Clinical Psychology: Developmental psychopathology, the moral emotions of shame and guilt, family violence, evaluation, and more generally centering around the topic of risk and antisocial behavior.
Jeff Stuewig is a research associate professor in the psychology department at George Mason University. His graduate school and post-doctoral training were in developmental psychology, evaluation, and prevention/intervention research. He has a wide variety of research interests including developmental psychopathology, the moral emotions of shame and guilt, family violence, evaluation, and more generally centering around the topic of risk and antisocial behavior broadly defined (e.g. conduct disorder, delinquency, criminal behavior, substance abuse, etc.) over the life course. Recently he has been involved in a study examining the moral emotions of shame and guilt and their relationship to future recidivism and rehabilitation among a sample of jail inmates. Additionally, he is part of a research group evaluating interventions for jail inmates nearing release.
Jail-Based Treatment to Reduce Substance Abuse, Recidivism and Risky Behavior. Funded by National Institute on Drug Abuse. Role: co-PI
Herrera, V. M. & Stuewig, J. (in press). Gender differences in pathways to delinquency: The impact of family relationships and adolescent depression. Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology
Stuewig, J., Tangney, J., Kendall, S., Folk, J., Meyer, C. R., & Dearing, R. (2015). Children’s proneness to shame and guilt predict risky and illegal behaviors in young adulthood. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 46(2), 217-227.
Tangney, J. P., Stuewig, J., & Martinez, A. G. (2014). Two faces of shame: The roles of shame and guilt in predicting recidivism. Psychological Science,25(3), 799-805.
Stuewig, J., Tangney, J. P., Heigel, C., Harty, L. & McCloskey, L. A. (2010). Shaming, Blaming, and Maiming: Functional links among the moral emotions, externalization of blame, and aggression. Journal of Research in Personality, 44(1), 91-102.
Tangney, J. P., Mashek, D., & Stuewig, J. (2007). Adventures at the social-clinical-community-criminology interface: The GMU Inmate Study. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 26(1), 1-21.
Stuewig, J., & McCloskey, L. (2005). The impact of maltreatment on adolescent shame and guilt: Psychological routes to depression and delinquency. Child Maltreatment, 10, 324-336.
Stuewig, J., & Tangney, J. RCT of a victim impact group for jail inmates: Effects on hypothesized mechanisms of action. (2015). In J.P. Tangney (Chair), Strategically meeting the needs of the forgotten 11 million: Novel approaches to treatment of jail inmates. Presented in a symposium at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, New York City, NY.
Tangney, J., Daylor, J., Heigel, C., Warden, R., & Stuewig, J. (2015). Strategic jail intervention: The right treatment, at the right time, in the right timeframe. Poster presented at the 3rd North American Correctional and Criminal Justice Psychology Conference, Ottawa, Canada.
Hastings, M., Stuewig, J., Adams, L., Krishnan, S., & Tangney, J. P. (2014). Is the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG) Color-Blind? Predictive and Incremental Validity of the VRAG Scores with African-American and Caucasian Jail Inmates. In M. Boccaccini (chair), Risk Assessment 2: Predictive Validity, Research, and Cultural Issues. Presented in a symposium at American Psychology-Law Society Conference, New Orleans, LA.
Folk, J., Blasko, B., Warden, R., Stuewig, J., Adams, L., & Tangney, J. P. (2013). The feasibility and acceptability of an impact of crime workshop. In J.P. Tangney (Chair), Malleable psychological predictors of jail inmates’ post-release functioning: Implications for intervention. Presented in a symposium at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA.
Stuewig, J., Hastings, M., Krishnan, S., & Tangney, J. P., (2012). Examining defensive responding on the Personality Assessment Inventory. Poster presented at American Psychology-Law Society, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Stuewig, J., Tangney, J. P., Furukawa, E., Kopelovich, S., Meyer, P., & Cosby, B. (2012). Reliability, validity, and predictive utility of the 25-item Criminogenic Cognitions Scale (CCS). Poster presented at The Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, San Diego, CA.
Stuewig, J., Drapalski, A., Youman, K., Durbin, K. & Tangney, J.P. (2011). Changes in symptoms of mental illness among jail inmates across the period of incarceration. Poster presented at the North American Correctional and Criminal Justice Psychology Conference, Toronto, ON.