Rodgers, Joseph L.

Ph.D. (1981, University of North Carolina)

Professor,
Quantitative, Social/Personality Psychology

jrodgers at ou dot edu

I do two types of research. My work on quantitative methods focuses on scaling and other data analysis methods; focus topics include multidimensional scaling, cluster analysis, correlational analysis, and general multivariate methods. My substantive work focuses on adolescent development (intellectual development; sexuality and deviance) and fertility decision making. I develop mathematical models to help explain these behaviors.

Rodgers, J. L. & Kohler, H-P (2005). Reformulating and simplifying the DF Analysis model. Behavior Genetics, 35, 211-217.

Rodgers, J. L. & Kohler, H-P. (Eds.) (2003). The Biodemography of Human Reproduction and Fertility. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Rodgers, J. L. & Rowe, D. C. (2002). Theory development should begin (but not end) with good empirical fits: A comment on Roberts and Pashler (2000). Psychological Review, 109, 599-604.

Rodgers, J. L., Hughes, K., Kohler, H.-P., Christensen, K., Doughty, D., Rowe, D. C., & Miller, W. B. (2001). Genetic influence helps explain variation in human fertility outcomes: Evidence from recent behavioral and molecular genetic studies. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 10, 184-188.

Rodgers, J. L. & Doughty, D. (2001). Does having boys or girls run in the family? Chance, 14, 8-13.