Positions

Research Areas research areas

Selected Publications

Academic Article

Year Title
2020 Academic Correlates of Unwanted Sexual Contact, Intercourse, Stalking, and Intimate Partner Violence: An Understudied but Important Consequence for College Students.Journal of Interpersonal Violence: concerned with the study and treatment of victims and perpetrators of physical and sexual violence.  35:4375-4392. 2020
2018 Disclosure on Campus: Students' Decisions to Tell Others About Unwanted Sexual Experiences, Intimate Partner Violence, and StalkingJournal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma.  27:54-75. 2018
2016 The relationship between gender and delinquency: Assessing the mediating role of anticipated guiltJournal of Criminal Justice.  44:77-88. 2016
2015 Physical dating violence, sexual violence, and unwanted pursuit victimization: a comparison of incidence rates among sexual-minority and heterosexual college students.Journal of Interpersonal Violence: concerned with the study and treatment of victims and perpetrators of physical and sexual violence.  30:580-600. 2015
2014 Putting the "social" back in legal socialization: procedural justice, legitimacy, and cynicism in legal and nonlegal authorities.Law and Human Behavior.  38:602-617. 2014
2014 Rationalizing Delinquency: A Longitudinal Test of the Reciprocal Relationship Between Delinquent Attitudes and BehaviorSocial Psychology Quarterly.  77:361-386. 2014
2014 Feeling guilty to remain innocent: the moderating effect of sex on guilt responses to rule-violating behavior in adolescent legal socializationPsychology, Crime and Law.  20:722-740. 2014
2012 Legal Attitudes and Legitimacy: Extending the Integrated Legal Socialization ModelVictims and Offenders.  7:385-406. 2012
2012 Don't trust anyone over 30: parental legitimacy as a mediator between parenting style and changes in delinquent behavior over time.Journal of Adolescence.  35:119-132. 2012
2012 Perceived injustice and delinquency: A test of general strain theoryJournal of Criminal Justice.  40:230-237. 2012
2011 Perceived Community Cohesion and the Stress Process in YouthRural Sociology: devoted to scientific study of rural and community life.  76:293-318. 2011
2010 Playing the race card: Making race salient in defence opening and closing statementsLegal and Criminological Psychology.  15:293-303. 2010
2010 An integrated model of legal and moral reasoning and rule-violating behavior: the role of legal attitudes.Law and Human Behavior.  34:295-309. 2010
2010 Friends of survivors: the community impact of unwanted sexual experiences.Journal of Interpersonal Violence: concerned with the study and treatment of victims and perpetrators of physical and sexual violence.  25:242-256. 2010
2010 Disclosure and service use on a college campus after an unwanted sexual experience.Journal of Trauma and Dissociation.  11:134-151. 2010
2009 Reducing White Juror Bias: The Role of Race Salience and Racial AttitudesJournal of Applied Social Psychology.  39:1953-1973. 2009
2009 In the Eye of the Beholder: Do Behavior and Character Affect Victim and Perpetrator Responsibility for Acquaintance Rape?(1)Journal of Applied Social Psychology.  39:1513-1535. 2009
2007 Gender differences in predicting delinquent behavior: Do individual differences matter?Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal.  35:359-373. 2007
2007 Unwanted sexual contact on campus: a comparison of women's and men's experiences.Violence and Victims.  22:52-70. 2007
2005 Revisiting unwanted sexual experiences on campus: a 12-year follow-up.Violence Against Women: an international and interdisciplinary journal.  11:426-446. 2005
2004 Attitudes toward the criminal legal system: Scale development and predictorsPsychology, Crime and Law.  10:367-391. 2004
2004 Behavioural cues of personality in Parkinson's disease.Disability and Rehabilitation.  26:463-470. 2004
2000 Distributive and procedural justice in seven nations.Law and Human Behavior.  24:553-579. 2000
1997 Legal socialization effects on democratizationInternational Social Science Journal.  49:151-&. 1997
1994 GENDER DIFFERENCES IN DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE - THE ROLE OF SELF-PRESENTATION REVISITEDSex Roles: a journal of research.  30:303-318. 1994
1992 PHYSICAL DISTANCE AND AIDS - TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORTJournal of Applied Social Psychology.  22:1442-1452. 1992
1988 THE EFFECT OF RESIDENCE HALL JUDICIAL POLICIES ON ATTITUDES TOWARD RULE-VIOLATING BEHAVIORSJournal of Applied Social Psychology.  18:1288-1294. 1988
1986 COGNITIVE-DEVELOPMENT VERSUS SOCIAL-LEARNING APPROACHES TO STUDYING LEGAL SOCIALIZATIONBasic and Applied Social Psychology.  7:195-209. 1986
1986 Origin and solution attributions of responsibility for wife abuse: effects of outcome severity, prior history, and sex of subject.Violence and Victims.  1:291-303. 1986
1984 SOCIAL-LEARNING VERSUS ATTRIBUTIONAL INTERPRETATIONS - THE EFFECT OF TASK FAMILIARITY ON TASK-PERFORMANCE PERCEPTIONS AND FUTURE SUCCESS EXPECTANCIESSocial Behavior and Personality: an international journal.  12:75-83. 1984
1980 SOCIAL COMPARISONS OF 3 GENERATIONS OF WOMENGerontologist.  20:209-209. 1980
1979 RESTITUTION AND IMPRISONMENT - HOW FAIR ARE THESE SENTENCES TO THE VICTIM, OFFENDER, AND SOCIETYPersonality and Social Psychology Bulletin.  5:259-259. 1979
1977 SECRET AMBITIONS AND PUBLIC PERFORMANCES - EFFECTS OF ANONYMITY ON REWARD ALLOCATIONS MADE BY MEN AND WOMENJournal of Experimental Social Psychology.  13:70-80. 1977

Chapter

Year Title
2015 Institutional Trust Across Cultures: Its Definitions, Conceptualizations, and Antecedents Across Eastern and Western European Nations 2015
Institutional trust across cultures

Teaching Activities

  • Adv Sem/Social Psychology Taught course 2023
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2023
  • Advanced Research Taught course 2022
  • Applications of Psychology Taught course 2022
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2022
  • Psychology and Law Taught course 2022
  • Psychology of Crime & Justice Taught course 2022
  • Psychology and Law Taught course 2022
  • Psychology of Crime & Justice Taught course 2022
  • Psychology and Law Taught course 2021
  • Research Internship Taught course 2021
  • SpcTop/Psyc of Deliquency Taught course 2021
  • Psychology of Crime & Justice Taught course 2021
  • Research Internship Taught course 2021
  • Psychology and Law Taught course 2020
  • Advanced Research Taught course 2020
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2020
  • Advanced Research Taught course 2019
  • Appl Psyc/Research Experience Taught course 2019
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2019
  • Psychology and Law Taught course 2019
  • Senior Honors Tutorial Taught course 2019
  • Psychology of Crime & Justice Taught course 2019
  • Adv Sem/Social Psychology Taught course 2018
  • Advanced Research Taught course 2018
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2018
  • Psychology of Crime & Justice Taught course 2018
  • Research Internship Taught course 2018
  • Advanced Research Taught course 2017
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2017
  • Psychology and Law Taught course 2017
  • Research Internship Taught course 2017
  • Senior Honors Tutorial Taught course 2017
  • AppsOfPsyc/Academic Experience Taught course 2017
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2017
  • Psychology of Crime & Justice Taught course 2017
  • Appl Psyc/Research Experience Taught course 2016
  • Psychology and Law Taught course 2016
  • Psychology of Crime & Justice Taught course 2016
  • Research Internship Taught course 2016
  • Rsrch Exp/Psychology Taught course 2016
  • Adv Rsrch Exp/Psychology Taught course 2015
  • Psychology and Law Taught course 2015
  • Adv Sem/Social Psychology Taught course 2015
  • Appl Psyc/Research Experience Taught course 2014
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2014
  • Psychology and Law Taught course 2014
  • Applications of Psychology Taught course 2014
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2014
  • Psychology of Crime & Justice Taught course 2014
  • Education And Training

  • B.A., Clark University
  • M.A., Temple University
  • Ph.D. Social Psychology, Temple University
  • Full Name

  • Ellen Cohn