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Daily Spiritual Experiences and Prosocial Behavior, Social Indicators Research (2011)

This paper examines how the Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale (DSES) relates to range of prosocial...

 

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Religion and Helping Others: The Role of Values, Ideas, and Language, Sociology of Religion (2011)

This study used life narrative interview data from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS)...

 

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The Timing of Generative Concern: Evidence from a Longitudinal Survey, Journal of Adult Development (2011)

Longitudinal data taken at a ten year interval from a large, nationally representative sample were...

 

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Who Volunteers? Constructing a Hybrid Theory (with Susan M. Chambre), Baruch College Center for Nonprofit Strategy and Management Working Papers (2011)

This paper is an effort to initiate the development of a hybrid theory of volunteering....

 

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Gender Differences in the Correlates of Volunteering and Charitable Giving, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (2010)

Psychological research has found that women score higher on most measures of the traits, motivations,...

 

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Will the Boomers Volunteer During Retirement? Comparing the Baby Boom, Silent, and Long Civic Cohorts, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (2009)

Data from the 1995 and 2005 waves of the Midlife in the United States panel...

 

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Does Extensivity Form Part of the Altruistic Personality? An Empirical Test of Oliner and Oliners' Theory, Social Science Research (in press) (2009)

This paper tests Samuel and Pearl Oliner’s theory that extensivity is a cause of prosocial...

 

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Explaining Abu Ghraib: A Review Essay, Journal of Human Rights (2009)

Four books written by social scientists and published in 2007 are reviewed: The Trials of...

 

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Sorority Membership and Risk for Campus Sexual Assault (with Jacqueline Minow), Violence Against Women (forthcoming) (2009)

This study tested the relationship between sexual assault victimization, sorority membership, and participation in a...

 

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Empathic concern and prosocial behaviors: A test of experimental results using survey data, Social Science Research (2008)

This study uses survey data to test the correlation between empathic concern and fourteen different...

 

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The Fall and Rise of Torture: A Comparative and Historical Analysis, Sociological Theory (2007)

Torture was formally abolished by European governments in the nineteenth century, and the actual practice...

 

Books

George Thomas: Virginian for the Union (2007)

George Thomas was one of the Civil War's most prominent Southern Unionists, known for his...

 
The Mercy Factory: Refugees and the American Asylum System (2001)

The Mercy Factory presents the stories of five asylum seekers, fleeing torture and persecution in...