Press / Publications
Black History Month 2020: Leon Noel cracks the code for economic opportunity in communities of color - Boston 25 News
Nonprofit expands its reach to Philadelphia in 2021; aims to provide free tech training for inner-city millennials - ABC6
A free Boston-based boot camp wants to bring equity to Philly’s tech scene - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Free bootcamp Resilient Coders expands to Philly with hopes of building an equitable tech pipeline - Technical.ly
Helping minorities advance in Big Tech - South Philly Review
STEM toys promise to turn kids into tech geniuses. Grown-up coders are skeptical - Boston Globe
Hacking the opportunity gap: Resilient Coders and true grit - The Bay State Banner
Building an Online Community to Further Science - Bostinno
Student to Founder Series: Interview with TechStars entrepreneur Leon Noel - MIT Entrepreneurship Review
SocialSci’s Noel aims for a better way to do scientific research - Boston Business Journal
Filtering Out the Fibbers - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Website connects researchers with subjects - Boston Herald
SocialSci Releases Beta Version of Online Scientific Survey Platform, With Rewards for Participants - Xconomy
Learn More Faster: TechStars for a Day - Microsoft
Tech Stars Boston Investor Night: Pics, Boldface Names, Awards - Boston.com
’Tis the season for giving 2.0 - Yale Daily News
Campus and City Celebrate Community Leaders - Yale
A click away - South Philly Review
Beyond Demo Day - An update on TechStars Alumni - Black Enterprise
Yale Entrepreneurs: Start Up, Drop Out? - Yale Daily News
Q&A with Leon Noel: On Learning to Code, Teaching, and the Early Days at GA Boston - General Assembly Blog
The following are papers that use code or software products that I have helped develop. This list is the thing I am most proud of in life:
| Authors | Title | Year |
|---|---|---|
| JD Kosiba, LD Mitzel, EL Zale… | A preliminary study of associations between discomfort intolerance, pain severity/interference, and frequency of cannabis use among individuals with chronic pain | 2020 |
| BJW Dixson, MJ Rantala, RC Brooks | Cross-cultural variation in women’s preferences for men’s body hair | 2019 |
| EL Zale, LR LaRowe, J Boissoneault… | Gender differences in associations between pain-related anxiety and alcohol use among adults with chronic pain | 2019 |
| TES Charlesworth, STJ Hudson… | Children use targets’ facial appearance to guide and predict social behavior. | 2019 |
| A Gouda-Vossos, RC Brooks, BJW Dixson | The interplay between economic status and attractiveness, and the importance of attire in mate choice judgments. | 2019 |
| LE Hayward, LR Tropp, MJ Hornsey… | How negative contact and positive contact with Whites predict collective action among racial and ethnic minorities | 2018 |
| TM Mandalaywala, DM Amodio… | Essentialism promotes racial prejudice by increasing endorsement of social hierarchies | 2018 |
| N Lettieri, A Altamura, R Giugno, A Guarino… | Ex machina: Analytical platforms, law and the challenges of computational legal science | 2018 |
| N Huntington‐Klein | College choice as a collective decision | 2018 |
| SE Burke, M LaFrance | Perceptions of instability and choice across sexual orientation groups | 2018 |
| J Mansell | Social cues and ideology: Unpacking the adaptive significance of liberal-conservative behavioral differences | 2018 |
| B Kurdi, AJ Diaz, CA Wilmuth… | Variations in the relationship between memory confidence and memory accuracy: The effects of spontaneous accessibility, list length, modality, and complexity. | 2018 |
| V Allom, BA Mullan, L Monds, S Orbell… | Reflective and impulsive processes underlying saving behavior and the additional roles of self-control and habit. | 2018 |
| N Sharma | Decoding the effects of a product’s cast shadow in brand advertising | 2018 |
| A Alperin, FK Barlow | Sexual (dys) functioning is related to drive for thinness, not drive for muscularity | 2018 |
| J Mansell | Social cues and ideology | 2018 |
| RM López Pérez, F Gordillo León… | Culture, Negative Experience and Differences in the Perception of Facial Expressions of Anger | 2018 |
| J Hari, E Pirsch, H Rawitzer | Women are scaredy-cats and men are conquerors? | 2018 |
| DFG León | Efecto del contexto verbal y la expresión facial sobre la formación de impresiones | 2018 |
| LE Hayward, LR Tropp, MJ Hornsey… | Toward a comprehensive understanding of intergroup contact: Descriptions and mediators of positive and negative contact among majority and minority groups | 2017 |
| JW Ditre, EL Zale, BW Heckman… | A measure of perceived pain and tobacco smoking interrelations: pilot validation of the pain and smoking inventory | 2017 |
| BF Harrison, MR Michelson | Listen, we need to talk: How to change attitudes about LGBT rights | 2017 |
| JL Robertson, J Barling | Toward a new measure of organizational environmental citizenship behavior | 2017 |
| BJW Dixson, MJ Rantala, EF Melo… | Beards and the big city: Displays of masculinity may be amplified under crowded conditions | 2017 |
| LH Koh, MS Hagger, VHH Goh, WG Hart… | Effects of a brief action and coping planning intervention on completion of preventive exercises prescribed by a physiotherapist among people with knee pain | 2017 |
| EM Tooley, B Borrelli | Characteristics of cigarette smoking in individuals in smoking concordant and smoking discordant couples. | 2017 |
| ED Shinne | The relationship between sexual objectification and self-objectification, adult romantic attachment, and relationship satisfaction | 2017 |
| F Gordillo, L Mestas, JM Arana… | The effect of information bias on the formation of impressions: courtroom implications | 2017 |
| HRM Radke, MJ Hornsey, CG Sibley, M Thai… | Is the racial composition of your surroundings associated with your levels of social dominance orientation? | 2017 |
| F Gordillo, JM Arana, JJG Meilán, L Mestas… | Expresar coherencia en el momento preciso beneficia a la impresión causada | 2017 |
| F Gordillo, JM Arana, JJG Meilán, L Mestas… | The timely expression of coherence helps cause the right impression | 2017 |
| MN Alison, T Andrew | The digital transformation of research support | 2017 |
| J Bradnam | Text Messages and Romantic Relationships: An Investigation of Mobile Communication Technologies, Attachment Processes, and Relationship Quality. | 2017 |
| ML Kern, L Benson, EA Steinberg… | The EPOCH measure of adolescent well-being. | 2016 |
| BJW Dixson, MJ Rantala | The role of facial and body hair distribution in women’s judgments of men’s sexual attractiveness | 2016 |
| JW Ditre, JD Kosiba, EL Zale… | Chronic pain status, nicotine withdrawal, and expectancies for smoking cessation among lighter smokers | 2016 |
| SE Burke, M LaFrance | Lay conceptions of sexual minority groups | 2016 |
| D Pinsof, M Haselton | The political divide over same-sex marriage: Mating strategies in conflict? | 2016 |
| R Young, R Subramanian… | Stigmatizing images in obesity health campaign messages and healthy behavioral intentions | 2016 |
| R Young, A Hinnant, G Leshner | Individual and social determinants of obesity in strategic health messages: Interaction with political ideology | 2016 |
| W Baxter, M Aurisicchio, PRN Childs | Tear here: The impact of object transformations on proper disposal | 2016 |
| DF Gucciardi | Mental toughness as a moderator of the intention–behaviour gap in the rehabilitation of knee pain | 2016 |
| A Gouda-Vossos, BJ Dixson, RC Brooks | Sexual conflict and gender gap effects: Associations between social context and sex on rated attractiveness and economic status | 2016 |
| JL Zagrodney, JA Cummings | Impact of perpetrator type on attributions of mother fault in child sexual abuse | 2016 |
| L Riedel | Verklaringen voor middelengebruik: Hoe impliciete als ook expliciete Compensatory Health Beliefs, zelfregulatie en stress gerelateerd zijn aan middelengebruik bij … | 2016 |
| A Creed | Wine communication in a global market: A study of metaphor through the genre of Australian wine reviews | 2016 |
| M Austermann | Explanations for Substance Use–The role of implicit and explicit Compensatory Health Beliefs and Personality for Alcohol/Nicotine-related Risk Behavior | 2016 |
| HH Green | A Partner’s Perspective: A Qualitative Exploration of the Experiences of the Female Partners of Trans Feminine Individuals | 2016 |
| A Alperin | An empirical investigation of gender, sexual attitudes, weight bias and body image | 2016 |
| LR Burns | The Impact of Emerging Adulthood Life Events on Men’s Gender Role Journey | 2016 |
| P Techakesari | The Psychological Benefits and Costs of Positive and Negative Intergroup Contact | 2016 |
| AK Ho, J Sidanius, N Kteily… | The nature of social dominance orientation: Theorizing and measuring preferences for intergroup inequality using the new SDO₇ scale. | 2015 |
| P Techakesari, FK Barlow, MJ Hornsey… | An investigation of positive and negative contact as predictors of intergroup attitudes in the United States, Hong Kong, and Thailand | 2015 |
| T Crouzier | Science Ecosystem 2.0: how will change occur | 2015 |
| J Campbell, B Chao, C Robertson, DV Yokum | Countering the plaintiff’s anchor: Jury simulations to evaluate damages arguments | 2015 |
| EJ Cogsdill, MR Banaji | Face-trait inferences show robust child–adult agreement: Evidence from three types of faces | 2015 |
| AJ Kelly, SL Dubbs, FK Barlow | Social dominance orientation predicts heterosexual men’s adverse reactions to romantic rejection | 2015 |
| NHM Labrie, PJ Schulz | The effects of general practitioners’ use of argumentation to support their treatment advice: results of an experimental study using video-vignettes | 2015 |
| BF Harrison, MR Michelson | God and marriage: The impact of religious identity priming on attitudes toward same‐sex marriage | 2015 |
| ZJ Janif, RC Brooks, BJ Dixson | Are preferences for women’s hair color frequency-dependent? | 2015 |
| AJ Lee, RC Brooks, KJ Potter, BP Zietsch | Pathogen disgust sensitivity and resource scarcity are associated with mate preference for different waist-to-hip ratios, shoulder-to-hip ratios, and body mass index | 2015 |
| JC McIntyre, MD Constable… | Property and prejudice: How racial attitudes and social‐evaluative concerns shape property appraisals | 2015 |
| J Sidanius, N Kteily, J Sheehy-Skeffington… | The Nature of Social Dominance Orientation: Theorizing and Measuring Preferences for Intergroup Inequality Using the New SDO7 Scale Arnold K. Ho … | 2015 |
| T Sakima, S Schmidtke | Implicit biases and Hawai’i’s educational landscape: An empirical investigation | 2015 |
| C Weinert, C Maier, S Laumer | Do we behave based on our implicit attitudes? Proposing a research model and an experimental study to investigate their influence on behavioral intentions | 2015 |
| DI Algra | Impliciete meetmethoden toegepast op vermoeidheid | 2015 |
| P Krishnamurthy | End-user programming tool for creating custom health surveys with automatically generated reports | 2015 |
| C Schwickert | The Effects of Objectifying Statements on Women’s Self Esteem, Mood, and Body Image | 2015 |
| E Cogsdill | The Development of Character Judgments from Faces | 2015 |
| E Watt | The Correlation Between Sexual Attitudes and Sexual Satisfaction | 2015 |
| AK Ho | Citation: Ho, AK, Sidanius, J., Kteily, N., Sheehy-Skeffington, J, Pratto, F., Henkel, KE, Foels, R., & Stewart, AL (in press). The nature of social dominance … | 2015 |
| G Pepper | A multidisciplinary investigation into socioeconomic variation in behaviour | 2015 |
| L Göldner | Ben je ook zo moe?: validatie van een expliciete en impliciete meting van vermoeidheid | 2015 |
| AJ Lee | Sexual selection and the role of variation in women’s mate preference for masculine traits | 2015 |
| EJ Cogsdill, AT Todorov, ES Spelke… | Inferring character from faces: A developmental study | 2014 |
| GV Pepper, D Nettle | Perceived extrinsic mortality risk and reported effort in looking after health | 2014 |
| ZJ Janif, RC Brooks, BJ Dixson | Negative frequency-dependent preferences and variation in male facial hair | 2014 |
| A Alperin, MJ Hornsey, LE Hayward… | Applying the contact hypothesis to anti-fat attitudes: Contact with overweight people is related to how we interact with our bodies and those of others | 2014 |
| AJ Lee, SL Dubbs, W Von Hippel, RC Brooks… | A multivariate approach to human mate preferences | 2014 |
| AD Lyons, JD Henry, PG Rendell… | Episodic foresight and aging. | 2014 |
| J Goodman, G Paolacci | Questioning the turk: Conducting high quality research with Amazon mechanical turk | 2014 |
| E Tosch, ED Berger | Surveyman: Programming and automatically debugging surveys | 2014 |
| B Livshits, T Mytkowicz | Saving money while polling with interpoll using power analysis | 2014 |
| B Winter | Beauty and the beholder: A survey of aesthetic experiences | 2014 |
| RW Orf | Factors that promote and inhibit client disclosure of suicidal ideation | 2014 |
| B Livshits, T Mytkowicz | Interpoll: Crowd-sourced internet polls (done right) | 2014 |
| KS Isaacson | Implicit attachment and couple satisfaction | 2014 |
| JE Brinton | Strain-based work-home conflict: Examining the relative contribution of exhaustion and negative affect in the association between work demands and home behaviors | 2014 |
| ME Anderson | National culture and differences in perceptions of auditor independence under international codes of ethics | 2014 |
| CAC Smarr | Applying a qualitative framework of acceptance of personal robots | 2014 |
| J Hepler | The sequential exposure bias: A preference for approaching pro-attitudinal before counter-attitudinal information that can bias evaluative judgments | 2014 |
| EJ Cogsdill, AT Todorov, ES Spelke, MR Banaji | Psycholo gical Sc ience | 2014 |
| ZJ Janif, RC Brooks, BJ Dixson | Negative frequency-dependent preferences and variation in | 2014 |
| E Grey | Differentiating Identities for Sex and Gender | 2014 |
| CL Woods | Is participant self-reported ethnicity sufficient to measure the own-race bias (ORB)? The implicit association test (IAT) vs. participant report | 2014 |
| A Reckendorf | Do Americans’ perceptions of the prevalence of prejudice impact their racial policy preferences? Investigating meta… | 2014 |
| A Dionisi | Vicarious Exposure to Male Sexual Harassment: Correlates, Perceived Motives and Ethical Evaluations, & Behavioral Responses | 2014 |
| MPA Burkman | Enhancing human motivation in group settings relative to climate change | 2014 |
| GV Pepper, D Nettle | Death and the time of your life: experiences of close bereavement are associated with steeper financial future discounting and earlier reproduction | 2013 |
| JW Ditre, EL Zale, JD Kosiba… | A pilot study of pain-related anxiety and smoking-dependence motives among persons with chronic pain. | 2013 |
| IG Cohen, TG Coan | Can you buy sperm donor identification? An experiment | 2013 |
| GV Pepper, D Nettle | Perceived extrinsic mortality risk and reported effort in looking after health: testing a behavioural ecological prediction | 2013 |
| LK Swan | Public attitudes toward therapy framed by common factors and specific ingredients | 2013 |
| CM Woods | Parcopresis in an Online Sample of Adults: Frequency and Predictive Sociodemographic Covariates | 2013 |
| R Boylorn, D Chawla, R Clair, C Davis, S Ganesh… | PC02: Making Sense of Qualitative Data: A Workshop Illuminating the Backstage Practice of Ethnographic Analysis Sponsor: Preconferences Chair: Sarah Jane … | 2013 |
| FK Barlow, S Paolini, A Pedersen… | The contact caveat: Negative contact predicts increased prejudice more than positive contact predicts reduced prejudice | 2012 |
| AJ Lee, SL Dubbs, AJ Kelly, W von Hippel… | Human facial attributes, but not perceived intelligence, are used as cues of health and resource provision potential | 2012 |
| BP Zietsch, P Santtila | Confusion in the science of evolution and orgasm: a reply to Wallen, Myers and Lloyd | 2012 |
| JM Wilmoth, M Sliwinski, J Mogle | A web-based survey designed to assess older adults’ daily lives | 2012 |
| JM Wilmoth, M Sliwinski, J Mogle | Uma sondagem via internet projetada para avaliar a vida diária dos idosos | 2012 |
| CJ Holden | The Effect of Research Project Descriptions on Samples Drawn from Mechanical Turk | 2012 |
| MD Ettensohn | The relational roots of narcissism: Exploring relationships between attachment style, acceptance by parents and peers, and measures of grandiose and vulnerable … | 2011 |