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This page includes selected media appearances, interviews, presentations, and research resources related to April Bleske-Rechek’s work.
Presentations and Interviews
USC Conference Presentation — January 17, 2025
Recording of Day 1 from Censorship in the Sciences: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, held at the University of Southern California, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, on January 17, 2025.
The Dissenter, Episode #553 — Gender Roles, Division of Labor, Occupation and Educational Choices
Interview on The Dissenter, Episode #553, published November 26, 2021.
Shaping Opinion with Tim O’Brien
“Don’t Cancel the SAT!, with April Bleske-Rechek” — a conversation about standardized testing and its implications.
Research in the Media
Common Scales and Inventories
- Achievement Goals (Items)
- Big Five Inventory (BFI) (with scoring instructions)
- BIDR40 (Scale and scoring instructions)
- Characteristics Desired in a Friend
- Competitor Derogation Tactics
- Costs and Benefits of Friendship
- Core Self Evaluations Scale (CSES)
- Experiences in Close Relationships (ECR)
- Humor Styles Questionnaire
- Ideal Mentor Scale (with scoring)
- Mate Attraction Tactics
- Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI)
- Positive and Negative Affectivity Scales (PANAS)
- Reasons for Friendship Dissolution
- Reasons for Friendship Initiation
- Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES)
- Self Attributes Questionnaire (SAQ)
- Sociosexual Orientation Inventory (SOI)
- Short-term and Long-term Mating Orientation (abbreviated items)
- Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI)
- Values (Bardi & Schwartz)