Stacey S Horn
Biographic Data
| ID | 5758182 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stacey S Horn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stacey S |
| FAMILY NAME | Horn |
| SIGNATURE | HORN S S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1081-6575 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 179 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Unifying human development and family science: Navigating identity challenges in higher education
Co-Guest editors Ramona Faith Oswald and Anisa Zvonkovic invited us to comment on the article by Dyer (2024) in the special issue, Theorizing Academia: Critical and Futuristic Perspectives. In her article, Dyer, as a faculty member at a highly regarded teaching-focused state university, offers her perspective on how Human Development and Family Science evolved from Home Economics. We agree with many of Dyer's thoughts, but our perspective deviate…
Developmental changes in young people's evaluations of sexual harassment
Using an accelerated longitudinal design, we investigated developmental changes in young peoples’ evaluations of sexual harassment (SH) and how young peoples’ own experiences with harassment, their perceptions of teacher intervention, as well as how gender and sexual orientation related to their judgments. This study documented significant changes in adolescents’ evaluations of peer‐based SH from grades 7 to 10. Overall, there was a significant d…
Adolescents’ Judgment of Homophobic Name-Calling: The Role of Peer/Friend Context and Emotional Response
Participatory action research to address aging out of LGBTQ-supportive youth programs in Chicago
LGBTQ-supportive youth programs provide access to critical resources and social support in identity-affirming environments. In Chicago, Illinois, an informal network of LGTBQ-supportive youth programs in the city’s white, middle-class, gay enclave, Boystown, draws predominately low-income youth of color from across the city who seek emergency shelter, housing, educational assistance, mental health counseling, space to build community with peers, …
Bullied and Punished: Exploring the Links between Bullying and Discipline for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth
This study investigated connections between sexual and gender minority youths' (SGMY) experiences with bullying victimization and their experiences with punishment. We interviewed 20 diverse adolescents (X = 18.45) about their experiences with bullying and school discipline. Using a qualitative mapping technique, we analyzed the pathways between victimization and punishment that emerged from our participants' narratives. Our analyses revealed tha…
Youth's motivations for using homophobic and misogynistic language
A diverse group of adolescents (N = 41) from a large city in the Midwestern United States participated in focus groups about misogynistic and homophobic language. Our qualitative analysis yielded two major themes. First, participants discussed this language as a way to regulate peers' conformity to norms related to gender and sexuality. Second, participants spoke about the importance of the relationship between individuals using this language in …
Gay-Straight Alliances as Settings for Youth Inclusion and Development: Future Conceptual and Methodological Directions for Research on These and Other Student Groups in Schools
Outside the immediate classroom setting, efforts within other school spaces also can shape school climate, address inequality, and affect student performance. Nevertheless, in this respect there has been little research on school-based extracurricular groups focused on issues of social inclusion and justice. An exception to this lack of focus has been Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs), which promote social inclusion and justice for sexual and gender …
Equity and Justice in Developmental Science: Implications for Young People, Families, and Communities
Equity and Justice in Developmental Science: Theoretical and Methodological Issues
Adolescents’ beliefs about harm, wrongness, and school policies as predictors of sexual and gender-based harassment
This study investigated the relationship among adolescents’ (n = 621) reports of perpetrating sexual and gender-based harassment and their beliefs about whether these behaviors cause harm, are wrong, or are prohibited by school policies. Results evidenced that beliefs about wrongness and harm were r
Condoning discrimination: The effects of dominance and authoritarianism are moderated by different ways of reasoning about antigay discriminatory acts
Many studies have focused on mediated paths by which social dominance orientation (SDO) and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) predict prejudice; fewer have identified factors that moderate their effects. We applied social cognitive domain theory to test whether different ways of reasoning about antigay discriminatory acts moderated the association between SDO, RWA, and condoning antigay discrimination. Moral reasoning (e.g., emphasizing fairness,…
Parents’ Attitudes About Safe Schools Policies and Practices: Repositioning Parents as Youth Allies Through a Rights-Based Framework
Do Adolescents' Evaluations of Exclusion Differ Based on Gender Expression and Sexual Orientation
Previous research focused on sexual prejudice has shown that lesbian and gay adolescents are at greater risk of peer harassment and victimization than their straight counterparts. Peer victimization such as exclusion, however, may also be related to conventional expectations adolescents hold about their social environment. This study examined adolescents’ ( N = 1069) attitudes and reasoning about the exclusion of peers based on sexual orientation…
Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gays Among American and Dutch Adolescents
Attitudes toward lesbians and gays vary across national populations, and previous research has found relatively more accepting attitudes in the Netherlands as compared to the United States. In this study, we compared beliefs about and attitudes toward lesbians and gays in samples of Dutch and American heterosexual adolescents, utilizing survey data from 1,080 American adolescents (mean age = 15.86 years) attending two schools and from 1,391 Dutch…
School Differences in Heterosexual Students' Attitudes About Homosexuality and Prejudice Based on Sexual Orientation
In this study, we investigated the relationships between school context and heterosexual adolescents' social reasoning regarding same-sex sexuality and sexual prejudice. One thousand seventy-six adolescents (Female, n=648; Male, n=428) attending two
Special Issue Introduction: New Research on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth: Studying Lives in Context
Intergroup Contact and Beliefs about Homosexuality in Adolescence
Charting the Landscape of Children's Rights
This issue of the Journal of Social Issues presents current theory, research, and methodological considerations pertaining to “Young People's Perspectives on the Rights of the Child.” The following brief introduction charts the landscape of children's rights by outlining the purpose and goals of the issue, provides a short historical overview on the topic, sets the context for the individual articles, and highlights the recurring themes making up…
Schooling, Sexuality, and Rights: An Investigation of Heterosexual Students' Social Cognition Regarding Sexual Orientation and the Rights of Gay and Lesbian Peers in School
Within the United States, protecting the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students in school elicits much controversy and debate. On one side is the argument that all students should be able to receive an education free from discrimination, harassment, and harm. On the other side is the argument that by protecting LGBT students ' rights, schools are infringing on the rights of others to their individual beliefs about homos…
Activism in the schools: Providing LGBTQ affirmative training to school counselors
Adolescents’ Acceptance of Same-Sex Peers Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression
Heterosexual adolescents’ and young adults’ beliefs and attitudes about homosexuality and gay and lesbian peers
Mean Girls or Cultural Stereotypes
Social Reasoning about Racial Exclusion in Intimate and Nonintimate Relationships
This research investigated the contextual nature of decisions about racial exclusion by analyzing why individuals might be willing to accept members of other racial groups into some types of social relationships but nevertheless exclude them from other types of relationships. Our analysis examined the underlying reasoning processes used to make such decisions. We conducted two studies to test the types of reasoning used by young adults regarding …
Shifting Mosaics
Adolescents' reasoning about exclusion from social groups
Ninth- and 11th-grade students (N = 379) were surveyed regarding their evaluations of excluding someone from a social group solely on the basis of his or her social reference group membership. Individuals evaluated exclusion in ambiguous and nonambiguous situations. Judgments and reasoning about exclusion were compared with judgments and reasoning about a more prototypically moral situation (denial of resources). Overall, participants evaluated e…
Intergroup Contact and Beliefs about Homosexuality in Adolescence
Gay-Straight Alliances as Settings for Youth Inclusion and Development: Future Conceptual and Methodological Directions for Research on These and Other Student Groups in Schools
Outside the immediate classroom setting, efforts within other school spaces also can shape school climate, address inequality, and affect student performance. Nevertheless, in this respect there has been little research on school-based extracurricular groups focused on issues of social inclusion and justice. An exception to this lack of focus has been Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs), which promote social inclusion and justice for sexual and gender …
Special Issue Introduction: New Research on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth: Studying Lives in Context
Do Adolescents' Evaluations of Exclusion Differ Based on Gender Expression and Sexual Orientation
Previous research focused on sexual prejudice has shown that lesbian and gay adolescents are at greater risk of peer harassment and victimization than their straight counterparts. Peer victimization such as exclusion, however, may also be related to conventional expectations adolescents hold about their social environment. This study examined adolescents’ ( N = 1069) attitudes and reasoning about the exclusion of peers based on sexual orientation…
Charting the Landscape of Children's Rights
This issue of the Journal of Social Issues presents current theory, research, and methodological considerations pertaining to “Young People's Perspectives on the Rights of the Child.” The following brief introduction charts the landscape of children's rights by outlining the purpose and goals of the issue, provides a short historical overview on the topic, sets the context for the individual articles, and highlights the recurring themes making up…
Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gays Among American and Dutch Adolescents
Attitudes toward lesbians and gays vary across national populations, and previous research has found relatively more accepting attitudes in the Netherlands as compared to the United States. In this study, we compared beliefs about and attitudes toward lesbians and gays in samples of Dutch and American heterosexual adolescents, utilizing survey data from 1,080 American adolescents (mean age = 15.86 years) attending two schools and from 1,391 Dutch…
The Influence of Group Stereotypes on Adolescents’ Moral Reasoning
The purpose for this study was to investigate adolescents’judgments about the appropriate punishment of other adolescents for accused transgressions in situations where stereotype information was present or absent. Ninety-two male and 85 female, predominantly European-American, ninth-grade adolescents made judgments about the appropriateness of punishing members of social reference groups for accused transgressions about which there was no clear …
Developmental changes in young people's evaluations of sexual harassment
Using an accelerated longitudinal design, we investigated developmental changes in young peoples’ evaluations of sexual harassment (SH) and how young peoples’ own experiences with harassment, their perceptions of teacher intervention, as well as how gender and sexual orientation related to their judgments. This study documented significant changes in adolescents’ evaluations of peer‐based SH from grades 7 to 10. Overall, there was a significant d…
Schooling, Sexuality, and Rights: An Investigation of Heterosexual Students' Social Cognition Regarding Sexual Orientation and the Rights of Gay and Lesbian Peers in School
Within the United States, protecting the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students in school elicits much controversy and debate. On one side is the argument that all students should be able to receive an education free from discrimination, harassment, and harm. On the other side is the argument that by protecting LGBT students ' rights, schools are infringing on the rights of others to their individual beliefs about homos…
Condoning discrimination: The effects of dominance and authoritarianism are moderated by different ways of reasoning about antigay discriminatory acts
Many studies have focused on mediated paths by which social dominance orientation (SDO) and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) predict prejudice; fewer have identified factors that moderate their effects. We applied social cognitive domain theory to test whether different ways of reasoning about antigay discriminatory acts moderated the association between SDO, RWA, and condoning antigay discrimination. Moral reasoning (e.g., emphasizing fairness,…
Youth's motivations for using homophobic and misogynistic language
A diverse group of adolescents (N = 41) from a large city in the Midwestern United States participated in focus groups about misogynistic and homophobic language. Our qualitative analysis yielded two major themes. First, participants discussed this language as a way to regulate peers' conformity to norms related to gender and sexuality. Second, participants spoke about the importance of the relationship between individuals using this language in …
Unifying human development and family science: Navigating identity challenges in higher education
Co-Guest editors Ramona Faith Oswald and Anisa Zvonkovic invited us to comment on the article by Dyer (2024) in the special issue, Theorizing Academia: Critical and Futuristic Perspectives. In her article, Dyer, as a faculty member at a highly regarded teaching-focused state university, offers her perspective on how Human Development and Family Science evolved from Home Economics. We agree with many of Dyer's thoughts, but our perspective deviate…
Participatory action research to address aging out of LGBTQ-supportive youth programs in Chicago
LGBTQ-supportive youth programs provide access to critical resources and social support in identity-affirming environments. In Chicago, Illinois, an informal network of LGTBQ-supportive youth programs in the city’s white, middle-class, gay enclave, Boystown, draws predominately low-income youth of color from across the city who seek emergency shelter, housing, educational assistance, mental health counseling, space to build community with peers, …
Bullied and Punished: Exploring the Links between Bullying and Discipline for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth
This study investigated connections between sexual and gender minority youths' (SGMY) experiences with bullying victimization and their experiences with punishment. We interviewed 20 diverse adolescents (X = 18.45) about their experiences with bullying and school discipline. Using a qualitative mapping technique, we analyzed the pathways between victimization and punishment that emerged from our participants' narratives. Our analyses revealed tha…
Adolescents’ beliefs about harm, wrongness, and school policies as predictors of sexual and gender-based harassment
This study investigated the relationship among adolescents’ (n = 621) reports of perpetrating sexual and gender-based harassment and their beliefs about whether these behaviors cause harm, are wrong, or are prohibited by school policies. Results evidenced that beliefs about wrongness and harm were r
Adolescents’ Acceptance of Same-Sex Peers Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression
Social Reasoning about Racial Exclusion in Intimate and Nonintimate Relationships
This research investigated the contextual nature of decisions about racial exclusion by analyzing why individuals might be willing to accept members of other racial groups into some types of social relationships but nevertheless exclude them from other types of relationships. Our analysis examined the underlying reasoning processes used to make such decisions. We conducted two studies to test the types of reasoning used by young adults regarding …
The Influence of Group Stereotypes on Adolescents’ Moral Reasoning
The purpose for this study was to investigate adolescents’judgments about the appropriate punishment of other adolescents for accused transgressions in situations where stereotype information was present or absent. Ninety-two male and 85 female, predominantly European-American, ninth-grade adolescents made judgments about the appropriateness of punishing members of social reference groups for accused transgressions about which there was no clear …
Shifting Mosaics
Adolescents' reasoning about exclusion from social groups
Ninth- and 11th-grade students (N = 379) were surveyed regarding their evaluations of excluding someone from a social group solely on the basis of his or her social reference group membership. Individuals evaluated exclusion in ambiguous and nonambiguous situations. Judgments and reasoning about exclusion were compared with judgments and reasoning about a more prototypically moral situation (denial of resources). Overall, participants evaluated e…
Mean Girls or Cultural Stereotypes
Social Reasoning about Racial Exclusion in Intimate and Nonintimate Relationships
This research investigated the contextual nature of decisions about racial exclusion by analyzing why individuals might be willing to accept members of other racial groups into some types of social relationships but nevertheless exclude them from other types of relationships. Our analysis examined the underlying reasoning processes used to make such decisions. We conducted two studies to test the types of reasoning used by young adults regarding …
Heterosexual adolescents’ and young adults’ beliefs and attitudes about homosexuality and gay and lesbian peers
Activism in the schools: Providing LGBTQ affirmative training to school counselors
Adolescents’ Acceptance of Same-Sex Peers Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression
Charting the Landscape of Children's Rights
This issue of the Journal of Social Issues presents current theory, research, and methodological considerations pertaining to “Young People's Perspectives on the Rights of the Child.” The following brief introduction charts the landscape of children's rights by outlining the purpose and goals of the issue, provides a short historical overview on the topic, sets the context for the individual articles, and highlights the recurring themes making up…
Schooling, Sexuality, and Rights: An Investigation of Heterosexual Students' Social Cognition Regarding Sexual Orientation and the Rights of Gay and Lesbian Peers in School
Within the United States, protecting the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students in school elicits much controversy and debate. On one side is the argument that all students should be able to receive an education free from discrimination, harassment, and harm. On the other side is the argument that by protecting LGBT students ' rights, schools are infringing on the rights of others to their individual beliefs about homos…
School Differences in Heterosexual Students' Attitudes About Homosexuality and Prejudice Based on Sexual Orientation
In this study, we investigated the relationships between school context and heterosexual adolescents' social reasoning regarding same-sex sexuality and sexual prejudice. One thousand seventy-six adolescents (Female, n=648; Male, n=428) attending two
Special Issue Introduction: New Research on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth: Studying Lives in Context
Intergroup Contact and Beliefs about Homosexuality in Adolescence
Parents’ Attitudes About Safe Schools Policies and Practices: Repositioning Parents as Youth Allies Through a Rights-Based Framework
Do Adolescents' Evaluations of Exclusion Differ Based on Gender Expression and Sexual Orientation
Previous research focused on sexual prejudice has shown that lesbian and gay adolescents are at greater risk of peer harassment and victimization than their straight counterparts. Peer victimization such as exclusion, however, may also be related to conventional expectations adolescents hold about their social environment. This study examined adolescents’ ( N = 1069) attitudes and reasoning about the exclusion of peers based on sexual orientation…
Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gays Among American and Dutch Adolescents
Attitudes toward lesbians and gays vary across national populations, and previous research has found relatively more accepting attitudes in the Netherlands as compared to the United States. In this study, we compared beliefs about and attitudes toward lesbians and gays in samples of Dutch and American heterosexual adolescents, utilizing survey data from 1,080 American adolescents (mean age = 15.86 years) attending two schools and from 1,391 Dutch…
Equity and Justice in Developmental Science: Implications for Young People, Families, and Communities
Equity and Justice in Developmental Science: Theoretical and Methodological Issues
Adolescents’ beliefs about harm, wrongness, and school policies as predictors of sexual and gender-based harassment
This study investigated the relationship among adolescents’ (n = 621) reports of perpetrating sexual and gender-based harassment and their beliefs about whether these behaviors cause harm, are wrong, or are prohibited by school policies. Results evidenced that beliefs about wrongness and harm were r
Condoning discrimination: The effects of dominance and authoritarianism are moderated by different ways of reasoning about antigay discriminatory acts
Many studies have focused on mediated paths by which social dominance orientation (SDO) and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) predict prejudice; fewer have identified factors that moderate their effects. We applied social cognitive domain theory to test whether different ways of reasoning about antigay discriminatory acts moderated the association between SDO, RWA, and condoning antigay discrimination. Moral reasoning (e.g., emphasizing fairness,…
Youth's motivations for using homophobic and misogynistic language
A diverse group of adolescents (N = 41) from a large city in the Midwestern United States participated in focus groups about misogynistic and homophobic language. Our qualitative analysis yielded two major themes. First, participants discussed this language as a way to regulate peers' conformity to norms related to gender and sexuality. Second, participants spoke about the importance of the relationship between individuals using this language in …
Gay-Straight Alliances as Settings for Youth Inclusion and Development: Future Conceptual and Methodological Directions for Research on These and Other Student Groups in Schools
Outside the immediate classroom setting, efforts within other school spaces also can shape school climate, address inequality, and affect student performance. Nevertheless, in this respect there has been little research on school-based extracurricular groups focused on issues of social inclusion and justice. An exception to this lack of focus has been Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs), which promote social inclusion and justice for sexual and gender …
Participatory action research to address aging out of LGBTQ-supportive youth programs in Chicago
LGBTQ-supportive youth programs provide access to critical resources and social support in identity-affirming environments. In Chicago, Illinois, an informal network of LGTBQ-supportive youth programs in the city’s white, middle-class, gay enclave, Boystown, draws predominately low-income youth of color from across the city who seek emergency shelter, housing, educational assistance, mental health counseling, space to build community with peers, …
Bullied and Punished: Exploring the Links between Bullying and Discipline for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth
This study investigated connections between sexual and gender minority youths' (SGMY) experiences with bullying victimization and their experiences with punishment. We interviewed 20 diverse adolescents (X = 18.45) about their experiences with bullying and school discipline. Using a qualitative mapping technique, we analyzed the pathways between victimization and punishment that emerged from our participants' narratives. Our analyses revealed tha…
Adolescents’ Judgment of Homophobic Name-Calling: The Role of Peer/Friend Context and Emotional Response
Psychology (24 works) · Social Psychology (21 works) · Developmental psychology (19 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (12 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Homosexuality (8 works) · Lesbian (8 works)