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Professor & Collegiate Scholar

My interests include pursuing research that works at the intersection of clinical, cognitive, and social psychology in order to examine sexual judgement, sexual perception, and sexual decision making in undergraduate college students. This research implements experimental manipulation in sexual cognition paradigms as well as administering assessments of sexual attitudes, behaviors, and identities via survey methodology. In addition, I am interested in examining factors such as risk status for perpetrating sexual aggression, perception of social norms, sexual history, sociosexuality, and consent-beliefs in conjunction with performance on different sexual judgement and decision-making tasks. I am also interested in questions related to sexual and gender minority group status as well as those who identify as members of sexual subcultures (e.g., BDSM, Swingers, Fetishists, etc.). The research skills that I am currently working on developing include measurement development, mixed effects modeling, and structural equation modeling.

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Madalyn Lovejoy (2022-2024)
Solange Bolger (2022-2023)
Olivia Westemeier, "Protective Behavioral Strategies for Reducing Sexual Aggression, Risky Sex, and Heavy Drinking among College Men" (2019-2021)
Madhuri Belkale, "Is Casual Sexual Behavior Associated with Sexual Perception and Decision Making" (2018-2020)
Phoebe Snydersmith, "Effect of Normative Feedback on College Women's Self-Evaluations (2018-2020)
Chioma Onuigbo, "Does Alcohol Consumption Increase Perceived Justifiability of Male-Initiated Unwanted Sexual Advances?" (2017-2018)
Jamie Smuskiewicz, "Enhancing Women’s Perceptions of Food Healthiness" (2015-2016)
Hannah Hinkel, "Contextual Influences on Men's Perceptions of Women's Sexual Interest" (2014-2015)
Erin Church, "Enhancing the Accuracy of Undergraduates' Perceptions of Women’s Sexual-Interest Cues" (2013-2014)

Melanie Dirks (Professor at McGill University)
Francisco Farach (Healthcare Consultant at Slalom Consulting)
Coreen Farris (Behavioral Scientist at RAND Corporation)
Ashley Gearhardt (Associate Professor at University of Michigan)
Elizabeth McCabe (Chief Clinical Officer for The Emily Program and Site Director in Pittsburgh)
Rosaura Orengo-Aguayo (Associate Professor at Medical University of South Carolina)
Meghan Rabbitt Morean (Research Scientist at Yale University)
Marianne Rizk Schnall (Staff Psychologist at VA St. Louis)
Shirley Wang (Journalist and Senior Associate Director for Teaching Initiatives and Programs for Faculty at Princeton)
Mariann Weierich (Associate Professor at University of Nevada, Reno)
Blair Wisco (Associate Professor at University of North Carolina - Greensboro)
Halley Woodward (Staff Psychologist at VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System)