Michael G. Lacy
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View article: Player-avatar bonds and gaming benefits and risks: Assessing self-discrepancy theory against a broader range of character and play experiences
Player-avatar bonds and gaming benefits and risks: Assessing self-discrepancy theory against a broader range of character and play experiences Open
How players relate to their avatars in digital and analog gaming predicts both positive and negative gaming experiences. For example, a perceived discrepancy between one’s actual and avatar self is associated with both gaming benefits and …
View article: Gaming lounges in India afford socially productive gambling: The moral economy and foundations of play in Udaipur, Rajasthan
Gaming lounges in India afford socially productive gambling: The moral economy and foundations of play in Udaipur, Rajasthan Open
We use ethnographic observations, interviews, and surveys to illuminate video game‐related gambling in India, where players use as currency decorative in‐game weapon covers referred to as skins . We focus on gaming and gambling related to …
View article: Deep hanging out, mixed methods toolkit, or something else? Current ethnographic practices in US anthropology
Deep hanging out, mixed methods toolkit, or something else? Current ethnographic practices in US anthropology Open
We use a mix of qualitative and quantitative analyses to examine 1354 survey responses from members of the American Anthropological Association about their practice and teaching of cultural anthropology research methods. Latent profile ana…
View article: Detecting shared norms as a strategy for sustainable programming: Wildlife crime enforcement versus local community actors in Zambia's protected areas
Detecting shared norms as a strategy for sustainable programming: Wildlife crime enforcement versus local community actors in Zambia's protected areas Open
Sustainability implementation efforts, relevant to all Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), can succeed or fail based on how the program activities effectively align with local community norms. Conflict arises when implementers incorrectly…
View article: Recommendations on Recognizing Preprint Review from the ASAPbio Journals & Preprint Review Projects Working Group
Recommendations on Recognizing Preprint Review from the ASAPbio Journals & Preprint Review Projects Working Group Open
In advance of the Recognizing Preprint Peer Review meeting in December 2022, ASAPbio convened two Working Groups of different stakeholders to articulate the added value of incorporating preprint review into assessment processes, catalog po…
View article: TSQ Editor’s Farewell
TSQ Editor’s Farewell Open
Here at the end of our editorial tour at The Sociological Quarterly, we’d like to start by remembering our colleague Peter Hall, who sadly died a few years ago. We hatched our editorship applicatio...
View article: Performance simulations for categorical mediation: Analyzing khb estimates of mediation in ordinal regression models
Performance simulations for categorical mediation: Analyzing khb estimates of mediation in ordinal regression models Open
Standard mediation techniques for fitting mediation models cannot readily be translated to nonlinear regression models because of scaling issues. Methods to assess mediation in regression models with categorical and limited response variab…