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View article: A single-blind active-control randomized controlled trial of group-based social competence intervention
A single-blind active-control randomized controlled trial of group-based social competence intervention Open
This study evaluated specific effects of a blinded randomized controlled trial of a group-based social skills intervention, Socio-Dramatic Affective-Relational Intervention (SDARI), against an active attention control (AC) intervention. Fi…
View article: Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Autism Providers’ ACEs Inquiries
Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Autism Providers’ ACEs Inquiries Open
Autistic individuals experience Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), including neglect, abuse, and financial stress, at above-average rates. However, little is known regarding the factors influencing whether autism community-based provide…
View article: Field Experiments Invoking Gloating Villains to Increase Voter Participation: Anger, Anticipated Emotions, and Voting Turnout
Field Experiments Invoking Gloating Villains to Increase Voter Participation: Anger, Anticipated Emotions, and Voting Turnout Open
In two field experiments conducted in Mississippi and Florida, we present novel evidence about how emotions can be harnessed to increase voter turnout. When we inform respondents that a partisan villain would be happy if they did not vote …
View article: Longitudinal relationships between social anhedonia and internalizing symptoms in autistic children: results from the Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials
Longitudinal relationships between social anhedonia and internalizing symptoms in autistic children: results from the Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials Open
Background Social anhedonia, indicating reduced pleasure from social interaction, is heightened in autistic youth and associated with increased internalizing symptoms transdiagnostically. The stability of social anhedonia over time and its…
View article: Theory of Mind and Social Informant Discrepancy in Autism
Theory of Mind and Social Informant Discrepancy in Autism Open
When autistic youth are asked to assess their own social skills, they frequently rate themselves more favorably than their parents rate them. The magnitude of this informant discrepancy has been shown to relate to key clinical outcomes suc…
View article: Editorial Statement About JCCAP’s 2023 Special Issue on Informant Discrepancies in Youth Mental Health Assessments: Observations, Guidelines, and Future Directions Grounded in 60 Years of Research
Editorial Statement About JCCAP’s 2023 Special Issue on Informant Discrepancies in Youth Mental Health Assessments: Observations, Guidelines, and Future Directions Grounded in 60 Years of Research Open
Issue 1 of the 2011 Volume of the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (JCCAP) included a Special Section about the use of multi-informant approaches to measure child and adolescent (i.e., hereafter referred to collectively …
View article: Get Out the Vote: How to Increase Voter Turnout (5th Edition)
Get Out the Vote: How to Increase Voter Turnout (5th Edition) Open
Data and analysis program files used to produce meta-analysis estimates for a variety of studies on voter mobilization.
View article: Polarization, the Pandemic, and Public Trust in Health System Actors
Polarization, the Pandemic, and Public Trust in Health System Actors Open
Context: Public opinion on the performance of health system actors is polarized today, but it remains unclear which actors enjoy the most or the least trust among Democrats and Republicans, whether the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced how …
View article: Longitudinal Impact of the Pandemic on Social Disruption and Loneliness in Autistic and Non-Autistic Youth
Longitudinal Impact of the Pandemic on Social Disruption and Loneliness in Autistic and Non-Autistic Youth Open
The current study was one of the first to investigate social disruption and loneliness in autistic youth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Results indicated that autistic youth experienced relative decreases in loneliness during this time, per…
View article: The Importance of Breaking Even: How Local and Aggregate Returns Make Politically Feasible Policies
The Importance of Breaking Even: How Local and Aggregate Returns Make Politically Feasible Policies Open
Policies that promote the common good may be politically infeasible if legislators representing ‘losing’ constituencies are punished for failing to promote their district's welfare. We investigate how varying the local and aggregate return…
View article: Social Anhedonia Accounts for Greater Variance in Internalizing Symptoms than Autism Symptoms in Autistic and Non-Autistic Youth
Social Anhedonia Accounts for Greater Variance in Internalizing Symptoms than Autism Symptoms in Autistic and Non-Autistic Youth Open
Purpose: Social anhedonia is a transdiagnostic trait that reflects reduced pleasure from social interaction. It has historically been associated with autism, however, very few studies have directly examined behavioral symptoms of social an…
View article: Results from a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Single-Session Growth-Mindset Intervention for Internalizing Symptoms in Autistic Youth
Results from a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Single-Session Growth-Mindset Intervention for Internalizing Symptoms in Autistic Youth Open
Purpose: Autistic youth experience elevated rates of co-occurring internalizing symptoms. Interventions to treat internalizing symptoms in autistic youth are almost uniformly costly and time-intensive, blunting dissemination of interventio…
View article: Replication Data for: The Importance of Breaking Even: How Local Constituency Benefits and Social Welfare Returns Make Politically Feasible Policies
Replication Data for: The Importance of Breaking Even: How Local Constituency Benefits and Social Welfare Returns Make Politically Feasible Policies Open
Replication Data for: The Importance of Breaking Even: How Local Constituency Benefits and Social Welfare Returns Make Politically Feasible Policies
View article: Trajectories of internalizing symptoms among autistic and nonautistic youth during the<scp>COVID</scp>‐19 pandemic
Trajectories of internalizing symptoms among autistic and nonautistic youth during the<span>COVID</span>‐19 pandemic Open
The COVID‐19 pandemic elicited increases in anxiety and depression in youth, and youth on the autism spectrum demonstrate elevations in such symptoms pre‐pandemic. However, it is unclear whether autistic youth experienced similar increases…
View article: Quantifying social skill deficits and strengths profiles in autistic youth
Quantifying social skill deficits and strengths profiles in autistic youth Open
While social difficulties in autism are well-established, questions remain regarding whether these represent challenges in acquiring or performing such skills, reduced social strengths, or a unique distribution across these domains (i.e., …
View article: Testing persuasive messaging to encourage COVID-19 risk reduction
Testing persuasive messaging to encourage COVID-19 risk reduction Open
What types of public health messages are effective at changing people’s beliefs and intentions to practice social distancing to slow the spread of COVID-19? We conducted two randomized experiments in summer 2020 that assigned respondents t…
View article: Can Raising the Stakes of Election Outcomes Increase Participation? Results from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in Local Elections
Can Raising the Stakes of Election Outcomes Increase Participation? Results from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in Local Elections Open
Political campaigns frequently emphasize the material stakes at play in election outcomes to motivate participation. However, field-experimental academic work has given greater attention to other aspects of voters' decisions to participate…
View article: Experiences of student and trainee autism researchers during the <scp>COVID</scp>‐19 pandemic
Experiences of student and trainee autism researchers during the <span>COVID</span>‐19 pandemic Open
Circumstances surrounding the COVID‐19 pandemic have resulted in significant personal and professional adjustments. Students and trainees, including those in autism research, face unique challenges to accomplishing their training and caree…
View article: Persuading US White evangelicals to vaccinate for COVID-19: Testing message effectiveness in fall 2020 and spring 2021
Persuading US White evangelicals to vaccinate for COVID-19: Testing message effectiveness in fall 2020 and spring 2021 Open
The development of COVID-19 vaccines was an important breakthrough for ending the pandemic. However, people refusing to get vaccinated diminish the level of community protection afforded to others. In the United States, White evangelicals …
View article: Replication Data for: Can Raising the Stakes of Election Outcomes Increase Participation? Results from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in Local Elections
Replication Data for: Can Raising the Stakes of Election Outcomes Increase Participation? Results from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in Local Elections Open
This is the public replication file for "Can Raising the Stakes of Election Outcomes Increase Participation? Results from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in Local Elections" forthcoming at BJPols. The archive contains the raw Stata Dataset …
View article: Voting behavior is unaffected by subtle linguistic cues: evidence from a psychologically authentic replication
Voting behavior is unaffected by subtle linguistic cues: evidence from a psychologically authentic replication Open
Do small wording differences in message-based behavioral interventions have outsized effects on behavior? An influential initial study, examining this question in the domain of political behavior using two small-scale field experiments, ar…
View article: Persuasive Messaging to Encourage COVID-19 Risk Reduction
Persuasive Messaging to Encourage COVID-19 Risk Reduction Open
What types of public health messages are effective at changing people’s beliefs and intentions to practice social distancing to slow the spread of COVID-19? We conducted two randomized experiments that assigned respondents to read a public…
View article: Timing of COVID-19 Vaccine Approval and Endorsement by Public Figures
Timing of COVID-19 Vaccine Approval and Endorsement by Public Figures Open
The global spread of COVID-19 has created an urgent need for a safe and effective vaccine. However, even if a safe and medically effective vaccine is developed, hesitancy by citizens to receive it would undercut its effectiveness as a tool…
View article: Felt but not seen: Observed restricted repetitive behaviors are associated with self-report—but not parent-report—obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms in youth with autism spectrum disorder
Felt but not seen: Observed restricted repetitive behaviors are associated with self-report—but not parent-report—obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms in youth with autism spectrum disorder Open
Repetitive behaviors are observed in autism spectrum disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Clinically, obsessive-compulsive disorder obsessions are thought to drive repetitive or ritualistic behavior designed to neutralize subjective…
View article: Autism Heterogeneity in a Densely Sampled U.S. Population: Results From the First 1,000 Participants in the RI‐CART Study
Autism Heterogeneity in a Densely Sampled U.S. Population: Results From the First 1,000 Participants in the RI‐CART Study Open
The objective of this study was to establish a large, densely sampled, U.S. population‐based cohort of people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The Rhode Island Consortium for Autism Research and Treatment (RI‐CART) represents a unique …
View article: When Does Increasing Mobilization Effort Increase Turnout? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Reminder Calls
When Does Increasing Mobilization Effort Increase Turnout? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Reminder Calls Open
When does increasing mobilization effort increase turnout? Recent experiments find second calls containing a reminder to vote increase turnout beyond an initial contact. We argue existing studies cannot explain why reminder calls are effec…