Michael G. Lacy

TL;DR: Eth ethnographically-informed survey and interview data are presented suggesting that problematic online gaming in the World of Warcraft can be conceptualized as a response to pre-existing life stress, which for highly stressed individuals magnifies rather than relieves their suffering.

TL;DR: This article examined the attitudinal and demographic characteristics of agricultural landowners to predict adoption of conservation easements and found that economic dependence had a significant and negative relation with landowner's trust of and trusts and placement of a conservation easement on agricultural land, whereas a conservation ethic and spiritual attachment are positively related.

TL;DR: In this article, the spatial distribution of healthy modes of transportation (cycling and walking commuting) at the county scale was analyzed using Geographic Information Systems, negative binomial, and zero-inflated negative Binomial regression techniques.

TL;DR: It is suggested that playing WoW with real-life-friends allows gamers to transfer in-game accomplishments and experiences into offline social networks, allowing gamers to better monitor, evaluate, and ultimately regulate excessive game-play.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the potential usefulness of ordinal dispersion statistics in sociology and define a broad class of such measures, some of which have previously been proposed in other forms.