Maria N. Scaptura Data-verified
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Maria N. Scaptura's research investigates societal structures, power dynamics, and their intersection with violence and individual psychology. Her work examines how concepts of masculinity, race, and class influence attraction to aggression and endorsement of violence, particularly against women. She has published on the relationship between institutional anomie and affinity fraud, and explored how extremist ideologies intersect with violence against women. Scaptura also studies changes in sexual response during aging and their perceived threat to manhood, drawing on frameworks such as General Strain Theory and institutional anomie theory. Her scholarship has resulted in 12 publications, with an h-index of 3 and 158 citations. She collaborates with researchers such as Jeff Gruenewald at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
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- h-index: 3
- Publications: 12
- Citations: 165
Selected Publications
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Subordination to Women, Anger, and Endorsement of Violence Against Women: A Test of General Strain Theory (2024)
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‘Manopause’: sexual response changes as a threat to ageing manhood (2024)
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- Protecting Manhood: Race, Class, and Masculinity in Men’s Attraction to Guns and Aggression
- Through the Looking Glass: Self, Inauthenticity, and (Mass) Violence
- Subordination to Women, Anger, and Endorsement of Violence Against Women: A Test of General Strain Theory
- “The Perfect Aryan Housewife”: Intersection of Extremist Violence and Violence Against Women
- Systems of Power and Femicide
- Through the Looking Glass: Self, Inauthenticity, and (Mass) Violence
- Subordination to Women, Anger, and Endorsement of Violence Against Women: A Test of General Strain Theory
- “The Perfect Aryan Housewife”: Intersection of Extremist Violence and Violence Against Women
- “The Perfect Aryan Housewife”: Intersection of Extremist Violence and Violence Against Women
- “The Perfect Aryan Housewife”: Intersection of Extremist Violence and Violence Against Women
- Can institutional anomie theory predict victimization? An experimental survey examining institutional anomie and affinity fraud
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