Department of Psychology Faculty Publications
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The Importance of Copyright and Shared Norms for Credit in Open Educational Resources
(Frontiers Media, 2023-01-04)Open Educational Resources (OER) are reducing barriers to education while allowing creators the opportunity to share their work with the world and continue owning copyright of their work. To support new authors and adaptors ... -
Sexual Harassment in the Field of Sexuality Research
(Springer Nature, 2019-02-01)Our goal in this Guest Editorial is to articulate: (1) the scope of the problem of sexual harassment within our fields, especially sexuality research, including its consequences; (2) the gendered basis of sexual harassment; ... -
The Heteronormativity Theory of Low Sexual Desire in Women Partnered with Men
(Springer, 2021-08-23)Low sexual desire in women partnered with men is typically presumed to be a problem—one that exists in women and encourages a research agenda on causation and treatment targeting women. In this paper, we present a distinct ... -
Overempowered? Diversity-Focused Research with Gender/Sex and Sexual Majorities
(Sage Publishing, 2021-09-02)Diversity-focused research can provide important insights about gender/sex and sexual diversity, including in relation to oppression and privilege. To do so, it needs to critically engage with power and include minoritized ... -
How to Tackle the Childcare-Conference Conundrum
(National Academy of Sciences, 2018-03-05)Conferences are vital forums for academic researchers. Notwithstanding technological advances that allow remote communication, resource sharing, and networking, face-to-face interactions remain a crucial component for one's ... -
Medically Confirmed Functional Impairment as Proof of Accommodation Need in Postsecondary Education: Are Ontario’s Campuses the Bellwether of an Inequitable Decision-making Paradigm?
(Canadian Association for the Study of Educational Administration (CASEA), 2018-11-19)Historically, students with disabilities in Canada provided comprehensive and objective documentation of their diagnosis and related functional impairments to access appropriate accommodations at the postsecondary level. ... -
Specific Early Maladaptive Schemas Differentially Mediate the Relations of Emotional and Sexual Maltreatment to Recent Life Events in Youth with Depression
(Wiley, 2021-11-01)The current study provided a novel investigation of relations among particular types of childhood maltreatment (emotional versus physical versus sexual maltreatment), specific cognitive schema themes, and the generation ... -
Picking up good vibrations: Discrepant vibrator use, sexual functioning, and sexual well-being in women with male partners
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)Vibrator use is thought to be associated with positive sexual functioning for women with female or male partners. Vibrator use that is discrepant across contexts (i.e. the individual uses a vibrator in solitary but not ... -
Neuroimaging predictors of creativity in healthy adults
(Elsevier, 2019-10-22)Neuroimaging has revealed numerous neural predictors of individual differences in creativity; however, with most of these identified in only one study, sometimes involving very small samples, their reliability is uncertain. ... -
Concurrent measurement of genital lubrication and blood flow during sexual arousal
(Elsevier, 2019-07-01)Genital lubrication and blood flow are theoretically related outcomes of women’s sexual response that prepare the genitals for sexual activity. Despite its importance for sexual function, few experimental studies have ... -
Short and Long Term Representation of an Unfamiliar Tone Distribution
(2016-08-11)We report on a study conducted to extend our knowledge about the process of gaining a mental representation of music. Several studies, inspired by research on the statistical learning of language, have investigated statistical ... -
Straight but not Narrow; Within-Gender Variation in the Gender-Specificity of Women's Sexual Response
(2016-07-18)Gender differences in the specificity of sexual response have been a primary focus in sexual psychophysiology research, however, within-gender variability suggests sexual orientation moderates category-specific responding ... -
Familiarity and Preference for Pitch Probability Profiles
(2016-02-18)We investigated familiarity and preference judgments of participants toward a novel musical system. We exposed participants to tone sequences generated from a novel pitch probability profile. Afterward, we either asked ... -
Cross-Cultural Correlates of the Ownership of Private Property
(Academic Press, 1992)Simmons’ (1937) data base of 109 variables measured on 71 societies was reanalyzed. Reliability comparisons were made with Murdock’s (1967) Ethnographic Atlas. Eliminated were 3 of Simmons’ cultures because of duplicated ... -
Cross-cultural correlates of the ownership of private property: a look from another database
(University of Ottawa, Research Center for Amerindian Anthropology, 1992)Swanson's (1966) database Simmons’ (1937) of 39 variables coded on 50 cultures was re-examined for cross-cultural correlates of the private ownership of property. Reliability comparisons were made with Murdock’s (1967) ... -
The Role of Dopamine in Locomotor Activity and Learning
(Elsevier, 1983-10)The discovery that the brain contains neurons utilizing dopamine (DA) as their transmitter has led to studies of the behavioral function of these neurons. Changes in overall level of activity of DA neurons appear to produce ...
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