Recent Publications

Ramos, D., & Yeater, E. A. (in press). Cultural risk and protective factors associated with sexual assault among Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White women. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

Sheffield, L., & Yeater, E. A. (in press). College men’s propensity for sexual aggression and perceived justification for sexual coercion against heterosexual and bisexual college women. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

Blackwell, M. A., Yeater, E. A., & Goodkind, J. R. (in press). Do chronic stressors moderate the relationship between trauma exposure and refugee mental health? It depends on cultural background. Transcultural Psychiatry.

Gillezeau, C., & Yeater, E. A. (2025). Examining the measurement invariance of the Sociosexuality Orientation Inventory-Revised among Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White College Students. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 54, 377-387.

Blackwell, M. A., Goodkind, J. R., Yeater, E. A., & Van Horn, M. L. (2024). Predictors of mental health outcomes of three refugee groups in an advocacy-based intervention: A precision medicine perspective. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 92(1), 16–25.

Blackwell, M. A., Goodkind, J., & Yeater, E. A. (2024). Predictors of recovery in advocacy-based refugee treatment outcome: The role of prior traumatic experiences and current chronic stressors. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 92, 16–25.

Votaw, V.R., Pearson, M.R., Kranzler, H.R., Roos, C.R., Yeater, E.A., & Witkiewitz, K. (2024). Comparing the psychometric properties of reward and relief drinking measures. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 32, 664-681.

Blackwell, M. A., Yeater, E. A., Selmo, P., & Ahmed, S. (2023). Sustaining psychotherapist effectiveness and independence: An exploratory study with displaced persons in Kurdistan Iraq. Traumatology, 29, 435-440.

Lopez, G., Yeater, E. A., Veldhuis, C. B., Venner, K. L., Verney, S. P., & Hughes, T. L (2023). Sexual assault, psychological distress, and protective factors in a community sample of Black, Latinx, and White Lesbian and Bisexual women. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. https://doi.org 10.1177/08862605221090570.

Rinehart, J. K., Nason, E. E., Yeater, E. A., Ross, R. S., & Vitek, K. (2023). Alcohol use, rape myth acceptance, rape empathy, and sexual assault history influence the believability of a hypothetical victim’s report of sexual assault. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. http://doi.org/ 10.1177/08862605231190345

Sheffield, L., Ross, R. S., Blackwell, M. A., Gillezeau, C., & Yeater, E. A. (2023). Sexual assaults, bad hookups, and bad dates: Comparisons of the contextual features among college women’s hypothetical and real life sexual and dating experiences. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605231169732

Vitek, K., & Yeater, E. A. (2022). Women’s response performance in sexually risky situations: Associations with disinhibited sex-related alcohol expectancies. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37, NP14854-NP14876.

Yeater E. A., Witkiewitz, K., Testa, M., & Bryan, A. D. (2022). Substance use, risky sex, and peer interactions predict sexual assault among college women: An ecological momentary assessment (EMA) study. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37, NP5094-NP5115.

Yeater, E. A., Witkiewitz, K., Votaw, V., Ross, R. S., Vitek, K. N., Blackwell, M., & Sheffield, A. (2022). Occasions of alcohol and cannabis use and associated risk for sexual assault among college women with higher sexual risk alcohol expectancies. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 83, 556-564.

Lopez, G., & Yeater, E. A. (2021). Associations among sexual victimization experiences, coping strategies, and psychopathology in sexual minority women. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36, NP4250-NP4270.

Nason, E. E., Yeater, E. A., & Hoyt, T. (2021). Sexual attitudes, perceptions of attractiveness, and level of coercion affect undergraduate men’s judgments of women’s responses to sexual and nonsexual social situations. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36, NP13314-NP13336.

Schmiege, S., Magnan, R. E., Yeater, E. A., Feldstein, S., & Bryan, A. D. (2021). Randomized trial to reduce risky sexual behavior among justice-involved adolescents. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 60, 47-56.

Vitek, K., & Yeater, E. A. (2021). The association between a history of sexual violence and romantic relationship functioning: A systematic review. Trauma, Violence, and Abuse, 22, 1221-1232

Yeater, E. A., Leiting, K. A., & Witkiewitz, K. (2020). Assessing college women’s perception of putative risk for being sexually victimized by a man: Development of the Sexual Assault Script Scale (SASS). Sex Roles, 82, 688-703.

Yeater, E. A., Treat, T. A., Viken, R. J., & Bryan, A. D. (2020). Risk processing and college women’s risk for sexual victimization. Psychology of Violence, 10, 575-583.

Yeater, E. A., Vitek, K. N., Ross, R. S., Blackwell, M., Witkiewitz, K., & Leiting, K. A. (2020). Measurement invariance of the Sexual Assault Script Scale (SASS): An examination among Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White college women. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 82, 688-703.

Bryan, A. D., Magnan, R. E., Gillman A. S., Yeater, E. A., Feldstein-Ewing, S. W., Kong, A., & Schmeige, S. J. (2018). Effect of including alcohol and cannabis content in a sexual risk-reduction intervention on the incidence of sexually transmitted infections in adolescents: A cluster randomized clinical trial. JAMA Pediatrics, 172, e175621.

Rinehart, J. K., Yeater, E. A., Treat, T. A., & Viken, R. J. (2018) Cognitive processes underlying the self-other perspective in women’s judgments of victimization risk. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 35, 1381-1399.

Yeater, E. A., Treat, T. A., Viken, R. J., & Lenberg, K. L. (2018). Sexual attitudes moderate the effects of intoxication on women’s risk judgments. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 33, 228-249.

Yeater, E. A., Witkiewitz, K., Lopez, G., Ross, R. S., Vitek, K., & Bryan, A. D. (2018). Latent profile analysis of alcohol consumption and sexual attitudes among college women: Associations with sexual victimization risk. Violence Against Women, 24, 1279-1298.

Rinehart, J. L., Nason, E. E., Yeater, E. A., & Miller, G. F. (2017). Do some students need special protection from research on sex and trauma? New evidence for young adult resilience in “sensitive topics” research. Journal of Sex Research, 54, 273-283.

Yeater, E. A., Hoyt, T., Leiting, K. A., & Lopez, G. (2016). Association between sexual victimization history, posttraumatic stress symptoms, and women’s decision making in risky social situations: The moderating effect of ethnicity. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 38, 666-680.

Rinehart, J. K., & Yeater, E. A. (2015). Using cognitive theory and methodology to inform the study of sexual victimization. Journal of Trauma, Violence, and Abuse, 3-15.

Rinehart, J. K., Yeater, E. A., Musci, R. J., Letourneau, E. J., & Lenberg, K. L. (2014). The role of ethnicity, sexual attitudes, and sexual behavior in sexual revictimization during the transition to emerging adulthood. Child Maltreatment, 178-187.

Yeater, E. A., Montanarro, E., & Bryan, A. (2015). Predictors of sexual coercion and alcohol use among female juvenile delinquents. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 44, 114-126.

Yeater, E. A., Miller, G. F., Rinehart, J. K., & Nason, E. E. (2012). Trauma and sex surveys meet minimal risk standards: Implications for Internal Review Boards. Psychological Science, 23, 780-787.

Yeater, E. A., Lenberg, K. L., & Bryan, A. (2012). Predictors of sexual aggression among male juvenile offenders. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 27, 1242-1258.

Yeater, E. A., McFall, R. M., & Viken, R. J. (2011). The relationship between women’s response effectiveness and a history of sexual victimization. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 26, 462-478.

Yeater, E. A., & Viken, R. J. (2010). Factors affecting women’s response choices to dating and social situations. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 25, 1411-1428.

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, 375-386.

Yeater, E. A., Austin, J. L., Stump, M. J., & Smith, J. E. (2010). Coping mediates the relationship between trauma symptoms and alcohol use in homeless, ethnically diverse women. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 2, 307-310.