Articles, reports, and other short publications produced by faculty, staff, and students affiliated with Mississippi State University's Social Science Research Center.
Articles
What If We Were Equal: A Mississippi Health Assessment, Arthur G. Cosby, Warren A. Jones, Lindsay B. Jones, Sangeetha Shivaji, Robert E. Greenberg, Colleen McKee, Tara Morgan, Emily Nations, Tonya T. Neaves, Elliot Welford, and Bailey Smith
Legalization of Crimes Against the Moral Order: Results from the 1995 United States Survey of Gaming and Gambling, Arthur G. Cosby, David C. May, Wolfgang Frese, and R. Gregory Dunaway
From Private to Public: Narratives of Gender-based Violence Among the Everyday Voices of the #MeToo Movement, Anna Gjika PhD, Megan Stubbs-Richardson PhD, and MacKenzie Paul
User Expectations of Privacy in Robot Assisted Therapy, Zachary Henkel, Kenna Baugus, Cindy L. Bethel, and David C. May
Improving the function of a high obesity program: Findings from community-engaged Mississippi Delta focus groups, Erin M. King, Connie Baird-Thomas, Angela Robertson, Masey Smith, and David R. Buys
The Impact of Trusted Adults and Friends on Fear and Avoidance Behaviors at School, David C. May, Makeela J. Wells, Megan Stubbs-Richardson, Tawny N. Evans-McCleon, and H. Colleen Sinclair
Rural Hospitals: Economic and Health Implications in Mississippi, M. Maya McDoom, Cyril Chang, John Gnuschke, and David Mirvis
Offenders, Judges, and Officers Rate the Relative Severity of Alternative Sanctions Compared to Prison, Nathan T. Moore, David C. May, and Peter B. Wood
Down the Digital Delta: Health Information Inequities Among Rural Mississippi Caregivers, Danielle K. Nadorff, Sujan Anreddy, Katerina Sergi, Zaccheus J. Ahonle, Colleen Stourffer, Tockie Hemphill, and David R. Buys
The PROMISE Initiative: Who Should Give Patients Information on Opioids?, Mary Nelson Robertson, Daniel Williams, Holli Seitz, Laura Downey, Alisha Hardman, and David R. Buys
Development and Pretesting of Prescription Opioid Misuse Prevention Messages: Results and Implications for Practice, Holli H. Seitz, Mary Nelson Robertson, Je'Kylynn Steen, Sarah G. Dulaney, and David R. Buys
Self-Regulatory Metacognitive Skill Use in Elementary Students During Computer and Paper Reading Assignments: A Qualitative Study, Katerina Sergi, Anastasia Elder, Tianlan Wei, Kristin Javorsky, and Jianzhong Xu
Parental perspectives on children's use of portable digital devices, Katerina Sergi, Ronald Gatewood Jr, Anastasia Elder, and Jianzhong Xu
Compensation challenges in early childhood education: an analysis of Mississippi’s child care workforce, Katerina Sergi, John Stephen McCown, Mary Rebecca Read-Wahidi, Ismail H. Yigit, Callie Poole, and Heather Hanna
Tobacco Control Youth Initiatives: Mississippi’s Multipronged Approach, Katerina Sergi, Colleen Stouffer, Emily McClelland, Tiffany Johnson, Malcolm Huell, Sujan Anreddy, Nell Valentine, and Robert McMillen
What’s the Chatter? Developing an Integrated Theory-Grounded Psycholinguistic Threat Assessment for the Evaluation of Online Extremist Chatter, H. Colleen Sinclair, Sierra Nelson, Ioannis Ziogas, Megan Stubbs-Richardson, Andrew R. Burns, and David C. May
The Effects of Poverty on the Reading Achievement and Vocabulary Development of Students in Economically Disadvantaged Elementary Schools, Melissa (Mitz) Dawn Stephens
Strategies to Combat Bullying: Parental Responses to Bullies, Bystanders, and Victims, Kristen L. Stives, David C. May, Melinda Pilkinton, Cindy L. Bethel, and Deborah K. Eakin
Social Contagion in Bullying: an Examination of Strains and Types of Bullying Victimization in Peer Networks, Megan Stubbs-Richardson and David C. May
The Lesser of Two Evils? A Qualitative Study of Offenders' Preferences for Prison Compared to Alternatives, Alisha Williams, David C. May, and Peter B. Wood
Racial Differences in Perceptions of the Severity of Sanctions: A Comparison of Prison with Alternatives, Peter B. Wood and David C. May
Gender Differences in the Perceived Severity of Boot Camp, Peter B. Wood, David C. May, and Harold G. Grasmick
Blog Posts
Procedural Justice Is for Victims Too, Justine Greve, Cortney Fisher, Stacy Haynes, and Alison Cares
Books
A Social and Economic Portrait of the Mississippi Delta, Arthur G. Cosby, Mitchell W. Brackin, T. David Mason, and Eunice R. McCulloch
Reports
Community-Engaged Research for Gulf Resilience, Devon Brenner, Brenna Jungers, and Katerina Sergi
Early Childhood ECHO (EC ECHO) Start-up & Operations Manual, Lisa Long, I. Michelle Gaither, Ruby Brenner, Bradley Long, Emily McClelland, Malcolm Huell, Lauren Elliott, and Katerina Sergi
State of the States: Blueprints for Building Age-Friendly Futures, Megan Stubbs-Richardson, Lauren E. Etheredge, Tockie V. Hemphill, Zaccheus J. Ahonle, and Danielle K. Nadorff
Research Data
COVID-19 Online Prevalence of Emotions in Institutions Database (COPE-ID), Megan Stubbs-Richardson, Sujan Anreddy, and Ben Porter
Artificial Intelligence Applications for Social Science Research, Megan Stubbs-Richardson, Lauren Brown, MacKenzie Paul, and Devon Brenner
Research Studies
Public Support for Tobacco Control Policies Among Mississippi Adults, Emily McClelland, Tiffany Johnson, and Robert McMillen
