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PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Leonard Saxe is an American social psychologist whose work focuses on sociology of religion, American Jews and the American Jewish community. He is currently the director of the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University.

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Recent unobtrusive studies of Black and White discrimination and prejudice: A literature review. (1980) (654)
Homelessness as psychological trauma. Broadening perspectives. (1991) (354)
Truancy, grade point average, and sexual activity: a meta-analysis of risk indicators for youth substance use. (2002) (220)
Children's mental health. The gap between what we know and what we do. (1988) (142)
Physical attractiveness and its relationship to sex-role stereotyping (1976) (141)
Lying Thoughts of an Applied Social Psychologist (1991) (120)
The validity of polygraph testing: Scientific analysis and public controversy. (1985) (111)
The visibility of illicit drugs: implications for community-based drug control strategies. (2001) (110)
Perception of risk in genetic counseling (1989) (105)
Children's Mental Health: Problems and Services (1987) (102)
Ten Days of Birthright Israel: A Journey in Young Adult Identity (2008) (101)
A comparison of paper vs computer-assisted self interview for school alcohol, tobacco, and other drug surveys (2000) (91)
Perceptions of similarly and dissimilarly attractive couples and individuals. (1976) (81)
The substance use system: social and neighborhood environments associated with substance use and misuse. (1998) (72)
National Jewish population survey 2000–01: A guide for the perplexed (2005) (67)
Trends in American Jewish Attachment to Israel: An Assessment of the “Distancing” Hypothesis (2008) (63)
Think globally, act locally: Assessing the impact of community-based substance abuse prevention☆ (1997) (63)
Why It Is So Difficult to Form Effective Community Coalitions (2005) (62)
Advances in applied social psychology (1980) (58)
Social psychology of education: Theory and research (1978) (56)
"how Goodly Are Thy Tents": Summer Camps as Jewish Socializing Experiences (2003) (54)
Admissibility of polygraph tests: The application of scientific standards post- Daubert . (1999) (52)
Generation Birthright Israel: The Impact of an Israel Experience on Jewish Identity and Choices (2009) (51)
Perceptions of female physique characteristics by American and Israeli students. (1983) (51)
Polygraph Testing and Sexual Abuse: The Lure of the Magic Lasso (2001) (51)
Cross-Survey Analysis to Estimate Low-Incidence Religious Groups (2010) (50)
It’s Not Just Who Stands Under the Chuppah: Intermarriage and Engagement (2008) (41)
Everybody (Else) Does It: Academic Cheating. (1992) (37)
A critique of the validity of polygraph testing in child sexual abuse cases (1993) (36)
Social Experiments: Methods for Design and Evaluation (1981) (36)
Intermarriage: The Impact and Lessons of Taglit-Birthright Israel (2011) (35)
Control Issues in Alcohol Abuse Prevention: Strategies for States and Communities (1989) (35)
Estimating and Understanding the Jewish Population in the United States: A Program of Research (2013) (34)
Zero Effects in Substance Abuse Programs (1998) (31)
Reaction to attitudinal deviance: impact of deviate's direction and distance of movement. (1976) (31)
Detection of Deception: Polygraph and Integrity Tests (1994) (31)
Importance of locus of help initiation and type of outcome as determinants of reactions to another's help attempt (1975) (30)
Tourists, Travelers, and Citizens: Jewish Engagement of Young Adults in Four Centers of North American Jewish Life (2009) (28)
JEWISH FUTURES PROJECT The Impact of Taglit-Birthright Israel: 2010 Update (2011) (28)
Realities and Opportunities for Jewish Life on Campus Particularism in the University: Realities and Opportunities for Jewish Life on Campus (2006) (28)
Does Taglit-Birthright Israel Foster Long-Distance Nationalism? (2014) (28)
Community-Based Prevention Programs in the War on Drugs: Findings from the “Fighting Back” Demonstration (2006) (27)
Being A Jewish Teenager in America: Trying to Make It (2001) (27)
Pew’s Portrait of American Jewry: A Reassessment of the Assimilation Narrative (2015) (26)
Taglit-birthright Israel: Impact on Jewish Identity, Peoplehood, and Connection to Israel (2006) (23)
Using Multilevel Modeling in the Evaluation of Community-Based Treatment Programs (2001) (22)
Millennial Children of Intermarriage: Religious Upbringing, Identification, and Behavior Among Children of Jewish and Non-Jewish Parents (2017) (22)
Estimating the Jewish Population of the United States: 2000-2010 (2012) (21)
Taglit-Birthright Israel Evaluation: 2007-2008 North American Cohorts (2007) (21)
Triangulation and Mixed Methods Designs: Practicing What We Preach in the Evaluation of an Israel Experience Educational Program (2008) (20)
What Is Intelligent, As Well As Attractive, Is Good (1977) (20)
How Goodly Are Thy Tents (2003) (19)
Evaluating birthright israel: Long- Term Impact and Recent Findings (2004) (19)
Reconsidering the Size and Characteristics of the American Jewish Population (2007) (19)
“Fighting Back” Against Substance Abuse: The Structure and Function of Community Coalitions (2004) (19)
Reimbursement for psychotherapy. Linking efficacy research and public policymaking. (1983) (19)
Community-Based Substance Abuse Reduction and the Gap between Treatment Need and Treatment Utilization: Analysis of Data from the “Fighting Back” General Population Survey (2006) (18)
Measuring the Size and Characteristics of American Jewry: A New Paradigm to Understand an Ancient People (2014) (18)
Perceived Stability of Trait Labels (1978) (18)
Science and the CQT polygraph (1991) (17)
American Jewish Population Estimates: 2012 (2013) (17)
Young Adults and Jewish Engagement: The Impact of Taglit-Birthright Israel (2013) (17)
Understanding Young Adult Attachment to Israel: Period, Lifecycle and Generational Dynamics (2012) (17)
Millennial Children of Intermarriage: Touchpoints and Trajectories of Jewish Engagement (2015) (17)
Survey Estimates of Drug-Use Trends in Urban Communities: General Principles and Cautionary Examples (2000) (16)
Still Connected: American Jewish Attitudes about Israel (2010) (16)
The Jewish Sector’s Workforce: Report of a Six-Community Study (2005) (16)
The Impact of Taglit-Birthright Israel: 2012 Update (2012) (16)
Social Attitudes of Russian Immigrants to the United States (1996) (15)
A New Approach to Understanding Contemporary Jewish Engagement (2018) (13)
Interpreting the Fort Bragg Children's Mental Health Demonstration Project. The cup is half full. (1997) (13)
Beyond 10 days: Parents, Gender, Marriage, and the Long-term Impact of Birthright Israel (2017) (13)
What Difference Does Day School Make? The Impact of Day School: A Comparative Analysis of Jewish College Students (2007) (13)
American Attitudes Toward Israel (2002) (13)
A mega-experiment in Jewish education: The Impact of birthright israel (2001) (13)
Making Meaning: Participants' Experience of Birthright Israel (2000) (12)
Antisemitism and the College Campus: Perceptions and Realities (2015) (12)
Jewish Life on Campus: From Backwater to Battleground (2016) (12)
Factors Affecting Perceived Attractiveness of Male Physiques by American and Israeli Students (1982) (12)
Policymakers' Use of Social Science Research (1986) (11)
Loyalty and Love of Israel by Diasporan Jews (2012) (11)
Jewish Futures Project--The Impact of Taglit-Birthright Israel: Marriage and Family (2014) (11)
Theories and applications in the detection of deception G. Ben-Shakhar and J.J. Furedy, (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1990) pp. vii + 169 (1993) (11)
Limud by the Lake: Fulfilling the Educational Potential of Jewish Summer Camps (2002) (11)
birthright israel Launch Evaluation: Preliminary Findings (2001) (10)
Jewish Adolescents: American Teenagers Trying to 'Make It' (2000) (9)
On Sampling, Evidence and Theory: Concluding Remarks on the Distancing Debate (2010) (9)
Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies (2012) (9)
Assessing the Validity of Data Synthesis Methods to Estimate Religious Populations (2018) (8)
Guest-Host Encounters in Diaspora-Heritage Tourism: The Taglit-Birthright Israel Mifgash (Encounter) (2011) (8)
Population Estimates: 2012 (2013) (8)
“AAA” Guide to Developing and Using Knowledge to Drive Jewish Communal Policy (2013) (8)
Outreach Families in the Sacred Common: Congregational Responses to Interfaith Issues (2001) (7)
How Socially Integrated into Mainstream America are Young American Jews? (2012) (7)
The Impact of Taglit-Birthright Israel: Marriage and Family (2014) (7)
Using Consumer Panels to Understand the Characteristics of US Jewry (2013) (6)
Evaluating systems of care for children: utility of the clinical case conference. (1997) (6)
2015 Greater Boston Jewish Community Study (2016) (6)
Making evaluation research useful to Congress (1982) (6)
The Limits of Hostility: Students Report on Antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment at Four US Universities (2017) (6)
Introduction: Special Issue on Jewish Demography in the United States (2013) (6)
Effect of Physical Attractiveness on the Perception of Couples (1974) (5)
DIY Judaism: How Contemporary Jewish Young Adults Express their Jewish Identity (2013) (5)
Encountering the Other, Finding Oneself: The Taglit-Birthright Israel Mifgash (2008) (5)
The Day After: Report of a Survey of Effects of Viewing and Beliefs about Nuclear War. (1984) (5)
Searching for the Study of Israel: A Directory of Courses about Israel on U.S. College Campuses 2011-12 (2013) (5)
Discovering Israel at War: The Impact of Taglit-Birthright Israel in Summer 2014 (2015) (5)
All Together Separate: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion on the Brandeis Campus (2016) (5)
After Birthright Israel: Finding and Seeking Young Adult Jewish Community (2007) (5)
Reflections on the Science of the Social Scientific Study of Jewry: Marshall Sklare Award Lecture (2014) (5)
The Aleph Bet of Israel Education (2011) (5)
A Study of Jewish Young Adults in Brazil: The Impact of Taglit-Birthright Israel (2013) (4)
Steinhardt Institute American Jewish Population Estimates: 2012 (2013) (4)
Hotspots of Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Sentiment on US Campuses (2016) (4)
U.S. Jewry 2010: Estimates of the Size and Characteristics of the Population (2010) (4)
Mapping Jewish Education: The National Picture (2006) (4)
U.S. Jewish Young Adults React to the Gaza Conflict: A Survey of Birthright Israel Applicants (2014) (4)
‘All Politics is Local’: Challenges in the Study of Local Jewish Communities (2016) (4)
2014 Greater Seattle Jewish Community Study (2015) (4)
THE UBIQUITY OF PHYSICAL APPEARANCE AS A DETERMINANT OF SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS (1979) (4)
2017 Greater Washington Jewish Community Demographic Study (2018) (4)
Lonely in Lockdown: Predictors of Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties Among Jewish Young Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021) (4)
Teaching Israel at American Universities: Growth, Placement, and Future Prospects (2013) (3)
Recruiting and Retaining a Professional Workforce for the Jewish Community: A Review of Existing Research (2004) (3)
Robert Chin (Chen Yuli) (1918-1990): Obituary. (1991) (3)
The Arithmetic of U.S. Jewry (2003) (3)
Teachers' Information Processing: Effect of Information about Pupils on Teachers' Expectations and Affect (1979) (3)
Perceived Relatedness of Trait-Dispositions to Ability and Effort (1974) (3)
Science and CQT polygraph tests: A theoretical critique (1991) (3)
Diversity, Pressure, and Divisions on the University of Pennsylvania Campus (2016) (3)
The view from Main Street and the view from 40,000 feet: Can a national evaluation understand local communities? (1999) (3)
The Impact of birthright Israel (2001) (3)
The Israel Literacy Measurement Project: 2015 Report (2015) (3)
Contact: The Journal of the Jewish Life Network / Steinhardt Foundation -- Birthright Israel: The Next Phase (2001) (2)
Is Criticism Disloyal? American Jews' Attitudes toward Israel (2020) (2)
Appendix C . — Assessment of Medical Technology : Methodological Considerations (1996) (2)
Counting American Jewry (2010) (2)
American Jews and the Domestic Arena: Issue 2, The Impact of the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic on US Jewry: A Preliminary Assessment (2022) (2)
Beyond Welcoming: Engaging Intermarried Couples in Jewish Life (2019) (2)
Under the Chuppah: Rabbinic Officiation and Intermarriage (2016) (2)
Boston’s Good News On Intermarriage (2006) (2)
Research Synthesis of National Survey Estimates of the U.S. Jewish Population (2006) (2)
Israel at War: The Impact of Peer-oriented Israel Programs on Responses of American Young Adults (2006) (2)
Let Our Population Data Go (2007) (2)
Can the Pew Findings Guide Philanthropic Investment in the Jewish Community (2014) (2)
Complexity of process and role in the evaluation of an interdisciplinary mental health education program: The deacon's masterpiece (1979) (2)
Limud by the Lake (2002) (2)
Trends in Jewish Young Adult Experiences and Perceptions of Antisemitism in America from 2017 to 2019 (2021) (2)
Reforming Mental Health Services for Seriously Emotionally Disturbed Youth: Rhetoric, Practice, and Research. (1991) (2)
The Mental Health Services Program for Youth (1998) (2)
Making the Most of Taglit: Combined Jewish Philanthropies IACT Initiative, A Program Evaluation (2010) (2)
Contact: The Journal of the Jewish Life Network / Steinhardt Foundation -- Jewish Summer Camps: Our Precious Resource (2002) (2)
The 2018-19 Greater Denver Jewish Community Study : A Portrait of Life in the Seven-County Region (2020) (1)
According to their Numbers: Assessing the Pew Research Center’s Estimate of 7.5 Million Jewish Americans (2022) (1)
Baltimore 2020 Jewish Community Study (2020) (1)
You Shall Tell Your Children: An Evaluation Of The ICHEIC Service Corps (2006) (1)
Race, Community, and Belonging: Revisiting Student Concerns at Brandeis University (2019) (1)
The Taglit-Birthright Israel Application Process: (2014) (1)
Report on Jewish Elderly Nazi Victims (2004) (1)
Misogyny and the Continuity Crisis: Is Social Science Research Responsible? (2020) (1)
Pew Findings Reject Bleak Narrative of Jewish Decline (2013) (1)
Building MASA: An Analysis of the U.S. Market for Long-term Programs in Israel (2008) (1)
Extreme Dissent, Conformity Reduction and the Bases of Social Influence. (1975) (1)
Comment on Application of Decision Science (1992) (1)
Searching for the Study of Israel (2013) (1)
Forum on Contemporary American Jewry: Grounds for Optimism or Pessimism? (2019) (1)
JEWISH ELDERLY NAZI VICTIMS: A SYNTHESIS OF COMPARATIVE INFORMATION ON HARDSHIP AND NEED IN THE UNITED STATES, ISRAEL, AND (2004) (1)
2017 Greater Pittsburgh Jewish Community Study (2018) (1)
Public Policy and Psychotherapy: Can Evaluative Research Play a Role?. (1982) (1)
Trends in Jewish Young Adult Experiences and Perceptions of Antisemitism in America from 2017 to 2019 (2021) (1)
Particularism In The University (2006) (1)
Evaluation Report: ICHEIC-Sponsored Summer CampSt. Petersburg, Russia, 2005 (2006) (1)
The 1,2,3, Principle (2007) (1)
Connecting Diaspora Young Adults to Israel: Lessons from Taglit-Birthright Israel (2008) (1)
THE FLORENCE MELTON PARENT EDUCATION PROGRAM: Evaluating an Innovative Approach to Adult Jewish Education for Parents of Preschoolers (2004) (1)
Jewish Elderly Victims in the Former Soviet Union: Ongoing Needs and Comparison to Conditions in Europe, Israel, and the United States (2007) (1)
The conventional wisdom is wrong... (2008) (1)
What's next for Jewish Palm Beach?: Jewish community study (2019) (0)
Interventions for childhood mental disorders (1989) (0)
2018 South Palm Beach Jewish Community Study (2018) (0)
‘All Politics is Local’: Challenges in the Study of Local Jewish Communities (2016) (0)
Michal Kravel-Tovi and Deborah Dash-Moore (eds): Taking Stock: Cultures of Enumeration in Contemporary Jewish Life (2017) (0)
How Socially Integrated into Mainstream America are Young American Jews? (2012) (0)
Evaluation Research and Psychology: Toward Synthesis. (1978) (0)
Umpiring controversy (1985) (0)
A New Approach to Understanding Contemporary Jewish Engagement (2018) (0)
Boston Study Question Did Not Bias Results (2006) (0)
2019 Twin Cities Jewish Community Study (2020) (0)
The 2008 Berkshire Community Study: For the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires (2011) (0)
Building Resilient Jewish Communities (2020) (0)
Creating Competent Jews (2005) (0)
The Birthright Israel Generation: Being a Jewish Young Adult in Contemporary America (2012) (0)
Contact: The Journal of the Jewish Life Network / Steinhardt Foundation -- Jewish Jobs, Jewish Careers, Jewish Life (2004) (0)
The Florence Melton Parent Education Program (2004) (0)
In Honor of Joseph Neubauer, Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer, and Alan Cooperman, Mandell L. Berman Service Awardees 2021 (2022) (0)
Understanding Young Adult Attachment to Israel: Period, Lifecycle and Generational Dynamics (2012) (0)
Jewish Adolescents: American Teenagers Trying to (2001) (0)
Camp for Counselors (2002) (0)
Scientific Integrity: We Have Met the Enemy and It Is Us (1996) (0)
Double or Nothing Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage in the United States Keynote Address: Judaism in the Interfaith Household (2004) (0)
The Reach and Impact of Birthright Israel: What We Can Learn from Pew’s “Jewish Americans in 2020” (2022) (0)
Introduction: Special Issue on Jewish Demography in the United States (2013) (0)
Ten Years Later, Birthright Still Reaching Young Jews (2011) (0)
Contact: The Journal of the Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life -- Jewish Peoplehood: What Does It Mean? (2008) (0)
Student Satisfaction and the Future of Online Learning in Higher Education: Lessons from a Natural Experiment (2023) (0)
The Israel Connection and American Jews (review) (2003) (0)
A student laboratory experiment in chemotherapy. (1959) (0)
Antisemitism and polarization: the political dynamics of American Jewish concerns about traditional and Israel-related antisemitism (2022) (0)
Millennial Children of Intermarriage: Religious Upbringing, Identification, and Behavior Among Children of Jewish and Non-Jewish Parents (2017) (0)
2005 Boston Community Survey (2006) (0)
62 Ethical research questions and answers about the cot polygraph test (1998) (0)
Reflections on the Science of the Social Scientific Study of Jewry: Marshall Sklare Award Lecture (2014) (0)
What Happens on the Bus? How Community Impacts Jewish Engagement on Taglit-Birthright Israel (2012) (0)
Evaluation of the Mental Health Services Program for Youth demonstration: Examining rhetoric in action (1995) (0)
What Do We Mean When We Speak of a Personnel Crisis (2004) (0)
2019 Greater Cincinnati Jewish Community Study (2020) (0)
The Birthright Israel Program: Present and Possible Future Impacts: An interview with Leonard Saxe (2010) (0)
Understanding the Jewish Identity and Experiences of Russian-Speaking Young Adults: (2011) (0)
Michal Kravel-Tovi and Deborah Dash-Moore (eds): Taking Stock: Cultures of Enumeration in Contemporary Jewish Life (2017) (0)
Using Consumer Panels to Understand the Characteristics of US Jewry (2013) (0)
Confronting Discontinuity on Campus (2006) (0)
Engaging the Intellect: Jewish Studies on the College Campus (2005) (0)
Can two social psychologies be taught (1987) (0)
Building Jewish Pride Through Sports: An Evaluation of the Impact of Competing in the World Maccabiah Games (2018) (0)
Bringing Educational Technology into Supplementary Jewish Education: Evaluation of ShalomLearning (2018) (0)
The Impact of Taglit-Birthright Israel on Participants from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Germany (2019) (0)
Social Psychology's Promise. (1984) (0)
Empowerment, then Citizenship (2003) (0)
Lie Detectors/Polygraph Tests (1999) (0)
Goal directed informal sessions: their impact on an adolescent unit. (1984) (0)
'Generation Birthright Israel' Chooses Engagement (2009) (0)
An Incompleat Guide to Working as a Nonacademic Researcher (2021) (0)
Recruitment & Retention: A Literature Review (2004) (0)
Weighty analysis might interfere with what the book jacket describes as “a narrative reminiscent of a nineteenth-century novel.” Yet, until the last hundred or so of 649 pages, the book doesn’t succeed on that score (2005) (0)
Experimenting with Jewish Education: Towards a Science of Understanding (2006) (0)
Hardship and needs of elderly hesed clients: An analysis of clients served by elderly Hesed service centers in Russia & Ukraine (2012) (0)
Work To Create Communal Careers (2005) (0)
Queen Esther, a new study puts intermarriage in perspective (2008) (0)
Estimating and Understanding the Jewish Population in the United States: A Program of Research (2013) (0)
NJPS 2000: Learning from Controversy (2003) (0)
Intermarriage: Reframing Discourse and Action (2008) (0)

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