Publications

GENERAL AUDIENCE

Books

  • Wright, Bradley R. E. LifeChange: Applying Habit Formation and Self-Control in Everyday Life. (Manuscript in preparation).
  • Wright, Bradley R. E. 2011. Upside: Surprising Good News about the State of Our World. Bethany House Publishers. Bethany House Publishers. Link
  • Wright, Bradley R. E. 2010. Christians are Hate-Filled Hypocrites… and Other Lies You’ve Been Told: A Sociologist Shatters Myths from the Secular and Christian Media.  Bethany House Publishers. Winner of Book of the Year Award in “Christianity and Culture,” Christianity Today. Link

Articles 

  • Wright, Bradley R.E. 2019. “Is American Christianity on Its Last Legs? The Data Say Otherwise.” Christianity Today, September. Link
  • Wright, Bradley R.E. 2017. “The Science of Sinning Less: What New Research Reveals about Self-Control and Willpower.” Christianity Today, May (cover story). Link
  • Wright, Bradley R.E. 2015. “Dear Pastor, Can I Come to Your Church? Inside a New Experiment that Tests our Hidden Racial Biases.” Christianity Today, July/August (cover story). Link
  • Wright, Bradley R.E. 2014. “Your Faith Might Cost You Your Next Job.” Christianity Today, June. Link
  • Wright, Bradley R.E. and various contributors. 2012-2017. Black, White, and Gray Blog, published on Patheos.com. A team of scholars posting about religion and society. Organizer. Link
  • Wright, Bradley R.E. 2012. “The ‘War’ on Religion: A Closer Look at What America Really Thinks about Christians.” Relevant Magazine, May/June: 70-2. Link
  • Wright, Bradley R.E. 2011. “Americans Like Evangelicals After All: What They Really Think about Evangelicals, and Why We Worry about It.” Christianity Today, August 5 (cover story). Link
  • Wright, Bradley R. E. 2010. “The Lies We Buy About Youth Ministry.” Group Magazine, September/October.
  • Wright, Bradley R. E. 2009. “Can We Follow Willow Creek’s Follow Me?  An Examination of the Latest Reveal Study.” Journal of Youth Ministry 7(2): 93-104.
  • Wright, Bradley R. E. 2008. “What We Can and Can’t Learn from Willow Creek’s REVEAL Study.” Journal of Youth Ministry 7(1): 101-14.

 

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Religion, Spirituality, and Well-Being

  • Brelsford, Gina M., Lynn G. Underwood, and Bradley R. E. Wright. 2019. “Love in the Midst of Stressors: Exploring the Role of Daily Spiritual Experiences.” Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion 30: 25-43.
  • Wright, Bradley R. E. 2018. “Field Experiments of Religion: A Dream Whose Time has Come.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 57(2): 193-205. .pdf
  • Kucinskas, Jaime, Bradley R.E. Wright, and Stuart Riepl. 2018. “The Interplay between Meaning and Sacred Awareness in Everyday Life: Evidence from a Daily Smartphone Study.” The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 28(2): 71-88.pdf
  • Gutierrez, Ian A., Crystal L. Park, and Bradley R.E. Wright. 2017. “When the Divine Defaults: Religious Struggle Mediates the Impact of Financial Stressors on Psychological Distress.” Psychology of Religion and Spirituality 9(4): 387-98. pdf
  • Kucinskas, Jaime, Bradley R.E. Wright, D. Matthew Ray, and John Ortberg. 2017. “States of Spiritual Awareness by Time, Activity, and Social Interaction.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 56(2): 418-37. pdf
  • Park, Crystal L., Bradley R.E. Wright, Jeremy Pais, and D. Matthew Ray. 2016. “Daily Stress and Self-Control.” Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 35(9): 738-53. pdf
  • Wright, Bradley R.E., Michael Wallace, Annie Scola Wisnesky, Christopher M. Donnelly, Stacy Missari, and Christine Zozula. 2015. “Religion, Race, and Discrimination: A Field Experiment of How American Churches Welcome Newcomers.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 54(2): 185-204. pdf
  • Wallace, Michael, Bradley R.E. Wright, and Allen Hyde. 2014. “Religious Affiliation and Hiring Discrimination in the American South: A Field Experiment.” Social Currents 1(2): 189-207. pdf
  • Wright, Bradley R.E., Michael Wallace, John Bailey, and Allen Hyde. 2013. “Religious Affiliation and Hiring Discrimination in New England: A Field Experiment.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 34: 111-26. pdf
  • Donnelly, Chris and Bradley R.E. Wright. 2013. “Goffman Goes to Church: Face-Saving and the Maintenance of Collective Order in Religious Services.” Sociological Research Online 18(1):18. pdf
  • Wallace, Michael, Bradley R.E. Wright, Christine Zozula, Stacy Missari, Christopher M. Donnelly, Annie Scola Wisnesky. 2012. “A New Approach for Studying Stratification and Religion: Early Results from a National Internet-Based Field Experiment Study of U.S. Churches.” Research in the Sociology of Work23: 369-97. pdf
  • Wright, Bradley R. E., Christina Zozula, and W. Bradford Wilcox. 2012. “Bad News about the Good News: The Construction of the Christian-Failure Narrative.”  Journal of Religion & Society 14. pdf
  • Wright, Bradley R. E., Dina Giovanelli, Emily G. Dolan, and Mark Evan Edwards. 2011. “Explaining Deconversion from Christianity: A Study of On-Line Narratives.” Journal of
  • Religion & Society, 13. pdf
  • McFarland, Michael J., Bradley R. E. Wright, and David L. Weakliem.  2011. “Educational Attainment and Religiosity: Exploring Variations by Religious Tradition.” Sociology of Religion 72(2): 166-188. pdf
  • Baier, Colin and Bradley R.E. Wright. 2001. “‘If You Love Me, Keep My Commandments’: A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Religion on Crime.” Journal on Crime and Delinquency 38(1):3-21. pdf

 

Crime

  • Wright, Bradley R. E. and C. Wesley Younts. 2009. “Reconsidering the Relationship between Race and Crime: Positive and Negative Predictors of Crime among African-American Youth.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 46(3): 327-352. pdf 
  • Weakliem, David and Bradley R. E. Wright. 2009. “Robustness of Group-Based Models for Longitudinal Count Data.”  Sociological Methods & Research38(1): 147-170. pdf 
  • Piquero, Alex R., Terrie E. Moffitt, and Bradley R. E. Wright. 2007. “Self-Control and Criminal Career Dimensions.” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 23:72-89. link 
  • Wright, Bradley R. E., Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E. Moffitt, and Ray Paternoster. 2004. “Does the Perceived Risk of Punishment Deter Criminally-Prone Individuals? Rational Choice, Self-Control, and Crime.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 41(2): 180-213. pdf 
  • Wright, Bradley R. E., Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E. Moffitt, and Phil Silva. 2001. “The Effects of Social Ties on Crime Vary by Criminal Propensity: A Life-Course Model of Interdependence.” Criminology 39(2): 321-348. pdf 
  • Wright, Bradley R. E., Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E. Moffitt, and Phil Silva. 1999. “Low Self-
  • Control, Social Bonds, and Crime: Social Causation, Social Selection, or Both?” Criminology 37(3): 479-514. pdf 
  • Wright, Bradley R. E., Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E. Moffitt, Richard Miech, and Phil Silva. 1999. “Reconsidering the Relationship between SES and Delinquency: Causation but Not Correlation.” Criminology 37(1): 175-194. pdf

Homelessness

  • Wright, Bradley R. E. 1998. “Behavioral Intentions and Opportunities among Homeless Individuals: An Extension of the Theory of Reasoned Action.” Social Psychological Quarterly 61(4): 271-286. pdf 
  • Wright, Bradley R. E., Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E. Moffitt, and Phil A. Silva. 1998. “Factors Associated with Doubled-Up Housing–A Common Precursor to Homelessness.” Social Service Review 72(1): 92-111. pdf 
  • Caspi, Avshalom, Bradley R. E. Wright, Terrie E. Moffitt, and Phil A. Silva. 1998. “Early
  • Failure in the Labor Market: Childhood and Adolescent Predictors of Unemployment in the Transition to Adulthood.” American Sociological Review 63(3): 424-451. link 
  • Wong, Irene, Irving Piliavin, and Bradley R. E. Wright. 1998. “Residential Transitions among Homeless Families and Homeless Single Individuals: A Comparison Study.” Journal of Social Service Research. 24(2): 1-27. link 
  • Piliavin, Irving, Bradley R. E. Wright, Robert D. Mare, and Alex H. Westerfelt. 1996 “Exits from and Returns to Homelessness.” Social Service Review 70(1): 33-57. pdf

Misc

  • Bailey, John, Michael Wallace, and Bradley R. E. Wright. 2013. “Are Gay Men and Lesbians Discriminated against When Applying for Jobs?  A Four-City, Internet-Based Field Experiment. Journal of Homosexuality 60(6): 873-94. pdf 
  • Weakliem, David L., Gordon Gauchat, and Bradley R. E. Wright. 2012. “Sociological Stratification: Change and Continuity in the Distribution of Departmental Prestige, 1965-2007.” American Sociologist 43(3): 310-327. pdf 
  • Ostertag, Steven, Bradley R. E. Wright, Robert S. Broadhead, and Frederick L. Altice. 2006. “Trust and Other Characteristics Associated with Health Care Utilization by Injection Drug Users.” Journal of Drug Issues 36(4): 953-974. pdf 
  • Miech, Richard, Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E. Moffitt, Bradley R. E. Wright, and Phil Silva. 1999. “Low Socioeconomic Status and Mental Disorders: A Longitudinal Study of Selection and Causation during Young Adulthood.” American Journal of Sociology 104(4): 1096-1131. link 
  • Courtney, Mark E., Irving Piliavin, and Bradley R. E. Wright. 1997. “Transitions From and Returns to Out‑of‑Home Care.” Social Service Review 71(4): 652-667. link