Professor of Psychology Miriam Liss recently presented a poster entitled “The dark side of romance: Romantic beliefs predict intimate partner violence” at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science in San Francisco, Calif. with her collaborators Mindy Erchull, Hester Godfrey ’14, Leanna Papp ’14, and Lauren Waaland-Kreutzer ’14.
Erchull and Colleagues Present Research at Convention
Associate Professor of Psychology Mindy Erchull recently presented a number of posters at the annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science in San Francisco. She presented “Women’s experiences of sexual objectification and justifying beliefs predict fear of rape and rape avoidance behavior” with Leanna Papp ’14. She presented “Is everybody doing it? Sex in the college freshman male population” with Alexandra Zelin ’11. She also presented “Exploring the sexual double standard through ‘slut-shaming’ on Facebook” with her colleagues Miriam Liss, Leanna Papp ’14, Michelle Gnoleba ’13, Charlotte Haggerman ’14, Caitlin Robertson ’13, and Haley Miles-McLean ’13.
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Erchull & Liss Publish in Gender Issues
Dr. Mindy Erchull, associate professor of psychology, and Dr. Miriam Liss, professor of psychology, have published a paper in the journal Gender Issues. The paper is entitled “Exploring the Concept of Perceived Female Sexual Empowerment: Development and Validation of the Sex is Power Scale”.
This paper is comprised of a series of three studies detailing the development of the Sex is Power Scale (SIPS). This measure can be used to assess whether women view their sexuality as a source of personal power as well as whether they believe that women in general use sexuality as a source of power over men.
Erchull and Liss Publish Paper
Dr. Mindy Erchull and Dr. Miriam Liss have published a paper in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, now available through early online publication, entitled: Feminists who flaunt it: Exploring the enjoyment of sexualization among young feminist women.
They found that, among self-identified feminist women, enjoying sexualization was related to a mix of traditional and feminist beliefs. Feminists who reported enjoying sexualization felt empowered but were less likely to notice personal experiences of injustice or continued gender inequity.
Erchull and Liss Publish Paper with Former Student
Dr. Mindy Erchull and Dr. Miriam Liss, along with a former student Stephanie Lichiello, recently had a paper titled “Extending the Negative Consequences of Media Internalization and Self-Objectification to Dissociation and Self-Harm” published in the October online first edition of the journal Sex Roles. Our findings suggest that self-harm and dissociation, both outcomes associated with the literature on trauma, are related to self-objectification and media internalization. We suggested that objectification could be considered a form of insidious trauma or microaggression.
Liss and Schiffrin Publish Article on Parenting Guilt and Shame
Miriam Liss and Holly Schiffrin, along with former student Kathryn Rizzo, recently had a paper titled “Maternal Guilt and Shame: The Role of Self Discrepancy and Fear of Negative Evaluation” published in the November 2013 issue of the Journal of Child and Family Studies. This study found that women who had a gap between their perception of their own parenting traits and those they prescribed to the “ideal mother” had higher levels of guilt and shame. Women who feared the negative evaluation of others had particularly high levels of shame when they experienced the discrepancy between actual and ideal parenting styles.
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Liss and Erchull Publish in Psychology of Women
Miriam Liss, professor of psychology, and Mindy Erchull, associate professor of psychology, published a paper in the September 2013 issue of Psychology of Women Quarterly titled “Differences in Beliefs and Behaivors Between Feminist Actual and Anticipated Mothers.” They found that feminist non-mothers anticipated an egalitarian division of labor but feminist mothers were more likely to do the majority of the household chores and childcare. They also found that young feminist women anticipating motherhood hoping to give their children nontraditional name choices while feminist mothers were more likely to give their children their husbands’ last name.