Media

Sometimes our work is covered by the media. Here’s what that coverage looks like.

On guns in America

• UW-Madison researchers find alcohol sales increase following mass shootings, Wisconsin Public Radio, 1/27/25

• Mass shootings correlated with alcohol sale spikes, UW research finds, The Badger Herald, 1/27/25

• Americans own guns to protect themselves from psychological as well as physical threats, The Conversation, 10/31/24

• New findings help explain gun ownership psychology in America, The Badger Herald, 11/7/23

• Why some Americans buy guns, The New York Times, 7/26/23

• How the gun became integral to the self-identity of millions of Americans, Scientific American, 3/29/23

• Under the gun, UW Letters & Science Magazine, Spring 2023

• Op-Ed: Why former slave states became the foundation for American gun culture, The Los Angeles Times, 11/6/22

• What slavery and racism have to do with American gun ownership, Center for Public Integrity, 9/9/22

• Counties with more slaves in 1860 have higher gun ownership rates today, study finds, Salon, 8/25/22

On residential mobility

• The US housing market has become an impossible mess, Bloomberg Businessweek, 11/02/23

• What happens when Americans stay in the same house forever?, Vox, 2/24/22

On walkability

• Walkable communities may foster upward economic mobility, Virginia Magazine, Spring, 2020

On reading fiction

• Books are good for your brain. But fiction has a surprising added benefit, The Washington Post, 8/18/26

• Why we should all be reading more fiction, The Financial Times, 12/28/22

• The complex worlds of literary fiction, Nature Reviews Psychology, 7/22/22

• Apparently, those who read literary fiction—but not other kinds—have a more “complex worldview.”, LitHub, 7/8/22

On the psychological impacts on income inequality

• Human Development Report, United Nations, 2019

• Mistrust and competition: The psychology of inequality, World Economic Forum, 3/30/17

On thinking enjoyably and its difficulty

• Thinking enjoyable thoughts is hard, SPSP Character & Context Blog, 12/4/19

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And, sometimes I get to go on podcasts or webinars. Here’s what that looks and sounds like.

• The psychology of gun ownership and gun violence, UW-Madison Badger Talks, 3/27/26

• Exploring firearm owner identities and storage practices, The HPP Podcast, 1/14/26

• Gun culture, Wisconsin Public Radio’s University of the Air, 1/12/25

• Fear sells guns, WBUR/The Trace’s The Gun Machine, 10/4/23

• Gun violence and anxiety in the US, The Association for Psychological Science’s Science for Society Series, 9/20/23

• Gun ownership as a coping mechanism, Texas Public Radio’s The Source, 4/10/23

• Slave states and today’s gun culture, Keeping Democracy Alive, 3/1/23

• Why Americans own so many guns, WORT-FM’s A Public Affair, 9/13/22

• UW-Madison research examines relationship between modern gun ownership and historical rates of enslavement, Wisconsin Public Radio’s The Morning Show, 8/25/22

• Why it’s so hard to move in America, Vox’s The Weeds, 3/8/22

• Does living in a walkable neighborhood give people a boost up the economic ladder?, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, 11/13/19