Category: Research

“I’m dealing with a health care system that doesn’t get it”: Barriers and Facilitators to Inclusive Healthcare for Autistic Adults

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Autism (2024) Authors: Kiley J. McLean, Meghan Hass, Jamie Koenig, Megan Horvath, Mariah Vigil, Nicole E. Werner, Lauren Bishop Abstract: Emerging research points to high rates of major psychiatric disorders and chronic medical conditions among autistic adults. However, the unique healthcare needs of autistic adults are often overlooked, perhaps due to limitations in population-level surveillance and widespread …

Evaluation of Equity in Hospice Care Utilization Among Medicare-Enrolled Autistic Older Adults

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Autism in Adulthood (2025) Authors: Lauren Bishop, Melica Nikahd, Bethany J. Wolf, Brian W. Patternson, Anne Longo, Deondray Radford, Emma Krantz, J. Madison Hyer, Brittany N. Hand Abstract: Better identification of autistic people and increased life expectancy for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities have given rise to an urgent need to better understand end-of-life care in …

Using National Survey Data to Estimate Healthcare Communication Disparities for Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

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Journal of Intellectual Disability Research (2025) Authors: Jamie Koenig, Lauren Bishop Abstract: Previous studies have identified considerable health outcome disparities for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) as well as poor or ineffective communication between adults with IDD and their medical providers. Using National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data, this paper uses logistic regression to estimate …

Health Disparities Persist for Adults with Developmental Disabilities: NHIS insights, 1999-2018

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Health Affairs Scholar (2025) Authors: Kiley J. McLean, Jamie Koenig, Samara Wolpe, Wei Song, Lauren Bishop Abstract: This study assesses changes in self-reported health and healthcare status among adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) over the past 20 years, utilizing data from the National Health Interview Survey. We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of 601 464 adults …

Challenging Neurotypical Norms: Autistic Adults’ Understandings of Health

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Autism (2025) Authors: Jamie Koenig, Kiley J. McLean, Meghan Haas, Megan Horvath, Mariah Vigil, Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, Sarah Effertz, Lauren Bishop Abstract: This study examined how autistic adults conceptualize health and whether their conceptualizations differed substantively from those of their emergency contacts (people who helped with health or healthcare management). We conducted semi-structured interviews with 10 dyads …

Stuck on Intergroup Attitudes: The Need to Shift Gears to Change Intergroup Behaviors

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Perspectives on Psychological Science (2024) Author: Markus Brauer Abstract: Decades of research on how to improve intergroup relations have primarily examined ways to change prejudiced attitudes. However, this focus on negative intergroup attitudes has yielded few effective solutions. Because intergroup relations are shaped by behavior during intergroup interactions, it is necessary to identify constructs that have a …

The Development and Pilot Testing of a Minority Stress Psychoeducation Tool for Transgender and Nonbinary People

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Transgender Health (2024) Authors: Stephanie L. Budge, Elliot A. Tebbe, Diana Love Abstract: In this study, we aimed to develop and test the acceptability of a minority stress psychoeducation tool for transgender and nonbinary (TNB) people. Patients in one treatment group who were enrolled in a larger randomized controlled trial received this study’s minority stress psychoeducation pre-treatment. Data …

A Longitudinal Investigation of Trans and Nonbinary Youth Identity: Individual Processes and Family Agreement in the Trans Teen and Family Narratives Project

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LGBTQ+ Family: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2025) Authors: Stephanie L. Budge, Yusuf Barburoğlu, Siyan Gao, Dean Dvorak, Gideon Elliott, Sydney Gilchrist, Savannah Lynn, Eli G. Godwin, Sabra L. Katz-Wise Abstract: Few studies have focused on transgender and nonbinary youths’ (TNBY) gender development and even less well understood is how family members understand TNBY identity. The current study investigated: (a) …

A Comparative Investigation of the Predictive Validity of Four Indirect Measures of Bias and Prejudice

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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2023) Authors: Jordan Axt, Nicholas Buttrick, Ruo Ying Feng Abstract: Although measures of implicit associations are influential in the prejudice literature, comparative tests of the predictive power of these measures are lacking. A large-scale (N > 100,000) analysis of four commonly used measures—the Implicit Association Test (IAT), Single-Category IAT (SC-IAT), evaluative priming task (EPT), …

Shifts in Residential Mobility Predict Shifts in Culture

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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2024) Authors: Nicholas Buttrick, Youngjae Cha, Shigehiro Oishi Abstract: Does residential mobility change cultures, or is it merely a downstream indicator for other forces? Using large-scale surveys of citizens of 18 industrialized nations, we find that increased rates of residential mobility predict living in a more dynamic society at least 10 years …