Publications
My google scholar profile can be found here.
Publications about peer relationships, social networks, and diffusion of intervention effects
Massengale, K.E.C., Ma, A., Rulison, K.L., Milroy, J.J., & Wyrick, D.L. (In Press). Perceived norms and alcohol use among
first-year college student-athletes' different types of friends. Journal of American College Health. doi:
10.1080/07448481.2016.1233557
Wyrick, D.L., Milroy, J.J., Reifsteck E.J., Rulison K.L., Fearnow-Kenney M., & Dudley W.N. (In Press). Investigating risk factors
predictive of problem outcomes experienced by first year drinking and non-drinking collegiate student-athletes. Journal of
Alcohol and Drug Education.
Rulison, K.L., Wahesh, E., Wyrick, D.L., DeJong, W. (2016). Parental influence on drinking behaviors at the transition to
college: The mediating role of perceived friends’ approval of high-risk drinking. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs,
77, 638-648. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15288/jsad.2016.77.638
Rulison, K.L., Patrick, M.E., & Maggs, J. (2015). Linking peer relationships to substance use across adolescence. In R.
Zucker & S. Brown (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Adolescent Substance Abuse.
Rulison, K.L., Feinberg, M., Gest, S.D., & Osgood, D.W. (2015). Diffusion of intervention effects: The impact of a family-based
substance use prevention program on friends of participants. Journal of Adolescent Health, 57, 433-40. doi:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2015.06.007
Rulison, K.L., Gest, S.D., & Osgood, D.W. (2015). Adolescent peer networks and the potential for the diffusion of intervention
effects. Prevention Science, 16, 133-144. doi: 10.1007/s11121-014-0465-3
Rulison, K.L., Osgood, D.W., & Kreager, D.A. (2014). Delinquency and peer acceptance in adolescence: A within-person test of Moffitt’s hypotheses. Developmental Psychology, 50(11), 2437-2448. doi: 10.1037/a0037966
Seitz, C.M., Wyrick, D.L., Rulison, K.L., Fearnow-Kenney, M., & Strack, R.M. (2014). The association between coach and
teammate injunctive norm reference groups and college student-athlete substance use. Journal of Alcohol and Drug
Education, 58, 7-26.
Rulison, K. L., Gest, S. D., & Loken, E. (2013). Dynamic peer networks and physical aggression: The moderating role of
gender and social status among peers, Journal of Research on Adolescence, 23, 437-449, doi: 10.1111/jora.12044
Kreager, D.A., Rulison, K.L., & Moody, J. (2011) Delinquency and the structure of adolescent peer groups. Criminology, 49,
95-127. PMC3092163. NIHMS248870. PMID: 21572969. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2010.00219.x
Molloy, L., Gest, S.D., & Rulison, K. L. (2011). Peer influences on academic motivation: Exploring multiple methods of
assessing youth’s most “influential” peer relationships. Journal of Early Adolescence, 31(1), 13-40. doi:
10.1177/0272431610384487
Rulison, K. L., Gest, S.D., Loken, E., & Welsh, J.A. (2010). Rejection, feeling bad, and being hurt: Using multilevel modeling
to clarify the link between peer group aggression and adjustment Journal of Adolescence, 33(6), 787-800. doi:
10.1016/j.adolescence.2010.07.005
Gest, S. D., Rulison, K. L., Davidson, A. J., Welsh, J. A., & Domitrovich, C. E. (2008). A reputation for success (or failure): The association of peer academic reputations with academic self-concept, effort, and performance across the upper
elementary grades. Developmental Psychology, 44(3), 625-636. doi:
10.1037/0012-1649.44.3.625
Gest, S. D., Davidson, A. J., Rulison, K. L., Moody, J., & Welsh, J. A. (2007). Features of groups and status hierarchies in
girls’ and boys’ early adolescent peer networks. In P. C. Rodkin & L. D. Hanish (Eds.), New Directions in Child
Development: Social Network Analysis and Children’s Peer Relationships, 43-60. doi: 10.1002/cd.200
Gest, S. D., Moody, J., & Rulison, K. L. (2007). Density or distinction? The roles of data structure and group detection
methods in describing adolescent peer groups. Journal of Social Structure, 8(1).
http://www.cmu.edu/joss/content/articles/volume8/GestMoody/
Publications as quantitative methodologist
Coley, S.L., Nichols, T.R., Rulison, K.L., Aronson, R.E., Brown-Jeffy, S., & Morrison, S. (2015). Does neighborhood risk
explain racial disparities in low birth weight among infants born to adolescent mothers? Journal of Pediatric and
Adolescent Gynecology, 29, 122-129. doi: 10.1016/j.jpag.2015.08.004
Etnier, J. L., Labban, J. D., Karper, W. B., Wideman, L., Piepmeier, A.T., Shih, C-H, Castellano, M., Williams, L. M., Park, S-Y,
Henrich, V. C., Dudley, W.N., Rulison, K.L. (2015). Innovative research exploring the effects of physical activity and
genetics on cognitive performance in community-based older adults. Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, 23, 559-568,
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/japa.2014-0221
Lovelace, K.A., Aronson, R.E., Rulison, K.L., Labban, J., Shah, G.H., & Smith, M. (2015). Laying the groundwork for
evidence-based public health: Why some local health departments use more evidence-based decision making practices
than others. American Journal of Public Health, 105(S2), S189-S197, doi: 10.2105.AJPH.2014.302306
Coley, S.L., Nichols, T.R., Rulison, K.L., Aronson, R.E., Brown-Jeffy, S., & Morrison, S. (2015). Race, socioeconomic status,
and age: Exploring intersections in preterm birth disparities among teen mothers. International Journal of Population
Research, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/617907
Wyrick, D.L., Rulison, K.L., Fearnow-Kenney, M., Milroy, J.J., & Collins, L. (2014). Moving beyond the treatment package
approach to developing behavioral interventions: Addressing questions that arose during an application of the Multiphase
Optimization Strategy (MOST). Translational Behavioral Medicine: Practice, Policy and Research. doi:
10.1007/s13142-013-0247-7
Aronson, R.E., Rulison, K.L., Graham, L.F., McCoy-Pulliam, R., McGee, W.L., Labban, J., Dingman, D., & Rhodes, S.D.
(2013). Brothers Leading Healthy Lives: Outcomes from the pilot testing of a culturally and contextually congruent HIV
prevention intervention for Black male college students. AIDS Education and Prevention, 25, 376-393.
Washington, T., Gleeson, J.P., & Rulison, K.L. (2013). Competence and African American children in informal kinship care:
The role of family. Children and Youth Services Review, 35, 1305-1312, doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2013.05.011
Loken, E. & Rulison, K. L. (2010). Estimation of a 4-parameter Item Response Theory model. The British Journal of
Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 63, 509-525. doi:10.1348/000711009X474502
Rulison, K. L. & Loken, E. (2009). I’ve fallen and I can’t get up: Can high ability students recover from early mistakes in
Computer Adaptive Testing? Applied Psychological Measurement, 33, 83-101. doi: 10.1177/0146621608324023
Massengale, K.E.C., Ma, A., Rulison, K.L., Milroy, J.J., & Wyrick, D.L. (In Press). Perceived norms and alcohol use among
first-year college student-athletes' different types of friends. Journal of American College Health. doi:
10.1080/07448481.2016.1233557
Wyrick, D.L., Milroy, J.J., Reifsteck E.J., Rulison K.L., Fearnow-Kenney M., & Dudley W.N. (In Press). Investigating risk factors
predictive of problem outcomes experienced by first year drinking and non-drinking collegiate student-athletes. Journal of
Alcohol and Drug Education.
Rulison, K.L., Wahesh, E., Wyrick, D.L., DeJong, W. (2016). Parental influence on drinking behaviors at the transition to
college: The mediating role of perceived friends’ approval of high-risk drinking. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs,
77, 638-648. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15288/jsad.2016.77.638
Rulison, K.L., Patrick, M.E., & Maggs, J. (2015). Linking peer relationships to substance use across adolescence. In R.
Zucker & S. Brown (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Adolescent Substance Abuse.
Rulison, K.L., Feinberg, M., Gest, S.D., & Osgood, D.W. (2015). Diffusion of intervention effects: The impact of a family-based
substance use prevention program on friends of participants. Journal of Adolescent Health, 57, 433-40. doi:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2015.06.007
Rulison, K.L., Gest, S.D., & Osgood, D.W. (2015). Adolescent peer networks and the potential for the diffusion of intervention
effects. Prevention Science, 16, 133-144. doi: 10.1007/s11121-014-0465-3
Rulison, K.L., Osgood, D.W., & Kreager, D.A. (2014). Delinquency and peer acceptance in adolescence: A within-person test of Moffitt’s hypotheses. Developmental Psychology, 50(11), 2437-2448. doi: 10.1037/a0037966
Seitz, C.M., Wyrick, D.L., Rulison, K.L., Fearnow-Kenney, M., & Strack, R.M. (2014). The association between coach and
teammate injunctive norm reference groups and college student-athlete substance use. Journal of Alcohol and Drug
Education, 58, 7-26.
Rulison, K. L., Gest, S. D., & Loken, E. (2013). Dynamic peer networks and physical aggression: The moderating role of
gender and social status among peers, Journal of Research on Adolescence, 23, 437-449, doi: 10.1111/jora.12044
Kreager, D.A., Rulison, K.L., & Moody, J. (2011) Delinquency and the structure of adolescent peer groups. Criminology, 49,
95-127. PMC3092163. NIHMS248870. PMID: 21572969. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2010.00219.x
Molloy, L., Gest, S.D., & Rulison, K. L. (2011). Peer influences on academic motivation: Exploring multiple methods of
assessing youth’s most “influential” peer relationships. Journal of Early Adolescence, 31(1), 13-40. doi:
10.1177/0272431610384487
Rulison, K. L., Gest, S.D., Loken, E., & Welsh, J.A. (2010). Rejection, feeling bad, and being hurt: Using multilevel modeling
to clarify the link between peer group aggression and adjustment Journal of Adolescence, 33(6), 787-800. doi:
10.1016/j.adolescence.2010.07.005
Gest, S. D., Rulison, K. L., Davidson, A. J., Welsh, J. A., & Domitrovich, C. E. (2008). A reputation for success (or failure): The association of peer academic reputations with academic self-concept, effort, and performance across the upper
elementary grades. Developmental Psychology, 44(3), 625-636. doi:
10.1037/0012-1649.44.3.625
Gest, S. D., Davidson, A. J., Rulison, K. L., Moody, J., & Welsh, J. A. (2007). Features of groups and status hierarchies in
girls’ and boys’ early adolescent peer networks. In P. C. Rodkin & L. D. Hanish (Eds.), New Directions in Child
Development: Social Network Analysis and Children’s Peer Relationships, 43-60. doi: 10.1002/cd.200
Gest, S. D., Moody, J., & Rulison, K. L. (2007). Density or distinction? The roles of data structure and group detection
methods in describing adolescent peer groups. Journal of Social Structure, 8(1).
http://www.cmu.edu/joss/content/articles/volume8/GestMoody/
Publications as quantitative methodologist
Coley, S.L., Nichols, T.R., Rulison, K.L., Aronson, R.E., Brown-Jeffy, S., & Morrison, S. (2015). Does neighborhood risk
explain racial disparities in low birth weight among infants born to adolescent mothers? Journal of Pediatric and
Adolescent Gynecology, 29, 122-129. doi: 10.1016/j.jpag.2015.08.004
Etnier, J. L., Labban, J. D., Karper, W. B., Wideman, L., Piepmeier, A.T., Shih, C-H, Castellano, M., Williams, L. M., Park, S-Y,
Henrich, V. C., Dudley, W.N., Rulison, K.L. (2015). Innovative research exploring the effects of physical activity and
genetics on cognitive performance in community-based older adults. Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, 23, 559-568,
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/japa.2014-0221
Lovelace, K.A., Aronson, R.E., Rulison, K.L., Labban, J., Shah, G.H., & Smith, M. (2015). Laying the groundwork for
evidence-based public health: Why some local health departments use more evidence-based decision making practices
than others. American Journal of Public Health, 105(S2), S189-S197, doi: 10.2105.AJPH.2014.302306
Coley, S.L., Nichols, T.R., Rulison, K.L., Aronson, R.E., Brown-Jeffy, S., & Morrison, S. (2015). Race, socioeconomic status,
and age: Exploring intersections in preterm birth disparities among teen mothers. International Journal of Population
Research, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/617907
Wyrick, D.L., Rulison, K.L., Fearnow-Kenney, M., Milroy, J.J., & Collins, L. (2014). Moving beyond the treatment package
approach to developing behavioral interventions: Addressing questions that arose during an application of the Multiphase
Optimization Strategy (MOST). Translational Behavioral Medicine: Practice, Policy and Research. doi:
10.1007/s13142-013-0247-7
Aronson, R.E., Rulison, K.L., Graham, L.F., McCoy-Pulliam, R., McGee, W.L., Labban, J., Dingman, D., & Rhodes, S.D.
(2013). Brothers Leading Healthy Lives: Outcomes from the pilot testing of a culturally and contextually congruent HIV
prevention intervention for Black male college students. AIDS Education and Prevention, 25, 376-393.
Washington, T., Gleeson, J.P., & Rulison, K.L. (2013). Competence and African American children in informal kinship care:
The role of family. Children and Youth Services Review, 35, 1305-1312, doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2013.05.011
Loken, E. & Rulison, K. L. (2010). Estimation of a 4-parameter Item Response Theory model. The British Journal of
Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 63, 509-525. doi:10.1348/000711009X474502
Rulison, K. L. & Loken, E. (2009). I’ve fallen and I can’t get up: Can high ability students recover from early mistakes in
Computer Adaptive Testing? Applied Psychological Measurement, 33, 83-101. doi: 10.1177/0146621608324023