“queer not as being about who you’re having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but queer as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.”
Expanding Gender and Sexuality in Psychological Science
Our lab’s research on gender and sexuality attempts to substantially broaden the inclusion of sexual and gender minority perspectives in the psychological sciences. We are developing and validating quantitative methods for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting diverse samples that will provide a framework for other scientists to diversify their own samples and questions.
Click here to visit the Psychology Observed Within Every Romantic (POWER) relationship study, a longitudinal survey of gender- and sexuality-diverse relationship experiences to model individual and dyadic personality processes over time.
Preregistrations
Brooke Kadel, Eleanor J. Junkins, & Jaime Derringer. (2023). How does variation in gender expression relate to diverse gender labels and sexual orientations? https://osf.io/g37pv/
Briana Louise Kunstman & Jaime Derringer. (2024). BDSM and Kink Identities. https://osf.io/b97y2/
Recent Papers
Eleanor J. Junkins, D. A. Briley, Brian G. Ogolsky, & Jaime Derringer. (2024, under review). Psychometrics of psychosocial variables in a sexual and gender diverse longitudinal study. PsyArXiv pre-print, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/wxkmd.
Eleanor J. Junkins, Brian G. Ogolsky, & Jaime Derringer. (2023, under review). Not like everybody else but we’re the same: Psychosocial variables across diverse sexual and gender identities. PsyArXiv, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/asfx2.
Eleanor J. Junkins, Keely A. Dugan, Samar Chehab, Y. Sarah Han, Tingyan Liu, Jiepeng Yuan, & Jaime Derringer. (2024). Systematic review of queer and minority identities in romantic relationships research. Psychology & Sexuality, https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2024.2307045. Open access version: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8c9ju
Eleanor J. Junkins, Kenzhane Pantin, & Jaime Derringer. (2024). Personality across diverse sexual orientations and gender identities in an online convenience sample. Journal of Research in Personality, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104466.
Kenzhane Pantin & Jaime Derringer. (2020). A short measure of sexual self-concept. PsyArXiv, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2bqf8