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RESEARCH
The information below details projects and publications from the lab.
Publications
Dey, A. K., Closson, K., Bock, J. E., Brown, R. P., Kakande, P., Nyegenye, W., Raj, A. (2025). Are traditional honour ideologies associated with fertility goals and contraceptive use? Findings from a cross-sectional study with a national sample of women and men in Uganda. African Journal of Reproductive Health. https://doi.org/10.29063/ajrh2025/v29i4.9
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Foster, S., Bishay, A., & Bock, J. E. (2025). Honor endorsement predicts both negative beliefs about Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and support for negative ASD treatment outcomes. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100216
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Foster, S., Bock, J. E., & Gul, P. (2025). Culture of honour and the stigma of abortion. Psychology and Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2024.2449005
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Bock, J. E., Brown, R. P., Tucker, R. P., & Foster, S. (2024). To honor and defend: State- and individual-level analysis of the relationship between culture of honor and military service. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672241293553
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Harrington, E. E. & Bock, J. E. (2024). Risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in U.S. honor cultures. Social Science and Medicine—Population Health, 101732. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2024.101732
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Tucker, R. P., Bock, J. E., Gerner, J. L., Albury, E. A., Osgood, J., Daruwala, S. E., Bozzay, M. L., Dretsch, M. N., Anestis, M. D., Bryan, C. J., & Trachik, B. (2024). Honor ideology and private firearm ownership in active-duty soldiers. Injury Prevention. https://doi.org/10.1136/ip-2024-045256
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Lopez, H. N., Bock, J. E., Brown, R. P., & Cross, S. E. (2024). Beyond the dichotomy: Creation and validation of a continuous statewide index of U.S. honor culture. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672241255494
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Bock, J. E., Daruwala, S. E., Tucker, R. P., Foster, S. D., Bandel, S. L., Gunn, J., & Anestis, M. D. (2024). Honor endorsement and increased firearm purchasing behavior and intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychological Reports. https://doi.org/10.1177/00332941241255323
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Foster, S., Albright, A., & Bock, J. E. (2024). The role of emotional suppression and emotional beliefs in explaining the honor-suicide link. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. http://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.13079
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Foster, S., & Bock, J. E. (2024). Honor concerns moderate the link between perceived reputation and depressive symptoms. Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2024.2334036
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Rubinstein, R. S., & Bock, J. E. (2024). The effects of counterstereotypical social vs. economic ideology information on explicit and implicit political person perception. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 12(1), 38-56. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.11879
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Foster, S., Bock, J. E., & Carvallo, M. (2024). Making the world a more hostile place: Honor endorsement and the hostile attribution bias. Psychology of Violence, 14(2), 87–96. https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000493
Bock, J. E., Brown, R. P., Pomerantz, A. L., & Raj, A. (2024). Preliminary validation of the single-item masculine and feminine honor prototype scales. Journal of Personality Assessment, 106(4), 522-531. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2023.2291688
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Ko, A., Bock, J. E., Ko, J., & Krems, J. A. (2023). Contagious or prosocial? Perceptions of mask-wearers toward Whites and Asians: A cross-cultural comparison during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 17(11), e12880. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12880
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Foster, S., Bock, J. E., & Carvallo, M. (2023). No boys allowed: An investigation into the role of honor concerns, stigma, and views of HPV vaccinations for men. Sex Roles, 89, 475-491. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-023-01404-7
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Bock, J. E., Tucker, R. P., Brown, R. P., Foster, S., & Anestis, M. D. (2023). Veteran suicide rates mirror, but do not account for, elevated suicide rates among the general population in U.S. cultures of honor. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 53(4), 692-701. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12974
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Foster, S., & Bock, J. E. (2023). Feminine honor concerns heighten reactivity to femininity threats in U.S. women. Current Psychology, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04875-9
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Harrington, E. E., Reese-Melancon, C., & Bock, J. E. (2023). Sometimes they show, sometimes they don’t: Appointment attendance as a naturalistic prospective memory task. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 37(3), 590-599. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.4066
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Krems, J. A., & Bock, J. E. (2023). The role of women’s and men’s body shapes in explicit and implicit fat stigma. Obesities, 3(2), 97-118. https://doi.org/10.3390/obesities3020009
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Foster, S. D., Gul, P., & Bock, J. E. (2023). Masculine honor endorsement is linked with stigmatization of men who have been sexually assaulted. Psychology of Men & Masculinities. https://doi.org/10.1037/men0000425
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Foster, S., Bock, J. E., Carvallo, M., *Pollet, C. L., & Stern, W. (2022). Honor-endorsing women and relational aggression: Evidence for the presence of feminine aggression norms in Southern U.S. women. Personality and Individual Differences, 194, 111668. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111668
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Bock, J. E., Tucker, R. P., Brown, R. P., Harrington, E. E., Bauer, B. W., Daruwala, S. E., Capron, D. W., & Anestis, M. D. (2021). Factors contributing to honor-endorsing men’s suicide capability: Firearm ownership, practical capability, and exposure to painful and provocative events. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 51(6), 1247-1258. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12807
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Rubinstein, R. S., Jussim, L., Bock, J. E., & Loh, B. (2021). Unobservable stereotypes are more malleable than observable stereotypes in implicit person perception. Journal of Theoretical and Social Psychology, 5(4), 318-337. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.96
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Bock, J. E., & Brown, R. P. (2021). To be liked or feared: Honor-oriented men’s sensitivity to masculine reputation concerns depends on status-seeking strategy. Personality and Individual Differences, 173, 110615. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110615
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Bock, J. E., Brown, R. P., & Green, K. (2019). Aging with honor: Examining ambivalent ageism and interpersonal risk-factors for suicide as explanations for the honor-suicide link. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 38(9), 721-750. https://doi.org/10.1521/jscp.2019.38.9.721
Bell, A. C., Burkley, M., & Bock, J. (2019). Examining the asymmetry in judgments of racism in self and others. Journal of Social Psychology, 159(5), 611-627. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2018.1538930
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Bock, J., & Burkley, M. (2019). On the prowl: Examining the impact of the men-as-predators and women-as-prey metaphors on attitudes that perpetuate sexual violence. Sex Roles, 80, 262-276. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-018-0929-1
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Bock, J., Byrd-Craven, J., & Burkley, M. (2017). The role of sexism in voting in the 2016 presidential election. Personality and Individual Differences, 119, 189-193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.07.026
Burkley, M., Andrade, A., Bell, A. C., & Bock, J. (2016). You’re smart, for a woman: Examining stereotypic backhanded compliments. In A. M. Columbus (Ed.), Advances in Psychology Research (Vol. 118, pp. 51-68). New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.