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Overview

Richard S. John is a researcher affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States, specializing in social sciences with a focus on interdisciplinary studies that intersect sociology, political science, economics, decision sciences, management, operations research, and health.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences

Within these broader fields, their subfield expertise spans:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • General Decision Sciences
  • Management Science and Operations Research
  • Health

Richard S. John's research covers key topics including:

  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Gun Ownership and Violence Research
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
  • Risk and Safety Analysis

Their recent publications highlight research on diverse subjects, documented in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Some notable papers include:

  • "Macroeconomic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic" (2022) published in Economic Modelling
  • "Disaster world" (2022) published in Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
  • "Lies, Damned Lies, and Social Media Following Extreme Events" (2021) published in Risk Analysis
  • "Building Community Resilience Using Gain-Loss Framing to Nudge Homeowner Mitigation and Insurance Decision-making" (2021) published in Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
  • "Perceived effectiveness and intrusiveness of school security countermeasures among parents, students, and staff" (2025) published in Environment Systems & Decisions

The frequent venues for their work include:

  • Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Environment Systems & Decisions
  • Risk Analysis
  • Statistics and Public Policy

Richard S. John collaborates regularly with several researchers whose contributions appear frequently alongside their work. Key coauthors include:

  • Katie Byrd
  • Nicholas Scurich
  • Adam Rose
  • Dan Wei
  • Kevin Kapadia

Best Publications

  • Coparenting: a link between marital conflict and parenting in two-parent families.

    Gayla Margolin;Elana B. Gordis;Richard S. John

  • Perceived Individual Collaboration Know-How Development Through Information Technology--Enabled Contextualization: Evidence from Distributed Teams

    Ann Majchrzak;Arvind Malhotra;Richard John

  • The intergenerational transmission of aggression across three generations

    Diana Doumas;Gayla Margolin;Richard S. John

  • Affective responses to conflictual discussions in violent and nonviolent couples.

    Gayla Margolin;Richard S. John;Lisa Gleberman

  • America's angriest home videos: behavioral contingencies observed in home reenactments of marital conflict.

    Bonnie Burman;Gayla Margolin;Richard S. John

  • Relation among marital conflict, child coping, and child adjustment

    Mary O'Brien;Gayla Margolin;Richard S. John

  • The continuance and spillover of everyday tensions in distressed and nondistressed families.

    Gayla Margolin;Andrew Christensen;Richard S. John

  • Interactive and Unique Risk Factors for Husbands' Emotional and Physical Abuse of Their Wives

    Gayla Margolin;Richard S. John;Louise Foo

  • Mothers' and Sons' Cognitive and Emotional Reactions to Simulated Marital and Family Conflict.

    Mary O'Brien;Gayla Margolin;Richard S. John;Lisa Krueger

  • Reliability and diagnostic efficacy of parents' reports regarding children's exposure to marital aggression

    Mary O'Brien;Richard S. John;Gayla Margolin;Osnat Erel

  • Home observations of married couples reenacting naturalistic conflicts.

    Gayla Margolin;Bonnie Burman;Richard S. John

  • Observed patterns of conflict in violent, nonviolent, and nondistressed couples.

    Bonnie Burman;Richard S. John;Gayla Margolin

  • Marital aggression, observed parental hostility, and child behavior during triadic family interaction

    Elana B. Gordis;Gayla Margolin;Richard S. John

  • Teacher reports as a predictor of a schizophrenia and borderline schizophrenia: a Bayesian decision analysis.

    Richard S. John;Sarnoff A. Mednick;Fini Schulsinger

  • Observed sibling interaction: links with the marital and the mother-child relationship.

    Osnat Erel;Gayla Margolin;Richard S. John

  • The Relationship Between Daily Marital Interaction, Work, and Health-Promoting Behaviors in Dual-Earner Couples An Extension of the Work-Family Spillover Model

    Diana M. Doumas;Gayla Margolin;Richard S. John

  • Telephone screening to identify potential dementia cases in a population-based sample of older adults.

    Margaret Gatz;Chandra A. Reynolds;Richard John;Boo Johansson

  • Parents' hostility in dyadic marital and triadic family settings and children's behavior problems

    Elana B. Gordis;Gayla Margolin;Richard S. John

  • A Typology of Maritally Violent Men and Correlates of Violence in a Community Sample

    Catherine Delsol;Gayla Margolin;Richard S. John

  • Cognitive Components of Risk Ratings

    Detlof von Winterfeldt;Richard S. John;Katrin Borcherding

Frequent Co-Authors

Gayla Margolin
Gayla Margolin University of Southern California
Paul Slovic
Paul Slovic University of Oregon
John Monahan
John Monahan University of Virginia
Nancy L. Pedersen
Nancy L. Pedersen Karolinska Institute
Margaret Gatz
Margaret Gatz University of Southern California
Steven R. López
Steven R. López University of Southern California
Chandra A. Reynolds
Chandra A. Reynolds University of California, Riverside
Andrew Christensen
Andrew Christensen University of California, Los Angeles
Clark McCauley
Clark McCauley Bryn Mawr College
Scott Atran
Scott Atran University of Oxford

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