Diana Jones presents at conference on scientific study of religion, publishes two papers

Diana Jones, an assistant professor in Human Services and Rehabilitation in Western Washington University's Woodring College of Education, had a paper published recently with Ellen Clayton titled "The role of distress in uptake and response to predisposition genetic testing."

Also with Clayton, Jones presented "Christian fundamentalism, tolerance for uncertainty and thinking about genetic testing" at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion conference in Milwaukee.

Along with Kimberly Bess, Douglas Perkins and Daniel Cooper, Jones co-authored "A heuristic framework for understanding the role of participatory decision making in community based non-profits," published in the American Journal of Community Psychology, 47(3-4), 236-252.