Psychology
Our faculty are actively involved in research, which includes publishing, writing grants, presenting at national and international conferences, and mentoring graduate and undergraduate students. Their scholarship is diverse both in theory and in method — a mark of distinction and strength both within and across our three programs in clinical psychology, developmental psychology, and social psychology.
Submissions from 2019
Trans students who leave college: An exploratory study of their experiences of gender minority stress, Abbie E. Goldberg, Katherine A. Kuvalanka, and Kaitlin Black
Health care experiences of transgender binary and nonbinary university students, Abbie E. Goldberg, Katherine A. Kuvalanka, Stephanie L. Budge, Madeline B. Benz, and Juli Anna Z. Smith
Transgender graduate students' experiences in higher education: A mixed-methods exploratory study, Abbie E. Goldberg, Katherine Kuvalanka, and Lore Dickey
Sexuality and sexual identity across the first year of parenthood among male-partnered plurisexual women, Abbie E. Goldberg, Melissa H. Manley, Themal Ellawala, and Lori E. Ross
Health behaviors and outcomes of parents in same-sex couples: An exploratory study, Abbie E. Goldberg, Juli Anna Z. Smith, Nora M. McCormick, and Nicole M. Overstreet
The impact of multilevel sources of power on intimate relationship functioning, Jennifer J. Harman, Andrew L. Stewart, Elizabeth Keneski, and Christopher R. Agnew
Differential gender responses to an empathy component of a sexual assault prevention program, Denise A. Hines, Lia R.S. Bishop, and Kathleen M. Palm Reed
Reconsidering the LGBT Climate Inventory: Understanding support and hostility for LGBTQ employees in the workplace, Elizabeth Grace Holman, Jessica N. Fish, Ramona Faith Oswald, and Abbie Goldberg
Reproductive and pregnancy experiences of diverse sexual minority women: A descriptive exploratory study, Alia A. Januwalla, Abbie E. Goldberg, Corey E. Flanders, Mark H. Yudin, and Lori E. Ross
An Exploratory study of custody challenges experienced by affirming mothers of transgender and gender-nonconforming children, Katherine A. Kuvalanka, Camellia Bellis, Abbie E. Goldberg, and Jenifer K. McGuire
Evaluating equanimity: Mindfulness, intimate safety, and relationship satisfaction among meditators, Emily L. Maher and James V. Cordova
Parental autonomy support in two cultures: The moderating effects of adolescents’ self-construals, Kristine N. Marbell-Pierre, Wendy S. Grolnick, Andrew L. Stewart, and Jacquelyn N. Raftery-Helmer
Young children's ethnic-racial identity moderates the impact of early discrimination experiences on child behavior problems, Ana K. Marcelo and Tuppett M. Yates
Intersectional consciousness in collective victim beliefs: Perceived intragroup differences among disadvantaged groups, Rashmi Nair and Johanna Ray Vollhardt
Stigmatizing reactions versus general negative reactions to partner violence disclosure as predictors of avoidance coping and depression, Nicole M. Overstreet, Tiara C. Willie, and Tami P. Sullivan
Re-evaluating the self-report habit index: the cases of physical activity and snacking habits, Benjamín Reyes Fernández, Rafael Monge-Rojas, Ana Laura Solano López, and Esteban Cardemil
Explaining different orientations to the 2013 Gezi Park demonstrations in Istanbul, Turkey, Andrew L. Stewart, Colin Wayne Leach, Rezarta Bilali, Ayşe Betül Çelik, and Atilla Cidam
Prospective associations between trauma, placement disruption, and ethnic-racial identity among newly emancipated foster youth, Fanita A. Tyrell, Ana K. Marcelo, Duyen T. Trang, and Tuppett M. Yates
Submissions from 2018
Conceptual foundations of emerging adulthood, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
Happily stressed: The complexity of well-being in midlife, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
Metalheads: Heavy metal music and adolescent alienation, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
The impact of experiential avoidance and event centrality in trauma-related rumination and posttraumatic stress, Lia S. Bishop, Victoria E. Ameral, and Kathleen M. Palm Reed
A randomized controlled trial of distress tolerance treatment for smoking cessation, Richard A. Brown, Kathleen M. Palm Reed, Erika Litvin Bloom, Haruka Minami, David R. Strong, Carl W. Lejuez, Michael J. Zvolensky, and Steven C. Hayes
Changing views of knowledge and practice in American higher education, Nancy Budwig
The gap between assessment and creating inclusion, Esteban Cardemil
Editorial report and acknowledgement of reviewers, 2017, J. Christopher Cohrs and Johanna Ray Vollhardt
Implicit theories of relationships and conflict communication patterns in romantic relationships: A dyadic perspective, Taylor Dovala, Matt Hawrilenko, and James V. Cordova
Teaching undergraduates about LGBTQ identities, families, and intersectionality, Abbie E. Goldberg and Katherine R. Allen
“There is no perfect school”: The complexity of school decision-making among lesbian and gay adoptive parents, Abbie E. Goldberg, Katherine R. Allen, Kaitlin A. Black, Reihonna L. Frost, and Melissa H. Manley
Male-partnered bisexual women's perceptions of disclosing sexual orientation to family across the transition to parenthood: Intensifying heteronormativity or queering family?, Abbie E. Goldberg, Katherine R. Allen, Themal Ellawala, and Lori E. Ross
Meeting other moms: Lesbian adoptive mothers' relationships with other parents at school and beyond, Abbie E. Goldberg, Reihonna L. Frost, Melissa H. Manley, and Kaitlin A. Black
Monosexual and nonmonosexual women in samesex couples’ relationship quality during the first five years of parenthood, Abbie E. Goldberg, Randi Garcia, and Melissa H. Manley
Navigating identity development and community belonging when “there are only two boxes to check”: An exploratory study of nonbinary trans college students, Abbie E. Goldberg and Katherine A. Kuvalanka
Relationship concerns, Tatiana D. Gray and James V. Cordova
The Path of emotional least resistance: Developing theory based on the self-reported strengths of happy and distressed couples in the marriage checkup, Tatiana D. Gray, James V. Cordova, Matt Hawrilenko, Taylor Dovala, and Julia W. Sollenberger
The Association between masculinity and nonsuicidal self-injury, Jonathan D. Green, Jaclyn C. Kearns, Annie M. Ledoux, Michael E. Addis, and Brian P. Marx
Improving adjustment and resilience in children following a disaster: Addressing research challenges, Wendy S. Grolnick, David J. Schonfeld, Merritt Schreiber, Judith Cohen, Valerie Cole, Lisa Jaycox, John Lochman, Betty Pfefferbaum, Kenneth Ruggiero, Kenneth Wells, Marleen Wong, and Douglas Zatzick
The influence of magazines on men: Normalizing and challenging young men's prejudice with "Lads' Mags", Peter Hegarty, Andrew L. Stewart, Inge G.E. Blockmans, and Miranda A.H. Horvath
The cultural-developmental approach to moral psychology: Autonomy, community, and divinity across cultures and ages, Lene Arnett Jensen
The experiences of sexual minority mothers with trans* children, Katherine A. Kuvalanka, Samuel H. Allen, Cat Munroe, Abbie E. Goldberg, and Judith L. Weiner
Journal article reporting standards for qualitative primary, qualitative meta-analytic, and mixed methods research in psychology: The APA publications and communications board task force report, Heidi M. Levitt, Michael Bamberg, John W. Creswell, David M. Frost, Ruthellen Josselson, and Carola Suárez-Orozco
Invisibility and involvement: LGBTQ community connections among plurisexual women during pregnancy and postpartum, Melissa H. Manley, Abbie E. Goldberg, and Lori E. Ross
Consensual nonmonogamy in pregnancy and parenthood: experiences of bisexual and plurisexual women with different-gender partners, Melissa H. Manley, Melissa M. Legge, Corey E. Flanders, Abbie E. Goldberg, and Lori E. Ross
Religiosity and well-being among Mexican-born and U.S.-born Mexicans: A qualitative investigation, Oswaldo Moreno and Esteban Cardemil
The role of religious attendance on mental health among mexican populations: A contribution toward the discussion of the immigrant health paradox, Oswaldo Moreno and Esteban Cardemil
Sources and components of stigma experienced by survivors of intimate partner violence, Christine E. Murray, Allison Crowe, and Nicole M. Overstreet
Conclusion and future directions, Joseph L. Murray and Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
Emerging adulthood and higher education: A new student development paradigm, Joseph L. Murray and Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
Introduction, Joseph L. Murray and Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
Preface, Joseph L. Murray and Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
Perceived risks and benefits in IPV and HIV research: Listening to the voices of HIV-positive African American women, Nicole M. Overstreet, Mukadder Okuyan, and Celia B. Fisher
Women's use of aggression and their depressive symptoms: The mediating effect of aggression- related shame and avoidance coping among women experiencing bidirectional intimate partner violence, Nicole M. Overstreet, Nicole H. Weiss, Suzanne C. Swan, and Tami P. Sullivan
A contextual behavior science framework for understanding how behavioral flexibility relates to anxiety, Kathleen M. Palm Reed, Amy Y. Cameron, and Victoria E. Ameral
Social context, emotional expressivity, and social adjustment in adolescent males, Alisha R. Pollastri, Jacquelyn N. Raftery-Helmer, Esteban V. Cardemil, and Michael E. Addis
Parent and teacher effects on academic coping and classroom engagement: Testing a motivational model, Jacquelyn N. Raftery-Helmer and Wendy S. Grolnick
Perceptions of partner support among pregnant plurisexual women: A qualitative study, Lori E. Ross, Abbie E. Goldberg, Lesley A. Tarasoff, and Cici Guo
Bisexuality: The invisible sexual orientation in sexual and reproductive health care, Lori E. Ross, Jennifer M. Goldberg, Corey E. Flanders, Abbie E. Goldberg, and Mark H. Yudin
Lift every voice: Exploring the stressors and coping mechanisms of black college women attending predominantly white institutions, Naysha N. Shahid, Tamara Nelson, and Esteban V. Cardemil
Scholarship and Activism Diverge: Responding to MLK's Call with Theory and Research on Diversity, Political Action, and Resistance to Oppression, Andrew L. Stewart and Joseph Sweetman
Protesting Racial Hierarchy: Testing a Social Dominance Theory Model of Collective Action among White Americans, Andrew L. Stewart and Julia Tran
The two-sided nature of individual and intragroup experiences in the aftermath of collective victimization: Findings from four diaspora groups, Johanna Ray Vollhardt and Rashmi Nair
Examining the impact of intimate partner violence type and timing on pre-exposure prophylaxis awareness, interest, and coercion, Tiara C. Willie, Jamila K. Stockman, Nicole M. Overstreet, and Trace S. Kershaw
"I felt like there would be a vast sky out there" The leaving home decisions of Chinese migrant women workers, Juan Zhong, Jeffrey J. Arnett, and Frances L. Hiatt
Submissions from 2017
Experiences of Burmese chin refugee women: Trauma and survival from pre- to postflight, Achu Johnson Alexander, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, and S. P.K. Jena
Beyond symptom severity: The differential impact of distress tolerance and reward responsiveness on quality of life in depressed and non-depressed individuals, Victoria Ameral, Lia S. Bishop, and Kathleen M. Palm Reed
Life stage concepts across history and cultures: Proposal for a new field on indigenous life stages, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
Modeling collective action through media to promote social change and positive intergroup relations in violent conflicts, Rezarta Bilali, Johanna Ray Vollhardt, and Jason Ray David Rarick
Contact with birth family in intercountry adoptions: Comparing families headed by sexual minority and heterosexual parents, David Brodzinsky and Abbie E. Goldberg
Bühler’s legacy: Full circle and ahead, Nancy Budwig
The learning sciences and liberal education, Nancy Budwig
Developmental processes, levels of analysis, and ways of knowing: New perspectives on human development, Nancy Budwig, Elliot Turiel, and Philip David Zelazo
New perspectives on human development, Nancy Budwig, Elliot Turiel, and Philip David Zelazo
Introduction from the new editor, Esteban V. Cardemil
Introduction to special issue on evidence-based treatments with Latinas/Os: Attending to heterogeneity, Esteban V. Cardemil and Martin J. La Roche
Editorial report and acknowledgement of reviewers, 2016, J. Christopher Cohrs and Johanna Ray Vollhardt
Addressing relationship health needs in primary care: adapting the marriage checkup for use in medical settings with military couples, James V. Cordova, Jeffrey A. Cigrang, Tatiana D. Gray, Elizabeth Najera, Matt Havrilenko, Crystal Pinkley, Matthew Nielsen, Jo Lyn Tatum, and Kristen Redd
Theory in highly cited studies of sexual minority parent families: Variations and implications, Rachel H. Farr, Fiona Tasker, and Abbie E. Goldberg
‘We told them that we are both really involved parents’: sexual minority and heterosexual adoptive parents’ engagement in school communities, Abbie E. Goldberg, Kaitlin A. Black, Melissa H. Manley, and Reihonna Frost
Lesbian, gay, and heterosexual adoptive parents’ perceptions of inclusivity and receptiveness in early childhood education settings, Abbie E. Goldberg, Kaitlin Black, Kristin Sweeney, and April Moyer
'There is so much to consider': School-related decisions and experiences among families who adopt noninfant children, Abbie E. Goldberg, Reihonna L. Frost, and Kaitlin A. Black
Male-partnered sexual minority women: Sexual identity disclosure to health care providers during the perinatal period, Abbie E. Goldberg, Lori E. Ross, Melissa H. Manley, and Jonathan J. Mohr
Parent-school relationships and young adopted children's psychological adjustment in lesbian-, gay-, and heterosexual-parent families, Abbie E. Goldberg and Juli Anna Z. Smith
Aftercare engagement: A review of the literature through the lens of disparities, Kristen Keefe, Esteban V. Cardemil, and Matthew Thompson
Trans and gender-nonconforming children and their caregivers: Gender presentations, peer relations, and well-being at baseline, Katherine A. Kuvalanka, Judith L. Weiner, Cat Munroe, Abbie E. Goldberg, and Molly Gardner
Charting the moral life courses: A theory of moral development in U.S. evangelical and mainline Protestant cultures, Jessica McKenzie and Lene Arnett Jensen
Religiosity and attitudes towards professional mental health services: analysing religious coping as a mediator among Mexican origin Latinas/os in the southwest United States, Oswaldo Moreno, Tamara Nelson, and Esteban Cardemil
‘We were not planning on this, but …’: Adoptive parents' reactions and adaptations to unmet expectations, April M. Moyer and Abbie E. Goldberg
The social psychology of collective victimhood, Masi Noor, Johanna Ray Vollhardt, Silvia Mari, and Arie Nadler
The moderating role of centrality on the sssociation between internalized intimate partner violence-related stigma and concealment of physical IPV, Nicole M. Overstreet, Jennifer L. Gaskins, Diane M. Quinn, and Michelle K. Williams
Characterizing non-monosexual women at risk for poor mental health outcomes: A mixed methods study, Lori E. Ross, Melissa H. Manley, Abbie E. Goldberg, Alia Januwalla, Keisha Williams, and Corey E. Flanders
Pregnant plurisexual women's sexual and relationship histories across the life span: A qualitative Sudy, Lori E. Ross, Lesley A. Tarasoff, Abbie E. Goldberg, and Corey E. Flanders
Part IV: Metacognition and epistemology in conceptual change, Carol L. Smith and Marianne Wiser
Men's collective action willingness: Testing different theoretical models of protesting gender inequality for women and men, Andrew L. Stewart
Not a "mom thing": Predictors of gatekeeping in same-sex and heterosexual parent families, Kristin K. Sweeney, Abbie E. Goldberg, and Randi L. Garcia
Submissions from 2016
College students as emerging adults: The developmental implications of the college context, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
Does emerging adulthood theory apply across social classes? National data on a persistent question, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
Emerging adulthood and social class: Rejoinder to Furstenberg, Silva, and du Bois-Reymond, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
Narrative inquiry: An interview with Michael Bamberg, Michael Bamberg and Carolin Demuth
Assessing the impact of a media-based intervention to prevent intergroup violence and promote positive intergroup relations in Burundi, Rezarta Bilali, Johanna Ray Vollhardt, and Jason Ray David Rarick
From face-to-face to Facebook: The role of technology and social media in adoptive family relationships with birth family members, Kaitlin A. Black, April M. Moyer, and Abbie E. Goldberg
