Jennifer L Lambe
Biographic Data
| ID | 520285 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer L Lambe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer L |
| FAMILY NAME | Lambe |
| SIGNATURE | LAMBE J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Our Comrades in Havana: Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, 1959–1991
The Communist Closet: Secrecy, Sexuality, and Ideology in the Cuban Cold War
Why were homosexuality and Communism so closely knit together in the discursive logic of the Cold War? This article explores the convergence of sexuality and ideology in scholarly and popular conversations about the Cuban Revolution. These included a transnational panic over the purported links between homosexuality and Communism, psychiatric efforts in Cuba and the Cuban exile community to link homosexuality to suspicious ideological affiliation…
How Things Fall Apart: What Happened to the Cuban Revolution
How Things Fall Apart: What Happened to the Cuban Revolution sets out to relate the last three decades of Cuban history through the voices of seven “ordinary” Cubans. Sensitively rendered by Elizabeth Dore, their stories are presented in the spirit of revising, if not directly countering, the revolution's “official story” as curated by senior island officials. If such goals are not unique to this book, the research that inspired it—broad-based or…
Television News Media Consumption and Misperceptions about Covid-19 among US Populations at High Risk for Severe Health Outcomes Early in the Pandemic
Research indicates that misperceptions that become part of people’s initial mental models about an issue tend to persist and influence their attitudes even after the misperception has been corrected. Recent work on evolving mental models suggests that communication efforts about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath may be improved by crafting messages that acknowledge biases and misunderstandings about the virus and other infectious di…
Uncertainty Management and Curve Flattening Behaviors in the Wake of Covid-19’s First Wave
The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak poses a substantial threat to public health. Individual efforts to engage in COVID-19 precautionary behaviors are necessary to flatten the pandemic's curve in the waiting period before a vaccine is developed. This study sought to apply the Theory of Motivated Information Management to investigate the relationships among COVID-19 illness uncertainty, information management, and actual precautionary behaviors, bo…
Historicizing Sexuality in the Cuban Revolution
What should be the place of the Cuban Republic in histories of sexuality under the revolution? This essay argues that scholarly accounts of gender and sexuality in post-1959 Cuba want for a fuller engagement with their pre-1959 context. In particular, it seeks to open up a conversation about questions and topics in the history of sexuality that might straddle the 1959 divide, as well as the historiographical (and political) consequences of writin…
The Revolution from Within: Cuba, 1959–1980
Revolution from Within: Cuba, 1959-1980
Filial Phantasmagoria: The Apocryphal Sons of Antonio Maceo (Father of the Cuban Nation)
Antonio Maceo Grajales (1845-1896) is one of the most celebrated heroes of Cuban independence. Though he died before he could see the dawn of a sovereign, if U.S.-occupied, Cuba, Maceo would become an important node of nationalist commemoration. Throughout this process, Maceo's blackness represented both a source of his prestige-the struggle against African slavery had been intimately tied to independence-and a barometer of lingering racial inequ…
Pablo F. Gómez. The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic
Pablo F. Gómez begins the fifth chapter of The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic by invoking two medical cabinets: the first, the modest property of a ship-based barber-surgeon, and the second, “arguably the largest pharmacy in the early modern Caribbean,” owned by the Jesuit College in Cartagena de Indias (118). The two cabinets offer a suggestive metaphor for the objectives of Gómez’s excellent …
Explaining Public Opinion toward Transgender People, Rights, and Candidates
What explains public opinion toward transgender people, rights, and candidates? Drawing on original data from a national telephone survey of US adults, this study explains attitudes regarding (1) the personal characteristics of transgender people; (2) a variety of transgender rights; and (3) transgender candidates for public office, measured through a randomized experiment included in the survey. Results indicate majority support on most policy q…
Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History
On the outskirts of Havana lies Mazorra, an asylum known to—and at times feared by—ordinary Cubans for over a century. Since its founding in 1857, the island’s first psychiatric hospital has been an object of persistent political attention. Drawing on hospital documents and government records, as well as the popular press, photographs, and oral histories, Jennifer L. Lambe charts the connections between the inner workings of this notorious instit…
Polls and Elections Public Perceptions Regarding the Authenticity of the 2012 Presidential Candidates
Public perceptions of candidates' personality traits play important roles in shaping vote choice. Previous accounts point to authenticity as one key trait, but little research has systematically investigated perceptions regarding candidate authenticity. This study uses data from a telephone survey to show that political predispositions (trust, external efficacy, interest, partisanship, and ideology), and television news use (broadcast and cable) …
Public Attitudes About Government Involvement in Expressive Controversies
The purpose of this study is to identify segments of the public in terms of their attitudes about the permissibility of government censorship. Secondary analysis is conducted on 3 existing data sets that included J. L. Lambe's Willingness to Censor (WTC) scale (2002). Cluster analysis identifies 3 groups with different conceptions of the proper role of the government with regard to expressive controversies: Protectors who want the government to p…
Understanding Third-Person Perception Processes: Predicting Perceived Impact on Self and Others for Multiple Expressive Contexts
This article examines the role of message context in third-person perceptions. Results challenge the assumption that context desirability is linearly related to the magnitude of self-other disparities. Rather, the interplay between message context and specific “others” who may be in the audience is an important determinant. Judgments about perceived exposure are one way this interplay manifests itself, but stereotypes about the relative susceptib…
Explaining Public Opinion toward Transgender People, Rights, and Candidates
What explains public opinion toward transgender people, rights, and candidates? Drawing on original data from a national telephone survey of US adults, this study explains attitudes regarding (1) the personal characteristics of transgender people; (2) a variety of transgender rights; and (3) transgender candidates for public office, measured through a randomized experiment included in the survey. Results indicate majority support on most policy q…
Polls and Elections Public Perceptions Regarding the Authenticity of the 2012 Presidential Candidates
Public perceptions of candidates' personality traits play important roles in shaping vote choice. Previous accounts point to authenticity as one key trait, but little research has systematically investigated perceptions regarding candidate authenticity. This study uses data from a telephone survey to show that political predispositions (trust, external efficacy, interest, partisanship, and ideology), and television news use (broadcast and cable) …
The Communist Closet: Secrecy, Sexuality, and Ideology in the Cuban Cold War
Why were homosexuality and Communism so closely knit together in the discursive logic of the Cold War? This article explores the convergence of sexuality and ideology in scholarly and popular conversations about the Cuban Revolution. These included a transnational panic over the purported links between homosexuality and Communism, psychiatric efforts in Cuba and the Cuban exile community to link homosexuality to suspicious ideological affiliation…
Historicizing Sexuality in the Cuban Revolution
What should be the place of the Cuban Republic in histories of sexuality under the revolution? This essay argues that scholarly accounts of gender and sexuality in post-1959 Cuba want for a fuller engagement with their pre-1959 context. In particular, it seeks to open up a conversation about questions and topics in the history of sexuality that might straddle the 1959 divide, as well as the historiographical (and political) consequences of writin…
Understanding Third-Person Perception Processes: Predicting Perceived Impact on Self and Others for Multiple Expressive Contexts
This article examines the role of message context in third-person perceptions. Results challenge the assumption that context desirability is linearly related to the magnitude of self-other disparities. Rather, the interplay between message context and specific “others” who may be in the audience is an important determinant. Judgments about perceived exposure are one way this interplay manifests itself, but stereotypes about the relative susceptib…
Public Attitudes About Government Involvement in Expressive Controversies
The purpose of this study is to identify segments of the public in terms of their attitudes about the permissibility of government censorship. Secondary analysis is conducted on 3 existing data sets that included J. L. Lambe's Willingness to Censor (WTC) scale (2002). Cluster analysis identifies 3 groups with different conceptions of the proper role of the government with regard to expressive controversies: Protectors who want the government to p…
Polls and Elections Public Perceptions Regarding the Authenticity of the 2012 Presidential Candidates
Public perceptions of candidates' personality traits play important roles in shaping vote choice. Previous accounts point to authenticity as one key trait, but little research has systematically investigated perceptions regarding candidate authenticity. This study uses data from a telephone survey to show that political predispositions (trust, external efficacy, interest, partisanship, and ideology), and television news use (broadcast and cable) …
Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History
On the outskirts of Havana lies Mazorra, an asylum known to—and at times feared by—ordinary Cubans for over a century. Since its founding in 1857, the island’s first psychiatric hospital has been an object of persistent political attention. Drawing on hospital documents and government records, as well as the popular press, photographs, and oral histories, Jennifer L. Lambe charts the connections between the inner workings of this notorious instit…
Pablo F. Gómez. The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic
Pablo F. Gómez begins the fifth chapter of The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic by invoking two medical cabinets: the first, the modest property of a ship-based barber-surgeon, and the second, “arguably the largest pharmacy in the early modern Caribbean,” owned by the Jesuit College in Cartagena de Indias (118). The two cabinets offer a suggestive metaphor for the objectives of Gómez’s excellent …
Explaining Public Opinion toward Transgender People, Rights, and Candidates
What explains public opinion toward transgender people, rights, and candidates? Drawing on original data from a national telephone survey of US adults, this study explains attitudes regarding (1) the personal characteristics of transgender people; (2) a variety of transgender rights; and (3) transgender candidates for public office, measured through a randomized experiment included in the survey. Results indicate majority support on most policy q…
The Revolution from Within: Cuba, 1959–1980
Revolution from Within: Cuba, 1959-1980
Filial Phantasmagoria: The Apocryphal Sons of Antonio Maceo (Father of the Cuban Nation)
Antonio Maceo Grajales (1845-1896) is one of the most celebrated heroes of Cuban independence. Though he died before he could see the dawn of a sovereign, if U.S.-occupied, Cuba, Maceo would become an important node of nationalist commemoration. Throughout this process, Maceo's blackness represented both a source of his prestige-the struggle against African slavery had been intimately tied to independence-and a barometer of lingering racial inequ…
Historicizing Sexuality in the Cuban Revolution
What should be the place of the Cuban Republic in histories of sexuality under the revolution? This essay argues that scholarly accounts of gender and sexuality in post-1959 Cuba want for a fuller engagement with their pre-1959 context. In particular, it seeks to open up a conversation about questions and topics in the history of sexuality that might straddle the 1959 divide, as well as the historiographical (and political) consequences of writin…
Uncertainty Management and Curve Flattening Behaviors in the Wake of Covid-19’s First Wave
The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak poses a substantial threat to public health. Individual efforts to engage in COVID-19 precautionary behaviors are necessary to flatten the pandemic's curve in the waiting period before a vaccine is developed. This study sought to apply the Theory of Motivated Information Management to investigate the relationships among COVID-19 illness uncertainty, information management, and actual precautionary behaviors, bo…
Television News Media Consumption and Misperceptions about Covid-19 among US Populations at High Risk for Severe Health Outcomes Early in the Pandemic
Research indicates that misperceptions that become part of people’s initial mental models about an issue tend to persist and influence their attitudes even after the misperception has been corrected. Recent work on evolving mental models suggests that communication efforts about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath may be improved by crafting messages that acknowledge biases and misunderstandings about the virus and other infectious di…
The Communist Closet: Secrecy, Sexuality, and Ideology in the Cuban Cold War
Why were homosexuality and Communism so closely knit together in the discursive logic of the Cold War? This article explores the convergence of sexuality and ideology in scholarly and popular conversations about the Cuban Revolution. These included a transnational panic over the purported links between homosexuality and Communism, psychiatric efforts in Cuba and the Cuban exile community to link homosexuality to suspicious ideological affiliation…
How Things Fall Apart: What Happened to the Cuban Revolution
How Things Fall Apart: What Happened to the Cuban Revolution sets out to relate the last three decades of Cuban history through the voices of seven “ordinary” Cubans. Sensitively rendered by Elizabeth Dore, their stories are presented in the spirit of revising, if not directly countering, the revolution's “official story” as curated by senior island officials. If such goals are not unique to this book, the research that inspired it—broad-based or…
Our Comrades in Havana: Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, 1959–1991
Cuban History and Society (7 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (3 works) · Public opinion (3 works)