Rate My Professor Travis Crone

Crone's research addresses key issues in social and educational psychology, including the effects of service-learning in social psychology classrooms, perceived and personal mental health stigma among Latino and African American college students, the relationship between nontraditional student factors and academic entitlement, motivation models for online students, and the role of epistemic beliefs in COVID-19 conspiracy endorsements. Notable publications include 'Social Belonging, Motivation, and Self-Efficacy in Nontraditional College Students' (2025), 'The Role of Locus of Control in Mediating the Relationship Between Nontraditional Factors and Academic Entitlement' (2023), 'Pressure to be Thin from a Religious Source Increases Perceived Pressure to be Thin in Women' (2021), 'Assessing the Relationship Between Nontraditional Factors and Academic Entitlement' (2020), 'Perceived and Personal Mental Health Stigma in Latino and African American College Students' (2018), 'Maintaining Motivation in Online Students: An Examination of the ARCS-V Motivation Model' (2016), and 'Who Gets Blamed for Intimate Partner Violence? The Relative Contributions of Perpetrator Sex Category, Victim Confrontation, and Observer Attitudes' (2012). His scholarship has accumulated over 300 citations. Within the university, Crone contributes to governance as a member of the University Rank and Tenure Committee, Faculty Representative for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences on the Quality Enhancement Plan committee, and faculty in the Honors Program.