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Justin Sola, PhD

5 months

(1/2) @lamarr_lemee wrote a great article in the @latimes about the gun policy consensus @JustinTPickett and I found. Americans are more united than polarization would lead you to believe!

New study shows bipartisan agreement on guns: safe storage makes for good neighbors

Do you want your neighbor to own an AR-15? In a new study, most people, gun owners included, would say no.

www.latimes.com

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

7 months

I'm delighted to share that this fall, I join UNC-Chapel Hill as an assistant professor in Sociology and the School of Data Science and Society. Immense gratitude for the mentorship and support that guided me here! Thank you! 🥰 @Social_Ecology @UNCSociology @UNCSDSS

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

5 months

(1/6) 🚨🧵 Research Alert! We uncover a surprising consensus: from Republicans to Democrats, gun owners or not, Americans don’t want to live near neighbors with AR-15s or insecurely stored guns. @JustinTPickett

Widespread, bipartisan aversion exists to neighbors owning AR-15s or storing guns insecurely | PNAS

Over 45,000 gun deaths occur annually in the United States, a country with more than 100 million gun owners and more than 350 million guns. Neverth...

www.pnas.org

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

11 months

@Jerry_Ratcliffe @ASCRM41 I'm honored by this award, and look forward to doing more rigorous work on inequality! @cekubrin @Social_Ecology @chrisuggen

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

1 year

@JohnHolbein1 Have seen this in action in sociology and criminology! Reviewers and editors dislike the ambiguity of a null effect. So, they vacillate between believing that 1) your study operationalized theory incorrectly, and/or 2) the theory you tested may be incorrect. High bar to clear!

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

2 years

@GunResearch Thank you so much for this support! I am already working hard to rendering my research useful for our understanding of gun ownership and gun policy. @Social_Ecology @JustinTPickett @TaraDWarner @cekubrin @Tanaro1 @ProfEmilyOwens

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

5 months

@tonykcheng @EventHistory @michaelsierraa @DukeLaw @MichelleSPhelps @WilsonCSJ_ @DukeSociology @UTAustinSoc @UMNSociology @ColumbiaUP @UChicagoPress @PrincetonUPress @ASAnews @SocCrimeLawDev Absolutely can't wait for the recording!

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

5 months

@JessicaGillool1 @DThacher Great paper, and I hope for that demand diversion! Policy-makers and scholars often treat calls as a good proxy for crime (e.g., Warner & Pierce, 1993:497). @cekubrin and I find partisan racial effects on desire to call the police; calls are not neutral!

Making the call: how does perceived race affect desire to call the police?

Journal of Experimental Criminology - There is little scholarship about what affects calls for service, even as they originate the vast majority of police interventions in the USA. We test how...

link.springer.com

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

11 months

@jdawncarlson Yeah! The comment reinforced your description of guns as a 'sure' object to confront the 'unsure' social order: the student framed the gun as a source of confidence to confront ever-more-precarious times: midnight, 1am, 130am, even 2am!

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

2 years

This isn't NOT true🤷‍♀️ @joannedecaro @JustinTPickett @TaraDWarner @juannnnns_ @cekubrin

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

11 months

@Jerry_Ratcliffe @ASCRM41 @cekubrin @Social_Ecology @chrisuggen Here's paper (Sola and Kubrin 2023):

Making the call: how does perceived race affect desire to call the police?

Journal of Experimental Criminology - There is little scholarship about what affects calls for service, even as they originate the vast majority of police interventions in the USA. We test how...

link.springer.com

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

11 months

@cekubrin Thank you Charis. I have become a better researcher by working with you -- and have had a lot of fun doing it!

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

1 year

@SPTheoryDivisi1 @kate_khanna @JoshuaStoutSoc @SSSP1org Thank you for this honor, can't wait to discuss at the SSSP annual meeting in Philly this summer!

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

1 year

@MarioLuisSmall @victorerikray A social pattern in which a laws, policies, and practices produce racially inequitable outcomes that personal animus cannot explain.

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

1 year

@chrisuggen @cekubrin Thank you! Calls for service initiate most police interventions, so we are very excited to interrogate them: how and why people 'see something, say something' matters!

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

11 months

@davidyamane @ZushaElinson @cammcwhirter Great! I just ordered this too, interested in the interviews related to the '2.0' popularization of the AR-15!

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

1 year

@ashleytrubin This is a GREAT resource to share with students who are (understandably) baffled!

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

11 months

@davidyamane @ZushaElinson @cammcwhirter Yup! Most research works backwards from people who selected into ownership (e.g. existing AR-15 owners), so I'm always on the lookout alternative perspectives. Here, maybe perspectives from people who helped popularize the AR-15.

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

5 months

(6/6) We are grateful for our respondents, colleagues, and your engagement with our findings. Stay tuned for more.

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

3 years

@JustinTPickett @NateSchutten @CLeroJonson This is awesome, thank you for exploring this!

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

3 years

Nobody: The Chicago Boys: 🤷the market wants what it wants source:

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

1 year

@ashleytrubin @ProfLBNielsen @tomginsburg Neoliberalisms are like Pokemon - gotta catch 'em all!

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

5 months

(4/6) In Study 2, we used a preregistered picture-based factorial vignette experiment (n=2,098 respondents) to uncover universal aversion to insecure gun storage.

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

5 months

(2/6) America is deeply divided on gun policies. However, we show that the polarization that impedes national attempts to reduce gun violence dissipates when the focus is on individuals’ immediate environments and daily lives. Preregistration, code, data:

Widespread, bipartisan aversion exists to neighbors owning AR-15s or storing guns insecurely

Hosted on the Open Science Framework

osf.io

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

3 years

@AVPapachristos @JustinTPickett It seems plausible to define a population of violent gang sets (i.e. "not connected to the [un]treated gangs through rivalries or alliances" - pg. 230) as Braga et al. 2014 did. If that is plausible, is RCT of a subset with FD implausible?

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

2 years

@davidyamane @ASAnews Sure! Schutten et al. 2021 shows how important any familial exposure to guns is:

Understanding Gun Ownership in the Twenty-First Century: Why Some Americans Own Guns, but Most Do...

The gun ownership literature is vast, with dozens of studies seeking to explain who owns guns and why. We build on this literature in two key ways. First, we introduce a new variable into the fold:...

www.tandfonline.com

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

6 months

@KhoaVuUmn Congrats 🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

2 years

@davidyamane 👍 Kohn was also the first to demonstrate the responsible vs irresponsible gun owner identity bifurcation: “the shooters with whom I spoke attempt to differentiate themselves from those they consider ‘amateurs,’ people who do not take gun ownership and handling seriously.” (77)

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

2 years

@davidyamane @ASAnews I'd add two points: 1) Shapira and Simon (2018) 'Learning to Need a Gun' samples '46 people who regularly carry guns' and firearms training schools, largely in Texas: the sampling 'searchlight' illuminates an aspect (not totality) of habitus formation 1/2

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

1 year

@SPTheoryDivisi1 @kate_khanna @JoshuaStoutSoc @SSSP1org @Social_Ecology @ILSSC_at_UCI

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

1 year

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

2 years

@davidyamane @ASAnews 2) looking to childhood (Schutten et al. 2021) or broader samples (Sola 2021), you see heterogeneous effects: there are many routes for guns to be more than just tools. So a singular 'learning to need a gun' may be too teleological 2/2

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

2 years

@jdawncarlson Congratulations! This is a huge win for advancing our understanding of why people take up arms!

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

11 months

@ASU_BRIDGS @jdawncarlson Cat Contributes (Fur) to Manuscript, circa 2023

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

1 year

@chrisuggen @cekubrin FYI: the low-severity scenario is an audio vignette which describes two young men arguing next to a car with its alarm going off.

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

5 months

(5/6) Insecure storage is the best-studied risk factor for firearm injury and death. We hope this research can help bridge the gap in the national debate on gun control and community safety.

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

7 months

@tobysola Thank you🥰

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

5 months

(3/6) In Study 1, we used a preregistered paired-profile conjoint experiment (n=33,596 choices) to uncover that not even pro-gun groups prefer neighbors with AR-15s.

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

6 months

@esdsantos @Social_Ecology Congrats 🎉🎉🎉

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

2 years

@jdawncarlson Yes!

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

2 years

@davidyamane @ASAnews And, Sola 2021 introduces a measure of gun desirability (perfect for experiments) by showing how gun desirability and ownership both increase via COVID:

Transmitting Desire: An Experiment on a Novel Measure of Gun Desirability in a Pandemic - Justin...

The COVID-19 pandemic and protests have marked an unprecedented increase in U.S. gun sales. But America has long been an outlier; the stockpile of private guns ...

journals.sagepub.com

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Justin Sola, PhD

@justin__sola

10 months

@davidyamane Congrats!!!

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