Welcome to the ACR Lab, Kara Brizendine!

Juliana French recently accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at Oklahoma State University. In fall 2021, she will be moving to Stillwater, OK with her husband and two cats. The ACR lab will miss her greatly but we are so proud of her accomplishments. Congrats, Juliana!

Sierra Peters‘s recent Archives of Sexual Behavior paper won the 2021 Best Graduate Student Paper Award, which is sponsored by the Social Psychology area of the Florida State University Department of Psychology. Congrats, Sierra!

Sierra Peters, along with Andrea Meltzer, recently published a paper in Archives of Sexual Behavior examining the extent to which both couple members’ sexual disgust sensitivities interact to predict each couple member’s sexual satisfaction and relationship satisfaction.

Welcome to the ACR Lab, Olivia Breedin!

Juliana French, along with Andrea Meltzer, recently published a paper in Evolution and Human Behavior examining the implications of changing hormonal contraceptive use for women’s sexual and relationship satisfaction.

Juliana French, along with Katie Whitley (a former undergraduate student in the lab), Emma Altgelt, and Andrea Meltzer, recently published a paper in Personality and Individual Differences examining the the extent to which the unpredictability of people’s childhood ecologies predicts their attachment insecurity in adulthood and subsequent intentions to engage in unprotected sex.

The Outstanding Graduate Student Award is an award from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology that “recognizes rigorous and transparent research by graduate students.” Congrats on this honor, Juliana!

Emma Altgelt, along with Andrea Meltzer, recently published a paper in Journal of Sex Research examining the extent to which courtship length, premarital cohabitation, and premarital children are associated with newlywed couples’ trajectories of sexual frequency and both couple members’ trajectories of sexual satisfaction.

Juliana French, along with Emma Altgelt and Andrea Meltzer, recently published a paper in Psychological Science examining the implications of premarital sociosexuality (or people’s pre-marital motivations to engage in uncommitted sex) for people’s marital outcomes.

Welcome to the ACR Lab, Sierra Peters!

Emma Altgelt, along with Andrea Meltzer, recently published a paper in Personality and Individual Differences examining the associations between people’s attachment insecurity, their behaviors aimed at retaining their spouses, and their spouses’ subsequent marital satisfaction.