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Carol K. Sigelman is affiliated with George Washington University in the United States and focuses research within the broad domain of Social Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Sociology and Political Science, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Speech and Hearing, Health, and Infectious Diseases.

Their research topics cover a diverse range of areas such as Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life, School Health and Nursing Education, Climate Change Communication and Perception, Misinformation and Its Impacts, Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy, Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research, and Social and Intergroup Psychology.

They have published several papers in various scholarly venues, with recent contributions including:

  • What Children and Adolescents Know and Need to Learn about Cancer (2022), The Journal of Genetic Psychology
  • Sources of Variability in Remote Communication Between Deployed Military Fathers and Their Children (2024), Parenting
  • Flu, AIDS, and the Development of Intuitive Thinking about Disease (2022), Medical Research Archives
  • Negative Beliefs, Sentiments, and Discriminatory Behavior Toward Jews: A Developmental Review (2025), Review of General Psychology

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • The Journal of Genetic Psychology
  • Parenting
  • Medical Research Archives
  • Review of General Psychology

Collaboration is a part of their work, with several frequent coauthors such as Sarah L. Friedman, Imani Jami, Eleanor D'Andria, Andrew A. Gepty, and Jonathan D. Lane.

Best Publications

  • Life-Span Human Development

    Carol K. Sigelman

  • Black Candidates, White Voters: Understanding Racial Bias in Political Perceptions

    Carol K. Sigelman;Lee Sigelman;Barbara J. Walkosz;Michael Nitz

  • When in doubt, say yes: acquiescence in interviews with mentally retarded persons

    Carol K. Sigelman;Edward C. Budd;Cynthia L. Spanhel;Carol J. Schoenrock

  • Violence in College Students' Dating Relationships

    Carol K. Sigelman;Carol J. Berry;Katharine A. Wiles

  • Response biases in interviews of individuals with limited mental ability

    L. W. Heal;Carol K. Sigelman

  • Social Psychology in the '90s

    Kay Deaux;Lawrence S. Wrightsman;Francis C. Dane;Carol K. Sigelman

  • Sexism, racism, and ageism in voting behavior: An experimental analysis.

    Lee Sigelman;Carol K. Sigelman

  • The Development of Distributive Justice Orientations: Contextual Influences on Children's Resource Allocations

    Carol K. Sigelman;Kara A. Waitzman

  • The early development of stigmatizing reactions to physical differences

    Carol K. Sigelman;Thomas E. Miller;Laura A. Whitworth

  • Evaluating alternative techniques of questioning mentally retarded persons.

    C K Sigelman;E C Budd;J L Winer;C J Schoenrock

  • Courtesy Stigma: The Social Implications of Associating with a Gay Person

    Carol K. Sigelman;Jennifer L. Howell;David P. Cornell;John D. Cutright

  • Asking questions of retarded persons: a comparison of yes-no and either-or formats.

    Carol K. Sigelman;Edward C. Budd;Cynthia L. Spanhel;Carol J. Schoenrock

  • Sex Differences in Self-Concept and Symptoms of Depression During the Transition to College

    Corinne Alfeld-Liro;Carol K. Sigelman

  • Factors associated with disclosure of diagnosis to children with HIV/AIDS.

    L S Wiener;H B Battles;N Heilman;C K Sigelman

  • Rich man, poor man: developmental differences in attributions and perceptions.

    Carol K. Sigelman

  • Judgments of the Carter-Reagan Debate: The Eyes of the Beholders

    Lee Sigelman;Carol K. Sigelman

  • A Bird of a Different Feather? An Experimental Investigation of Physical Attractiveness and the Electability of Female Candidates

    Lee Sigelman;Carol K. Sigelman;Christopher Fowler

  • Age Differences in Understandings of Disease Causality: AIDS, Colds, and Cancer

    Carol Sigelman;Amy Maddock;Jennifer Epstein;Wendy Carpenter

  • Surveying mentally retarded persons: responsiveness and response validity in three samples.

    Sigelman Ck;Schoenrock Cj;Spanhel Cl;Hromas Sg

  • Research on Community Residential Alternatives for the Mentally Retarded

    Laird W. Heal;Carol K. Sigelman;Harvey N. Switzky

  • Social psychology, 5th ed.

    Kay Deaux;Lawrence S. Wrightsman;Carol K. Sigelman;Eric Sundstrom

Frequent Co-Authors

Sarah L. Friedman
Sarah L. Friedman George Washington University
Lawrence S. Wrightsman
Lawrence S. Wrightsman University of Kansas
Kay Deaux
Kay Deaux New York University
Lori Wiener
Lori Wiener National Institutes of Health
Maria Cecilia Zea
Maria Cecilia Zea George Washington University

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