Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Traylor, Frederic. Forthcoming. “Testing The Parenthood Hypothesis of Environmental Support: A Panel Study of Parenthood Transitions and Relative Support for Governmental Environmental Spending in the United States.” Environmental Sociology.
• Traylor, Frederic and Youngjin Chae. Forthcoming. “The Effects of Environmentalism on Fertility in the United States: Changing Trends and Causality.” Population & Environment.
• Traylor, Frederic, Steven Brechin, and Rachael Shwom. Forthcoming. “Comparing the Effects of Information on Geoengineering Options Support Across Four Online Samples.” Climatic Change.
• Traylor, Frederic. 2025. “The Threat of AI Chatbot Responses to Crowdsourced Open-Ended Survey Questions.” Energy Research & Social Science 119:103857. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103857.
• Lei, Lei and Frederic Traylor. 2024. “How Does Religion Influence Parental Support of Young Adult Children?” Journal of Family Issues 45(9):2135–57. doi: 10.1177/0192513X231195653.

Under Review

• Shwom, Rachael, Frederic Traylor, and Steven Brechin. “Survey Sampling and Gauging the American Public’s Energy Preferences – Are we Missing Voices?"

Book Under Contract

• Brechin, Steven R., Markus Hadler, Sandra T. Marquart-Pyatt, and Frederic Traylor, eds. 2026. Edward Elgar Handbook on Public Opinion, Climate Change and the Environment. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Contributing Chapters: “Introduction,” “Review of Public Opinion Datasets,” “Conclusion”

Dataset

• Shwom, Rachael, Steven Brechin, and Frederic Traylor. 2025. “EDGE SENSE: Energy Decarbonization and GeoEngineering Survey Experiment for New Sampling and Mode Exploration, United States, 2023.” Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. doi: 10.3886/ICPSR39284.v1.