L Doan
Biographic Data
| ID | 21447 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Doan |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Doan |
| SIGNATURE | DOAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9875-1037 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 340 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Contrasting public and healthcare worker perspectives on the denial of medical care to trans people in the United States: It's (mostly) about gender
The Daily Lives of Crowdsourced U.S. Respondents: A Time Use Comparison of MTurk, Prolific, and Atus
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) and Prolific are popular online platforms for connecting academic researchers with respondents. A broad literature has sought to assess the extent to which these respondents are representative of the U.S. population in terms of their demographic background, yet no work has assessed the representativeness of their daily lives. The authors provide this analysis by collecting time diaries from 136 MTurk and 156 Proli…
Medical Authority, Trans Exceptionalism, and Americans' Willingness to Believe Claims of Inadequate Training as Justification for the Denial of Care to Trans People
Trans people's gender identity is frequently cited as a source of health care denial, even when it has no bearing on their symptom presentation. A latent belief among health care workers that trans people are fundamentally different from cis people is deeply implicated in the finding that between one fifth and one third of trans people have been denied care because of their gender identity. In this study, the authors use data from a nationally re…
The Sociology of Police Behavior
Black Americans are 3.5 times and Black teenagers are 21 times more likely to be killed by police than their White counterparts. Generally, protective factors such as social class do little to reduce this disparity, as high-income Black Americans are just as likely to be killed by police as low-income Black Americans. Given these outcomes, it is unsurprising that the bulk of sociological research on policing examines disparities in policing outco…
Using experiments to study families and intimate relationships
Social scientists increasingly are using experiments to examine causal processes and mechanisms in their research. Yet, experiments work much better for some research aims than others. Some goals that are of great interest to family scholars, such as testing theoretical arguments, are well-suited to experimental approaches; other goals, such as documenting real-world experiences, may be best served by another research design. Our aim in this arti…
An 'Eye For an Eye' Versus 'Turning The Other Cheek'? The Status Consequences of Revenge and Forgiveness in Intergroup Conflict
Conflict between groups plays a powerful role in shaping social interaction within groups. Within groups, social status-respect, prestige, and deference-organizes, motivates, and stratifies social interaction. Yet, studies exploring how conflict between groups shapes social status within groups are relatively rare. We argue that intergroup conflict creates opportunities for individuals to gain or lose status by demonstrating group commitment. We …
Blurred border or safe harbor? Emotional well-being among sexual and gender minority adults working from home during Covid-19
Loneliness Loves Company, Some More than Others: Social Ties, Form of Engagement, and Their Relation to Loneliness
Although tie strength is a significant theoretical concept in the field, recent work suggests that other dimensions of social ties may be important to consider. We build on this body of work to propose that situational forms of engagement with various interaction partners play a vital role in shaping feelings of loneliness. We anticipate that when engaging in direct forms of engagement (active engagement), the association between different types …
Untangling perceptions of atypical parents
Objective This study examines how the public perceives of five types of “atypical” parents in the United States—single mothers, single fathers, lesbian couples, gay couples, and adoptive parents—including, critically, the factors that contribute to these perceptions. Background Although a handful of studies have considered attitudes toward atypical parents, virtually no studies have considered why people hold the attitudes they do. In addition, f…
To Forgive Is Divine? Morality and the Status Value of Intergroup Revenge and Forgiveness
Intergroup conflict is a costly and persistent aspect of social life, and one that often carries great moral significance for those who participate in it. Ostensibly moral behaviors can provide a path to social status in groups, as when self-sacrificing in-group members gain respect and prestige relative to their peers. This article bridges these two ideas to examine the perceived morality and status worthiness of intergroup revenge and forgivene…
Not All Homes Are Safe: Family Violence Following the Onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Factors Affecting Public Opinion on the Denial of Healthcare to Transgender Persons
Between one-fifth and a third of people who are transgender have been refused treatment by a medical provider due to their gender identity. Yet, we know little about the factors that shape public opinion on this issue. We present results from a nationally representative survey experiment ( N = 4,876) that examines how common justifications issued by providers for the denial of healthcare, and the race and gender identity of the person being denie…
Mothering and Stress during Covid-19: Exploring the Moderating Effects of Employment
Using primary data from the Assessing the Social Consequences of COVID-19 study, the authors examined how the pandemic affected the stress levels of women with and without coresiding minor children (mothers vs. nonmothers), paying special attention to the moderating role of employment status. The ordinary least squares regression results show that following the pandemic outbreak, among full-time working women, mothers reported smaller stress incr…
Government and corporate surveillance: Moral discourse on privacy in the civil sphere
Government-based and corporate-based surveillance have regularly been accused of violating personal privacy, an elemental right in a democratic society. In this comparative study, we examine how the institutional actor behind the privacy violation affects discourse surrounding the violations. Looking at newspaper and blog coverage surrounding two similar invasions of privacy – the NSA espionage programs that Edward Snowden brought to light alongs…
Changes in mental health and well-being are associated with living arrangements with parents during Covid-19 among sexual minority young persons in the U.S
Sexual minority young persons may be at risk for compounding mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic due to their existing vulnerabilities for psychological inequities. Indeed, recent research has documented that sexual minority young persons are experiencing compounding psychiatric effects associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Further, researchers and practitioners hypothesized that sexual minority youth and young adults may experience u…
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, …
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…
When Is Retaliation Respected? Status and Vengefulness in Intergroup and Interpersonal Contexts
The authors investigate how conflict between groups shapes social status within groups. Conflict may create opportunities for individuals to gain or lose status by demonstrating group commitment. Pursuing revenge for an intergroup affront can serve as a source of status in settings characterized by a 'culture of honor' or 'code of the street.' Yet little is known about whether this holds in everyday settings. The authors develop a theoretical acc…
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…
Americans' Perceptions of Transgender People's Sex: Evidence from a National Survey Experiment
Drawing on the first national survey experiment of its kind ( n = 3,922), the authors examine Americans' perceptions of transgender people's sex and the factors that underlie these perceptions. The authors randomly assigned respondents to a vignette condition describing a transgender person whose self-identified gender (i.e., identifies as a man or a woman), age (i.e., adult or teenager), and gender conformity in physical appearance (i.e., confor…
Partner Characteristics and Perceptions of Responsibility for Housework and Child Care
Objective: This study examines how partner characteristics (i.e., relative income, gender, gender expression) causally affect perceptions of responsibility for housework and child care in heterosexual and same-sex couples.Background: Although past research has frequently investigated how couples divide chores and child-care tasks, few studies have examined Americans' normative beliefs about the division of household labor. This is an important ov…
The Path to Gay Rights: How Activism and Coming Out Changed Public Opinion
The degree to which public opinion about lesbians and gay men has changed since the 1980s has been unprecedented. In about three decades, lesbians and gay men went from being the subjects of near universal condemnation to having legal recognition. Lesbians and gay men now serve openly in the public sphere—a far cry from a time when less than half of Americans believed that a gay man should be allowed to be a teacher in the 1970s. What is it about…
Sex-Typed Chores and the City: Gender, Urbanicity, and Housework
How does place structure the gendered division of household labor? Because people's living spaces and lifestyles differ dramatically across urban, suburban, and rural areas, it follows that time spent on household chores may vary across places. In cities, for example, many households do not have vehicles or lawns, and housing units tend to be relatively small. Urban men's and women's time use therefore provides insight into how partners contribut…
The Power of Love: The Role of Emotional Attributions and Standards in Heterosexuals' Attitudes toward Lesbian and Gay Couples
Do people attribute emotions differently to members of various social groups? If so, do these differences have any bearing on formal and informal forms of social recognition? Using data from a nationally representative survey experiment, we examine whether American heterosexuals differentially attribute love to lesbian, gay, and heterosexual couples. We also examine the relationship between how in love lesbian, gay, and heterosexual couples are p…
Health surveillance through social networks
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…
Formal Rights and Informal Privileges for Same-Sex Couples: Evidence from a National Survey Experiment
Attitudes toward gay rights have liberalized over the past few decades, but scholars know less about the extent to which individuals in the United States exhibit subtle forms of prejudice toward lesbians and gays. To help address this issue, we offer a conceptualization of formal rights and informal privileges. Using original data from a nationally representative survey experiment, we examine whether people distinguish between formal rights (e.g.…
Partner Characteristics and Perceptions of Responsibility for Housework and Child Care
Objective: This study examines how partner characteristics (i.e., relative income, gender, gender expression) causally affect perceptions of responsibility for housework and child care in heterosexual and same-sex couples.Background: Although past research has frequently investigated how couples divide chores and child-care tasks, few studies have examined Americans' normative beliefs about the division of household labor. This is an important ov…
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, …
Sex-Typed Chores and the City: Gender, Urbanicity, and Housework
How does place structure the gendered division of household labor? Because people's living spaces and lifestyles differ dramatically across urban, suburban, and rural areas, it follows that time spent on household chores may vary across places. In cities, for example, many households do not have vehicles or lawns, and housing units tend to be relatively small. Urban men's and women's time use therefore provides insight into how partners contribut…
Americans' Perceptions of Transgender People's Sex: Evidence from a National Survey Experiment
Drawing on the first national survey experiment of its kind ( n = 3,922), the authors examine Americans' perceptions of transgender people's sex and the factors that underlie these perceptions. The authors randomly assigned respondents to a vignette condition describing a transgender person whose self-identified gender (i.e., identifies as a man or a woman), age (i.e., adult or teenager), and gender conformity in physical appearance (i.e., confor…
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…
Not All Homes Are Safe: Family Violence Following the Onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Factors Affecting Public Opinion on the Denial of Healthcare to Transgender Persons
Between one-fifth and a third of people who are transgender have been refused treatment by a medical provider due to their gender identity. Yet, we know little about the factors that shape public opinion on this issue. We present results from a nationally representative survey experiment ( N = 4,876) that examines how common justifications issued by providers for the denial of healthcare, and the race and gender identity of the person being denie…
Loneliness Loves Company, Some More than Others: Social Ties, Form of Engagement, and Their Relation to Loneliness
Although tie strength is a significant theoretical concept in the field, recent work suggests that other dimensions of social ties may be important to consider. We build on this body of work to propose that situational forms of engagement with various interaction partners play a vital role in shaping feelings of loneliness. We anticipate that when engaging in direct forms of engagement (active engagement), the association between different types …
The Role of Selection Effects in the Contact Hypothesis: Results from a U.S. National Survey on Sexual Prejudice
The Sociology of Police Behavior
Black Americans are 3.5 times and Black teenagers are 21 times more likely to be killed by police than their White counterparts. Generally, protective factors such as social class do little to reduce this disparity, as high-income Black Americans are just as likely to be killed by police as low-income Black Americans. Given these outcomes, it is unsurprising that the bulk of sociological research on policing examines disparities in policing outco…
Mothering and Stress during Covid-19: Exploring the Moderating Effects of Employment
Using primary data from the Assessing the Social Consequences of COVID-19 study, the authors examined how the pandemic affected the stress levels of women with and without coresiding minor children (mothers vs. nonmothers), paying special attention to the moderating role of employment status. The ordinary least squares regression results show that following the pandemic outbreak, among full-time working women, mothers reported smaller stress incr…
When Is Retaliation Respected? Status and Vengefulness in Intergroup and Interpersonal Contexts
The authors investigate how conflict between groups shapes social status within groups. Conflict may create opportunities for individuals to gain or lose status by demonstrating group commitment. Pursuing revenge for an intergroup affront can serve as a source of status in settings characterized by a 'culture of honor' or 'code of the street.' Yet little is known about whether this holds in everyday settings. The authors develop a theoretical acc…
A Social Model of Persistent Mood States
Researchers have used moods to explain a variety of phenomena, yet the social causes of a mood are unknown. In this article, I present a social model of persistent mood states that argues that interactional characteristics such as the status differences between actors, the perceived responsibility of the other actor, and the reason for an emotional response influence the persistence of an emotional response to a situation. The mechanisms through …
Blurred border or safe harbor? Emotional well-being among sexual and gender minority adults working from home during Covid-19
To Forgive Is Divine? Morality and the Status Value of Intergroup Revenge and Forgiveness
Intergroup conflict is a costly and persistent aspect of social life, and one that often carries great moral significance for those who participate in it. Ostensibly moral behaviors can provide a path to social status in groups, as when self-sacrificing in-group members gain respect and prestige relative to their peers. This article bridges these two ideas to examine the perceived morality and status worthiness of intergroup revenge and forgivene…
Changes in mental health and well-being are associated with living arrangements with parents during Covid-19 among sexual minority young persons in the U.S
Sexual minority young persons may be at risk for compounding mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic due to their existing vulnerabilities for psychological inequities. Indeed, recent research has documented that sexual minority young persons are experiencing compounding psychiatric effects associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Further, researchers and practitioners hypothesized that sexual minority youth and young adults may experience u…
The Secret Battle: Emotional Survival in the Great War. By Michael Roper
Journal Article The Secret Battle: Emotional Survival in the Great War. By Michael Roper. Get access The Secret Battle: Emotional Survival in the Great War. By Michael Roper. Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York, 2009. xvi + 348 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-7918-4, £60.00. Laura Doan Laura Doan University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 20, Iss…
The Daily Lives of Crowdsourced U.S. Respondents: A Time Use Comparison of MTurk, Prolific, and Atus
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) and Prolific are popular online platforms for connecting academic researchers with respondents. A broad literature has sought to assess the extent to which these respondents are representative of the U.S. population in terms of their demographic background, yet no work has assessed the representativeness of their daily lives. The authors provide this analysis by collecting time diaries from 136 MTurk and 156 Proli…
Medical Authority, Trans Exceptionalism, and Americans' Willingness to Believe Claims of Inadequate Training as Justification for the Denial of Care to Trans People
Trans people's gender identity is frequently cited as a source of health care denial, even when it has no bearing on their symptom presentation. A latent belief among health care workers that trans people are fundamentally different from cis people is deeply implicated in the finding that between one fifth and one third of trans people have been denied care because of their gender identity. In this study, the authors use data from a nationally re…
Using experiments to study families and intimate relationships
Social scientists increasingly are using experiments to examine causal processes and mechanisms in their research. Yet, experiments work much better for some research aims than others. Some goals that are of great interest to family scholars, such as testing theoretical arguments, are well-suited to experimental approaches; other goals, such as documenting real-world experiences, may be best served by another research design. Our aim in this arti…
An 'Eye For an Eye' Versus 'Turning The Other Cheek'? The Status Consequences of Revenge and Forgiveness in Intergroup Conflict
Conflict between groups plays a powerful role in shaping social interaction within groups. Within groups, social status-respect, prestige, and deference-organizes, motivates, and stratifies social interaction. Yet, studies exploring how conflict between groups shapes social status within groups are relatively rare. We argue that intergroup conflict creates opportunities for individuals to gain or lose status by demonstrating group commitment. We …
The Secret Battle: Emotional Survival in the Great War. By Michael Roper
Journal Article The Secret Battle: Emotional Survival in the Great War. By Michael Roper. Get access The Secret Battle: Emotional Survival in the Great War. By Michael Roper. Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York, 2009. xvi + 348 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-7918-4, £60.00. Laura Doan Laura Doan University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 20, Iss…
A Social Model of Persistent Mood States
Researchers have used moods to explain a variety of phenomena, yet the social causes of a mood are unknown. In this article, I present a social model of persistent mood states that argues that interactional characteristics such as the status differences between actors, the perceived responsibility of the other actor, and the reason for an emotional response influence the persistence of an emotional response to a situation. The mechanisms through …
Formal Rights and Informal Privileges for Same-Sex Couples: Evidence from a National Survey Experiment
Attitudes toward gay rights have liberalized over the past few decades, but scholars know less about the extent to which individuals in the United States exhibit subtle forms of prejudice toward lesbians and gays. To help address this issue, we offer a conceptualization of formal rights and informal privileges. Using original data from a nationally representative survey experiment, we examine whether people distinguish between formal rights (e.g.…
The Power of Love: The Role of Emotional Attributions and Standards in Heterosexuals' Attitudes toward Lesbian and Gay Couples
Do people attribute emotions differently to members of various social groups? If so, do these differences have any bearing on formal and informal forms of social recognition? Using data from a nationally representative survey experiment, we examine whether American heterosexuals differentially attribute love to lesbian, gay, and heterosexual couples. We also examine the relationship between how in love lesbian, gay, and heterosexual couples are p…
Health surveillance through social networks
The Role of Selection Effects in the Contact Hypothesis: Results from a U.S. National Survey on Sexual Prejudice
Sex-Typed Chores and the City: Gender, Urbanicity, and Housework
How does place structure the gendered division of household labor? Because people's living spaces and lifestyles differ dramatically across urban, suburban, and rural areas, it follows that time spent on household chores may vary across places. In cities, for example, many households do not have vehicles or lawns, and housing units tend to be relatively small. Urban men's and women's time use therefore provides insight into how partners contribut…
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…
Americans' Perceptions of Transgender People's Sex: Evidence from a National Survey Experiment
Drawing on the first national survey experiment of its kind ( n = 3,922), the authors examine Americans' perceptions of transgender people's sex and the factors that underlie these perceptions. The authors randomly assigned respondents to a vignette condition describing a transgender person whose self-identified gender (i.e., identifies as a man or a woman), age (i.e., adult or teenager), and gender conformity in physical appearance (i.e., confor…
Partner Characteristics and Perceptions of Responsibility for Housework and Child Care
Objective: This study examines how partner characteristics (i.e., relative income, gender, gender expression) causally affect perceptions of responsibility for housework and child care in heterosexual and same-sex couples.Background: Although past research has frequently investigated how couples divide chores and child-care tasks, few studies have examined Americans' normative beliefs about the division of household labor. This is an important ov…
The Path to Gay Rights: How Activism and Coming Out Changed Public Opinion
The degree to which public opinion about lesbians and gay men has changed since the 1980s has been unprecedented. In about three decades, lesbians and gay men went from being the subjects of near universal condemnation to having legal recognition. Lesbians and gay men now serve openly in the public sphere—a far cry from a time when less than half of Americans believed that a gay man should be allowed to be a teacher in the 1970s. What is it about…
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…
When Is Retaliation Respected? Status and Vengefulness in Intergroup and Interpersonal Contexts
The authors investigate how conflict between groups shapes social status within groups. Conflict may create opportunities for individuals to gain or lose status by demonstrating group commitment. Pursuing revenge for an intergroup affront can serve as a source of status in settings characterized by a 'culture of honor' or 'code of the street.' Yet little is known about whether this holds in everyday settings. The authors develop a theoretical acc…
Government and corporate surveillance: Moral discourse on privacy in the civil sphere
Government-based and corporate-based surveillance have regularly been accused of violating personal privacy, an elemental right in a democratic society. In this comparative study, we examine how the institutional actor behind the privacy violation affects discourse surrounding the violations. Looking at newspaper and blog coverage surrounding two similar invasions of privacy – the NSA espionage programs that Edward Snowden brought to light alongs…
Changes in mental health and well-being are associated with living arrangements with parents during Covid-19 among sexual minority young persons in the U.S
Sexual minority young persons may be at risk for compounding mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic due to their existing vulnerabilities for psychological inequities. Indeed, recent research has documented that sexual minority young persons are experiencing compounding psychiatric effects associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Further, researchers and practitioners hypothesized that sexual minority youth and young adults may experience u…
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, …
Untangling perceptions of atypical parents
Objective This study examines how the public perceives of five types of “atypical” parents in the United States—single mothers, single fathers, lesbian couples, gay couples, and adoptive parents—including, critically, the factors that contribute to these perceptions. Background Although a handful of studies have considered attitudes toward atypical parents, virtually no studies have considered why people hold the attitudes they do. In addition, f…
To Forgive Is Divine? Morality and the Status Value of Intergroup Revenge and Forgiveness
Intergroup conflict is a costly and persistent aspect of social life, and one that often carries great moral significance for those who participate in it. Ostensibly moral behaviors can provide a path to social status in groups, as when self-sacrificing in-group members gain respect and prestige relative to their peers. This article bridges these two ideas to examine the perceived morality and status worthiness of intergroup revenge and forgivene…
Not All Homes Are Safe: Family Violence Following the Onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Factors Affecting Public Opinion on the Denial of Healthcare to Transgender Persons
Between one-fifth and a third of people who are transgender have been refused treatment by a medical provider due to their gender identity. Yet, we know little about the factors that shape public opinion on this issue. We present results from a nationally representative survey experiment ( N = 4,876) that examines how common justifications issued by providers for the denial of healthcare, and the race and gender identity of the person being denie…
Mothering and Stress during Covid-19: Exploring the Moderating Effects of Employment
Using primary data from the Assessing the Social Consequences of COVID-19 study, the authors examined how the pandemic affected the stress levels of women with and without coresiding minor children (mothers vs. nonmothers), paying special attention to the moderating role of employment status. The ordinary least squares regression results show that following the pandemic outbreak, among full-time working women, mothers reported smaller stress incr…
Blurred border or safe harbor? Emotional well-being among sexual and gender minority adults working from home during Covid-19
Loneliness Loves Company, Some More than Others: Social Ties, Form of Engagement, and Their Relation to Loneliness
Although tie strength is a significant theoretical concept in the field, recent work suggests that other dimensions of social ties may be important to consider. We build on this body of work to propose that situational forms of engagement with various interaction partners play a vital role in shaping feelings of loneliness. We anticipate that when engaging in direct forms of engagement (active engagement), the association between different types …
Medical Authority, Trans Exceptionalism, and Americans' Willingness to Believe Claims of Inadequate Training as Justification for the Denial of Care to Trans People
Trans people's gender identity is frequently cited as a source of health care denial, even when it has no bearing on their symptom presentation. A latent belief among health care workers that trans people are fundamentally different from cis people is deeply implicated in the finding that between one fifth and one third of trans people have been denied care because of their gender identity. In this study, the authors use data from a nationally re…
The Sociology of Police Behavior
Black Americans are 3.5 times and Black teenagers are 21 times more likely to be killed by police than their White counterparts. Generally, protective factors such as social class do little to reduce this disparity, as high-income Black Americans are just as likely to be killed by police as low-income Black Americans. Given these outcomes, it is unsurprising that the bulk of sociological research on policing examines disparities in policing outco…
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