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Naming Biases: Gender and Race Biases in Reference to Politicians
(2025)Implicit biases continue to promote gender and racial inequality in many professions. Our research investigated a particular variable, terms of reference, that may play a role in voter opinions of politicians and in ... -
Preschoolers’ Use of Expertise in Word Learning
(2025)As adults, we know it is impossible for everyone to know everything but at what age do we begin to understand that people can be experts? The present study investigated whether preschoolers are able to understand expertise ... -
Upending Chevron: The Loper Bright Decision and the Imbalance of Powers in American Government
(2025)The U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright decision overturned the Chevron doctrine, reshaping administrative law and shifting power between the three federal branches of government. By transferring statutory interpretation ... -
Partisans Like Leaders Who Confirm Beliefs About Social Norms: Evidence from a Survey Experiment
(2025)Political leaders are frequent purveyors of misinformation, particularly when bolstering claims about support for their beliefs. We conducted two studies to determine how individuals respond to leaders spreading false ... -
Bostock’s Binary Ramifications on Titles VII and IX: Enabling Discrepancies in Discrimination Proceedings
(2025)In Bostock v. Clayton (2020), the United States Supreme Court labeled sexual orientation- and gender identity- based discrimination as categories of sex-based discrimination, therefore expanding the protections of Title ... -
Evaluating U.S. Municipal Policies for Decarbonization and Transitions to Sustainable Energy Systems
(2025)Climate change has driven governments to develop renewable energy and decarbonization policies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Previous research has primarily focused on policies at the state and national level, ... -
Heat, Health, and Harm: The Impact of Extreme Temperatures on Suicide
(2025)"Climate change poses well-established risks to physical health, but little is known about its effects on mental health. I study the relationship between extreme tempera- ture exposure during summer months and suicide ... -
Associations Between Negative Emotional Recovery and Time Spent on Work
(2025)This study investigates the relationship between negative emotion regulation and work participation across the lifespan. Inefficient recovery from negative emotional experiences may be associated with reduced work capacity. ... -
Culture Shock in Higher Education: Experiences of Transfer Students
(2025)Transfer students often experience a temporary drop in grades that recovers over the course of their first year at a new school, suggesting that they encounter transition-related challenges. These challenges may be related ... -
Cognitive Factors in U.S. Small Business Planning
(2025)Millions of small business owners are nearing retirement age but lack succession plans which could imperil their businesses and lead to loss of income and employment. Small business owners may be susceptible to cognitive ... -
Effects of Industry and Occupation on Domestic Labor by Gender
(2025)This paper uses Panel of Survey Income Dynamics (PSID) data from 1979 to 2019 to examine how a spouse’s industry and occupation of work relates to gender disparities of domestic labor in cohabitating American couples, ... -
Cash for Daughters? The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Household Gender Composition
(2025)This study evaluates the short-term impact of the Mukhyamantri Rajshri Yojana (MRY), a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program introduced in 2016 in Rajasthan, India, aimed at addressing gender disparities. The MRY offers ... -
Leaving Its Mark: Exploring the Effects of Space on Collective Memory in the Bronx
(2025)Memories are a universal part of life and while they might seem deeply personal, some memories are collective, or shared by a group of people with a common thread. One of these common threads can be space, a constant that ... -
The Moral Dimensions of the Wisconsin Public Trust Doctrine
(2025)The Moral Dimensions of the Wisconsin Public Trust Doctrine explores the often-overlooked moral foundations of Wisconsin’s public trust doctrine—a constitutional commitment requiring the state to preserve its navigable ... -
The Call of Illegal Prescription Drugs: Using Search History and Content Analysis of Illegal Pharmaceutical Websites to Understand Fringe Consumer Audiences
(2025)This exploration of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy’s Unsafe Online Pharmacy list utilizes web content analysis and search engine data to investigate how illegal online pharmacies advertise, maintain clientele, ...
