R J Cobb
Biographic Data
| ID | 44283 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R J Cobb |
| GIVEN NAMES | R J |
| FAMILY NAME | Cobb |
| SIGNATURE | COBB R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1775-4621 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 180 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Diversity and Dealignment: Congregational Context and the Weakening of Black Partisan Attachment
This study examines how congregational diversity relates to party identification among Black adults who attend religious services. Although prior research shows that individual religiosity does not differentiate partisan identity among Black Americans as it does among White Americans, scholars have not systematically examined whether organizational contexts of worship predict variation in Black partisanship. Drawing on Ray’s theory of racialized …
Are Interracial Couples at Higher Risk of Multiple Chronic Conditions? Evidence from a Nationally Representative Sample
It’s Complicated: Everyday Discrimination Across the Transition Into Adulthood
Experiences during emerging adulthood hold particular importance for future health and economic well-being. This study uses Panel Study of Income Dynamics Transition into Adulthood Supplement data to explore growth trajectories of perceived discrimination across the transition into adulthood and to examine how gendered racialized group status might shape perceived discrimination among U.S. emerging adult men and women racialized as white, non-His…
Attribution for everyday discrimination typologies and mortality risk among older black adults: Evidence from the health and retirement study
The Relationship between Religion, Substance Misuse, and Mental Health among Black Youth
Studies suggest that religion is a protective factor for substance misuse and mental health concerns among Black/African American youth despite reported declines in their religious involvement. However, few studies have investigated the associations among religion, substance misuse, and mental health among Black youth. Informed by Critical Race Theory, we evaluated the correlations between gender, depression, substance misuse, and unprotected sex…
Race-shifting in the United States: Latinxs, Skin Tone, and Ethnoracial Alignments
In the study, we engage the question of racial "fluidity" by examining patterns of ethnoracial identification in adolescence and, importantly, shifts in ethnoracial identification between adolescence and adulthood using two waves of data from a nationally representative, longitudinal study of adolescents who were in Grades 7 to 12 during the 1994 to 1995 school year. Our theoretical framework draws from social identity theory and brings together …
Romantic Relationship Status, Quality, and Depressive Symptoms Among Middle-Aged and Older Black Women
Our findings extend the body of literature on the impact of romantic relationships on individual well-being and provide compelling evidence that such relationships, particularly those of high quality, are significantly associated with lower depressive symptoms among middle-aged and older Black women
Attributions for Everyday Discrimination and All-Cause Mortality Risk Among Older Black Women: A Latent Class Analysis Approach
Findings underscore the importance of everyday discrimination experiences from multiple sources in shaping all-cause mortality risk among older Black women. Accordingly, this study problematizes the homogenization of Black women in aging research and suggests the need for health interventions that consider Black women's multiplicity of social statuses
Perceived Covid-19 health threat increases psychological distress among Black Americans
The present study used data from the American Trends Panel to examine the interplay between the perceived COVID-19 health threat, discriminatory beliefs in medical settings, and psychological distress among Black Americans. We measured psychological distress as an average of five items modified from two established scales and used self-reports of perceived COVID-19 health threat and beliefs about discrimination in medical settings as focal predic…
Divided by Faith (in Christian America): Christian Nationalism, Race, and Divergent Perceptions of Racial Injustice
Sociologists have long identified a “perception gap” between Black and White Americans regarding racial injustice, often emphasizing either “epistemologies of ignorance” or “religio-cultural” mechanisms. Integrating and extending these insights, we theorize that conceptions of America’s religio-cultural heritage and identity are racially coded and grounded in White supremacy, but only for those atop the racial hierarchy. From this, we predict the…
Parental Educational Attainment, the Superior Temporal Cortical Surface Area, and Reading Ability among American Children: A Test of Marginalization-Related Diminished Returns
While parental educational attainment may improve children's superior temporal cortical surface area, promoting reading ability, this effect may be unequal across racial/ethnic groups. To minimize the racial/ethnic gap in children's brain development and school achievement, we need to address societal barriers that diminish parental educational attainment's marginal returns for middle-class minority families. Social and public policies need to go…
Parents’ Perceived Neighborhood Safety and Children’s Cognitive Performance: Complexities by Race, Ethnicity, and Cognitive Domain
The race/ethnicity of children moderates the association between neighborhood safety and cognitive performance. This becomes more complicated, as the patterns seem to differ across race/ethnicity and cognitive domains. It is unknown whether the observed racial/ethnic variations in the effect of neighborhood safety on cognitive performance are due to neighborhood characteristics such as residential segregation. Addressing neighborhood inequalities…
Discrimination and Hypertension Among Older African Americans and Caribbean Blacks: The Moderating Effects of John Henryism
The findings indicate that JH, in the face of discrimination, is associated with hypertension of older African Americans but may be an effective coping strategy for older Caribbean Blacks due to cultural and sociodemographic differences between the 2 ethnic groups. Future research should investigate the differing mechanisms by which JH influences health in heterogeneous older Black populations
Neighborhood Social Group Participation and Depressive Symptoms Among Mid-to-Late Life Black Americans: Does the Association Differ by Ethnicity
The color of death: Race, observed skin tone, and all-cause mortality in the United States
Objective: This paper examines how mortality covaries with observed skin tone among blacks and in relation to whites. Additionally, the study analyzes the extent to which social factors such as socioeconomic status affect this relationship. Design: This study uses data from the 1982 General Social Survey ( N = 1,689) data linked to the National Death Index until 2008. We use this data to examine the links between race, observed skin tone among bl…
Black Reltrad: Measuring Religious Diversity and Commonality Among African Americans
The Black Church has remained an important topic of scholarly interest for more than a century, but less attention has been devoted to the consequences of contrasting denominational affiliations within the African-American Protestant religious tradition. We advance a new coding scheme that allows researchers to measure and test black affiliates across a range of denominations with roots inside and outside of the greater Black Church. Findings fro…
Self-identified race, socially assigned skin tone, and adult physiological dysregulation: Assessing multiple dimensions of “race” in health disparities research
Exceptional Outgroup Stereotypes and White Racial Inequality Attitudes toward Asian Americans
Stereotypes of outgroups help create social identificational boundaries for ingroups. When the ingroup is dominant, members employ individualist sentiments to justify their status. In this study, we build on advances in social psychological research that account for multiple outgroup stereotypes. We argue the Asian American model minority stereotype is analogous to the "cold but competent" position of perceptions toward Asians in Fiske's stereoty…
Congregational Size and Attitudes towards Racial Inequality among Church Attendees in America
Research suggests that congregational characteristics are associated with the racial attitudes of American churchgoers. This study examines the relationship between congregational size and beliefs about the Black/White socioeconomic gap among religious adherents. Method. Drawing upon data from the General Social Survey and the National Congregations Study, we fit binary logistic regression models to estimate the association between congregational…
United by Faith? Race/Ethnicity, Congregational Diversity, and Explanations of Racial Inequality
This study examines the extent to which the racial composition of a congregation moderates explanations for Black/White inequality among White, Black, and Hispanic congregants. Using nationally representative data from General Social Surveys and National Congregations Studies, we find that religiously affiliated Blacks and Hispanics tend to hold different racial attitudes than religiously affiliated Whites, but these differences largely disappear…
Othering Obama: Racial Attitudes and Dubious Beliefs about the Nation’s First Black President
The literature on descriptive representation indicates that the election of black political leaders may prompt white enmity. We assess this claim by examining the relationship between whites' racial attitudes and their likelihood of othering Barack Obama by labeling him as a Muslim and/or a noncitizen interloper. The findings reveal that both symbolic racial resentment and traditional racial attitudes are associated with othering Obama. In additi…
Blacks and Whites in Christian America: How Racial Discrimination Shapes Religious Convictions
Jason Shelton and Michael Emerson's Blacks and Whites in Christian America: How Racial Discrimination Shapes Religious Convictions is an in-depth examination of the role of racial group membership in the religious lives of Black and White Protestants. To explore these differences, Shelton and Emerson draw on data from two nationally representative surveys, as well as in-depth interviews with Black and White Protestants. In this volume, Shelton an…
Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism by Jonathan L. Walton
United by Faith? Race/Ethnicity, Congregational Diversity, and Explanations of Racial Inequality
This study examines the extent to which the racial composition of a congregation moderates explanations for Black/White inequality among White, Black, and Hispanic congregants. Using nationally representative data from General Social Surveys and National Congregations Studies, we find that religiously affiliated Blacks and Hispanics tend to hold different racial attitudes than religiously affiliated Whites, but these differences largely disappear…
Black Reltrad: Measuring Religious Diversity and Commonality Among African Americans
The Black Church has remained an important topic of scholarly interest for more than a century, but less attention has been devoted to the consequences of contrasting denominational affiliations within the African-American Protestant religious tradition. We advance a new coding scheme that allows researchers to measure and test black affiliates across a range of denominations with roots inside and outside of the greater Black Church. Findings fro…
Self-identified race, socially assigned skin tone, and adult physiological dysregulation: Assessing multiple dimensions of “race” in health disparities research
Race-shifting in the United States: Latinxs, Skin Tone, and Ethnoracial Alignments
In the study, we engage the question of racial "fluidity" by examining patterns of ethnoracial identification in adolescence and, importantly, shifts in ethnoracial identification between adolescence and adulthood using two waves of data from a nationally representative, longitudinal study of adolescents who were in Grades 7 to 12 during the 1994 to 1995 school year. Our theoretical framework draws from social identity theory and brings together …
Exceptional Outgroup Stereotypes and White Racial Inequality Attitudes toward Asian Americans
Stereotypes of outgroups help create social identificational boundaries for ingroups. When the ingroup is dominant, members employ individualist sentiments to justify their status. In this study, we build on advances in social psychological research that account for multiple outgroup stereotypes. We argue the Asian American model minority stereotype is analogous to the "cold but competent" position of perceptions toward Asians in Fiske's stereoty…
Attribution for everyday discrimination typologies and mortality risk among older black adults: Evidence from the health and retirement study
Attributions for Everyday Discrimination and All-Cause Mortality Risk Among Older Black Women: A Latent Class Analysis Approach
Findings underscore the importance of everyday discrimination experiences from multiple sources in shaping all-cause mortality risk among older Black women. Accordingly, this study problematizes the homogenization of Black women in aging research and suggests the need for health interventions that consider Black women's multiplicity of social statuses
Discrimination and Hypertension Among Older African Americans and Caribbean Blacks: The Moderating Effects of John Henryism
The findings indicate that JH, in the face of discrimination, is associated with hypertension of older African Americans but may be an effective coping strategy for older Caribbean Blacks due to cultural and sociodemographic differences between the 2 ethnic groups. Future research should investigate the differing mechanisms by which JH influences health in heterogeneous older Black populations
Romantic Relationship Status, Quality, and Depressive Symptoms Among Middle-Aged and Older Black Women
Our findings extend the body of literature on the impact of romantic relationships on individual well-being and provide compelling evidence that such relationships, particularly those of high quality, are significantly associated with lower depressive symptoms among middle-aged and older Black women
The color of death: Race, observed skin tone, and all-cause mortality in the United States
Objective: This paper examines how mortality covaries with observed skin tone among blacks and in relation to whites. Additionally, the study analyzes the extent to which social factors such as socioeconomic status affect this relationship. Design: This study uses data from the 1982 General Social Survey ( N = 1,689) data linked to the National Death Index until 2008. We use this data to examine the links between race, observed skin tone among bl…
Othering Obama: Racial Attitudes and Dubious Beliefs about the Nation’s First Black President
The literature on descriptive representation indicates that the election of black political leaders may prompt white enmity. We assess this claim by examining the relationship between whites' racial attitudes and their likelihood of othering Barack Obama by labeling him as a Muslim and/or a noncitizen interloper. The findings reveal that both symbolic racial resentment and traditional racial attitudes are associated with othering Obama. In additi…
The Relationship between Religion, Substance Misuse, and Mental Health among Black Youth
Studies suggest that religion is a protective factor for substance misuse and mental health concerns among Black/African American youth despite reported declines in their religious involvement. However, few studies have investigated the associations among religion, substance misuse, and mental health among Black youth. Informed by Critical Race Theory, we evaluated the correlations between gender, depression, substance misuse, and unprotected sex…
Parents’ Perceived Neighborhood Safety and Children’s Cognitive Performance: Complexities by Race, Ethnicity, and Cognitive Domain
The race/ethnicity of children moderates the association between neighborhood safety and cognitive performance. This becomes more complicated, as the patterns seem to differ across race/ethnicity and cognitive domains. It is unknown whether the observed racial/ethnic variations in the effect of neighborhood safety on cognitive performance are due to neighborhood characteristics such as residential segregation. Addressing neighborhood inequalities…
Congregational Size and Attitudes towards Racial Inequality among Church Attendees in America
Research suggests that congregational characteristics are associated with the racial attitudes of American churchgoers. This study examines the relationship between congregational size and beliefs about the Black/White socioeconomic gap among religious adherents. Method. Drawing upon data from the General Social Survey and the National Congregations Study, we fit binary logistic regression models to estimate the association between congregational…
Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism by Jonathan L. Walton
Blacks and Whites in Christian America: How Racial Discrimination Shapes Religious Convictions
Jason Shelton and Michael Emerson's Blacks and Whites in Christian America: How Racial Discrimination Shapes Religious Convictions is an in-depth examination of the role of racial group membership in the religious lives of Black and White Protestants. To explore these differences, Shelton and Emerson draw on data from two nationally representative surveys, as well as in-depth interviews with Black and White Protestants. In this volume, Shelton an…
Othering Obama: Racial Attitudes and Dubious Beliefs about the Nation’s First Black President
The literature on descriptive representation indicates that the election of black political leaders may prompt white enmity. We assess this claim by examining the relationship between whites' racial attitudes and their likelihood of othering Barack Obama by labeling him as a Muslim and/or a noncitizen interloper. The findings reveal that both symbolic racial resentment and traditional racial attitudes are associated with othering Obama. In additi…
Exceptional Outgroup Stereotypes and White Racial Inequality Attitudes toward Asian Americans
Stereotypes of outgroups help create social identificational boundaries for ingroups. When the ingroup is dominant, members employ individualist sentiments to justify their status. In this study, we build on advances in social psychological research that account for multiple outgroup stereotypes. We argue the Asian American model minority stereotype is analogous to the "cold but competent" position of perceptions toward Asians in Fiske's stereoty…
Congregational Size and Attitudes towards Racial Inequality among Church Attendees in America
Research suggests that congregational characteristics are associated with the racial attitudes of American churchgoers. This study examines the relationship between congregational size and beliefs about the Black/White socioeconomic gap among religious adherents. Method. Drawing upon data from the General Social Survey and the National Congregations Study, we fit binary logistic regression models to estimate the association between congregational…
United by Faith? Race/Ethnicity, Congregational Diversity, and Explanations of Racial Inequality
This study examines the extent to which the racial composition of a congregation moderates explanations for Black/White inequality among White, Black, and Hispanic congregants. Using nationally representative data from General Social Surveys and National Congregations Studies, we find that religiously affiliated Blacks and Hispanics tend to hold different racial attitudes than religiously affiliated Whites, but these differences largely disappear…
Self-identified race, socially assigned skin tone, and adult physiological dysregulation: Assessing multiple dimensions of “race” in health disparities research
Black Reltrad: Measuring Religious Diversity and Commonality Among African Americans
The Black Church has remained an important topic of scholarly interest for more than a century, but less attention has been devoted to the consequences of contrasting denominational affiliations within the African-American Protestant religious tradition. We advance a new coding scheme that allows researchers to measure and test black affiliates across a range of denominations with roots inside and outside of the greater Black Church. Findings fro…
The color of death: Race, observed skin tone, and all-cause mortality in the United States
Objective: This paper examines how mortality covaries with observed skin tone among blacks and in relation to whites. Additionally, the study analyzes the extent to which social factors such as socioeconomic status affect this relationship. Design: This study uses data from the 1982 General Social Survey ( N = 1,689) data linked to the National Death Index until 2008. We use this data to examine the links between race, observed skin tone among bl…
Neighborhood Social Group Participation and Depressive Symptoms Among Mid-to-Late Life Black Americans: Does the Association Differ by Ethnicity
Perceived Covid-19 health threat increases psychological distress among Black Americans
The present study used data from the American Trends Panel to examine the interplay between the perceived COVID-19 health threat, discriminatory beliefs in medical settings, and psychological distress among Black Americans. We measured psychological distress as an average of five items modified from two established scales and used self-reports of perceived COVID-19 health threat and beliefs about discrimination in medical settings as focal predic…
Divided by Faith (in Christian America): Christian Nationalism, Race, and Divergent Perceptions of Racial Injustice
Sociologists have long identified a “perception gap” between Black and White Americans regarding racial injustice, often emphasizing either “epistemologies of ignorance” or “religio-cultural” mechanisms. Integrating and extending these insights, we theorize that conceptions of America’s religio-cultural heritage and identity are racially coded and grounded in White supremacy, but only for those atop the racial hierarchy. From this, we predict the…
Parental Educational Attainment, the Superior Temporal Cortical Surface Area, and Reading Ability among American Children: A Test of Marginalization-Related Diminished Returns
While parental educational attainment may improve children's superior temporal cortical surface area, promoting reading ability, this effect may be unequal across racial/ethnic groups. To minimize the racial/ethnic gap in children's brain development and school achievement, we need to address societal barriers that diminish parental educational attainment's marginal returns for middle-class minority families. Social and public policies need to go…
Parents’ Perceived Neighborhood Safety and Children’s Cognitive Performance: Complexities by Race, Ethnicity, and Cognitive Domain
The race/ethnicity of children moderates the association between neighborhood safety and cognitive performance. This becomes more complicated, as the patterns seem to differ across race/ethnicity and cognitive domains. It is unknown whether the observed racial/ethnic variations in the effect of neighborhood safety on cognitive performance are due to neighborhood characteristics such as residential segregation. Addressing neighborhood inequalities…
Discrimination and Hypertension Among Older African Americans and Caribbean Blacks: The Moderating Effects of John Henryism
The findings indicate that JH, in the face of discrimination, is associated with hypertension of older African Americans but may be an effective coping strategy for older Caribbean Blacks due to cultural and sociodemographic differences between the 2 ethnic groups. Future research should investigate the differing mechanisms by which JH influences health in heterogeneous older Black populations
Romantic Relationship Status, Quality, and Depressive Symptoms Among Middle-Aged and Older Black Women
Our findings extend the body of literature on the impact of romantic relationships on individual well-being and provide compelling evidence that such relationships, particularly those of high quality, are significantly associated with lower depressive symptoms among middle-aged and older Black women
Attributions for Everyday Discrimination and All-Cause Mortality Risk Among Older Black Women: A Latent Class Analysis Approach
Findings underscore the importance of everyday discrimination experiences from multiple sources in shaping all-cause mortality risk among older Black women. Accordingly, this study problematizes the homogenization of Black women in aging research and suggests the need for health interventions that consider Black women's multiplicity of social statuses
It’s Complicated: Everyday Discrimination Across the Transition Into Adulthood
Experiences during emerging adulthood hold particular importance for future health and economic well-being. This study uses Panel Study of Income Dynamics Transition into Adulthood Supplement data to explore growth trajectories of perceived discrimination across the transition into adulthood and to examine how gendered racialized group status might shape perceived discrimination among U.S. emerging adult men and women racialized as white, non-His…
Attribution for everyday discrimination typologies and mortality risk among older black adults: Evidence from the health and retirement study
The Relationship between Religion, Substance Misuse, and Mental Health among Black Youth
Studies suggest that religion is a protective factor for substance misuse and mental health concerns among Black/African American youth despite reported declines in their religious involvement. However, few studies have investigated the associations among religion, substance misuse, and mental health among Black youth. Informed by Critical Race Theory, we evaluated the correlations between gender, depression, substance misuse, and unprotected sex…
Race-shifting in the United States: Latinxs, Skin Tone, and Ethnoracial Alignments
In the study, we engage the question of racial "fluidity" by examining patterns of ethnoracial identification in adolescence and, importantly, shifts in ethnoracial identification between adolescence and adulthood using two waves of data from a nationally representative, longitudinal study of adolescents who were in Grades 7 to 12 during the 1994 to 1995 school year. Our theoretical framework draws from social identity theory and brings together …
Are Interracial Couples at Higher Risk of Multiple Chronic Conditions? Evidence from a Nationally Representative Sample
Diversity and Dealignment: Congregational Context and the Weakening of Black Partisan Attachment
This study examines how congregational diversity relates to party identification among Black adults who attend religious services. Although prior research shows that individual religiosity does not differentiate partisan identity among Black Americans as it does among White Americans, scholars have not systematically examined whether organizational contexts of worship predict variation in Black partisanship. Drawing on Ray’s theory of racialized …
Psychology (19 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (13 works) · Demography (10 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Demography (8 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (8 works) · Race (biology (8 works)