Research

(by topic/area, with cross-cutting publications listed more than once, which will make it seem like I’ve published more than I have)

Political deliberation and decision-making

Gibson, David R. 2011. “Avoiding Catastrophe: The Interactional Production of Possibility during the Cuban Missile Crisis.” American Journal of Sociology 117 (2): 361-419.
Gibson, David R. 2011. “Speaking of the Future: Contentious Narration during the Cuban Missile Crisis.” Qualitative Sociology 34 (4): 503-22.
Gibson, David R. 2012. Talk at the Brink: Deliberation and Decision During the Cuban Missile Crisis. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Gibson, David R. 2012. “Turn-taking and Geopolitics in the Making of Decisions.” Research in the Sociology of Organizations 36: 33-64.
Gibson, David R. 2012. “Decisions at the Brink.” Nature (commentary) 487: 27-29.
Gibson, David R. 2018. “The Micro-foundations of Macro-violence: How Heads of State Justify the Use of Force.” Pp. 179-208 in Ritual, Emotion, Violence: Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins, edited by Elliott B. Weininger, Annette Lareau, and Omar Lizardo. New York: Routledge.
Gibson, David R. 2022. “Minutes of History: Talk and its Written Incarnations.” Social Science History 46 (3): 643-69.

Theory

Gibson, David R. 2000. “Seizing the Moment: The Problem of Conversational Agency.” Sociological Theory 18 (3): 369-82.
DiCicco-Bloom, Benjamin, and David R. Gibson. 2010. “More Than a Game: Sociological Theory from the Theories of Games.” Sociological Theory 28 (3): 247-71.

Small groups

Gibson, David R. 2003. “Participation Shifts: Order and Differentiation in Group Conversation.” Social Forces 81 (4): 1335-81.
Gibson, David R. 2005. “Taking Turns and Talking Ties: Network Structure and Conversational Sequences.” American Journal of Sociology 110 (6): 1561-97.
Gibson, David R. 2008. “How the Outside Gets In: Modeling Conversational Permeation.” Annual Review of Sociology 34: 359-84.
Gibson, David R. 2010. “Marking the Turn: Obligation, Engagement, and Alienation in Group Discussions.” Social Psychology Quarterly 73 (2): 132-51.

Social networks

Gibson, David R. 2005. “Taking Turns and Talking Ties: Network Structure and Conversational Sequences.” American Journal of Sociology 110 (6): 1561-97.
Gibson, David R. 2005. “Concurrency and Commitment: Network Scheduling and its Consequences for Diffusion.” Journal of Mathematical Sociology 29 (4): 295-323.

U.S. Supreme Court

Gibson, David R. 2005. “Opportunistic Interruptions: Interactional Vulnerabilities Deriving from Linearization.” Social Psychology Quarterly 68 (4): 316-37.
Gibson, David R. 2024. “Hyping the Hypothetical: Talk and Temporality during Supreme Court Oral Arguments.” Qualitative Sociology 47 (2): 249-79.

Ethnomethodology

Gibson, David R. 2008. “Doing Time in Space: Line Formation Rules and Resultant Morphologies.” Sociological Forum 23 (2): 207-33.
Gibson, David R. 2021. “Repetition Acknowledgement Prefaces.” Symbolic Interaction 44 (4): 819-42.

Press conferences

Gibson, David R. 2005. “Opportunistic Interruptions: Interactional Vulnerabilities Deriving from Linearization.” Social Psychology Quarterly 68 (4): 316-37.

Deception

Gibson, David R. 2014. “Enduring Illusions: The Social Organization of Secrecy and Deception.” Sociological Theory 32 (4): 283-306.
Gibson, David R. 2016. “Ignorance at Risk: Interaction at the Epistemic Boundary of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi Scheme.” Qualitative Sociology 39 (3): 221-46.

Juries

Gibson, David R. 2016. “The Habits of Normal, Innocent People, as Construed by the North American Juror.” Symbolic Interaction 39 (3): 397-420.
Gibson, David R., and Matthew P. Fox. 2021. “Facts into Faults: The Grammar of Guilt in Jury Deliberations.” Discourse Studies 23 (4): 474-96.

Other

Gibson, David R. 2011. “All the News that Fits to Print: Desk Competition for Front-Page Space at The New York Times.” Sociological Forum 26 (2): 287-305.