Category: 2025

The “Best of Both Worlds”: Building a Community-Academic Partnership for Research with Legal System-Impacted Individuals

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American Journal of Community (2025) Authors: Talia R. Cohen, Karen Reece, Aaron Hicks, Deborah Mejchar, Carmen Alonso, Anthony Cooper, Michael R. Koenigs, Daniel W. Grupe Abstract: Equitable community‐academic research partnerships provide an innovative way to advance health outcomes among criminal legal system‐impacted individuals. The extant literature lacks accounts that detail the process for developing such partnerships, particularly in …

From Internet Meme to the Mainstream: Using Computer Vision to Track “Pepe the Frog” Across News Platforms

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Visual Communication Quarterly (2025) Authors: Yibing Sun, Varsha Pendyala, Ruixue Lian, Haohang Xin, Puja Patel, Erik P Bucy, Dhavan Shah Abstract: This project investigates the diffusion of hateful visual symbology in news coverage from 2015 to 2023, focusing on Pepe the Frog, a meme often linked with alt-right ideologies. Using a multimodal large language model, …

The Healing Through Ongoing Psychological Empowerment Telehealth Intervention With Two Spirit, Transgender, and Nonbinary Clients of Color in the United States: Open Clinical Trial Feasibility and Implementation Analysis

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JMIR Formative Research (2025) Authors: Stephanie Lynne Budge, Elliot Tebbe, Joonwoo Lee, Sergio Domínguez Jr., Em Matsuno, Louis Lindley Abstract: Background: There is a notable lack of psychotherapeutic services tailored to the needs of Two Spirit, transgender, and nonbinary (2STNB) people of color; research indicates that 2STNB clients who are people of color report a …

The “Best of Both Worlds”: Building a Community-Academic Partnership for Research with Legal System-Impacted Individuals

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American Journal of Community Psychology (2025) Authors: Talia Cohen, Karen Reece, Aaron Hicks, Deborah Mejchar, Carmen Alonso, Anthony Cooper, Michael Koenigs, Daniel Grupe Abstract: Equitable community-academic research partnerships provide an innovative way to advance health outcomes among criminal legal system-impacted individuals. The extant literature lacks accounts that detail the process for developing such partnerships, particularly …

Children’s Attitudes About Transgender Identity Disclosure and Concealment

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British Journal of Developmental Psychology (2025) Authors: Daniel J. Alonso, Ashley E. Jordan, Selin Gülgöz Abstract: Supportive peers are crucial for transgender children’s well-being. Transgender children who live in their affirmed gender face decisions surrounding concealment and disclosure of their transgender identity. We sought to understand how cisgender (N = 115) and gender-diverse children (N = …

Who Benefits From Counseling? A Longitudinal Analysis of Psychological and Academic Distress Among Black and White College Students With Disabilities

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Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development (2025) Authors: Kyesha Isadore, Marcus Weathers, Rouyi (Zoey) Chen, Xihe Ma Abstract: This study examined counseling effectiveness for Black college students with disabilities, focusing on psychological and academic distress. Using longitudinal data, results revealed Black clients experienced faster symptom reduction compared to White clients, whereas clients with disabilities exhibited slower improvement …

Life Satisfaction Among Racially/Ethnically Minoritized College Students With Disabilities: Examining Three Dimensions of Social Support

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Journal of American College Health (2025) Authors: Kyesha Isadore, Amber O’Shea, Angelica Galvàn Abstract: The purpose of the current study was to examine the relationship between social support and life satisfaction for racially/ethnically minoritized (REM) college students with disabilities and to identify specific types of social support that have a larger effect on their life satisfaction. …

Is There an Idealized Target of Sexual Harassment in the MeToo Era?

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Social Problems (2025) Author: Chloe Grace Hart Abstract: Evidence suggests that Americans became more sympathetic toward people who experienced sexual harassment as the MeToo movement surged. Yet how comprehensive these shifts in public opinion have been remains unclear. I hypothesize that women who experience workplace sexual harassment are judged against the archetype of an idealized …

How Partisan Media Influences Aversion to Political Compromise

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Media and Communication (2025) Authors: Yoo Ji Suh, Dhavan Shah, Mike Wagner. Abstract: We investigate how partisan media during and after the 2020 US presidential (Study 1) and 2022 midterm (Study 2) elections influenced preferences for unyielding politicians who do not compromise with partisan opponents. Our findings suggest that partisan media use may undermine willingness …

Quality of Life in Autistic Children: Discrepancies Between Self- and Caregiver-Proxy Reports and Associations With Individual Characteristics

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Autism Research (2025) Authors: Emily Skaletski, Rebekah Rodriguez, Sharon Gartland, Karla Ausderau, Lauren Bishop, James Li, Brittany Travers Abstract: Quality of life (QoL) is important for everyone and has been identified as a priority for autistic people. However, studies typically focus on caregiver-proxy-reported QoL and its related individual characteristics, even though self- and caregiver-proxy-reported QoL …