Chris Morris featured on Iowa Podcast
Chris Morris, post-doctoral scholar in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Iowa State University, was recently interviewed for Iowa Podcast. Morris spoke about farmer trauma and risk aversion. Morris’s research shows stress from farming has a compounding effect over time and becomes mentally destructive. The resulting trauma not only results in risk averse behavior and higher than average suicide rates, but is passed down. In the podcast, he also touched on intergenerational expectations and the mental health gap in rural Iowa.