Recently Completed Projects

Sexual Perpetration

  • Systematic review on the prevalence of sexual violence perpetration in college men
    • Pooling 77 studies and nearly 25,000 participants
    • 30% of college men report some type of perpetration
    • 6% report perpetrating rape
    • Many measurement issues and confounds
      • Rates are higher for certain measures
  • Points to need for measurement research and large-scale national projects to ascertain better estimate of prevalence

Sexual Minority Health

  • Risk for sexual violence among sexual and gender minorities
    • Bisexual specific stigma associated with increased risk for violence for bisexual people
    • Bisexual, nonbinary people were far more likely to acknowledge their rapes than heterosexual, cisgender people
      • But experienced very high PTSD symptom burden
  • Indicates stigma as cross-cutting risk factor
  • Indicates high unmet treatment needs

Self Defense Mechanisms

  • Used audio vignette to present a standardized stimulus representing a stereotypical date rape scenario
  • Elicited participants self defense behaviors in response to stimulus
  • Recruited 135 college women; 100 with histories of repeated sexual victimization
  • Women with history of sexual victimization more likely to use non-assertive behaviors
  • Interpersonal skills and coping predictive of using assertive self defense behaviors
    • Points to interpersonal skills as potential interventions target

Check out this infographic from the labs research to learn about the importance of interpersonal skills and self defense tactics to help prevent sexual assault! https://commons.und.edu/psych-fac/9/ Check out this infographic and article to learn more about survivors of military sexual trauma and provider preferences! https://commons.und.edu/psych-fac/29/ Check out a lab member’s research from her thesis on religion after rape! https://commons.und.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=psych-stu Meet Nili! She is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab! She will be finishing her position this summer April is sexual assault awareness month! Check out this post to learn about the history of sexual assault awareness month, statistics, what teal and purple mean for awareness, and some local and national resources! 💜 Today is denim day! Check out this post to learn about why we wear denim today! This weeks meet the lab member is Josh! He is an undergrad research assistant! Check out this poster on alcohol use and the victim-perpetrator overlap, that was presented by a lab member at a conference! Meet Lisa!