Elizabeth A. Yeater

Degree Received
Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno, 2001

Research Interests
My research program attempts to understand the processes involved in the sexual victimization and revictimization of women by using a social information processing model (SIP) as a general framework and methods borrowed from cognitive science. The SIP model posits that women at risk for sexual victimization may experience difficulties in one or more of the following areas: (a) interpreting risk-relevant stimuli in the environment, (b) generating or selecting risk-reducing responses to high-risk dating and social situations, or (c) executing successfully the chosen responses to these situations. As a result of these difficulties, women at risk for victimization may be more likely to respond ineffectively to interpersonal situations in which they are at risk for being sexually victimized. My research focuses on testing each stage of the SIP model. The information derived from these studies ultimately will be used to inform my work in the development and evaluation of interventions aimed at preventing the sexual victimization of women.

• Yeater, E. A., McFall, R. M., & Viken, R. J. (in press). The relationship between women's response effectiveness and a history of sexual victimization. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
• Yeater, E. A., & Viken, R. J. (in press). Factors affecting women's response choices to dating and social situations. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
• Rinehart, J., & Yeater, E. A. (in press). The effects of male attractiveness and sexual attitudes on women's risk perception. Violence Against Women.
• Rinehart, J., & Yeater, E. A., (in press). A qualitative analysis of sexual victimization narratives. Violence Against Women.
• Hoyt, T., & Yeater, E. A. (in press) Individual and situational influences on men's responses to dating and social situations. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
• Yeater, E. A., Treat, T. A., Viken, R. J., & McFall, R. M. (2010). Cognitive processes underlying women's risk judgments: Associations with sexual victimization history and rape myth acceptance. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 78(3), 375-386.
• Yeater, E. A., Viken, R. J., Hoyt, T., & Dolan, J. (2009). Self-other perspective and sexual attitudes affect estimates of sexual risk. Sex Roles, 61, 110-119.
• Hoyt, T., & Yeater, E. A., (2009). Factors affecting women's verbal immediacy to sexually risky situations. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 28(3), 312-319.
• Bradley, A. R., Yeater, E. A., & O'Donohue, W. T. (2009). A program evaluation of a mixed-gender sexual assault prevention program. The Journal of Primary Prevention, 30(6), 697-715.
• Yeater, E. A., Hoyt, T., & Rinehart, J. (2008). Sexual assault prevention with college-aged women: Toward an individualized approach. The Journal of Behavior Analysis of Offender and Victim: Treatment and Prevention (JBS-OVTP), 1, 36-51.
• Yeater, E. A., Lenberg, K. L., Avina, C., Rinehart, J. K., & O'Donohue, W. T. (2008). When dating situations take a turn for the worse: Situational and interpersonal risk factors for sexual aggression. Sex Roles, 59, 151-163.
• Yeater, E. A., Viken, R. J., McFall, R. M., & Wagner, L. R. (2006). Sexual attitudes and instructional set affect estimates of risk and response competence. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 28, 232-241.

 


Current Graduate Lab Members

Student	Research Interests
	Kathryn Lenberg Contextual and individual factors that put women at risk for sexual victimization focusing on the role of alcohol intoxication in risk perception and decision making.
	Jenny Rinehart
	Erica Nason Trauma and risk factors for victimization.