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Kara Joyner
kjoyner@bgsu.edu
(419)372 -7166
Curriculum vita
Associate Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 1997
Dr. Joyner’s research addresses how a variety of factors influence the formation and dynamics of friendships and sexual relationships,
including single relationships (e.g., dating), cohabiting relationships, and marriages. It also considers how different types
of relationships influence individual well-being, and it examines the factors that moderate this influence. Her research
uses quantitative methods to test hypotheses developed from rational choice and social psychological perspectives. It involves
researchers not only from sociology, but those with training in psychology, economics, and multi-disciplinary programs. Currently
Dr. Joyner is a Co-Principal Investigator on an NIH-funded program project (directed by H. Elizabeth Peters) that examines
the transition to fatherhood. As Co-PI, she has been organizing and conducting core analyses that evaluate the quality of
men’s reports of births in the NSFG 2002, NLSY 79, and NLSY 97.
Recent Publications:
Joyner, K. (2008 forthcoming). Transition to parenthood. In D. Carr (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the life course and human development. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale.
Joyner, K. (2008 forthcoming). Justice and the fate of married and cohabiting couples. Social Psychology Quarterly.
Joyner, K. (2008 forthcoming). Interracial friendship. In H. T. Reis & S. Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of human relationships. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Joyner, K. (2008 forthcoming). Contraception. In R. Shweder (Ed.), The Chicago companion to the child. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Joyner, K. (2008 forthcoming). Adolescent childbearing. In R. Shweder (Ed.), The Chicago companion to the child. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Hynes, K., Joyner, K., Peterson H.E., & Yang, F. (2008 forthcoming). The transition to early fatherhood: National estimates
based on multiple surveys. Demographic Research.
Kao, G., & Joyner, K. (2006). Do Hispanic and Asian adolescents practice panethnicity in friendship choices? Social Science Quarterly, 87, 972-992.
Joyner, K., & Campa, M. (2006). How do adolescent relationships influence the quality of romantic and sexual relationship
in young adulthood. In A. Booth & A.C. Crouter (Eds.), Romance and sex in adolescence and emerging adulthood: Risks and opportunities. (pp. 93-102). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates.
Cawley, J., Joyner, K., & Sobal, J. (2006). The relationship between adolescent Obesity and dating, sex, condom use, and
pregnancy. Rationality and Society, 18, 67-94.
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