SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Fountain, Christine, Marissa King, and Peter S. Bearman. “Age of Diagnosis for Autism:
Individual and Community Factors Across Ten Birth Cohorts”. International Journal of
Community Epidemiology and Health, 2010

Bearman, Peter S. “Just So Stories: Vaccines, Autism, and the Single-Bullet Disorder”. Social Psychological Quarterly. 73: 112-115, 2010.

Mazumdar, Soumya, Marissa King, Noam Zerubavel and Peter S. Bearman. “The Spatial
Structure of Autism”. Health and Place. 16.539-546, 2010.

Liu, Kayuet, Noam Zerubavel, and Peter S. Bearman. “Demographic Change and the
Increasing Prevalence of Autism”. Demography. 47.2327-343, 2010

Liu, Kayuet, Marissa King and Peter S. Bearman. “Social Influence and the Autism
Epidemic”. American Journal of Sociology. 115.5.1387-1434 PSB, October, 2010

King, Marissa and Peter Bearman. “Diagnostic Change and Increased Prevalence of Autism”. International Journal of Epidemiology. 38(5):1224-1234, 2009.

Weiss, Christopher and Peter S. Bearman. “Fresh Starts: School Form and Student
Outcomes”. American Journal of Education. 113:395-421, 2008

Brückner, Hannah and Peter S. Bearman. “After the Promise: The STD Consequences of
Adolescent Virginity Pledges”. Journal of Adolescent Health.36:271-278, 2005

Bearman, Peter S. and Paolo Parigi. “Cloning Headless Frogs and Other Important Matters: Conversation Topics and Network Structure”. Social Forces. 83 (2): 535-557, 2004

Brückner, Hannah, Anne Martin and Peter S. Bearman. “Ambivalence and Pregnancy: Adolescent Attitudes, Contraception, and Pregnancy”. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. 36 (6): 248-257, 2004

Bearman, Peter S, James Moody and Katherine Stovel. “Chains of Affection: The Structure of Adolescent Romantic and Sexual Networks”. American Journal of Sociology. Vol. 110.44-91, 2004

Bearman, Peter S, and James Moody. “Suicide and Friendships among American Adolescents”. American Journal of Public Health. Vol 94, N1: 89-96, 2004

Bearman, Peter S. and Hannah Brückner. “Promising the Future: Virginity Pledges and the Transition to First Intercourse.” American Journal of Sociology. Vol. 106, N4 859-912, 2001.

Ford, Carol, Peter S. Bearman and James Moody. “Health Care Utilization and Foregone Care Among Adolescents.” Journal of the American Medical Association. 282:2227-2236, 1999

Bearman, Peter S. and Hannah Brückner. "Peer Effects on Adolescent Girls' Sexual Debut and Pregnancy Risk." PPFY Network, Vol2. No3., 1998.

Bearman, Peter S. and Laura Burns. "Adolescents, Health and School: Early Findings From the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health." NASSP Bulletin. 82:601-23, 1998.

Resnick, Michael D, Peter S. Bearman, and Robert Wm. Blum et al. “Protecting Adolescents from Harm: Findings from the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health.” Journal of the American Medical Association. 9.10:832-843, 1997

Udry, J. Richard and Peter S. Bearman. "New Methods for New Perspectives on Adolescent Sexual Behavior." In Richard Jessor (ed). New Perspectives on Adolescent Sexual Behavior. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Bearman, Peter S., J. Jones, and J. R. Udry. "Connections Count: Adolescent Health and the Design of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health." (www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth), 1997.

Bearman, Peter S., James Moody, and Katherine Stovel. "The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health: Social Networks Codebook." (www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth), 1997.

Bearman, Peter S. "AIDS and Sociology." Primis. McGraw Hill, 1992.

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