Tara M Emmers‐sommer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4513995 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tara M Emmers‐sommer |
| NOMBRES | Tara M |
| APELLIDO | Emmers‐sommer |
| FIRMA | SOMMER T M E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 171 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Progress? Parity? Payoff? Professional and Personal Pressures of Educated Women
George Michael’s Early Messages About Identity and Sexuality
Pleasure privilege in mediated and relational contexts
This article responds to encouragement to remember the wonder in gender and sexualities education. Specifically, it addresses gender and sexuality in a variety of contexts, from mediated forms to how gendered sexual expectations are socially constructed and conveyed through cultural scripts, particularly in heterosexual contexts. According to traditional sexual scripts, men are encouraged to be sexually active and privilege personal sexual pleasu…
When Women with Endometriosis Communicate About Sexual Activity
Exercising Agency
The “Angelina Effect” and Audience Response to Celebrity vs. Medical Expert Health Messages
Adults’ Identities, Attitudes, and Orientations Concerning Consensual Non-Monogamy
Implications of Sex Guilt
A meta-analysis of the literature examining the outcomes related to feelings of sex guilt was conducted. The analysis demonstrates gendered differences in the experience of sex guilt and myriad attitudinal and behavioral impacts. Specifically, men report lower levels of sex guilt, r = −.227 than do women and implications of sex guilt experience are vast, including its association with engagement in less sexual activity, r = −.337, less favorable …
College Student Perceptions of Hypothetical Rape Disclosures
Reasons for Pornography Consumption
High-Risk Sexual Behavior in Postmenopausal Women
Individuals who participate in sexual behavior indeed expose themselves to multiple risks, including social, emotional, and physical risks. Outcomes associated with risk behavior can have detrimental consequences on one’s interpersonal relationships, self-esteem, and overall health and well-being. This study examined how four factors (relational, decision-making, sexual variables, and safety) operate in a postmenopausal women’s decision to engage…
The Destruction of a Legacy
An Examination of Gender of Aggressor and Target (Un)wanted Sex and Nonconsent on Perceptions of Sexual (Un)wantedness, Justifiability and Consent
Do Men and Women Differ in their Perceptions of Women’s and Men’s Saying “No” When They Mean “Yes” to Sex
Does Movie Viewing Cultivate Young People's Unrealistic Expectations About Love and Marriage
The current study examines the association between consumption of media messages by way of movie viewing and genre preference and endorsement of ideals and expectations concerning romantic relationships. A survey of young adults found that viewing preference for both romantic comedies and dramas was significantly and positively correlated with idealized notions of faith that love conquers all, greater expectations for intimacy, and endorsement of…
Relationship Between Relational Status and Adversarial Sexual Attitudes Toward Women
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the relationship between relational status and adversarial sexual attitudes toward women. Data were collected online at a large southwestern university. Seven hundred seventeen individuals participated in the study (342 men and 375 women). The mean age of the sample was 22.23 years (SD = 5.53; range, 18–63). Participants reported their current relational status as being casually dating, seriously d…
Adversarial Sexual Attitudes Toward Women
Testing a Model Predicting Risky Sexual Behavior
Sexually transmitted disease and infection rates are continually increasing. Individuals who engage in high-risk sexual behavior (HRSB) expose themselves to multiple risks, including social, emotional, and physical risks. Overall, cultural, intrapsychic, and interpersonal scripts comingle to guide our behavior in sexual situations, yet existing theoretical models that seek to explain an individual's decision to engage in HRSB tend to test specifi…
Pornography Use and Attitudes
The purpose of this investigation was to examine male and female pornography users' and nonusers' attitudes regarding sexual openness and inhibition as well as relational variables both between and within gender. Participants included 846 individuals, 355 men and 491 women, with 239 of the men and 117 of the women being pornography consumers. Results indicate that men are more sexual seeking and less relationally oriented than women. However, men…
I'm Not Trying to Be Cured, So There's Not Much He Can Do for Me”
The hospice philosophy was founded on a mission to provide comprehensive and holistic services to individuals at the end of life. Hospice interdisciplinary teams work together to offer therapies such as spiritual services, comfort care, and massage therapy to meet patients’ physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual needs. Although the hospice philosophy is guided toward patient-centered care, limited research has examined how patients und…
Attachment Style and Gender as Predictors of Communicative Responses to Infidelity
This study set out to determine one's communicative responses to infidelity as predicted by attachment style and gender. Three hundred ninety-two participants responded to a measure of attachment and were then randomly assigned to one of three scenarios: imagining a partner's sexual infidelity, imagining a partner's emotional infidelity, and imagining a partner's combined sexual and emotional infidelity. Participants then responded to a communica…
Beyond Individualism-Collectivism and Conflict Style
Opportunities for individuals from varied cultural backgrounds to interact, and therefore conflict, are inherently greater because the technologies, economies, and livelihoods of people of many countries are increasingly interdependent. In light of globalization, it is ever more valuable to understand how culture influences the way people manage conflict. The purpose of this study was to examine factors influencing people's individualistic-collec…
Reasons for (Non)engagement in Infidelity
This investigation examined reasons for (un)faithfulness. Driven by interdependence theory, data from 220 undergraduates at a southwestern U.S. university indicate that men have more relational alternatives than women and individuals’ relational investments tied to relational stage as well as length of relationship. Significant predictors of infidelity among men and women are quality of alternatives, believing that sex occurs early in a relations…
Patient–Provider Communication About Sexual Health
Women
The Effect of Communication Quality and Quantity Indicators on Intimacy and Relational Satisfaction
The purpose of this study was to examine and compare the effect of communication quality and quantity indicators on relational satisfaction and intimacy. Individuals were asked to record all of their interactions with their same-sex friend or romantic partner on a daily basis for a week. A total of 79 participants took part in the study. Results indicated that communication quality indicators explained more variance in both relational satisfactio…
The Connection Between the Physiological and Psychological Reactions to Sexually Explicit Materials
The results of the investigations providing data on the connection between measures of sexual arousal and positive psychological affect indicate a positive relationship whether measured directly (r=.212) or by a comparison of manipulation check data (r=.223). Female research participants demonstrate more negative emotional responses than men exposed to the same content (r=−.248), but the level of physiological arousal favors men by a much smaller…
The Effect of Movie Portrayals on Audience Attitudes About Nontraditional Families and Sexual Orientation
This study examined the impact of motion pictures about the family on viewers' attitudes about family life and sexual orientation. Viewers were randomly assigned to view either Father of the Bride II (control group) or Object of My Affection (treatment group). Viewers' attitudes toward nontraditionalism and homosexuality were assessed before and after viewing their respective film. Treatment and control groups significantly differed in their atti…
Variables Related to Sexual Coercion
Using data gathered through a meta-analysis, this study tests a path model representing variables that relate to sexual coercion. Specifically, sex, attitudes toward women, past/current relationship, alcohol, coercion strategies, victim resistance, and rape justifiability were proposed and their effects examined. Results indicated that the level of actual or perceived coerciveness was a function of the level of coerciveness of the strategy, wheth…
Reasons for Pornography Consumption
Love, Suspense, Sex, and Violence
Surveying the Effect of Media Effects A Meta-Analytic Summary of the Media Effects Research in Human Communication Research
This is a unique investigation that is particular to the needs of this special issue of Human Communication Research (HCR). Specifically, this study analyzes the media effects research that has been published in HCR during the past 25 years via meta-analysis. Numerous significant findings point to various themes and trends regarding media research in HCR. First, age is related to processing ability, understanding, and attending to media such that…
The Impact of Film Manipulation on Men’s and Women’s Attitudes Toward Women and Film Editing
Reasons for (Non)engagement in Infidelity
This investigation examined reasons for (un)faithfulness. Driven by interdependence theory, data from 220 undergraduates at a southwestern U.S. university indicate that men have more relational alternatives than women and individuals’ relational investments tied to relational stage as well as length of relationship. Significant predictors of infidelity among men and women are quality of alternatives, believing that sex occurs early in a relations…
Adults’ Identities, Attitudes, and Orientations Concerning Consensual Non-Monogamy
The Destruction of a Legacy
Think Leader, Think Male and Female
Implications of Sex Guilt
A meta-analysis of the literature examining the outcomes related to feelings of sex guilt was conducted. The analysis demonstrates gendered differences in the experience of sex guilt and myriad attitudinal and behavioral impacts. Specifically, men report lower levels of sex guilt, r = −.227 than do women and implications of sex guilt experience are vast, including its association with engagement in less sexual activity, r = −.337, less favorable …
Does Movie Viewing Cultivate Young People's Unrealistic Expectations About Love and Marriage
The current study examines the association between consumption of media messages by way of movie viewing and genre preference and endorsement of ideals and expectations concerning romantic relationships. A survey of young adults found that viewing preference for both romantic comedies and dramas was significantly and positively correlated with idealized notions of faith that love conquers all, greater expectations for intimacy, and endorsement of…
Patient–Provider Communication About Sexual Health
Do Men and Women Differ in their Perceptions of Women’s and Men’s Saying “No” When They Mean “Yes” to Sex
Adversarial Sexual Attitudes Toward Women
Pornography Use and Attitudes
The purpose of this investigation was to examine male and female pornography users' and nonusers' attitudes regarding sexual openness and inhibition as well as relational variables both between and within gender. Participants included 846 individuals, 355 men and 491 women, with 239 of the men and 117 of the women being pornography consumers. Results indicate that men are more sexual seeking and less relationally oriented than women. However, men…
Testing a Model Predicting Risky Sexual Behavior
Sexually transmitted disease and infection rates are continually increasing. Individuals who engage in high-risk sexual behavior (HRSB) expose themselves to multiple risks, including social, emotional, and physical risks. Overall, cultural, intrapsychic, and interpersonal scripts comingle to guide our behavior in sexual situations, yet existing theoretical models that seek to explain an individual's decision to engage in HRSB tend to test specifi…
I'm Not Trying to Be Cured, So There's Not Much He Can Do for Me”
The hospice philosophy was founded on a mission to provide comprehensive and holistic services to individuals at the end of life. Hospice interdisciplinary teams work together to offer therapies such as spiritual services, comfort care, and massage therapy to meet patients’ physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual needs. Although the hospice philosophy is guided toward patient-centered care, limited research has examined how patients und…
The “Angelina Effect” and Audience Response to Celebrity vs. Medical Expert Health Messages
High-Risk Sexual Behavior in Postmenopausal Women
Individuals who participate in sexual behavior indeed expose themselves to multiple risks, including social, emotional, and physical risks. Outcomes associated with risk behavior can have detrimental consequences on one’s interpersonal relationships, self-esteem, and overall health and well-being. This study examined how four factors (relational, decision-making, sexual variables, and safety) operate in a postmenopausal women’s decision to engage…
An Examination of Gender of Aggressor and Target (Un)wanted Sex and Nonconsent on Perceptions of Sexual (Un)wantedness, Justifiability and Consent
Accounts of Single Fatherhood
Relying on single fathers' accounts, this study examined the experience of single fatherhood and the communication practices between single fathers and their child. Single fathers also answered closed-ended questions. Results offer insight into the challenges and joys that single fathers experience. Single fathers clearly disclosed love for their child and a valuation of their relationship with their child, and expressed exasperation and dissatis…
Reactions of Criminal Sexual Offenders to Pornography
This chapter provides a summary of existing data on the impacts of pornography for a specially defined sample. The studies included were studies that used only criminal sexual offenders, either incarcerated or in treatment. The findings indicate no difference in the frequency of consuming sexually explicit materials (r = -.05) between criminal sexual offenders and noncriminal controls. However, criminal sexual offenders were more likely to use po…
Sex and Gender Differences in Personal Relationships
Reactions of Criminal Sexual Offenders to Pornography
This chapter provides a summary of existing data on the impacts of pornography for a specially defined sample. The studies included were studies that used only criminal sexual offenders, either incarcerated or in treatment. The findings indicate no difference in the frequency of consuming sexually explicit materials (r = -.05) between criminal sexual offenders and noncriminal controls. However, criminal sexual offenders were more likely to use po…
Sex and Gender Differences in Personal Relationships
Variables Related to Sexual Coercion
Using data gathered through a meta-analysis, this study tests a path model representing variables that relate to sexual coercion. Specifically, sex, attitudes toward women, past/current relationship, alcohol, coercion strategies, victim resistance, and rape justifiability were proposed and their effects examined. Results indicated that the level of actual or perceived coerciveness was a function of the level of coerciveness of the strategy, wheth…
Surveying the Effect of Media Effects A Meta-Analytic Summary of the Media Effects Research in Human Communication Research
This is a unique investigation that is particular to the needs of this special issue of Human Communication Research (HCR). Specifically, this study analyzes the media effects research that has been published in HCR during the past 25 years via meta-analysis. Numerous significant findings point to various themes and trends regarding media research in HCR. First, age is related to processing ability, understanding, and attending to media such that…
Accounts of Single Fatherhood
Relying on single fathers' accounts, this study examined the experience of single fatherhood and the communication practices between single fathers and their child. Single fathers also answered closed-ended questions. Results offer insight into the challenges and joys that single fathers experience. Single fathers clearly disclosed love for their child and a valuation of their relationship with their child, and expressed exasperation and dissatis…
The Effect of Movie Portrayals on Audience Attitudes About Nontraditional Families and Sexual Orientation
This study examined the impact of motion pictures about the family on viewers' attitudes about family life and sexual orientation. Viewers were randomly assigned to view either Father of the Bride II (control group) or Object of My Affection (treatment group). Viewers' attitudes toward nontraditionalism and homosexuality were assessed before and after viewing their respective film. Treatment and control groups significantly differed in their atti…
The Effect of Communication Quality and Quantity Indicators on Intimacy and Relational Satisfaction
The purpose of this study was to examine and compare the effect of communication quality and quantity indicators on relational satisfaction and intimacy. Individuals were asked to record all of their interactions with their same-sex friend or romantic partner on a daily basis for a week. A total of 79 participants took part in the study. Results indicated that communication quality indicators explained more variance in both relational satisfactio…
The Impact of Film Manipulation on Men’s and Women’s Attitudes Toward Women and Film Editing
Love, Suspense, Sex, and Violence
The Connection Between the Physiological and Psychological Reactions to Sexually Explicit Materials
The results of the investigations providing data on the connection between measures of sexual arousal and positive psychological affect indicate a positive relationship whether measured directly (r=.212) or by a comparison of manipulation check data (r=.223). Female research participants demonstrate more negative emotional responses than men exposed to the same content (r=−.248), but the level of physiological arousal favors men by a much smaller…
Think Leader, Think Male and Female
Patient–Provider Communication About Sexual Health
Reasons for (Non)engagement in Infidelity
This investigation examined reasons for (un)faithfulness. Driven by interdependence theory, data from 220 undergraduates at a southwestern U.S. university indicate that men have more relational alternatives than women and individuals’ relational investments tied to relational stage as well as length of relationship. Significant predictors of infidelity among men and women are quality of alternatives, believing that sex occurs early in a relations…
Beyond Individualism-Collectivism and Conflict Style
Opportunities for individuals from varied cultural backgrounds to interact, and therefore conflict, are inherently greater because the technologies, economies, and livelihoods of people of many countries are increasingly interdependent. In light of globalization, it is ever more valuable to understand how culture influences the way people manage conflict. The purpose of this study was to examine factors influencing people's individualistic-collec…
I'm Not Trying to Be Cured, So There's Not Much He Can Do for Me”
The hospice philosophy was founded on a mission to provide comprehensive and holistic services to individuals at the end of life. Hospice interdisciplinary teams work together to offer therapies such as spiritual services, comfort care, and massage therapy to meet patients’ physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual needs. Although the hospice philosophy is guided toward patient-centered care, limited research has examined how patients und…
Attachment Style and Gender as Predictors of Communicative Responses to Infidelity
This study set out to determine one's communicative responses to infidelity as predicted by attachment style and gender. Three hundred ninety-two participants responded to a measure of attachment and were then randomly assigned to one of three scenarios: imagining a partner's sexual infidelity, imagining a partner's emotional infidelity, and imagining a partner's combined sexual and emotional infidelity. Participants then responded to a communica…
Pornography Use and Attitudes
The purpose of this investigation was to examine male and female pornography users' and nonusers' attitudes regarding sexual openness and inhibition as well as relational variables both between and within gender. Participants included 846 individuals, 355 men and 491 women, with 239 of the men and 117 of the women being pornography consumers. Results indicate that men are more sexual seeking and less relationally oriented than women. However, men…
Adversarial Sexual Attitudes Toward Women
Testing a Model Predicting Risky Sexual Behavior
Sexually transmitted disease and infection rates are continually increasing. Individuals who engage in high-risk sexual behavior (HRSB) expose themselves to multiple risks, including social, emotional, and physical risks. Overall, cultural, intrapsychic, and interpersonal scripts comingle to guide our behavior in sexual situations, yet existing theoretical models that seek to explain an individual's decision to engage in HRSB tend to test specifi…
An Examination of Gender of Aggressor and Target (Un)wanted Sex and Nonconsent on Perceptions of Sexual (Un)wantedness, Justifiability and Consent
Do Men and Women Differ in their Perceptions of Women’s and Men’s Saying “No” When They Mean “Yes” to Sex
Does Movie Viewing Cultivate Young People's Unrealistic Expectations About Love and Marriage
The current study examines the association between consumption of media messages by way of movie viewing and genre preference and endorsement of ideals and expectations concerning romantic relationships. A survey of young adults found that viewing preference for both romantic comedies and dramas was significantly and positively correlated with idealized notions of faith that love conquers all, greater expectations for intimacy, and endorsement of…
Relationship Between Relational Status and Adversarial Sexual Attitudes Toward Women
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the relationship between relational status and adversarial sexual attitudes toward women. Data were collected online at a large southwestern university. Seven hundred seventeen individuals participated in the study (342 men and 375 women). The mean age of the sample was 22.23 years (SD = 5.53; range, 18–63). Participants reported their current relational status as being casually dating, seriously d…
College Student Perceptions of Hypothetical Rape Disclosures
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