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“I Think I Just like Having Sex”: A Qualitative Study of Sexual Assault Survivors and Their Sexual Pleasure
Sexual assaults’ effects on survivors’ sexual pleasure have been well-documented in the literature. However, much of this research is quantitative in...
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Trauma-Specific Reactions to Sexual Assault Content in College Students: Considerations for Content Warnings
Much of the debate on content warnings has occurred with little empirical data to inform it. In the past 5 years, this has started to change, and in...
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Military Sexual Violence: Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, and Sexual Hazing
Miliary sexual trauma (MST) is a pervasive issue throughout the US military. In this chapter, definitions of types of MST (i.e., sexual assault,...
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Sexual Harassment and Assault in Public Spaces: Individual Vulnerability and Contextual Risk Factors
Prior research has demonstrated that sexual harassment in public spaces is common; however, little is known about the contexts or types of harassment...
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Gender-based sexual assault and mental health in transgender and non-binary individuals: the role of proximal stressors
Though minority stress theory articulates the particularly deleterious psychological impact of stressors and traumas associated with one’s...
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Understanding and Preventing Alcohol-Related Sexual Assault
Research on alcohol and sexual assault has increased greatly in quantity and sophistication since the association between the two was first...
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Dark-ego-vehicle principle: Narcissism as a predictor of anti-sexual assault activism
In this preregistered study, we tested the dark-ego-vehicle principle . This principle states that individuals with dark personalities, such as high...
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Exploring Sociocultural Influences Affecting Body Image in Survivors of Childhood Sexual Assault
This phenomenological study explored the lived experiences of survivors of childhood sexual assault, their meaning making process of the assault, and...
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Resilience and Low Substance Use Among Indigenous College Students from a Sexual Assault Prevention Study
While Indigenous communities have thrived for centuries despite colonization, Indigenous Peoples continue to experience high rates of sexual...
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History of Sexual Assault as a Predictor of Response to a Self-Guided Online Program for Sexual Desire and Arousal Difficulties in Women
Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder (distressing, long-lasting impairments in sexual desire and/or arousal) is common in women, but few have access to...
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Sexual Assault and Post-traumatic Illness in Children
The sexual abuse or sexual assault of children is becoming more common these days. Out of every ten children, a minimum of four have been sexually...
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The Psychometric Adequacy of Adult Forensic Interview Protocols for Sexual Assault: a Literature Review
The forensic complainant interview is a unique opportunity to gather essential forensic information and is a central component of most sexual assault...
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A National US Study of 906 Women’s Qualitative Accounts of Their Reactions During Sexual Assault
IntroductionHow sexual assault victims conceptualize their experiences are shaped, in part, by adherence to rape myths and victim blaming. Victim...
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Does Group discussion exaggerate or diminish males’ reactions to a sexual assault scene?
This research examines how group discussion may influence males’ inclinations toward sexual assault. This experiment tested two competing...
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“Their Great Shame is Poverty”: Women Portrayed as Among the “Undeserving Poor” are Seen as Deserving Sexual Assault
In three survey experiments, we considered the role of stereotypes in blame assessments related to “undeserving” poor and Black women. U.S....
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Initial Examination of DAHLIA: A Fully-automated Internet Intervention for Women Survivors of Sexual Assault
Sexual assault is a common human rights violation that globally affects approximately 1 in 3 women (30%). Making interventions available via the...
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Students’ Perceptions of Guilt, Responsibility, and Just Punishment When Accounts of Campus Sexual Assault Conflict
Students are direct participants in university procedures to respond to campus sexual assault claims under Title IX law. Yet, the ways in which...
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Sexual Assault Perpetration
The study of sexual violence perpetration has focused largely on dispositional factors, resulting in the development of the robust Confluence Model...
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Assault Typologies of College Rape Victims: A Mixed Methods Investigation
Sexual assault remains an entrenched public health issue, with adolescent and emerging adult women at disproportionate risk for victimization....