A new study I completed at the Columbia University J-school says there is a strong relationship between the “social deviance” of the event or topic in a headline and the number of retweets it gets on ...

In The Power of Positive Deviance, authors Richard Pascale, Jerry Sternin, and Monique Sternin take their readers on a fascinating tour to learn about “positive deviance”—an approach to solving social ...

Deviance is one of the best ways to understand what's going on in the world. From the underbelly of the world of hidden lives, such as our recent work on self-injury, The Tender Cut, to the new ...

This paper estimates a model of the relationship between self-rejection and deviance, mediated by disposition to deviance, to examine the linear structural equations in data provided by a threewave ...

A review-critique of certain aspects of the theoretical literature on deviance and the reaction to it reveals that three variables have been viewed by social scientists as determinants of both. These ...

Nearly a decade ago I wrote a blog on the Aurora shooting. Thousands of people have since been victims of gun-related violence—often, young adults and children have been both perpetrators and victims.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BOULDER, Colo. — The University of Colorado ...

Instead of fight for her mother's inheritance—and risk exposing her sexuality—Felicia Gizycka dropped a lawsuit to protect a developing AA. Editor's Note: This is the third in a three-part series from ...

Iraq’s official media regulator on Tuesday ordered all media and social media companies operating in the Arab state not to use the term “homosexuality” and instead to say “sexual deviance,” a ...

I had a gay uncle, born around 1920. His entire life, he'd been forced to live a lie. There was probably no year in which he was not forced into an untruth, no moment would he could be an undivided ...

Am I to conclude from Kathleen Parker's list of currently acceptable public behavior ["Defining deviancy down," op-ed, July 31] that she considers divorce and single parenthood "deviant," on par with ...