Research

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Forthcoming / Online First

• Quadlin, Natasha, Trenton D. Mize, Long Doan, and Bianca Manago. Forthcoming. What do “most people” believe and who do these beliefs represent? Race-gender prototypes and the generalized other. American Sociological Review.
• Mize, Trenton D. and Bing Han. Forthcoming. Marginal effects: flexible methods for interpretation across linear and nonlinear models. In Understanding Data Modeling and Data Analysis, edited by David Weakliem. Edward Elgar Publishing.

2026

• Han, Bing and Trenton D. Mize. 2026. Doing gender, doing health: Disentangling the relationship between gender and health lifestyles. Social Science Research.
• Mize, Trenton D. and Mantas Grigorovicius. 2026. Stereotypes and stereotyping. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Sociology. Oxford University Press.

2025

• Petts, Richard J., Trenton D. Mize, and Gayle Kaufman. 2025. Does taking parental leave make you a more likeable worker? Evidence from a survey experiment. Community, Work, & Family.
• Petts, Richard J., Reilly Kincaid, Trenton D. Mize, and Gayle Kaufman. 2025. Gone too long or back too soon? Perceptions of paid parental leave-taking and variations by gender and family structure. Journal of Marriage and Family.
• Long Doan, Trenton D. Mize, and Ronald Or. 2025. Queer eye for the social psy: on the interplay between social psychology and sexualities. In Handbook of Social Psychology. Springer.
• Mize, Trenton D. 2025. Competence perceptions at the intersection of gender and race-ethnicity. Social Psychology Quarterly.
• Mize, Trenton D. and Reilly Kincaid. 2025. Role-accumulation and mental health across the life course. American Sociological Review.
• Mize, Trenton D. and Bing Han. 2025. Inequality and total effect summary measures for nominal and ordinal variables. Sociological Science.

2024

• Mize, Trenton D. 2024. Divergence and convergence across presumed and actual stereotypes. Socius.
• Manago, Bianca and Trenton D. Mize. 2024. What is the effect of an inferred mental illness label on stigma? Theoretical and empirical challenges. Socius.
• Kaufman, Gayle, Richard J. Petts, Trenton D. Mize, and Taryn Wield. 2024. Gender egalitarianism and attitudes toward parental leave. Social Currents.

2023

• Mize, Trenton D. and Long Doan. 2023. The mental health consequences of sexual identity discrepancies. In Advancing Identity Theory, Measurement, and Research. Springer.
• Petts, Richard J., Gayle Kaufman, and Trenton D. Mize. 2023. Parental leave-taking and perceptions of workers as good parents. Journal of Marriage and Family.

2022

• Mize, Trenton D. and Bianca Manago. 2022. The past, present, and future of experimental methods in the social sciences. Social Science Research.
• Manago, Bianca and Trenton D. Mize. 2022. The status and stigma consequences of mental illness labels, deviant behavior, and fear. Social Science Research.
• Petts, Richard J., Trenton D. Mize, and Gayle Kaufman. 2022. Organizational policies, workplace culture, and perceived job commitment of mothers and fathers who take parental leave. Social Science Research.

2021

• Manago, Bianca, Trenton D. Mize, and Long Doan. 2021. Can you really study an army on the internet? Comparing how status tasks perform in the laboratory and online settings. Sociological Methodology. 51(2):319-347.
• Mize, Trenton D., Gayle Kaufman, and Richard J. Petts. 2021. Visualizing shifts in gendered parenting attitudes during COVID-19. Socius. 7:1-3.

2020

• Doan, Long and Trenton D. Mize. 2020. Sexual identity disclosure among lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals. Sociological Science. 7:504-527.

2019

• Mize, Trenton D., Long Doan, and J. Scott Long. 2019. A General Framework for Comparing Predictions and Marginal Effects across Models. Sociological Methodology. 49(1):152-189.
• Mize, Trenton D. 2019. Best Practices for Estimating, Interpreting, and Presenting Nonlinear Interaction Effects. Sociological Science. 6:81-117.
• Mize, Trenton D. 2019. Doing Gender by Criticizing Leaders: Public and Private Displays of Status. Social Problems. 66(1):86-107.

2018

• Mize, Trenton D. and Bianca Manago. 2018. Precarious Sexuality: How Men and Women are Differentially Categorized for Similar Sexual Behavior. American Sociological Review. 83(2):305-330.
• Mize, Trenton D. and Bianca Manago. 2018. The Stereotype Content of Sexual Orientation. Social Currents. 5(5):458-478.

2017

• Benard, Stephen, Mark T. Berg, and Trenton D. Mize. 2017. Does Aggression Deter or Invite Reciprocal Behavior? Considering Coercive Capacity. Social Psychology Quarterly. 80(4):310-329.
• Mize, Trenton D. 2017. Profiles in Health: Multiple Roles and Health Lifestyles in Early Adulthood. Social Science & Medicine. 178:196-205.

2016

• Mize, Trenton D. 2016. Sexual Orientation in the Labor Market. American Sociological Review. 81(6):1132-1160.
• Benard, Stephen and Trenton D. Mize. 2016. Small Groups: Reflections of, and Building Blocks for Social Structure. Pp 293-320 in Handbook of Contemporary Sociological Theory ed. Seth Abrutyn. Springer.

2015

• Mize, Trenton D. 2015. What Social Psychology Can Contribute to the Study of Sex, Gender, and Sexual Orientation. Sociology Compass. 9(12):1066-1081.

2011

• Mize, Trenton D. and Tré Myers. 2011. Exploring Racial Differences on the Measurement & Experience of Emotion. Journal for Undergraduate Research Opportunities. 1-16.