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Elizabeth
A. Yeater
Associate Professor
Email: eyeater@unm.edu
Office: Logan 174
Phone: 277-0632
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.
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