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Present	Assistant Professor, Iowa State University ‐ Department of Sociology
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Developmental Idealism in Internet Search Data

Sociology of Development (2019)

Shawn F. Dorius and Jeffrey Swindle

Scholarship on developmental idealism demonstrates that ordinary people around the world tend to perceive the level of development and the ...

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Plant genetic resources for food and agriculture: opportunities and challenges ...

New Phytologist (2018)

Michael Halewood, Tinashe Chiurugwi, Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton, Brad Kurtz, et al.

Over the last decade, there has been an ongoing revolution in the exploration, manipulation, and synthesis of biological systems, through ...

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Sowing the seeds of skepticism: Russian state news and anti-GMO ...

GM Crops & Food (2018)

Shawn F. Dorius and Carolyn J. Lawrence-Dill

Biotech news coverage in English-language Russian media fits the profile of the Russian information warfare strategy described in recent military ...

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Accounting for Institutional Variation in Expected Returns to Higher Education

Education Policy Analysis Archives (2017)

Shawn F. Dorius, David A. Tandberg and Bridgette Cram

This study leverages human capital theory to identify the correlates of expected returns on investment in higher education at the ...

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Middle Eastern Beliefs about the Causal Linkages of Development to ...

Sociology of Development (2017)

Arland Thornton, Shawn Dorius, Jeffrey Swindle, Linda Young-DeMarco, et al.

This paper investigates the extent to which people in five Middle Eastern countries endorse key beliefs of developmental idealism that ...

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An introductory guide to Data science: The terminological landscape

Social Science Research Network (2017)

Abhinav Yedla and Shawn Dorius

The emerging field of data science has rapidly evolved into an extremely diverse field equipped with multi-disciplinary techniques to extract, ...

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Chinese and world cultural models of developmental hierarchy

Chinese Journal of Sociology (2016)

Shawn F. Dorius

Prior research on cultural models of developmental hierarchy finds broad cross-national agreement among publics about the rank ordering of societies ...

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Twentieth Century Intercohort Trends in Verbal Ability in the United ...

Sociological Science (2016)

Shawn F. Dorius, Duane F. Alwin and Julianna Pachedo

Vocabulary test score trends from the General Social Survey contradict the widespread conclusion that scores on standardized intelligence tests have ...

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Developmental Idealism: The Cultural Foundations of World Development Programs

Sociology of Development (2015)

Arland Thornton, Shawn F. Dorius and Jeffrey Swindle

This paper extends theory and research concerning cultural models of development beyond family and demographic matters to a broad range ...

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The Rise and Fall of Worldwide Education Inequality from 1870-2010 ...

Sociology of Education (2013)

Shawn F. Dorius

This research documents long-run trends in between-country education inequality and proposes a method for doing so that accounts for the ...

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Trends in Global Gender Inequality

Social Forces (2010)

Shawn F. Dorius

This study investigates trends in gender inequality for the world as a whole. Using dataencompassing a large majority of the ...

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