J. Richard Udry
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- PhD Sociology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Masters Sociology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Bachelors Sociology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, J. Richard Udry was an American sociologist and demographer, known for his work on the biological and sociological factors affecting human behavior. He was Kenan Distinguished Professor of maternal and child health in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health and professor of sociology in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences. He joined the faculty at UNC from 1965, and remained there for the rest of his career. He also directed UNC's Carolina Population Center from 1977 to 1992. He is known for designing the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health , which he also secured funding for and directed from 1994 to 2004. He served as president of the Population Association of America in 1994, and served two terms as president of the Society for the Study of Social Biology.
J. Richard Udry's Published Works
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Published Works
- Protecting adolescents from harm. Findings from the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health. (1997) (3557)
- Protecting adolescents from harm: Findings from the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health. (1997) (1655)
- Validation of a self-administered instrument to assess stage of adolescent development (1980) (917)
- National Estimates of Adolescent Romantic Relationships (2003) (577)
- Adolescent obesity increases significantly in second and third generation U.S. immigrants: the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. (1998) (489)
- Prevalence of chlamydial and gonococcal infections among young adults in the United States. (2004) (475)
- You don't bring me anything but down: adolescent romance and depression. (2000) (456)
- Longitudinal trends in race/ethnic disparities in leading health indicators from adolescence to young adulthood. (2006) (398)
- Biological Predispositions and Social Control in Adolescent Sexual Behavior. (1988) (296)
- Initiation of coitus in early adolescence. (1987) (273)
- Parental Marital Status Effects on Adolescent Sexual Behavior. (1987) (235)
- BIOLOGICAL LIMITS OF GENDER CONSTRUCTION (2000) (234)
- Patterns of Adolescent Friendship and Effects on Sexual Behavior (1985) (218)
- Smart teens don't have sex (or kiss much either). (2000) (217)
- Serum androgenic hormones motivate sexual behavior in adolescent boys. (1985) (199)
- Parent-child communication and adolescent sexual behavior. (1985) (198)
- Benefits of Being Attractive: Differential Payoffs for Men and Women (1984) (186)
- Health and behavior risks of adolescents with mixed-race identity. (2003) (166)
- The nature of gender (1994) (165)
- Sexual behaviors of physically disabled adolescents in the United States. (2002) (164)
- The Prevalence of Trichomoniasis in Young Adults in the United States (2005) (162)
- The social context of marriage (1966) (162)
- Marital Alternatives and Marital Disruption. (1981) (159)
- Findings From the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health (2010) (158)
- Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Friendship Choice (1984) (155)
- Risk assessment of adolescents with same-sex relationships. (2002) (153)
- Mothers influence on the sexual behavior of their teenage children. (1984) (141)
- Coital and non-coital sexual behaviors of white and black adolescents. (1985) (141)
- Age at menarche, at first intercourse, and at first pregnancy (1979) (140)
- The influence of male and female best friends on adolescent sexual behavior. (1985) (137)
- Marital sex frequency and midcycle female testosterone (1987) (123)
- Biosocial models of adolescent problem behaviors. (1990) (121)
- Pubertal development and friends: a biosocial explanation of adolescent sexual behavior. (1985) (120)
- Testosterone and pubertal development as predictors of sexual activity: a panel analysis of adolescent males. (1993) (114)
- Androgen effects on women's gendered behaviour (1995) (108)
- New methods for new research on adolescent sexual behavior (1998) (107)
- Stress and age at menarche of mothers and daughters (1995) (107)
- Skin Color, Status, and Mate Selection (1971) (104)
- Effects of body fat on weight concerns, dating, and sexual activity: a longitudinal analysis of black and white adolescent girls. (1999) (102)
- Relationships between aggression and pubertal increases in testosterone: a panel analysis of adolescent males. (1993) (101)
- Dominant looking male teenagers copulate earlier (1994) (100)
- Body Mass Index, Dieting, Romance, and Sexual Activity in Adolescent Girls: Relationships Over Time (2005) (91)
- Prevalence of HIV infection among young adults in the United States: results from the Add Health study. (2006) (91)
- Sociology and Biology: What Biology Do Sociologists Need to Know? (1995) (90)
- Sexual Experiences of Adolescents with Low Cognitive Abilities in the U.S (2005) (88)
- Prenatal effects of maternal smoking on daughters' smoking: nicotine or testosterone exposure? (1999) (88)
- The rescission of behaviors: Inconsistent responses in adolescent sexuality data (1982) (87)
- Urine nicotine metabolites and smoking behavior in a multiracial/multiethnic national sample of young adults. (2007) (87)
- A medical record linkage analysis of abortion underreporting. (1996) (85)
- Testosterone and religiosity as predictors of sexual attitudes and activity among adolescent males: a biosocial model (1994) (76)
- Oral sex in an adolescent population (1985) (76)
- Reactions of young adults to September 11, 2001. (2003) (73)
- Adolescents' Honesty in a Survey of Sexual Behavior (1988) (69)
- A cross-cultural examination of the relationship between ages at menarche, marriage, and first birth (1982) (68)
- Biosocial models of adolescent problem behavior: extension to panel design. (1993) (66)
- Marital Instability by Race, Sex, Education, and Occupation Using 1960 Census Data (1966) (65)
- Marital Role Segregation and Social Networks in Middle-Class Middle-Aged Couples (1965) (65)
- Autism and Accuracy in Adolescent Perceptions of Friends' Sexual Attitudes and Behavior (1986) (63)
- Shifting age-parity distribution of births and the decrease in infant mortality. (1975) (58)
- A METHOD FOR VALIDATION OF REPORTED SEXUAL DATA. (1967) (58)
- The Importance of Being Beautiful: A Reexamination and Racial Comparison (1977) (56)
- Variations in Pedometer Activity During the Menstrual Cycle (1970) (52)
- Community and International Nutrition Adolescent Obesity Increases Significantly in Second and Third Generation U . S . Immigrants : The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health 1 , 2 (1998) (52)
- Do couples make fertility plans one birth at a time? (1983) (50)
- Diurnal and weekly, but no lunar rhythms in humans copulation. (1982) (49)
- Can mass media advetising increase contraceptive use? (1972) (49)
- Pheromonal influences on human sexual behaviour: an experimental search (1978) (49)
- Differential fertility by intelligence: the role of birth planning. (1978) (48)
- Changes in the frequency of marital intercourse from panel data (1980) (47)
- RISK FACTORS DIFFER ACCORDING TO SAME-SEX AND OPPOSITE-SEX INTEREST (2004) (47)
- Biosocial foundations for adolescent female sexuality (1986) (47)
- Adolescent sexual behavior and popularity. (1983) (46)
- Wives' and husbands' expected costs and benefits of childbearing as predictors of pregnancy. (1979) (46)
- A cross-national comparison of the relative influence of male and female age on the frequency of marital intercourse (1982) (45)
- Marital coital frequency: unnoticed outliers and unspecified interactions lead to erroneous conclusions. (1986) (43)
- Missing school dropouts in surveys does not bias risk estimates (2003) (42)
- Expectation fulfillment as a measure of patient satisfaction. (1974) (41)
- Structural correlates of feminine beauty preferences in Britain and the United States: A comparison. (1965) (40)
- Contraceptive pills and day-by-day feelings of well-being. (1972) (40)
- Biomarkers in Wave III of the Add Health Study (2010) (39)
- A Model of Friendship Similarity in Mildly Deviant Behaviors1 (1984) (39)
- The distribution of events in the human menstrual cycle. (1977) (37)
- Adolescent males' willingness to report masturbation (2000) (37)
- Environmental and Genetic Influences on Sex-Typed Behaviors and Attitudes of Male and Female Adolescents (2001) (36)
- The Season-of-Birth Paradox. (1988) (36)
- Changes in Premarital Coital Experience of Recent Decade-of-Birth Cohorts of Urban American Women (1975) (36)
- Effects of repeated questionnaire administration in longitudinal studies of adolescent males' sexual behavior (1994) (33)
- Childhood precursors of age at first intercourse for females (1995) (32)
- Masculinity-femininity predicts sexual orientation in men but not in women. (2006) (31)
- Increasing Scale and Spatial Differentiation: New Tests of Two Theories from Shevky and Bell (1964) (29)
- Subjective expected utility and adolescent sexual behavior. (1981) (29)
- The politics of sex research (1993) (28)
- Why are males injured more than females? (1998) (27)
- The effect of the Great Blackout of 1965 on births in New York City (1970) (27)
- The effect of normative pressures on fertility (1982) (26)
- Seasonality of coitus and seasonality of birth (1967) (26)
- Reduction of low birth weight birth rates by the prevention of unwanted pregnancies. (1973) (25)
- Protecting adolescent's from harm (1997) (24)
- Feminist Critics Uncover Determinism, Positivism, and Antiquated Theory (2001) (24)
- Correction for Graupner and Brunel, Calcium-based plasticity model explains sensitivity of synaptic changes to spike pattern, rate, and dendritic location (2012) (24)
- Relative contribution of male and female age to the frequency of marital intercourse. (1978) (24)
- The National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health, Waves I & II (Add Health), 1994-1996: (384982004-001) (1996) (22)
- Masculinity-Femininity Guides Sexual Union Formation in Adolescents (2004) (22)
- Parity-Specific and two-sex utility models of reproductive intentions (1980) (22)
- The marital happiness/disruption relationship by level of marital alternatives. (1983) (22)
- Effect of contraceptive pills on sexual activity in the luteal phase of the human menstrual cycle (1973) (21)
- Serum androgenic hormones motivate sexual behavior in adolescent human males. (1984) (21)
- Genetic Information , Obesity , and Labor Market Outcomes (2007) (20)
- A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. (1971) (19)
- A Panel Study of Subjective Expected Utility for Adolescent Sexual Behavior (1986) (19)
- Determinants of coitus after childbirth (1993) (19)
- Early predictors of nonmarital first pregnancy and abortion. (1996) (17)
- A study of the relationship between coitus and the luteinizing hormone surge. (1977) (16)
- Demographic components of seasonality of pregnancy (1989) (16)
- Personality Match and Interpersonal Perception as Predictors of Marriage (1967) (16)
- Marital Instability by Race and Income (1967) (15)
- Reduction of low birth weight rates by the prevention of unwanted pregnancies. (1977) (15)
- Implications of Hormonal Influences on Sexual Behavior for Demographic Models of Reproduction a (1994) (13)
- Normative pressures on fertility planning (1980) (12)
- Variation in Adolescent Hormone Measures and Implications for Behavioral Research (1992) (12)
- An Empirical Investigation of Some Widely Held Beliefs about Marital Interaction (1961) (12)
- Marriage, family, and society : a reader (1966) (11)
- Complementarity in Mate Selection: A Perceptual Approach (1963) (11)
- The determinants of effective fecundability based on the first birth interval (1986) (10)
- Policy and ethical implications of biosocial research (1995) (10)
- The Influence of the Ideal Mate Image on Mate Selection and Mate Perception (1965) (10)
- Female work fertility and contraceptive use in a biracial sample. (1973) (9)
- The relationship between legal abortion and marriage. (1975) (9)
- The media and family planning (1974) (8)
- Relative income and fertility: the analysis of individuals fertility in a biracial sample. (1975) (8)
- The Importance of Social Class in a Suburban School (1960) (8)
- Migration plans of the rural populations of the Third World countries: a probit analysis of micro-level data from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. (1986) (7)
- DAAPPP Data Set Q1-Q9, National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, Wave III, 2001- 2002 (Add Health): (385072004-001) (2002) (7)
- Sociology of marriage and family behavior 1957-1968 : a trend report and bibliography (1971) (7)
- Daily immunologic pregnancy testing of initially nonpregnant women. (1967) (7)
- Predicting alcohol use by adolescent males (1991) (6)
- Sexual frequency and contraceptive pills. (1971) (6)
- The effect of subsidized family planning services on reproductive behavior in the United States, 1969–1974 (1976) (6)
- Menstruation and Marital Sex (1983) (6)
- The random variation in rates based on total enumeration of events (1979) (6)
- Depression of physical activity by contraceptive pills. (1969) (6)
- Changes in women's preferences for the racial composition of medical facilities, 1969-1974. (1976) (6)
- The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States.Edward O. Laumann , John H. Gagnon , Robert T. Michael , Stuart Michaels (1995) (5)
- Social class, social mobility, and prematurity: a test of the childhood environment hypothesis for Negro women. (1970) (5)
- Coital Frequency, Delayed Fertilization, and Outcome of Pregnancy (1968) (5)
- Forming reproductive unions in urban Zimbabwe. (1992) (5)
- Putting prenatal effects on sex-dimorphic behavior in perspective: an absolutely complete theory. (2003) (4)
- Population growth rates in perfect contraceptive populations. (1973) (4)
- What do we know about adolescent health: Findings from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (1998) (4)
- Implications of hormonal influences on sexual behavior for demographic models of reproduction. (1994) (4)
- Pregnancy testing as a fertility measurement technique: a preliminary report on field results. (1971) (3)
- Sterilization. A case of extensive practice in a developing nation. (1971) (3)
- American Mass Media (1975) (3)
- The Estimation of Network Formation Games with Positive Spillovers (2017) (3)
- Contraceptive pills and day-by-day feelings of well-being (1973) (3)
- How to alienate your natural allies and attract your enemies (1999) (3)
- Migration and the transformation of employment and household structures. (1982) (3)
- Regionalized perinatal care: an estimate of potential effect on racial differences in perinatal mortality in North Carolina. (1975) (3)
- The difference in unwanted births between blacks and whites (1973) (2)
- REDUCTION OF LOW BIRTH WEIGHT BIRTH RATES BY THE PREVENTION OF UNWANTED PREGNANCIES (1974) (2)
- Frequency of intercourse by day of the week (1970) (2)
- Female sexual adaptability: a consequence of the absence of natural selection among females (1980) (2)
- The Family: An Introduction. By C. C. Harris. New York: Praeger, 1969. 212 pp. $6.75 (1970) (2)
- Unwanted fertility and the use of contraception. (1973) (2)
- The biological effects of family planning. C. Behavioral effects of contraception. (1969) (2)
- The Demographic evaluation of domestic family planning programs : proceedings of a research workshop, Belmont Conference Center, Elkridge, Maryland, May 7-9, 1973 (1975) (1)
- Effect on unwanted fertility of extending physician-administered birth control in the United States (1974) (1)
- Reactions of young adults to September 11, 2001 (2003) (1)
- The Stork that Failed (1974) (1)
- DAAPPP Special Data Set, National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, Waves I, II, and III (Add Health): (387382004-001) (2004) (1)
- Sex and Family Life (1968) (1)
- Conformity as a Rewarding Interaction Pattern (1963) (1)
- Estimating the effect on unwanted fertility of a postpartum recruitment strategy. (1974) (1)
- Appointment backlog frustrates Ad Campaign potential. (1973) (1)
- The Social Cage: Human Nature and the Evolution of Society.Alexandra Maryanski , Jonathan H. Turner (1994) (0)
- SOCIOLOGY OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY BEHAVIOR, 1957–1968: A TREND REPORT AND BIBLIOGRAPHY. By John Mogey. The Hague: Mouton, 1971. 364 pp (1972) (0)
- [Differential fertility by intelligence. The role of birth planning (Author's transl)]. (1979) (0)
- CAUSES OF REDUCTION IN INFANT MORTAUTY (1975) (0)
- Marital Alternatives Scale (MAS) 1981 (2007) (0)
- The Role of Social Science in the Destruction of the Family@@@Haven in Heartless World: The Family Besieged. (1979) (0)
- Editorial Office: Human Development and Family Studies (2016) (0)
- Adolescent Sexuality: A Study of Attitudes and Behavior.By Helen F. Antonovsky. Lexington, Ma.: Heath, 1980. 162 pp (1982) (0)
- Blue-Collar Marriage. By Mirra Komarovsky. With the collaboration of Jane H. Phillips. New York: Random House, 1964. 395 pp. $5.95 (1967) (0)
- Book Review: Communication Strategies for Family Planning (1974) (0)
- Marital Alternatives Scale (Wives) 1981 (1987) (0)
- Marriage Under Analysis (1972) (0)
- Adolescent Sexuality: A Study of Attitudes and Behavior. (1982) (0)
- Book review (2003) (0)
- Marital Alternatives Scale 1981 (1987) (0)
- Evaluation of the five-year family planning plan. (1973) (0)
- Genetic Influences on Human Fertility and Sexuality: Commentary on Chapters 1–5 (2000) (0)
- Social Physique Anxiety and Female Athlete Exposure (2021) (0)
- A BIOSOCIAL PARADIGM FOR WOMEN'S GENDER ROLES (2015) (0)
- Another Look At Milgram: The Role Of Reflection Time And Normative Information In Obedience To Authority (2017) (0)
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