The role of firearms in the Occurrences of Interpersonal Violence Among...
Objective:This project will collect data from cisgender SMM and transgender women living in New Jersey and will provide much needed information regarding the intersection...
Preventing Firearm Suicide by Phone: An Examination of Means Safety Practices...
Objective:Crisis centers (e.g., lifelines or crisis lines) provide publicly-accessible resources and support for individuals who are experiencing suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Crisis centers are...
Violence Outreach Intervention and Community Education (VOICE): Reducing Interpersonal Gun Violence...
Objective:The program uses an innovative hybrid approach to improve the delivery of gun violence prevention and intervention programs. To our knowledge, this is the...
The Effect of Gun Violence on Threat Processing
Objective:The rapid detection and identification of threat is critical for survival. A large body of research suggests that attentional biases—defined as rapid or prolonged...
Gun-Related Interpersonal Violence Among Sexual and Gender Minority People in New...
Objective:The overarching goal of this study is to collect pilot data on the role of guns in occurrences of interpersonal violence (IPV) among sexual...
From Guns to Intimate Partner Violence: The Impact of Power and Control
Objective:Despite the widespread ownership of firearms, guns can pose a threat of harm within the home, particularly homes with incidences of intimate partner violence....
Understanding the Credibility of Credible Messengers in Violence Prevention Work
Objective:The use of “credible messengers” to deliver violence reduction programs has spread rapidly since the Chicago CeaseFire (now Cure Violence) program began in 1999....
Family Member and Intimate Partner Efforts to Reduce Firearm Access for...
Objective:Family members and intimate partners are uniquely positioned to prevent an at-risk person from firearm access, as family members and intimate partners might notice...
Exploring experiences, attitudes, and practices of firearms among women gun owners...
Objective:Firearms account for more than half of U.S. suicide deaths and nearly two-thirds of all firearm-related deaths. Though men are more likely to use...
Cortisol Reactivity Stress & Firearms (CROSSFIRE)
Objective:The Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) can safely simulate the onset of psychosocial stress via activation of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axis. The TSST has...