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PhD, Sociology, 2002
MA, Sociology, 1998
BA, Sociology, 1996
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Science Studies
Besley, John C., Kevin C. Elliott, Nagwan Zahry, Aaron M. McCright, Norbert E. Kaminski, & Joseph D. Martin. 2019. "Conflict of
Interest Mitigation Procedures May Have Little Influence on the Perceived Procedural Fairness of Risk-Related Research." Risk
Analysis 39:571-585.
Steel, Daniel, Chad Gonnerman, Aaron M. McCright, & Itai Bavli. 2018. "Gender & Scientists' Views about the Value-Free Ideal."
Perspectives on Science 26:619.657.
Elliott, Kevin C., Aaron M. McCright, Summer Allen, & Thomas Dietz. 2017. "Values in Environmental Research: Citizens' Views of
Scientists Who Acknowledge Values." PLoS ONE 12(10): e0186049. (Press Release)
Sarathchandra, Dilshani, & Aaron M. McCright. 2017. "The Effects of Media Coverage of Scientific Retractions on Risk Perceptions."
SAGE Open doi:10.1177/2158244017709324.
Besley, John C., Aaron M. McCright, Nagwan Zahry, Kevin C. Elliott, Norbert E. Kaminski, & Joseph D. Martin. 2017. "Perceived
Conflict of Interest in Health Science Partnerships." PLoS ONE 12(4):e0175643. (Press Release) (Essay in The Conversation)
McCright, Aaron M., Katherine Dentzman, Meghan Charters, and Thomas Dietz. 2013. "The Influence of Political Ideology on Trust in
Science." Environmental Research Letters 8:044029.
Social Movements
Allen, Summer, Aaron M. McCright, & Thomas Dietz. 2017. "A Social Movement Identity Instrument for Integrating Survey Methods
into Social Movements Research." SAGE Opendoi:10.1177/2158244017708819.
McCright, Aaron M., & Riley E. Dunlap. 2015. "Comparing Two Measures of Social Movement Identity: The Environmental Movement
as Example." Social Science Quarterly 96:400-416. (Online Appendix)
Dunlap, Riley E., & Aaron M. McCright. 2008. “Social Movement Identity: Validating a Measure of Identification with the
Environmental Movement.” Social Science Quarterly 89(5):1045-1065.
McCright, Aaron M., & Riley E. Dunlap. 2008. “Social Movement Identity & Belief Systems: An Examination of the Consistency of
Beliefs about Environmental Problems within the American Public.” Public Opinion Quarterly 72(4):651-676.
McCright, Aaron M., & Riley E. Dunlap. 2008. “The Nature & Social Bases of Progressive Social Movement Ideology: Examining
Public Opinion toward Social Movements.” The Sociological Quarterly 49(4):825-848.
McCright, Aaron M., & Terry N. Clark. 2006. “The Political Opportunity Structure of the Environmental Movement in U.S.
Communities.” Pp. 199-240 in Community & Ecology: Dynamics of Place, Sustainability, & Politics, edited by Aaron
M. McCright & Terry N. Clark. Amsterdam: Elsevier/JAI Press.
McCright, Aaron M., & Riley E. Dunlap. 2003. “Defeating Kyoto: The Conservative Movement’s Impact on U.S. Climate Change
Policy.” Social Problems 50(3):348-373. (Reprinted Here)
McCright, Aaron M., & Riley E. Dunlap. 2000. “Challenging Global Warming as a Social Problem: An Analysis of the Conservative
Movement’s Counter Claims.” Social Problems 47(4):499-522. (Reprinted Here)
Health & Medicine
Bluhm, Robyn, Emily Castillo, Eric D. Achtyes, Aaron M. McCright, and Laura Y. Cabrera. Forthcoming. “They Affect the Person, but
for Better or Worse?: Perceptions of Electroceutical Interventions for Depression among Psychiatrists, Patients, and the Public.”
Qualitative Health Research Accepted for Publication.
Cabrera, Laura Y., Gerald Roman Nowak III, Aaron M. McCright, Eric D. Achtyes, and Robyn Bluhm. Forthcoming. “A Qualitative
Study of Key Stakeholders’ Perceived Risks and Benefits of Psychiatric Electroceutical Interventions.” Health, Risk, & Society
Accepted for Publication.
Cabrera, Laura Y., Maryssa M. C. Gilbert, Aaron M. McCright, Eric D. Achtyes, & Robyn Bluhm. 2021. "Beyond the Cuckoo's Nest:
Patient and Public Attitudes about Psychiatric Electroceutical Interventions." Psychiatric Quarterly doi:10.1007/s11126-021-
09916-9.
Cabrera, Laura Y., Gerald Roman Nowak III, Aaron M. McCright, Eric D. Achtyes, & Robyn Bluhm. 2020. "Last Resort Interventions?:
A Qualitative Study of Psychiatrists' Experience with and Views on Psychiatric Electroceutical Interventions." Psychiatric
Quarterly doi:10.1007/s11126-020-09819-1.
Navin, Mark C., Mark A. Largent, & Aaron M. McCright. 2020. "Efficient Burdens Decrease Nonmedical Exemption Rates: A Cross
County Comparison of Michigan's Vaccination Waiver Education Efforts." Preventive Medicine Reports 17:101049.
doi:10.1016/j.pmedr.2020.101049.
Sarathchandra, Dilshani, Mark C. Navin, Mark A. Largent, & Aaron M. McCright. 2018. "A Survey Instrument for Measuring Vaccine
Acceptance." Preventive Medicine 109:1-7.
Sarathchandra, Dilshani, & Aaron M. McCright. 2017. "The Effects of Media Coverage of Scientific Retractions on Risk Perceptions."
SAGE Open doi:10.1177/2158244017709324.
Besley, John C., Aaron M. McCright, Nagwan Zahry, Kevin C. Elliott, Norbert E. Kaminski, & Joseph D. Martin. 2017. "Perceived
Conflict of Interest in Health Science Partnerships." PLoS ONE 12(4):e0175643. (Press Release) (Essay in The Conversation)
Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
Shwom, Rachael L., Cindy Isenhour, Rebecca C. Jordan, Aaron M. McCright, & Jennifer Meta Robinson. 2017. "Integrating the Social
Sciences to Enhance Climate Literacy."Frontiers in Ecology & Environment 15(7):377-384.
Sorenson, Amanda, Rachael L. Shwom, Rebecca C. Jordan, Diana Ebert-May, Cindy Isenhour, Aaron M. McCright, & Jennifer Meta-
Robinson. 2016. "Model-Based Reasoning to Foster Environmental & Socio-Scientific Literacy in Higher Education."Journal of
Environmental Studies & Sciences 6:287-294.
Kelly, Jennifer R., Aaron M. McCright, & Thomas Dietz. 2015. "Climate Change & Society: Toward Online Pedagogy." Human Ecology
Review 21(2):49-64.
McCright, Aaron M., Brian O’Shea, Ryan Sweeder, Gerald Urquhart, & Aklilu Zeleke. 2013.“Promoting Interdisciplinarity through
Climate Change Education.” Nature Climate Change3:713-716. (Press Release)
Augsburg, Tanya, Barbara M. Bekken, Kevin Hovland, Julie Thompson Klein, Douglas B. Luckie, Bernard L. Madison, Paula J. S.
Martin, William H. Newell, Marci Sortor, & Richard Vaz. 2013. Insights on Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning. White Paper.
Edited by Aaron M. McCright & Weston Eaton. Available at lbc.msu.edu/CITL/whitepaper.cfm. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State
University. (Press Release)
McCright, Aaron M. 2012. “Enhancing Students’ Scientific & Quantitative Literacies through a Sociological Inquiry-Based Learning
Project on Climate Change." Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning 12(4):86-102.
Sweeder, Ryan D., Kathleen A. Jeffery, & Aaron M. McCright. 2012. “Lyman Briggs College: An Innovative Living-Learning
Community for STEM Education.” Quality Approaches in Higher Education 3(2):7-14.
Anti-Reflexivity Thesis
McCright, Aaron M., & Riley E. Dunlap. 2017. “Combating Misinformation Requires Recognizing Its Types & the Factors That
Facilitate Its Spread & Resonance.” Journal of Applied Research in Memory & Cognition 6:389-396.
McCright, Aaron M., Sandra T. Marquart-Pyatt, Rachael L. Shwom, Steven R. Brechin, & Summer Allen. 2016. "Ideology, Capitalism,
& Climate: Explaining Public Views about Climate Change in the United States." Energy Research & Social Science 21:180-189.
(Online Supplement)
McCright, Aaron M. 2016. "Anti-Reflexivity & Climate Change Skepticism in the US General Public." Human Ecology Review
22(2):77-107.
McCright, Aaron M., Meghan Charters, Katherine Dentzman, & Thomas Dietz. 2016. "Examining the Effectiveness of Climate Change
Frames in the Face of a Denialist Counter-Frame." Topics in Cognitive Science 8(1):76-97. (Online Supplement) (Press Release)
McCright, Aaron M., Chenyang Xiao, & Riley E. Dunlap. 2014. "Political Polarization on Support for Government Spending on
Environmental Protection in the USA, 1974-2012." Social Science Research 48:251-260. (Press Release)
McCright, Aaron M., Katherine Dentzman, Meghan Charters, & Thomas Dietz. 2013. "The Influence of Political Ideology on Trust in
Science." Environmental Research Letters 8:044029.
McCright, Aaron M., & Riley E. Dunlap. 2010. "Anti-Reflexivity: The American Conservative Movement's Success in Undermining
Climate Science and Policy." Theory, Culture, & Society27(2-3):100-133.
Organized Climate Change Denial
Dunlap, Riley E., & Aaron M. McCright. 2015. "Challenging Climate Change: The Denial Countermovement." Pp. 300-332 in Climate
Change & Society: Sociological Perspectives, edited by Riley E. Dunlap & Robert Brulle. New York: Oxford University Press.
McCright, Aaron M., & Riley E. Dunlap. 2012. "Organized Denial & Political Polarization on Climate Change in the United States." Pp.
173-194 in Controverses Climatiques, Sciences et Politiques, edited by Edwin Zaccai, François Gemenne & Jean-Michel Decroly.
Paris: Sciences Po Press.
Dunlap, Riley, E., & Aaron M. McCright. 2011. "Organized Climate Change Denial." Pp. 144-160 in Oxford Handbook of Climate
Change & Society, edited by John Dryzek, Richard Norgaard, & David Schlosberg. Cambridge: Oxford University Press.
McCright, Aaron M., & Riley E. Dunlap. 2010. "Anti-Reflexivity: The American Conservative Movement’s Success in Undermining
Climate Science & Policy." Theory, Culture, & Society27(2-3):100-133.
Dunlap, Riley E., & Aaron M. McCright. 2010. "Climate Change Denial: Sources, Actors, & Strategies." Pp. 240-259 in Routledge
Handbook of Climate Change & Society, edited by Constance Lever-Tracy. New York: Routledge Press.
McCright, Aaron M. 2007. "Dealing With Climate Change Contrarians." Pp. 200-212 in Creating a Climate for Change:
Communicating Climate Change & Facilitating Social Change, edited by Susanne C. Moser & Lisa Dilling. New York: Cambridge
University Press.
McCright, Aaron M., & Riley E. Dunlap. 2003. "Defeating Kyoto: The Conservative Movement's Impact on U.S. Climate Change
Policy." Social Problems 5(3):348-373. (Reprinted Here)
McCright, Aaron M., & Riley E. Dunlap. 2000. "Challenging Global Warming as a Social Problem: An Analysis of the Conservative
Movement's Counter Claims." Social Problems 47(4):499-522. (Reprinted Here)
"I'll Take Potpourri for 200, Alex"
Dietz, Thomas, Summer Allen, & Aaron M. McCright. 2017. "Integrating Concern for Animals into Personal Values." Anthrozoös
Rosa, Eugene A., Ortwin Renn, & Aaron M. McCright. 2014. The Risk Society Revisited: Social Theory & Governance. Philadelphia,
PA: Temple University Press. (Temple University Press Page; Buy at Amazon)
Rosa, Eugene A., Aaron M. McCright, & Ortwin Renn. 2010. “Jürgen Habermas & Risk Society Theory: The Meeting of Passing Ships.”
Quaderni di Teoria Sociale 10:55-82.
McCright, Aaron M., & Rachael L. Shwom. 2010. “Newspaper & Television Coverage.” Pp. 405-413 in Climate Change Science &
Policy, edited by Stephen H. Schneider, Armin Rosencranz, Michael D. Mastrandrea, & Kristin Kuntz-Duriseti. Washington, DC:
Island Press.
Vannini, Phillip, & Aaron M. McCright. 2007. “Technologies of the Sky: A Socio-Semiotic & Critical Analysis of Televised Weather
Discourse.” Critical Discourse Studies 4:49-73.
McCright, Aaron M., & Terry N. Clark, editors. 2006. Community and Ecology: Dynamics of Place, Sustainability, & Politics.
Amsterdam: Elsevier/JAI Press. (JAI Press Page; Buy at Amazon)
Vannini, Phillip, & Aaron M. McCright. 2004. “To Die For: The Semiotic Seductive Power of the Tanned Body.”Symbolic Interaction
27(3):309-332. (Reprinted Here)
Henderson, Eric, Stephen J. Kunitz, K. Ruben Gabriel, Aaron M. McCright, & Jerrold E. Levy. 1998. “Boarding & Public Schools:
Educational Attainment, Conduct Disorder, & Alcohol Dependency.” American Indian & Alaskan Native Mental Health
Research 8(2):24-45.
Environmental Decision-Making
Gerard, Andrew, Maria Claudia Lopez, & Aaron M. McCright. 2019. "Coffee Roasters' Sustainable Sourcing Decisions & Use of the
Direct Trade Label." Sustainability 11:5437. doi:10.3390/su11195437.
McCright, Aaron M. 2017. “Clean-Energy Conservatism.” Nature Energy 2:doi:10.1038/nenergy.2017.26.
Lynch, Abigail J., William W. Taylor, & Aaron M. McCright. 2016. "Stakeholder Views of Management & Decision-Support Tools to
Integrate Climate Change into Great Lakes Lake Whitefish Management." Fisheries 41:644-652.
Sundström, Aksel, & Aaron M. McCright. 2016. "Examining the Gender Divide in Opposition to Nuclear Power over Time & across
Polity Levels in Sweden." Energy Research & Social Science 11:29-39.
Kaplowitz, Stan A., & Aaron M. McCright. 2015. "Effects of Policy Characteristics & Justifications on Acceptance of a Gasoline Tax
Increase." Energy Policy 87:370-381. (Press Release)
Allen, Summer, Aaron M. McCright, & Thomas Dietz. 2015. "Measuring Household Energy Efficiency Behaviors with Attention to
Behavioral Plasticity." Energy Research & Social Science 10:133-140.
Clements, John M., Aaron M. McCright, Thomas Dietz, & Sandy T. Marquart-Pyatt. 2015. "A Behavioral Measure of Environmental
Decision-Making for Social Surveys." Environmental Sociology 1(1):27-37. (Supplementary Information)
Xiao, Chenyang, & Aaron M. McCright. 2015. "Gender Differences in Environmental Concern: Revisiting the Institutional Trust
Hypothesis in the USA." Environment & Behavior 47:17-37.
McCright, Aaron M., Chenyang Xiao, & Riley E. Dunlap. 2014. "Political Polarization on Support for Government Spending on
Environmental Protection in the USA, 1974-2012."Social Science Research 48:251-260. (Press Release)
McCright, Aaron M., & Chenyang Xiao. 2014. "Gender & Environmental Concern: Insights from Recent Work & for Future Survey
Research." Society & Natural Resources27(10):1109-1113.
Sundström, Aksel, & Aaron M. McCright. 2014. "Gender Differences in Environmental Concern among Swedish Citizens &
Politicians." Environmental Politics 23(6):1082-1095. (Online Supplement)
Clements, John M., Aaron M. McCright, & Chenyang Xiao. 2014. "An Examination of the ‘Greeningof Christianity’ Thesis within the
US General Public, 1993-2010."Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 53:373-391.
McCright, Aaron M., & Aksel Sundström. 2014. "Examining Gender Differences in Environmental Concern in the Swedish General
Public, 1990-2011." International Journal of Sociology 43(4):63-86.
Kojola, Erik, Chenyang Xiao, & Aaron M. McCright. 2014. "Environmental Concern of Labor Union Members in the United
States." The Sociological Quarterly 55:72-91.
Xiao, Chenyang, & Aaron M. McCright. 2014. "A Test of the Biographical Availability Argument for Gender Differences in
Environmental Behaviors." Environment & Behavior 46:241-263.
Clements, John M., Aaron M. McCright, & Chenyang Xiao. 2014. "Green Christians?: An Empirical Examination of Environmental
Concern within the U.S. General Public." Organization & Environment 27:85-102. (Press Release)
McCright, Aaron M., & Riley E. Dunlap. 2013. "Bringing Ideology In: The Conservative White Male Effect on Worry about
Environmental Problems in the United States."Journal of Risk Research 16:211-226.
Dietz, Thomas, Christina Leshko, & Aaron M. McCright. 2013. "Politics Shapes Individual Choices about Energy
Efficiency." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110:9191-9192. (Press Release)
Xiao, Chenyang, & Aaron M. McCright. 2012. "Explaining Gender Differences in Concern about Environmental Problems in the
United States." Society & Natural Resources 25:1067-1084.
Xiao, Chenyang, & Aaron M. McCright. 2007. "Environmental Concern & Socio-DemographicVariables: A Study of Statistical
Models." Journal of Environmental Education 38(2):3-13.
Dunlap, Riley E., Chenyang Xiao, & Aaron M. McCright. 2001. "Politics & Environment in America: Partisan & Ideological Cleavages
in Public Support for Environmentalism."Environmental Politics 10(4):23-48.
Public Views of Climate Change
Marquart-Pyatt, Sandra T., Hui Qian, Matthew K. Houser, & Aaron M. McCright. 2019. “Climate Change Views, Energy Policy
Preferences, & Intended Actions across Welfare State Regimes: Evidence from the European Social Survey.” International Journal
Shwom, Rachael L., Cindy Isenhour, Rebecca C. Jordan, Aaron M. McCright, & Jennifer Meta Robinson. 2017. "Integrating the Social
Sciences to Enhance Climate Literacy." Frontiers in Ecology & Environment 15(7):377-384.
McCright, Aaron M., Sandra T. Marquart-Pyatt, Rachael L. Shwom, Steven R. Brechin, & Summer Allen. 2016. "Ideology, Capitalism,
& Climate: Explaining Public Views about Climate Change in the United States." Energy Research & Social Science 21:180-189.
Dunlap, Riley E., Aaron M. McCright, & Jerrod Yarosh. 2016. "The Political Divide on Climate Change: Partisan Polarization in the
US Public Widens." Environment 58(5):4-22.
McCright, Aaron M. 2016. "Anti-Reflexivity & Climate Change Skepticism in the US General Public." Human Ecology Review
McCright, Aaron M., Meghan Charters, Katherine Dentzman, & Thomas Dietz. 2016. "Examining the Effectiveness of Climate Change
Frames in the Face of a Denialist Counter-Frame." Topics in Cognitive Science 8(1):76-97. (Online Supplement) (Press Release)
McCright, Aaron M., Riley E. Dunlap, & Sandra T. Marquart-Pyatt. 2016. "Political Ideology & Views about Climate Change in the
European Union." Environmental Politics 25(2):338-358. (Online Supplement)
Shwom Rachael L., Aaron M. McCright, & Steven R. Brechin. 2015. "Public Opinion on Climate Change." Pp. 269-299 in Climate
Change & Society: Sociological Perspectives, edited by Riley E. Dunlap & Robert Brulle. New York: Oxford University Press.
Marquart-Pyatt, Sandra T., Aaron M. McCright, Thomas Dietz, & Riley E. Dunlap. 2014. "Political Orientation Eclipses Climate
Extremes for Climate Change Perception." Global Environmental Change 29:246-257. (Press Release)
McCright, Aaron M., Riley E. Dunlap, & Chenyang Xiao. 2014. "Predicting Perceived Winter Warming in the USA." Nature Climate
Change 4:1077-1081. (Press Release) (Highlighted Here)
McCright, Aaron M., Riley E. Dunlap, & Chenyang Xiao. 2014. "Increasing Influence of PartyIdentification on Perceived Scientific
Agreement & Support for Government Action on Climate Change in the USA, 2006-2012." Weather, Climate, & Society 6:194-201.
McCright, Aaron M., Riley E. Dunlap, & Chenyang Xiao. 2013. "Perceived Scientific Agreement & Support for Government Action on
Climate Change in the USA." Climatic Change 119:511-518. (Press Release)
McCright, Aaron M., & Riley E. Dunlap. 2011. "Cool Dudes: The Denial of Climate Change among Conservative White Males in the
United States." Global Environmental Change 21:1163-1172.
Marquart-Pyatt, Sandra, Rachael L. Shwom, Thomas Dietz, Riley E. Dunlap, Stan A. Kaplowitz, Aaron M. McCright, & Sammy Zahran.
2011. "Understanding Public Opinion on Climate Change: A Call for Research." Environment 53(4):38-42.
McCright, Aaron M., & Riley E. Dunlap. 2011. "The Politicization of Climate Change & Polarization in the American Public’s Views of
Global Warming, 2001-2010."The Sociological Quarterly 52:155-194. (Press Release) (Highlighted Here)
(Symposium on the Politics of Climate Change)
McCright, Aaron M. 2011. "Political Orientation Moderates Americans’ Beliefs & Concern about Climate Change." Climatic Change
McCright, Aaron M. 2010. "Beliefs about Climate Science & Concern about Global Warming in the US Public, 2001-2010."
Commissioned Paper for Workshop on Climate Change Education for the Public and Decision-Makers. National Academy of
Sciences, Division of Earth and Life Studies, Committee on Human Dimensions of Global Change—Board on Science Education.
Washington, DC: National Research Council.
McCright, Aaron M. 2010. "The Effects of Gender on Climate Change Knowledge Concern in the American Public." Population &
Environment 32:66-87. (Press Release)
McCright, Aaron M. 2009. "The Social Bases of Climate Change Knowledge, Concern, & Policy Support in the US General
Public." Hofstra Law Review 37(4):1017-1047.
McCright, Aaron M. 2009. "The Politics of Climate Change." Pp. 107-112 inWorkshop on Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate
Change, edited by Joane Nagel, Thomas Dietz, & Jeffrey Broadbent. Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation.
Dunlap, Riley E., & Aaron M. McCright. 2008. "A Widening Gap: Republican & Democratic Views on Climate Change." Environment