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Bernice A. Pescosolido

Bernice A. Pescosolido

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
69
Citations
26121
World Ranking
798
National Ranking
380

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2021 - Public Understanding of Sociology Award, American Sociological Association
  • 2016 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Bernice A. Pescosolido is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States and has conducted extensive research primarily within the field of social sciences. Their scholarly output spans several interconnected subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Health, Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, and Social Psychology.

Their research addresses a range of core topics such as health disparities and outcomes, suicide and self-harm studies, social capital and networks, mental health treatment and access, social and cultural dynamics, community health and development, and various mental health research topics.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Trends in Public Stigma of Mental Illness in the US, 1996-2018 (2021), published in JAMA Network Open
  • Pandemic precarity: COVID-19 is exposing and exacerbating inequalities in the American heartland (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Countries and Cultural Differences in the Stigma of Mental Illness: The East-West Divide (2020), Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • The Social Roots of Suicide: Theorizing How the External Social World Matters to Suicide and Suicide Prevention (2021), Frontiers in Psychology
  • The unique nature of public stigma toward non-medical prescription opioid use and dependence: a national study (2020), Addiction

Pescosolido has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Byungkyu Lee, Karen Kafadar, Brea L. Perry, Edward B. Smith, and Mario Luis Small. These frequent co-author relationships indicate a networked approach to research within their disciplinary areas.

Their publications appear consistently in a range of academic venues, with a notable focus on:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • Psychiatric Services
  • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

In addition to journal articles, Pescosolido has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Cambridge University Press titled Personal Networks (2021).

Their work has been recognized through several awards, notably the Public Understanding of Sociology Award from the American Sociological Association in 2021 and election as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Public conceptions of mental illness: labels, causes, dangerousness, and social distance.

    Bruce G. Link;Jo C. Phelan;Michaeline Bresnahan;Ann Stueve

  • “A Disease Like Any Other”? A Decade of Change in Public Reactions to Schizophrenia, Depression, and Alcohol Dependence

    Bernice A. Pescosolido;Jack K. Martin;J. Scott Long;Tait R. Medina

  • Beyond Rational Choice: The Social Dynamics of How People Seek Help

    Bernice A. Pescosolido

  • Public conceptions of mental illness in 1950 and 1996: What is mental illness and is it to be feared?

    Jo C. Phelan;Bruce G. Link;Ann Stueve;Bernice A. Pescosolido

  • The Stigma Complex.

    Bernice A. Pescosolido;Jack K. Martin

  • Of Fear and Loathing: The Role of 'Disturbing Behavior,' Labels, and Causal Attributions in Shaping Public Attitudes toward People with Mental Illness

    Jack K. Martin;Bernice A. Pescosolido;Steven A. Tuch

  • The public's view of the competence, dangerousness, and need for legal coercion of persons with mental health problems.

    Bernice A. Pescosolido;John Monahan;Bruce G. Link;Ann Stueve

  • Challenges and opportunities in examining and addressing intersectional stigma and health

    Janet M. Turan;Melissa A. Elafros;Carmen H. Logie;Swagata Banik

  • Rethinking theoretical approaches to stigma: A Framework Integrating Normative Influences on Stigma (FINIS)

    Bernice A. Pescosolido;Jack K. Martin;Annie Lang;Sigrun Olafsdottir

  • Stigma, Discrimination, Treatment Effectiveness, and Policy: Public Views About Drug Addiction and Mental Illness

    Colleen L Barry;Emma Elizabeth McGinty;Bernice Pescosolido;Howard H. Goldman

  • Durkheim, suicide, and religion: toward a network theory of suicide.

    Bernice A. Pescosolido;Sharon Georgianna

  • The Public Stigma of Mental Illness: What Do We Think; What Do We Know; What Can We Prove?

    Bernice A. Pescosolido

  • HOW PEOPLE GET INTO MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: STORIES OF CHOICE, COERCION AND "MUDDLING THROUGH" FROM "FIRST-TIMERS"*

    Bernice A. Pescosolido;Carol Brooks Gardner;Keri M. Lubell

  • Building a model to understand youth service access: the gateway provider model.

    Arlene Rubin Stiffman;Bernice Pescosolido;Leopoldo J. Cabassa

  • Trends in Public Stigma of Mental Illness in the US, 1996-2018

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  • The “Backbone” of Stigma: Identifying the Global Core of Public Prejudice Associated With Mental Illness

    Bernice A. Pescosolido;Tait R. Medina;Jack K. Martin;J. Scott Long

  • Gender in Twentieth-Century Children’s Books Patterns of Disparity in Titles and Central Characters

    Janice McCabe;Emily Fairchild;Liz Grauerholz;Bernice A. Pescosolido

  • The Construction of Fear: Americans' Preferences for Social Distance from Children and Adolescents with Mental Health Problems

    Jack K. Martin;Bernice A. Pescosolido;Sigrun Olafsdottir;Jane D. Mcleod

  • Public Knowledge and Assessment of Child Mental Health Problems: Findings From the National Stigma Study-Children

    Bernice A. Pescosolido;Peter S. Jensen;Jack K. Martin;Brea L. Perry

  • How do people come to use mental health services? Current knowledge and changing perspectives.

    Bernice A. Pescosolido;Carol A. Boyer

  • Of pride and prejudice: the role of sociology and social networks in integrating the health sciences.

    Bernice A. Pescosolido

  • Egocentric Network Analysis

    Brea L. Perry;Bernice A. Pescosolido;Stephen P. Borgatti

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen P. Borgatti
Stephen P. Borgatti University of Kentucky
Jane D. McLeod
Jane D. McLeod Indiana University
Claire Burke Draucker
Claire Burke Draucker Indiana University
John I. Nurnberger
John I. Nurnberger Indiana University
Jo C. Phelan
Jo C. Phelan Columbia University
Colleen L. Barry
Colleen L. Barry Johns Hopkins University
Ann Stueve
Ann Stueve Education Development Center
Emma E. McGinty
Emma E. McGinty Cornell University
John Monahan
John Monahan University of Virginia
William R. Avison
William R. Avison University of Western Ontario

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