When Corinna Jenkins Tucker learned that her study linking the effects of sibling aggression to poor mental health outcomes would be published in the journal Pediatrics, she was thrilled: The prominent journal would put this important research directly in front of pediatricians, who could share its results with worried parents at children’s annual physicals.
Tucker and her co-authors from UNH’s Crimes against Children Research Center – center director and professor of sociology David Finkelhor, professor of sociology Heather Turner, and researcher Anne Shattuck – never imagined that hundreds of news outlets, from the New York Times to The Onion, would report on the study and carry its message directly to those parents and caregivers.
Four months after the study came out, Tucker, an...
When Corinna Jenkins Tucker learned that her study linking the effects of sibling aggression to poor mental health outcomes would be published in the journal Pediatrics, she was thrilled: The prominent journal would put this important research directly in front of pediatricians, who could share its results with worried parents at children’s annual physicals.
Tucker and her co-authors from UNH’s Crimes against Children Research Center – center director and professor of sociology David Finkelhor, professor of sociology Heather Turner, and researcher Anne Shattuck – never imagined that hundreds of news outlets, from the New York Times to The Onion, would report on the study and carry its message directly to those parents and caregivers.
Four months after the study came out, Tucker, an...