Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
expectancies predict adult alcohol use. Alcohol and Alcoholism.
Wray-Lake, L., Crouter, A. C., & McHale, S. M. (in press). Developmental patterns in decision-making autonomy across
middle childhood and adolescence: European American parents' perspectives. Child Development.
Wray-Lake, L., Flanagan, C. A., & Osgood, D. W. (in press). Examining trends in adolescent environmental attitudes,
beliefs, and behaviors across three decades. Environment and Behavior.
Wray-Lake, L., Syvertsen, A. K., Briddell, L., Osgood, D. W., & Flanagan, C. A. (in press). Exploring the changing meaning
of work for American high school seniors from 1976 to 2005. Youth & Society.
Wray-Lake, L., Syvertsen, A. K., & Flanagan, C. A. (2008). Contested citizenship and social exclusion: Adolescent
Arab-American immigrants’ views of the social contract. Applied Developmental Science Special Issue: Civic
Engagement and Immigrants, 12, 84-92.
Wray, L. D., & Stone, E. R. (2005). The role of self-esteem and anxiety on decision making for self versus others in
relationships. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 18, 125-144.
Stoppa, T., Syvertsen, A. K., Wray-Lake, L.,& Flanagan, C. A. (under review). Defining a moment in history: Parental
communication with children about September 11th, 2001.
Syvertsen, A. K., Wray-Lake, L., & Flanagan, C. A. (under review). "Friends help friends:" Parents' messages to adolescents
about moral dilemmas in the context of friendship.
Williams, L. R., Wray-Lake, L., Loken, E., & Maggs, J. L. (under review). Heavy drinking in adolescence: Effects on
cohabiting and marital relationships into middle adulthood.
Book Chapters
Finlay, A. K., Wray-Lake, L., & Flanagan, C. A. (forthcoming). Promoting civic engagement during the transition to
adulthood: The promise of institutional opportunities at a critical developmental juncture. In L. Sherrod, J. Torney-Purta,
& C. Flanagan (Eds.), Handbook of research on youth civic engagement. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Dorius, C. R., & Wray-Lake, L. (2008). Expanding the horizon: New directions for the study of intergenerational care and
exchange. In A. Booth, A. C. Crouter, S. Bianchi, & J. A. Seltzer (Eds.), Intergenerational caregiving. Washington, DC:
Urban Institute.
Flanagan, C. A., Syvertsen, A. K., & Wray-Lake, L. (2007). Youth political activism: Sources of public hope in the context of
globalization. In R. Lerner & R. Silbereisen (Eds.), Approaches to positive youth development (pp. 243-256). Thousand
Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Wharton-Michael, P., Janke, E. M., Karim, R., Syvertsen, A. K., & Wray, L. D. (2006). Explicating the construct of public
scholarship. In R. Eberly & J. Cohen (Eds.), A Laboratory for Public Scholarship and Democracy, pp. 63-72. New York:
Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Outreach Publications
Wray-Lake, L., Gallay, E., & Flanagan, C. A. (2007). What high school students think of conservation. Environmental
Education in America (A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Publication) (pp.11-12) http://www.fws.gov/northeast/njfieldoffice/
Wray, L., & Flanagan, C. A. (2006, September 11). An Inconvenient Truth about Youth. The Washington Post, p. A16.
Wray, L. D., & Flanagan, C. A. (2005, Fall). Value development and civic engagement. American Psychological
Association Children, Youth, and Families Committee News.Retrieved March 22, 2007 from http://www.apa.org/pi/cyf
/fall_05.pdf