Mark Alden Morgan's research while affiliated with University of Cincinnati and other places

... The low self-control theoretical proposition hypothesizes that individuals with low self-control are more likely to engage in deviant and offending behavior for their immediate satisfaction without considering the potential adverse consequences (Gottfredson & Hirschi, 1990). Low selfcontrol has long been recognized by cross-cultural studies as a ubiquitous predictor of deviant and offending behavior (e.g., Chan, 2019b and c;Chan & Chui, 2017;Gottfredson, 2009;Sacarellos, Wright, Almosaed, Moghrabi, Bashatah, & Morgan, 2016). However, the routine activity and lifestyle approach postulates that individuals who are exposed to a criminogenic environment (e.g., living in a crime-prone neighborhood) are more likely to absorb pro-deviance norms and values, which makes them more deviance-prone (Mills, 2003). ...

... This flaw reflects the fallacy that researchers believe they can safely ignore the degree to which the stimuli used in experimental studies match the distributional properties of the real-world groups they represent. One reason for this disregard may be the belief that all groups have roughly identical distributions on important underlying causal characteristics. 1 Yet this assumption is incorrect, as groups differ (and often markedly so) on important personality, motivational, and cognitive dimensions -in other words, on the interest and ability factors that relate to nearly all outcomes (see, e.g., ACT 2017; Andreoni et al. 2019;Beaver et al. 2013;Benbow & Stanley 1980;Byrnes et al. 1999;Ceci & Williams 2010;Cesario et al. 2019;Diekman et al. 2017;Gottfredson 1998;Halpern et al. 2007;Hsia 1988;Hsin & Xie 2014;Jussim et al. 2009Jussim et al. , 2015aJussim et al. , 2015cLee & Ashton 2020;Lippa 1998;Lu et al. 2020;Lubinski & Benbow 1992;Lynn 2004;Lynn & Irwing 2004;McLanahan & Percheski 2008;Roth et al. 2001;Sowell 2005Sowell , 2008Su et al. 2009;Tregle et al. 2019;Wright et al. 2014). 2 In understanding the role of decision-maker bias in producing disparate outcomes, it is necessary to compare and interpret the size of categorical bias effects with the size of these behavioral differences across groups. ...

... Despite this, there is strong reason to expect politically conservative regions of the United States to be less open to the use of crowdfunding than are less conservative areas. Conservatism is associated with higher levels of orderliness and politeness (Hirsh, DeYoung, Xu, & Peterson, 2010), lower levels of corporate fraud (Christensen, Dhaliwal, Boivie, & Graffin, 2015) and criminality (Wright, Beaver, Morgan, & Connolly, 2017), and greater performance in business schools (Kemmelmeier, Danielson, & Basten, 2005). ...

... Heretofore, studies of incarcerated veterans have been unable to statistically account for the effects that both PTSD and TBI exert in the prison context; a limitation that is potentially problematic, given that the two disorders often occur in the presence of one another. For instance, some authors have examined the effects of TBI on metrics of adjustment but not the effects of PTSD [10] while others have assessed the influence exerted by PTSD, but not TBI [28]. By the same token, no studies (to our knowledge) have examined prison-based outcomes in conjunction with recidivism-based outcomes among veteran subsamples. ...

... The three dark traits are narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism, which all share a malicious social character with a tendency to engage in antisocial behavior [2,3]. Past research has linked the Dark Triad traits to physical harm in real life, such as violent delinquency [4], or in lab situations, e.g., subjecting others to (white) noise in response to (perceived) provocation [5][6][7]. Moreover, there is initial evidence that the Dark Triad is not limited to other-directed but extends to self-directed aggressive and harmful behaviors [8]. ...

... Therefore, police officers developed a perceptual shorthand in which certain individualsnotably, young, black malescome to be seen as "symbolic assailants" who pose a threat to police and the community. Previous research has used the focal concerns and symbolic assailant perspectives to understand racial disparities in police decisions such as searches and use of force (Crow & Adrion, 2011;Higgins et al., 2011;Morgan et al., 2020), court decisions such as sentencing (Beckett & Sasson, 2000;Chiricos et al., 2004;Roberts, 1993), and decisions in corrections such as parole and segregation use (e.g., Huebner & Bynum, 2006;Logan et al., 2017). ...

... While use of force by criminal justice agents has long been an important area of research for criminologists, recent events have brought an additional focus to this topic. Importantly, many studies have examined the impact of a citizen's race on police decisions to use force, with some evidence that force is more likely among non-Whites, at least in some situations (Bolger, 2015;Engel & Calnon, 2004;Garner et al., 2002;Gau et al., 2009;Leinfelt, 2005;Morgan et al., 2020;Paoline & Terrill, 2004Schuck, 2004;Shjarback & Nix, 2020;Smith et al., 2017;Terrill & Mastrofski, 2002;Terrill et al., 2003;Terrill et al., 2008), although other studies found no significant differences across racial groups (Lawton, 2007;Sun & Payne, 2004;Worrall et al., 2020) and a systematic review concluded that the relationship between race and use of force is unclear due to mixed results (Hollis & Jennings, 2018). Other characteristics of citizens, officers, and the interaction itself have also been linked to the decision to use force (for a review, see Bolger, 2015;Smith et al., 2017). ...