia McQuillan, Arthur L. Greil, A. Rybinsk, Stacy Tiemeyer, Karina M. Shreffler, and Colleen Warner Colaner

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Comments on “How Errors Cumulate: Two Examples” by Roger Tourangeau, Kristen M. Olson

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Unpacking the black box of survey costs, Kristen M. Olson

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The effect of emphasis in telephone survey questions on survey measurement quality, Kristen M. Olson and Jolene Smyth

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What Do Interviewers Learn?: Changes in Interview Length and Interviewer Behaviors over the Field Period, Kristen M. Olson and Jolene Smyth

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The Past, Present, and Future of Research on Interviewer Effects, Kristen M. Olson, Jolene Smyth, Jennifer Dykema, Allyson L. Holbrook, Frauke Kreuter, and Brady T. West

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Transitions from Telephone Surveys to Self-Administered and Mixed-Mode Surveys: AAPOR Task Force Report, Kristen M. Olson, Jolene Smyth, Rachel Horwitz, Scott Keeter, Virginia Lesser, Stephanie Marken, Nancy A. Mathiowetz, Jaki S. McCarthy, Eileen O'Brien, Jean D. Opsomer, Darby Steiger, David Sterrett, Jennifer Su, Z. Tuba Suzer-Gurtekin, Chintan Turakhia, and James Wagner

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The Effect of Question Characteristics on Question Reading Behaviors in Telephone Surveys, Kristen M. Olson, Jolene Smyth, and Antje Kirchner

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Survey Costs: Where Are We and What Is the Way Forward?, Kristen M. Olson, James Wagner, and Raeda Anderson

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Is perception of inability to procreate a temporal phenomenon? A longitudinal exploration of changes and determinants among women and men of reproductive age in Germany, Jasmin Passet-Wittig, Martin Bujard, Julia McQuillan, and Arthur L. Greil

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Mutual Influence? Gender, Partner Pregnancy Desires, Fertility Intentions, and Birth Outcomes in U.S. Heterosexual Couples, Colleen M. Ray, Sela R. Harcey, Julia McQuillan, and Arthur L. Greil

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Competing forces of withdrawal and disease avoidance in the risk networks of people who inject drugs, Elspeth Ready, Patrick Habecker, Roberto Abadie, Bilal Khan, and K. Dombrowski

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Competing forces of withdrawal and disease avoidance in the risk networks of people who inject drugs, Elspeth Ready, Patrick Habecker, Roberto Abadie, Bilal Khan, and Kirk Dombrowski

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Immunization strategies in networks with missing data, Samuel Frederick Rosenblatt, Jeffrey A. Smith, G. Robin Gauthier, and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne

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Immunization strategies in networks with missing data, Samuel F. Rosenblatt, Jeffrey A. Smith, G. Robin Gauthier, and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne

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The Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on Older Latino Mortality: The Rapidly Diminishing Latino Paradox, Rogelio Sáenz and Marc A. Garcia

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State-Level Determinants of Hate Crime Reporting: Examining the Impact of Structural and Social Movement Influences, Heather L. Scheuerman, Christie L. Parris, Alison H. Faupel, and Regina E. Werum

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The Politics of Religious Nones, Philip Schwadel

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Estimating Contextual Effects from Ego Network Data, Jeffrey A. Smith and G. Robin Gauthier

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Male/Female Is Not Enough: Adding Measures of Masculinity and Femininity to General Population Surveys, Jolene Smyth and Kristen Olson

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A Comparison of Fully Labeled and Top-Labeled Grid Question Formats, Jolene Smyth and Kristen M. Olson

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How Well Do Interviewers Record Responses to Numeric, Interviewer Field-code, and Open-ended Narrative Questions in Telephone Surveys?, Jolene Smyth and Kristen M. Olson

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Soldiers to Scientists: Military Service, Gender, and STEM Degree Earning, Christina Steidl, Regina E. Werum, Sela R. Harcey, Jacob Absalon, and Alice MillerMacPhee

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Soldiers to Scientists: Military Service, Gender, and STEM Degree Earning, Christina Steidl, Regina E. Werum, Sela R. Harcey, Jacob Absalon, and Alice MillerMacPhee

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Pregnancy happiness: implications of prior loss and pregnancy intendedness, Stacy Tiemeyer, Karina Shreffler, and Julia McQuillan

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Are self-description scales better than agree/disagree scales?, Jerry Timbrook, Jolene Smyth, and Kristen M. Olson

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How Do Interviewers and Respondents Navigate Sexual Identity Questions in a CATI Survey?, Jerry Timbrook, Jolene Smyth, and Kristen M. Olson

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A comparison of frequency of alcohol and marijuana use using short message service surveying and survey questionnaires among homeless youth, Kimberly A. Tyler and Kristen M. Olson

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Informal Science Experiences among Urban and Rural Youth: Exploring Differences at the Intersections of Socioeconomic Status, Gender and Ethnicity, Patricia Wonch Hill, Julia McQuillan, Eileen A. Hebets, Amy N. Spiegel, and Judy Diamond

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Changes in Religiosity Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Emerging Adults, Brandi Woodell and Philip Schwadel

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Fifty Shades of Leather and Misogyny: An Investigation of Anti-Woman Perspectives among Leathermen, Meredith G. F. Worthen and Trenton M. Haltom

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Intensive Referral of Veterans to Mutual-Help Groups: A Mixed-Methods Implementation Evaluation, Lance Brendan Young, Kathleen M. Grant, R. Dario Pulido, Jamie L. Simpson, Kimberly A. Tyler, and Christine Timkof

2019

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“Money Helps”: People who inject drugs and their perceptions of financial compensation and its ethical implications, Roberto Abadie, Brandon Brown, and Celia B. Fisher

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Migration to the US among rural Puerto Ricans who inject drugs: influential factors, sources of support, and challenges for harm reduction interventions, Roberto Abadie, Patrick Habecker, C. Gelpi-Acosta, and Kirk Dombrowski

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Bat Meets Girl: Adapting the Dark Knight’s Love Life to the Big Screen, Brandon Bosch

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Treating Participation as an Assignment, Brandon Bosch

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A Red-State View of Religious Liberty and Nondiscrimination Protection for LGBT People, Kelsy Burke and Emily Kazyak

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Cohort Differences in Cognitive Impairment and Cognitive Decline Among Mexican-Americans Aged 75 Years or Older, Brian Downer, Marc A. Garcia, Mukaila Raji, and Kyriakos S. Markides