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Overview

Diane Felmlee is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research spans across the social sciences and psychology, with a substantial focus on sociology and political science, social psychology, statistical and nonlinear physics, communication, and gender studies. The scientist's work covers a range of topics including bullying, victimization, and aggression; social media and politics; complex network analysis techniques; opinion dynamics and social influence; gender, feminism, and media; hate speech and cyberbullying detection; and crime patterns and interventions.

Among recent publications, notable works include:

  • "With Friends Like These: Aggression from Amity and Equivalence," 2020, American Journal of Sociology
  • "What Did You Call Me? An Analysis of Online Harassment Towards Black and Latinx Women," 2021, Race and Social Problems
  • "Social Network Pressure on Women and Men to Enter a Romantic Relationship and Fear of Being Single," 2021, Interpersona An International Journal on Personal Relationships
  • "Dyads, triads, and tetrads: a multivariate simulation approach to uncovering network motifs in social graphs," 2021, Applied Network Science
  • "The geography of sentiment towards the Women's March of 2017," 2020, PLoS ONE

Diane Felmlee frequently collaborates with a number of coauthors, among whom are Cassie McMillan, James R. Ashford, Susan Sprecher, Roger M. Whitaker, and Stephen A. Matthews.

The scientist's research contributions are published in various academic venues. Common publication sites include:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
  • CrimRxiv
  • American Journal of Sociology
  • Race and Social Problems

The interdisciplinary nature of this researcher's work integrates complex network analysis and social behavioral studies, emphasizing social influence, network structures, and societal issues related to aggression, gender, and online interactions.

Best Publications

  • Status Struggles: Network Centrality and Gender Segregation in Same- and Cross-Gender Aggression

    Robert Faris;Diane Felmlee

  • The dissolution of intimate relationships: a Hazard model

    Diane Felmlee;Susan Sprecher;Edward Bassin

  • The influence of parents and friends on the quality and stability of romantic relationships: A three-wave longitudinal investigation.

    Susan Sprecher;Diane Felmlee

  • No Couple Is an Island: A Social Network Perspective on Dyadic Stability

    Diane H. Felmlee

  • Factors Associated with Distress Following the Breakup of a Close Relationship

    Susan Sprecher;Diane Felmlee;Sandra Metts;Beverley Fehr

  • Who's on top? Power in romantic relationships

    Diane Helen Felmlee

  • Casualties of Social Combat: School Networks of Peer Victimization and Their Consequences

    Robert Faris;Diane Felmlee

  • Women's Job Mobility Processes within and between Employers.

    Diane H. Felmlee

  • The Balance of Power in Romantic Heterosexual Couples Over Time from “His” and “Her” Perspectives

    Susan Sprecher;Dianne Felmlee

  • Romantic partners’perceptions of social network attributes with the passage of time and relationship transitions

    Susan Sprecher;Diane Helen Felmlee

  • Gender Rules: Same- and Cross-Gender Friendships Norms

    Diane Felmlee;Elizabeth Sweet;H. Colleen Sinclair

  • Social networks and change in personal relationships.

    Susan Sprecher;Diane Felmlee;Terri L. Orbuch;Marion C. Willetts

  • Interethnic Relationships: The Role of Social Network Diversity

    Marisol Clark-Ibáñez;Diane Felmlee

  • Peer Influence, Friend Selection, and Gender: How Network Processes Shape Adolescent Smoking, Drinking, And Delinquency.

    Cassie McMillan;Diane Felmlee;D. Wayne Osgood

  • The Principle of Least Interest: Inequality in Emotional Involvement in Romantic Relationships

    Susan Sprecher;Maria Schmeeckle;Diane Felmlee

  • Contextual effects in the classroom: The impact of ability groups on student attention.

    Diane Felmlee;Donna Eder

  • Close relationships and social psychology : Intersections and future paths

    Diane Helen Felmlee;Susan Sprecher

  • Causes and Consequences of Women's Employment Discontinuity, 1967-1973:

    Diane H. Felmlee

  • Toxic Ties: Networks of Friendship, Dating, and Cyber Victimization

    Diane Felmlee;Robert Faris

  • GIRL FRIENDS ARE BETTER: GENDER, FRIENDS, AND CRIME AMONG SCHOOL AND STREET YOUTH*

    Bill Mccarthy;Diane Felmlee;John Hagan

  • Fatal Attractions: Affection and Disaffection in Intimate Relationships:

    Diane H. Felmlee

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan Sprecher
Susan Sprecher Illinois State University
D. Wayne Osgood
D. Wayne Osgood Pennsylvania State University
Maureen T. Hallinan
Maureen T. Hallinan University of Notre Dame
Stephen A. Matthews
Stephen A. Matthews Pennsylvania State University
Duane F. Alwin
Duane F. Alwin Pennsylvania State University
Rand D. Conger
Rand D. Conger University of California, Davis
Beverley Fehr
Beverley Fehr University of Winnipeg
Shirley Dex
Shirley Dex University College London
William R. Cupach
William R. Cupach Illinois State University
Elisa Bertino
Elisa Bertino Purdue University West Lafayette

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