Trenton D Mize
Biographic Data
| ID | 122137 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Trenton D Mize |
| GIVEN NAMES | Trenton D |
| FAMILY NAME | Mize |
| SIGNATURE | MIZE T D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9654-3709 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 670 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Inequality and Total Effect Summary Measures for Nominal and Ordinal Variables
Many of the topics most central to the social sciences involve nominal groupings or ordinal rankings. There are many cases in which a summary of a nominal or ordinal independent variable's effect, or the effect on a nominal or ordinal outcome, is needed and useful for interpretation. For example, for nominal or ordinal independent variables, a single summary measure is useful to compare the effect sizes of different variables in a single model or…
Competence Perceptions at the Intersection of Gender and Race-Ethnicity
Competence perceptions represent a fundamental dimension of human perception and have wide-ranging consequences for social interaction. Therefore, it is no surprise that multiple prominent social psychological theories emphasize the role of competence perceptions. We know that both a person’s gender and race-ethnicity influence assumptions about their competence, but we have only a few studies examining the intersections of these factors. Using a…
Gone too long or back too soon? Perceptions of paid parental leave‐taking and variations by gender and family structure
Objective This study examines perceptions of paid leave‐taking itself and variations in these perceptions by parent gender, sexual orientation, and marital status. Background Previous research largely focuses on the consequences associated with leave‐taking, particularly highlighting workplace penalties associated with leave‐taking. There has also been limited attention to workers with diverse family forms. We seek to better understand the cultur…
Role-Accumulation and Mental Health across the Life Course
Decades of research shows that holding and maintaining multiple social roles leads to better mental health and well-being overall, but role-accumulation theory has not proposed or considered whether effects vary at different stages in the life course. Rather, the current theory assumes that social roles' positive influence on mental health should be similar at all ages. In addition, extant work suggests that accumulating roles that are more volun…
Does taking parental leave make you a more likeable worker? Evidence from a survey experiment
Research on perceptions of workers who take paid parental leave largely focuses on the negative consequences associated with leave-taking. However, given widespread support for paid parental leave within the U.S., it is possible that workers may also be viewed positively on certain dimensions for taking parental leave. Using a novel survey experiment that includes vignettes of workers who consider taking paid parental leave (N = 1,625), we consid…
Divergence and Convergence across Presumed and Actual Stereotypes
Stereotypes are foundational to social life, with warmth and competence key to views of social groups. Some theoretical and empirical work on stereotypes focuses on personal “first-order” beliefs about social groups. Other work focuses on perceptions of a culture’s stereotypes, or “generalized second-order” beliefs. Scholars differ in which they consider to have greater impact or whether they think they are unique or represent the same underlying…
What Is the Effect of an Inferred Mental Illness Label on Stigma? Theoretical and Empirical Challenges
One of the strengths of vignette-based experimental research is that it captures the mental illness labeling process in the way it often occurs-inference without full information. Unfortunately, because the process of inferring a label is associated with confounding variables, such as perceived deviance and prior contact, it is difficult to measure the causal effect of inferred mental illness labels. To address these confounding variables, we adv…
Parental leave‐taking and perceptions of workers as good parents
Objective This study examines whether parental leave‐taking affects perceptions of workers as good parents, and whether this relationship varies between mothers and fathers. Background Contemporary parenthood norms promote intensive parenting, but pressures to engage in intensive parenting are more pronounced for mothers than fathers. Paid parental leave policies have the potential to improve gender equality, but only if such policies help to cha…
Gender Egalitarianism and Attitudes Toward Parental Leave
This paper examines the relationship between gender ideology and attitudes toward parental leave. We use data from two original survey experiments with a total analytic sample of 3332 respondents. Using an experimental design where participants evaluate a new parent’s decision about taking parental leave in light of the employer’s leave policies, and answer attitudinal questions about leave and gender ideology, we assess the associations between …
The past, present, and future of experimental methods in the social sciences
The status and stigma consequences of mental illness labels, deviant behavior, and fear
Organizational policies, workplace culture, and perceived job commitment of mothers and fathers who take parental leave
Can You Really Study an Army on the Internet? Comparing How Status Tasks Perform in the Laboratory and Online Settings
Laboratory experiments have a long history within sociology, with their ability to test causality and their utility for directly observing behavior providing key advantages. One influential social psychological field, status characteristics and expectation states theory, has almost exclusively used laboratory experiments to test the theory. Unfortunately, laboratory experiments are resource intensive, requiring a research pool, laboratory space, …
Visualizing Shifts in Gendered Parenting Attitudes during Covid-19
Many scholars have expressed fears that the 2019 coronavirus pandemic may exacerbate gender inequalities. Indeed, studies have suggested that women, and mothers in particular, have been particularly affected by reducing their participation in the paid labor market to meet increased caregiving needs. What is less clear is whether the pandemic has also shifted attitudes about mothers' and fathers' roles. We collected data on gendered parenting atti…
Sexual Identity Disclosure among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals
Most research on sexual prejudice explicitly or implicitly assumes that an individual's sexual orientation identity is known to observers. However, there has been little large-scale survey evidence examining differential rates of disclosure among lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals, and there remains much to be studied as to why and when LGB individuals choose to disclose their sexual identity to others. Using data from a nationally repr…
Best Practices for Estimating, Interpreting, and Presenting Nonlinear Interaction Effects
Many effects of interest to sociologists are nonlinear. Additionally, many effects of interest are interaction effects—that is, the effect of one independent variable is contingent on the level of another independent variable. The proper way to estimate, interpret, and present these two types of effects individually are well known. However, many analyses that combine these two—that is, tests of interaction when the effects of interest are nonline…
A General Framework for Comparing Predictions and Marginal Effects across Models
Many research questions involve comparing predictions or effects across multiple models. For example, it may be of interest whether an independent variable’s effect changes after adding variables to a model. Or, it could be important to compare a variable’s effect on different outcomes or across different types of models. When doing this, marginal effects are a useful method for quantifying effects because they are in the natural metric of the de…
Doing Gender by Criticizing Leaders: Public and Private Displays of Status
Previous work shows that stereotypes influence women’s ability to attain and act in leadership positions, however much less work has examined the role that gendered expectations and stereotypes might play for subordinate behavior and how this might reinforce the gender leadership gap. Drawing on theories of gender and status, I predict gender differences in responses to—and behavior in—subordinate roles. In a series of experimental studies I find…
The Stereotype Content of Sexual Orientation
The stereotype content model provides a powerful tool to examine influential societal stereotypes associated with social groups. We theorize how stereotypes of gender, sexuality, and a group’s status in society combine to influence societal views of sexual orientation groups—placing particular emphasis on stereotypes of warmth and competence. In two survey experiments, we collect quantitative measures of stereotype content and open-response items…
Precarious Sexuality: How Men and Women Are Differentially Categorized for Similar Sexual Behavior
Are men and women categorized differently for similar sexual behavior? Building on theories of gender, sexuality, and status, we introduce the concept of precarious sexuality to suggest that men's-but not women's-heterosexuality is an especially privileged identity that is easily lost. We test our hypotheses in a series of survey experiments describing a person who has a sexual experience conflicting with their sexual history. We find that a sing…
Does Aggression Deter or Invite Reciprocal Behavior? Considering Coercive Capacity
How do people respond to aggression? Theory differs on whether aggressive behavior deters antagonists or provokes retaliation, and the empirical evidence is mixed. We bridge contradictory findings in the literature by identifying a previously unexamined moderating variable: the extent to which individuals can increase their coercive capability (which we call escalating). We argue that when escalating is costly, aggression deters potential antagon…
Profiles in health: Multiple roles and health lifestyles in early adulthood
Small Groups: Reflections of and Building Blocks for Social Structure
Sexual Orientation in the Labor Market
Most analyses of sexual orientation and earnings find that gay men face a wage gap, whereas lesbian women earn higher wages than similar heterosexual women. However, analyses rarely consider bisexual men and women as a unique group separate from other sexual minorities. I argue that such binary views of sexual orientation-treating sexual minorities as a homogenous non-heterosexual group-have obscured understandings of the impact of sexual orienta…
What Social Psychology Can Contribute to the Study of Sex, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
The concepts of sex and gender have received increasing attention in sociology in recent years, with social psychologists providing many of the key insights. Issues of sexual orientation and sexuality have received comparably less attention, although many of the tools social psychologists use could be fruitfully applied to better understand sex, gender, sexual orientation, and the intimate connections between the three. In particular, I outline t…
Best Practices for Estimating, Interpreting, and Presenting Nonlinear Interaction Effects
Many effects of interest to sociologists are nonlinear. Additionally, many effects of interest are interaction effects—that is, the effect of one independent variable is contingent on the level of another independent variable. The proper way to estimate, interpret, and present these two types of effects individually are well known. However, many analyses that combine these two—that is, tests of interaction when the effects of interest are nonline…
A General Framework for Comparing Predictions and Marginal Effects across Models
Many research questions involve comparing predictions or effects across multiple models. For example, it may be of interest whether an independent variable’s effect changes after adding variables to a model. Or, it could be important to compare a variable’s effect on different outcomes or across different types of models. When doing this, marginal effects are a useful method for quantifying effects because they are in the natural metric of the de…
Sexual Orientation in the Labor Market
Most analyses of sexual orientation and earnings find that gay men face a wage gap, whereas lesbian women earn higher wages than similar heterosexual women. However, analyses rarely consider bisexual men and women as a unique group separate from other sexual minorities. I argue that such binary views of sexual orientation-treating sexual minorities as a homogenous non-heterosexual group-have obscured understandings of the impact of sexual orienta…
Precarious Sexuality: How Men and Women Are Differentially Categorized for Similar Sexual Behavior
Are men and women categorized differently for similar sexual behavior? Building on theories of gender, sexuality, and status, we introduce the concept of precarious sexuality to suggest that men's-but not women's-heterosexuality is an especially privileged identity that is easily lost. We test our hypotheses in a series of survey experiments describing a person who has a sexual experience conflicting with their sexual history. We find that a sing…
The Stereotype Content of Sexual Orientation
The stereotype content model provides a powerful tool to examine influential societal stereotypes associated with social groups. We theorize how stereotypes of gender, sexuality, and a group’s status in society combine to influence societal views of sexual orientation groups—placing particular emphasis on stereotypes of warmth and competence. In two survey experiments, we collect quantitative measures of stereotype content and open-response items…
The past, present, and future of experimental methods in the social sciences
Visualizing Shifts in Gendered Parenting Attitudes during Covid-19
Many scholars have expressed fears that the 2019 coronavirus pandemic may exacerbate gender inequalities. Indeed, studies have suggested that women, and mothers in particular, have been particularly affected by reducing their participation in the paid labor market to meet increased caregiving needs. What is less clear is whether the pandemic has also shifted attitudes about mothers' and fathers' roles. We collected data on gendered parenting atti…
Can You Really Study an Army on the Internet? Comparing How Status Tasks Perform in the Laboratory and Online Settings
Laboratory experiments have a long history within sociology, with their ability to test causality and their utility for directly observing behavior providing key advantages. One influential social psychological field, status characteristics and expectation states theory, has almost exclusively used laboratory experiments to test the theory. Unfortunately, laboratory experiments are resource intensive, requiring a research pool, laboratory space, …
Organizational policies, workplace culture, and perceived job commitment of mothers and fathers who take parental leave
Sexual Identity Disclosure among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals
Most research on sexual prejudice explicitly or implicitly assumes that an individual's sexual orientation identity is known to observers. However, there has been little large-scale survey evidence examining differential rates of disclosure among lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals, and there remains much to be studied as to why and when LGB individuals choose to disclose their sexual identity to others. Using data from a nationally repr…
Profiles in health: Multiple roles and health lifestyles in early adulthood
What Social Psychology Can Contribute to the Study of Sex, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
The concepts of sex and gender have received increasing attention in sociology in recent years, with social psychologists providing many of the key insights. Issues of sexual orientation and sexuality have received comparably less attention, although many of the tools social psychologists use could be fruitfully applied to better understand sex, gender, sexual orientation, and the intimate connections between the three. In particular, I outline t…
Does Aggression Deter or Invite Reciprocal Behavior? Considering Coercive Capacity
How do people respond to aggression? Theory differs on whether aggressive behavior deters antagonists or provokes retaliation, and the empirical evidence is mixed. We bridge contradictory findings in the literature by identifying a previously unexamined moderating variable: the extent to which individuals can increase their coercive capability (which we call escalating). We argue that when escalating is costly, aggression deters potential antagon…
The status and stigma consequences of mental illness labels, deviant behavior, and fear
Doing Gender by Criticizing Leaders: Public and Private Displays of Status
Previous work shows that stereotypes influence women’s ability to attain and act in leadership positions, however much less work has examined the role that gendered expectations and stereotypes might play for subordinate behavior and how this might reinforce the gender leadership gap. Drawing on theories of gender and status, I predict gender differences in responses to—and behavior in—subordinate roles. In a series of experimental studies I find…
Role-Accumulation and Mental Health across the Life Course
Decades of research shows that holding and maintaining multiple social roles leads to better mental health and well-being overall, but role-accumulation theory has not proposed or considered whether effects vary at different stages in the life course. Rather, the current theory assumes that social roles' positive influence on mental health should be similar at all ages. In addition, extant work suggests that accumulating roles that are more volun…
Does taking parental leave make you a more likeable worker? Evidence from a survey experiment
Research on perceptions of workers who take paid parental leave largely focuses on the negative consequences associated with leave-taking. However, given widespread support for paid parental leave within the U.S., it is possible that workers may also be viewed positively on certain dimensions for taking parental leave. Using a novel survey experiment that includes vignettes of workers who consider taking paid parental leave (N = 1,625), we consid…
Competence Perceptions at the Intersection of Gender and Race-Ethnicity
Competence perceptions represent a fundamental dimension of human perception and have wide-ranging consequences for social interaction. Therefore, it is no surprise that multiple prominent social psychological theories emphasize the role of competence perceptions. We know that both a person’s gender and race-ethnicity influence assumptions about their competence, but we have only a few studies examining the intersections of these factors. Using a…
What Is the Effect of an Inferred Mental Illness Label on Stigma? Theoretical and Empirical Challenges
One of the strengths of vignette-based experimental research is that it captures the mental illness labeling process in the way it often occurs-inference without full information. Unfortunately, because the process of inferring a label is associated with confounding variables, such as perceived deviance and prior contact, it is difficult to measure the causal effect of inferred mental illness labels. To address these confounding variables, we adv…
Gender Egalitarianism and Attitudes Toward Parental Leave
This paper examines the relationship between gender ideology and attitudes toward parental leave. We use data from two original survey experiments with a total analytic sample of 3332 respondents. Using an experimental design where participants evaluate a new parent’s decision about taking parental leave in light of the employer’s leave policies, and answer attitudinal questions about leave and gender ideology, we assess the associations between …
What Social Psychology Can Contribute to the Study of Sex, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
The concepts of sex and gender have received increasing attention in sociology in recent years, with social psychologists providing many of the key insights. Issues of sexual orientation and sexuality have received comparably less attention, although many of the tools social psychologists use could be fruitfully applied to better understand sex, gender, sexual orientation, and the intimate connections between the three. In particular, I outline t…
Small Groups: Reflections of and Building Blocks for Social Structure
Sexual Orientation in the Labor Market
Most analyses of sexual orientation and earnings find that gay men face a wage gap, whereas lesbian women earn higher wages than similar heterosexual women. However, analyses rarely consider bisexual men and women as a unique group separate from other sexual minorities. I argue that such binary views of sexual orientation-treating sexual minorities as a homogenous non-heterosexual group-have obscured understandings of the impact of sexual orienta…
Does Aggression Deter or Invite Reciprocal Behavior? Considering Coercive Capacity
How do people respond to aggression? Theory differs on whether aggressive behavior deters antagonists or provokes retaliation, and the empirical evidence is mixed. We bridge contradictory findings in the literature by identifying a previously unexamined moderating variable: the extent to which individuals can increase their coercive capability (which we call escalating). We argue that when escalating is costly, aggression deters potential antagon…
Profiles in health: Multiple roles and health lifestyles in early adulthood
The Stereotype Content of Sexual Orientation
The stereotype content model provides a powerful tool to examine influential societal stereotypes associated with social groups. We theorize how stereotypes of gender, sexuality, and a group’s status in society combine to influence societal views of sexual orientation groups—placing particular emphasis on stereotypes of warmth and competence. In two survey experiments, we collect quantitative measures of stereotype content and open-response items…
Precarious Sexuality: How Men and Women Are Differentially Categorized for Similar Sexual Behavior
Are men and women categorized differently for similar sexual behavior? Building on theories of gender, sexuality, and status, we introduce the concept of precarious sexuality to suggest that men's-but not women's-heterosexuality is an especially privileged identity that is easily lost. We test our hypotheses in a series of survey experiments describing a person who has a sexual experience conflicting with their sexual history. We find that a sing…
Best Practices for Estimating, Interpreting, and Presenting Nonlinear Interaction Effects
Many effects of interest to sociologists are nonlinear. Additionally, many effects of interest are interaction effects—that is, the effect of one independent variable is contingent on the level of another independent variable. The proper way to estimate, interpret, and present these two types of effects individually are well known. However, many analyses that combine these two—that is, tests of interaction when the effects of interest are nonline…
A General Framework for Comparing Predictions and Marginal Effects across Models
Many research questions involve comparing predictions or effects across multiple models. For example, it may be of interest whether an independent variable’s effect changes after adding variables to a model. Or, it could be important to compare a variable’s effect on different outcomes or across different types of models. When doing this, marginal effects are a useful method for quantifying effects because they are in the natural metric of the de…
Doing Gender by Criticizing Leaders: Public and Private Displays of Status
Previous work shows that stereotypes influence women’s ability to attain and act in leadership positions, however much less work has examined the role that gendered expectations and stereotypes might play for subordinate behavior and how this might reinforce the gender leadership gap. Drawing on theories of gender and status, I predict gender differences in responses to—and behavior in—subordinate roles. In a series of experimental studies I find…
Sexual Identity Disclosure among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals
Most research on sexual prejudice explicitly or implicitly assumes that an individual's sexual orientation identity is known to observers. However, there has been little large-scale survey evidence examining differential rates of disclosure among lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals, and there remains much to be studied as to why and when LGB individuals choose to disclose their sexual identity to others. Using data from a nationally repr…
Can You Really Study an Army on the Internet? Comparing How Status Tasks Perform in the Laboratory and Online Settings
Laboratory experiments have a long history within sociology, with their ability to test causality and their utility for directly observing behavior providing key advantages. One influential social psychological field, status characteristics and expectation states theory, has almost exclusively used laboratory experiments to test the theory. Unfortunately, laboratory experiments are resource intensive, requiring a research pool, laboratory space, …
Visualizing Shifts in Gendered Parenting Attitudes during Covid-19
Many scholars have expressed fears that the 2019 coronavirus pandemic may exacerbate gender inequalities. Indeed, studies have suggested that women, and mothers in particular, have been particularly affected by reducing their participation in the paid labor market to meet increased caregiving needs. What is less clear is whether the pandemic has also shifted attitudes about mothers' and fathers' roles. We collected data on gendered parenting atti…
The past, present, and future of experimental methods in the social sciences
The status and stigma consequences of mental illness labels, deviant behavior, and fear
Organizational policies, workplace culture, and perceived job commitment of mothers and fathers who take parental leave
Parental leave‐taking and perceptions of workers as good parents
Objective This study examines whether parental leave‐taking affects perceptions of workers as good parents, and whether this relationship varies between mothers and fathers. Background Contemporary parenthood norms promote intensive parenting, but pressures to engage in intensive parenting are more pronounced for mothers than fathers. Paid parental leave policies have the potential to improve gender equality, but only if such policies help to cha…
Gender Egalitarianism and Attitudes Toward Parental Leave
This paper examines the relationship between gender ideology and attitudes toward parental leave. We use data from two original survey experiments with a total analytic sample of 3332 respondents. Using an experimental design where participants evaluate a new parent’s decision about taking parental leave in light of the employer’s leave policies, and answer attitudinal questions about leave and gender ideology, we assess the associations between …
Divergence and Convergence across Presumed and Actual Stereotypes
Stereotypes are foundational to social life, with warmth and competence key to views of social groups. Some theoretical and empirical work on stereotypes focuses on personal “first-order” beliefs about social groups. Other work focuses on perceptions of a culture’s stereotypes, or “generalized second-order” beliefs. Scholars differ in which they consider to have greater impact or whether they think they are unique or represent the same underlying…
What Is the Effect of an Inferred Mental Illness Label on Stigma? Theoretical and Empirical Challenges
One of the strengths of vignette-based experimental research is that it captures the mental illness labeling process in the way it often occurs-inference without full information. Unfortunately, because the process of inferring a label is associated with confounding variables, such as perceived deviance and prior contact, it is difficult to measure the causal effect of inferred mental illness labels. To address these confounding variables, we adv…
Inequality and Total Effect Summary Measures for Nominal and Ordinal Variables
Many of the topics most central to the social sciences involve nominal groupings or ordinal rankings. There are many cases in which a summary of a nominal or ordinal independent variable's effect, or the effect on a nominal or ordinal outcome, is needed and useful for interpretation. For example, for nominal or ordinal independent variables, a single summary measure is useful to compare the effect sizes of different variables in a single model or…
Competence Perceptions at the Intersection of Gender and Race-Ethnicity
Competence perceptions represent a fundamental dimension of human perception and have wide-ranging consequences for social interaction. Therefore, it is no surprise that multiple prominent social psychological theories emphasize the role of competence perceptions. We know that both a person’s gender and race-ethnicity influence assumptions about their competence, but we have only a few studies examining the intersections of these factors. Using a…
Gone too long or back too soon? Perceptions of paid parental leave‐taking and variations by gender and family structure
Objective This study examines perceptions of paid leave‐taking itself and variations in these perceptions by parent gender, sexual orientation, and marital status. Background Previous research largely focuses on the consequences associated with leave‐taking, particularly highlighting workplace penalties associated with leave‐taking. There has also been limited attention to workers with diverse family forms. We seek to better understand the cultur…
Role-Accumulation and Mental Health across the Life Course
Decades of research shows that holding and maintaining multiple social roles leads to better mental health and well-being overall, but role-accumulation theory has not proposed or considered whether effects vary at different stages in the life course. Rather, the current theory assumes that social roles' positive influence on mental health should be similar at all ages. In addition, extant work suggests that accumulating roles that are more volun…
Does taking parental leave make you a more likeable worker? Evidence from a survey experiment
Research on perceptions of workers who take paid parental leave largely focuses on the negative consequences associated with leave-taking. However, given widespread support for paid parental leave within the U.S., it is possible that workers may also be viewed positively on certain dimensions for taking parental leave. Using a novel survey experiment that includes vignettes of workers who consider taking paid parental leave (N = 1,625), we consid…
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