Alan Orenstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 361689 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Orenstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Orenstein |
| SIGNATURE | ORENSTEIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9974-782X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Religion and Paranormal Belief
This article uses a Canadian national sample to examine the relationship between conventional religious belief, church attendance, and belief in paranormal phenomena. Greater religious belief is strongly associated with greater paranormal belief. Church attendance (and other measures of religious participation) are only weakly associated with paranormal belief until conventional religious belief is statistically controlled; once this is done, gre…
Substance Use Among Gay and Lesbian Adolescents
Surveys at a Massachusetts high school used multiple items to identify gay, lesbian, and bisexual teenagers. Students with consistent homosexual preferences had greatly elevated rates of substance use. Those who displayed a homosexual preference but answered less consistently also had somewhat higher rates of substance use but were closer to heterosexual youths than to more consistent homosexual youths. The differences in substance use were least…
My God
The excited utterance exception admits hearsay statements made while the declarant was under the stress or excitement of a particularly startling event, on the theory that such stress or excitement precludes the kind of reflection necessary for the declarant to fabricate, and hence renders such out-of-court statements sufficiently reliable.The excited utterance exception has long been subjected to a psychological critique, which questions the wis…
Doing Sociological Research
Religion and Paranormal Belief
This article uses a Canadian national sample to examine the relationship between conventional religious belief, church attendance, and belief in paranormal phenomena. Greater religious belief is strongly associated with greater paranormal belief. Church attendance (and other measures of religious participation) are only weakly associated with paranormal belief until conventional religious belief is statistically controlled; once this is done, gre…
Substance Use Among Gay and Lesbian Adolescents
Surveys at a Massachusetts high school used multiple items to identify gay, lesbian, and bisexual teenagers. Students with consistent homosexual preferences had greatly elevated rates of substance use. Those who displayed a homosexual preference but answered less consistently also had somewhat higher rates of substance use but were closer to heterosexual youths than to more consistent homosexual youths. The differences in substance use were least…
My God
The excited utterance exception admits hearsay statements made while the declarant was under the stress or excitement of a particularly startling event, on the theory that such stress or excitement precludes the kind of reflection necessary for the declarant to fabricate, and hence renders such out-of-court statements sufficiently reliable.The excited utterance exception has long been subjected to a psychological critique, which questions the wis…
Doing Sociological Research
My God
The excited utterance exception admits hearsay statements made while the declarant was under the stress or excitement of a particularly startling event, on the theory that such stress or excitement precludes the kind of reflection necessary for the declarant to fabricate, and hence renders such out-of-court statements sufficiently reliable.The excited utterance exception has long been subjected to a psychological critique, which questions the wis…
Substance Use Among Gay and Lesbian Adolescents
Surveys at a Massachusetts high school used multiple items to identify gay, lesbian, and bisexual teenagers. Students with consistent homosexual preferences had greatly elevated rates of substance use. Those who displayed a homosexual preference but answered less consistently also had somewhat higher rates of substance use but were closer to heterosexual youths than to more consistent homosexual youths. The differences in substance use were least…
Religion and Paranormal Belief
This article uses a Canadian national sample to examine the relationship between conventional religious belief, church attendance, and belief in paranormal phenomena. Greater religious belief is strongly associated with greater paranormal belief. Church attendance (and other measures of religious participation) are only weakly associated with paranormal belief until conventional religious belief is statistically controlled; once this is done, gre…
Epistemology (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (1 works) · Attendance (1 works) · Belief in God (1 works) · Belief system (1 works) · Church attendance (1 works)