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'We Have a Long Ways to Go:' The Growing Pains of a Consent Decree in a Municipal Police Department
Police Quarterly
Zachary Powell (criminal justice), with Rebecca Fix (Johns Hopkins University), published a study that focused on how a municipal police department responded to a U.S. Department of Justice consent decree. “Using 26 semi-structured interviews with policing personnel in a police agency in the middle of a consent decree, we observed an arduous experience reflected through the stigma associated with the consent decree, the perception of organizational hyper-surveillance, and new policy requirements,” the abstract says. “Yet, our findings also demonstrated the consent decree improved knowledge of appropriate procedures, and discontinued harmful practices.”
Moral injury: religious and spiritual struggles among IPV survivors
Journal of Religion and Health
Rachel Kanter, the supplemental instruction leader for psychology, Krista Hoffman and Christina Hassija, professor of psychology and dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Science, published a study that “explored IPSV (intimate partner sexual violence), moral injury, religious and spiritual struggles (R/SS), purity culture beliefs (PCB), and psychological distress among Christian women in the USA (N = 210).”
A game of chute and ladders: Gender and aspirational resources during the COVID-19 pandemic
Sociological Forum
CSUSB sociology faculty members Jurgita Abromaviciute and Ethel Mickey, with Emily K. Carian of UC Irvine, published a study that examined “how the sudden disruption of structural conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic differentially affected the career aspirations of working mothers and fathers.”
Can we detect 'super-agers' in Parkinson's disease? Cognitive, neuropsychiatric and motor outcomes in the first 10 years of Parkinson's disease
Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
Jacob Jones (psychology), with students Ruth Uribe-Kirby, Alejandra Pawlak, Lauren Pitman and Gwenevere Zuniga, published a study about “superagers” who are “older adults who resist age-related cognitive decline and who perform just as well or better than younger people in cognitive tasks. In healthy aging studies, superagers not only experience positive cognitive outcomes (e.g. lower risk of future mild cognitive impairment), but may also experience fewer depressive and anxiety symptoms as they age. We seek to identify superagers in Parkinson's disease (PD) and potential outcomes associated with superager status.”
Post acquisition 5-HT6 receptor agonist EMD386088 administration impairs consolidation of a spatial discrimination in mice
Behavioural Brain Research
Dionisio Amodeo (psychology), with Jasmine Alyssa Robinson (CSUSB alumna now at Rutgers University), published a study that “aims examine the impact of 5-HT6 receptor agonist EMD386088 administration on the consolidation of a probabilistic spatial discrimination.”
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