Austin Peay State University

Click to Care: A Pilot Study of Rural Middle School Digital Citizenship

This pilot study evaluated the preliminary effectiveness of Click to Care, a school-based program focused on digital citizenship and online safety for adolescents in a rural school. Sixty students provided consent/assent and participated in the four 40-min lessons; 36 students co...

Wrongful conviction and selection: perceptions of exonerees navigating societal reintegration

The current study examined how the wrongfully convicted are perceived when applying for a job or university scholarship. We varied criminal status (guilty/“offender” vs. wrongfully convicted/“exoneree”), crime type (murder vs. assault vs. robbery), applicant type (employment vs....

Corticosterone Concentration Varies With Metabolic Rate in Vertebrates

ABSTRACT Characterizing the adaptive or maladaptive effects of physiological stress based on glucocorticoid hormone levels remains a challenge in vertebrates. It remains unclear to what extent these measures capture the multi‐dimensional nature of physiological stress, how to com...