American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. This article critically examines the visual and mediated communication of vice presidential candidate and now vice president, Kamala Harris, and Harris’s political surrogates leading up to the 2020 preside…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. In this article, we provide an early glimpse into how the issues of public health and safety played out in the rural United States during the coronavirus pandemic, focusing on Washington State. We utilize …
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. A functional analysis was conducted on 2016 candidate tweets in races for governor, U.S. Senate, and U.S. House. The 2016 presidential campaign left no doubt that Twitter has come of age as a campaign medi…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. This study employs the Functional Theory of Political Campaign Discourse to analyze the 2006 and 2012 presidential elections in Mexico. In the United States, the theory has been satisfactorily validated; n…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. One of the oldest and most controversial issues in the study of terrorism involves the mental health status among actors who commit this type of violence. A consensus has emerged among scholars that terror…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. Over the past few years, college campuses across the United States have conducted climate surveys primarily aimed at gleaning quantitative data on the extent and distribution of sexual assault, intimate pa…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. Hate crimes are notoriously underestimated evident by significant differences reported between the Uniform Crime Report (UCR) and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). Between 2004 and 2012, an a…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. The article examines the dynamics of the Donald Trump’s myth creation in Russia through nominations in media discourse. Mythological nominations are objects of reflected reality which are capable of direct…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. Drawing on diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, this special issue takes a fresh look at the various aspects of the messy gridlock of privacy practices from the user and the producer perspect…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. Singh, P. (2017). The theoretical potential of the within-nation comparison: How sub-national analyses can enrich our understandings of the national welfare state. American Behavioral Scientist, 61(8), 861…