Meagan Ashley Docherty
Adjunct Faculty Associate, Research Center for Group Dynamics and Assistant Research Scientist, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research
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BIO
Research Interests:
- The development of problem behaviors, including aggression and violence, from childhood to young adulthood
- Coping and exposure to violence, abuse, trauma, and crime
The development of callousness (i.e., the lack of guilt, empathy, emotional expression, concern, and psychopathy) - Adolescent delinquency and young adult offending, particularly gun carrying, drug dealing, and gang involvement
- Family, peer, school, and neighborhood influences on youth behavior
- Paul Boxer, Eric F Dubow, Meagan Ashley Docherty, L_Rowell Huesmann, Simha Landau, Khalil Shikaki, Kaylise Algrim. 2026. Impact of Chronic Multi-Context Violence on Post-Traumatic Stress and Aggression Among Israeli and Palestinian Youth. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
- Eric F Dubow, Paul Boxer, L_Rowell Huesmann, Meagan Ashley Docherty, Craig A. Anderson. 2025. Contagious effects of gun violence in the media: A social-cognitive perspective. Handbook of Gun Violence :157-170.
- Meagan Ashley Docherty, Eric F Dubow, Paul Boxer, L_Rowell Huesmann. 2025. Normative beliefs approving of aggression moderate the observational learning of weapon use. Psychology of Violence
- Romain Decrop, Bri McManamon, Kaylie Williams, Kerry Houlihan, Haely Crouch Bok, Kaelynn Knestrick, Emma Rodgers, Meagan Ashley Docherty, Elizabeth Cauffman. 2025. Cognitive loopholes of crime: Mapping the Codevelopment of moral disengagement within perceptions of risks and rewards. Journal of Research on Adolescence 35(3):e70056.
- Eric F Dubow, Paul Boxer, Meagan Ashley Docherty, L_Rowell Huesmann, Simha F. Landau, Khalil Shikaki. 2025. Political violence exposure and youth aggression in the context of the social ecological systems and family stress models: A four-wave prospective study of Israeli and Palestinian youth. International Journal of Behavioral Development
- Eric F Dubow, Paul Boxer, Meagan Ashley Docherty, L_Rowell Huesmann, Simha F. Landau, Khalil Shikaki. 2025. Political violence exposure and youth aggression in the context of the social ecological systems and family stress models: A four-wave prospective study of Israeli and Palestinian youth. International Journal of Behavioral Development
- Meagan Ashley Docherty, Paul Boxer, L_Rowell Huesmann, Brad J Bushman, Craig A. Anderson, Douglas A. Gentile, Eric F Dubow. 2024. Within-Person Bidirectional Associations Over Time Between Parenting and Youths' Callousness. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology 53(4):607-622.
- Nazita Lajevardi, Kassra Oskooii, Muniba Saleem, Meagan Ashley Docherty. 2024. In the shadow of September 11: The roots and ramifications of anti-Muslim attitudes in the United States. Political Psychology 45(S1):87-118.
- Nazita Lajevardi, Kassra Oskooii, Muniba Saleem, Meagan Ashley Docherty. 2024. In the shadow of September 11: The roots and ramifications of anti-Muslim attitudes in the United States. Political Psychology 45(S1):87-118.
- Decrop, Romain, Nowalis, Sarah, Yannon, Miranda, McGraw, James, Meagan Ashley Docherty. 2024. Unveiling hidden dimensions: A novel bifactor approach to unraveling adverse childhood experiences. Child Abuse & Neglect 147:106599.