Michelle Drouin
Biographic Data
| ID | 289200 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Drouin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Drouin |
| SIGNATURE | DROUIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0010-9260 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Current State of Psychological Research on Intimate Partner Violence: Implications for Legal Proceedings
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious and widespread public health concern. Not only has it been the subject of thousands of papers published over the past three decades, but it also appears frequently in legal proceedings across criminal, civil, and family court contexts. To have currency in the field, forensic experts and other individuals working in court systems must identify and synthesize a wide and complex body of literature, from t…
Intimacy Needs Across Different Relationship Types: The Role of Gender and Attachment Style
In this study, we examined five different intimacy needs (i.e., emotional, social, sexual, intellectual, and recreational) across several types of modern-day romantic relationships (i.e., committed, friends with benefits, one-night-stands, and polyamorous) among undergraduates ( N = 240). Overall, individuals rated emotional needs as most important and social needs as least important to a fulfilling partnership. Additionally, they expected commit…
Objective Phone Use During Time With One’s Partner: Associations With Relationship and Individual Well‐Being
When a person chooses to interact with their phone instead of their partner (e.g., technoference, phubbing), it may diminish interactional quality, relationship satisfaction, and well‐being. However, much of the research on technology use in relationships has utilized self‐reports. We extend prior work by objectively measuring smartphone use in a sample of 247 adult participants (75% women; mean age = 30.87 years) to better understand the extent …
Parent social media use and gaming on mobile phones, technoference in family time, and parenting stress
2.89 years), we examined parents' phone use for texting/calling, social media use, mobile gaming, and perceptions of cutting into family time; we also examined differences between mothers and fathers and associations with parenting stress. Mothers engaged in greater social media use but less mobile gaming compared to fathers; 61% of mothers and 38% of fathers used social media 31+ minutes per day, while 23% of fathers and 16% of mothers played mo…
Do individuals interpret sexting as an indicator of sexual intent and sexual consent
A commentary on sexting, sextortion, and generative AI: Risks, deception, and digital vulnerability
How do Young People Feel About a BrAC Limit for Consenting to Sex After Consuming Alcohol
Examining the roles of marital status and sex on communication with backburners on social media
In this study, we examined the prevalence of and communication with backburners (romantic alternatives) within a sample of both married (n= 188) and casually dating (n = 230) men and women in the United States. We also examined the roles of relationship length, commitment, sex, and marital status in the number of backburners reported and their communication with backburners, generally, as well as their communication with their most desired backbu…
Gen Z Hybristophilia: The Role of tiktok in Young Women's Attraction to Deviant Men
This research explores hybristophilia (an individual’s sexual interest in and attraction to those who commit crimes) among Generation Z women, particularly through investigating how Gen Z female users interact with and feel about hybristophilic content and how this content impacts their attraction to offenders. Study 1 involved a content analysis of 66 videos and 91 comments on TikTok, identifying seven main themes: The Halo Effect, ActorOffender…
Heavy Users, Mobile Gamers, and Social Networkers: Patterns of Objective Smartphone Use in Parents of Infants and Associations With Parent Depression, Sleep, Parenting, and Problematic Phone Use
Smartphone use during parenting is common, which may lead to distraction (also known as technoference). However, it is likely that some phone activities are less disruptive to parents and children. In this study, we explored smartphone use (via passive sensing across 8 days) within 264 parents of infants, measuring parents’ application use on their phone (e.g., messaging, social media, mobile gaming, video chat) and phone use across contexts (e.g…
Recent research involving consent, alcohol intoxication, and memory: Implications for expert testimony in sexual assault cases
Dating Applications: A Honeypot for Sextortion Victims
Perpetrators often have easy access to victims via widely used social media networks, such as Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook. Nowadays, dating applications have provided one more platform where sextortionists identify potential victims and lure them into extortion and victimization. Limited research and media coverage has revealed that sextortion can cause significant harm, with victims reporting negative psychological consequences, such as de…
School-Issued Devices for Home Use in Kindergarten through 5th Grade and Parent Perceptions of Child Learning, Behavior, and Conflict
With many U.S. schools adopting 1-to-1 school device programs, research on the potential impacts of this device usage at home is critical. In this study, we examined elementary school parents’ perceptions of their child’s use of their school-issued device for academic skill-building and entertainment at home. We then examined the associations between these different types of use and children’s learning, behavior, and parent-child conflict over th…
Communicating with back burners among college students according to relationship status and love styles
Back burner relationships are prospective sexual/romantic partners that individuals communicate with for purposes of developing a sexual and/or romantic relationship. This study analyzed 762 college students with regard to sex, relationship status, love styles, and numbers of back burners. Men reported more back burners with whom they sometimes communicated in a romantic/sexual way than did women, and singles and casual daters averaged more of th…
Parents’ desire to change phone use: Associations with objective smartphone use and feelings about problematic use and distraction
Is chatting with a sophisticated chatbot as good as chatting online or FTF with a stranger
Differences Between Gender and Relationship Status in Motivations and Consequences of Consensual Sexting Among Emerging Adults
Out of Touch: How to Survive an Intimacy Famine
Simmering on the Back Burner or Playing with Fire? Examining the Consequences of Back-Burner Digital Communication Among Ex-Partners
Back burners are people with whom one communicates to potentially establish a future romantic or sexual relationship, and these relationships are common among college students. Using a sample of noncollege adults currently in committed relationships (N = 246) obtained via Amazon's MTurk, this study examines how a prior relationship role with a desired back burner (i.e., whether a back burner was an ex-partner or not) affects digital communication…
Are You Going to Delete Me? Latent Profiles of Post-Relationship Breakup Social Media Use and Emotional Distress
When a relationship ends, former partners must make decisions about their online, often public, connections and history, which involve a complex disentangling process. We examined post-breakup behaviors including monitoring, interacting, deleting posts/photos, deleting the former partner, deleting the partner's family/friends, stopping social media (SM) use, and keeping digital possessions. Participants (N = 256) who had experienced a breakup wit…
Daily technoference, technology use during couple leisure time, and relationship quality
The landscape of couple leisure time has shifted to include and, in some relationships, rely upon technology use. Technology has the potential to intrude upon face-to-face interactions and quality time together – i.e., technoference, phubbing. However, it is also likely that couples engage in shared technology use, which could lead to bonding. In the current work, we examined one’s own, one’s partner’s, and shared technology use during couple tim…
The Relationship between Dark Triad Personality Traits and Sexting Behaviors among Adolescents and Young Adults across 11 Countries
The present study provided empirical evidence that different sexting behaviors were predicted by Dark Triad Personality Traits, showing a relevant role of Machiavellianism in all kinds of investigated sexting behaviors. Research, clinical, and education implications for prevention programs are discussed
How Do Age, Sex, Political Orientation, Religiosity, and Sexism Affect Perceptions of Sex Assault/Harassment Allegations
Perhaps It Was Too Soon: College Students’ Reflections on the Timing of Their Sexual Debut
Early sexual debut has been a focus of social scientific research due to its association with adverse circumstances and negative outcomes. However, there has been a recent shift to considering not only chronological age, but also the degree to which the event is viewed to be optimally timed (i.e., the perception that it occurred at the "right time" versus too soon). The purpose of this study was to assess how individual/family background variable…
Introduction to the special issue on communication technologies and relationships
This introduction to a special Technology and Relationships issue of the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships introduces the collection of articles. It describes the editorial development of the issue, identifies how the articles are organized into three clusters reflecting the developmental arc of relationships, provides a precis of each article, and ends with reflections on a question (is technology beneficial or detrimental?) and two n…
How Does Alcohol Consumption Affect Perceptions of One’s Own and a Drinking Partner’s Ability to Consent to Sexual Activity
In this naturalistic study, our aim was to examine the extent to which alcohol consumption affected perceptions of one's own and one's friend's ability to consent to sexual activity. We surveyed 160 adult bargoers in pairs about their own and their friends' alcohol consumption, intoxication symptoms, and ability to consent to sexual activity. On average, participants reported consuming 4.97 drinks, rated themselves at the legal limit for driving,…
Relational Anxiety and Sexting
Individuals in pursuit of, or currently in, a romantic relationship typically communicate via technology, extending to sexting with one another. Sexting is commonly understood as the sending and receiving of sexually suggestive or sexually explicit photos, video, or text via cell phone or other technologies. The characteristics that fuel whether one engages in sexting are not well understood. In this study, 459 unmarried, heterosexual undergradua…
Name writing and letter knowledge in preschoolers: Incongruities in skills and the usefulness of name writing as a developmental indicator
Alphabet knowledge in preschool: A Rasch model analysis
Differences Between Gender and Relationship Status in Motivations and Consequences of Consensual Sexting Among Emerging Adults
Technology use during couples' bedtime routines, bedtime satisfaction, and associations with individual and relational well-being
In this study, we examined the typical and ideal bedtime routines of 289 Americans in cohabiting relationships who were recruited from Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Participants described their bedtime routines, indicated their frequency of sex with their partner, and completed surveys measuring their bedtime, sexual, relationship, and life satisfaction. There were some incongruencies between ideal and typical scenarios, with joint activities (both t…
How do Young People Feel About a BrAC Limit for Consenting to Sex After Consuming Alcohol
Dating Applications: A Honeypot for Sextortion Victims
Perpetrators often have easy access to victims via widely used social media networks, such as Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook. Nowadays, dating applications have provided one more platform where sextortionists identify potential victims and lure them into extortion and victimization. Limited research and media coverage has revealed that sextortion can cause significant harm, with victims reporting negative psychological consequences, such as de…
Perhaps It Was Too Soon: College Students’ Reflections on the Timing of Their Sexual Debut
Early sexual debut has been a focus of social scientific research due to its association with adverse circumstances and negative outcomes. However, there has been a recent shift to considering not only chronological age, but also the degree to which the event is viewed to be optimally timed (i.e., the perception that it occurred at the "right time" versus too soon). The purpose of this study was to assess how individual/family background variable…
Introduction to the special issue on communication technologies and relationships
This introduction to a special Technology and Relationships issue of the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships introduces the collection of articles. It describes the editorial development of the issue, identifies how the articles are organized into three clusters reflecting the developmental arc of relationships, provides a precis of each article, and ends with reflections on a question (is technology beneficial or detrimental?) and two n…
Tell Me Lies, Tell Me Sweet Little Lies: ” Sexting Deception Among Adults
Name writing and letter knowledge in preschoolers: Incongruities in skills and the usefulness of name writing as a developmental indicator
Texting, sexting, and attachment in college students’ romantic relationships
Alphabet knowledge in preschool: A Rasch model analysis
Let’s talk about sexting, baby: Computer-mediated sexual behaviors among young adults
Unwanted but consensual sexting among young adults: Relations with attachment and sexual motivations
Sexting: A new, digital vehicle for intimate partner aggression?
Online erotica usage as a mediator between internet addiction and engagement in risky online sexual behaviors
In this study, we examined the links between Internet addiction, engagement in online erotica (including pornography usage and usage of sex-based Internet chat sites), and engagement in risky online sexual behaviors, in this case, sending sexually-explicit pictures to those known only online (i.e., sexting) and expecting to engage in offline sex with those known only online. In our sample of 276 U.S. adults, men engaged in most of these online se…
Relational Anxiety and Sexting
Individuals in pursuit of, or currently in, a romantic relationship typically communicate via technology, extending to sexting with one another. Sexting is commonly understood as the sending and receiving of sexually suggestive or sexually explicit photos, video, or text via cell phone or other technologies. The characteristics that fuel whether one engages in sexting are not well understood. In this study, 459 unmarried, heterosexual undergradua…
Is sexting good for your relationship? It depends …
I’m 13. I’m online. U believe me?”: Implications for undercover Internet stings
We examined the extent to which 262 adults, recruited from both a U.S. university sample and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, believed the identity of a 13-year-old boy or girl persona in an online chat room. Sixteen undergraduate confederates (aged 19-38) followed two basic biographical sketches (Amber or James) and were instructed to “chat like a teenager” in one-to-one private chats. Confederates cycled through conditions where they provided no age o…
“Technoference” and implications for mothers' and fathers' couple and coparenting relationship quality
Tell Me Lies, Tell Me Sweet Little Lies: ” Sexting Deception Among Adults
How Does Alcohol Consumption Affect Perceptions of One’s Own and a Drinking Partner’s Ability to Consent to Sexual Activity
In this naturalistic study, our aim was to examine the extent to which alcohol consumption affected perceptions of one's own and one's friend's ability to consent to sexual activity. We surveyed 160 adult bargoers in pairs about their own and their friends' alcohol consumption, intoxication symptoms, and ability to consent to sexual activity. On average, participants reported consuming 4.97 drinks, rated themselves at the legal limit for driving,…
Daily technology interruptions and emotional and relational well-being
Problematic phone use, depression, and technology interference among mothers
How Parents and Their Children Used Social Media and Technology at the Beginning of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Associations with Anxiety
In this study, we examined parents' ( n = 260) perceptions of their own and their children's use of social media and other types of communication technologies in the beginning stages of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) related sanctions (e.g., social distancing) in the United States. We also examined associations between social media and technology use and anxiety. On average, parents reported that both they and their children (especially teen…
The role of Hexaco personality traits in different kinds of sexting: A cross-cultural study in 10 countries
Consensual Sexting among College Students: The Interplay of Coercion and Intimate Partner Aggression in Perceived Consequences of Sexting
Recent empirical data suggests that the majority of adolescents and emerging adults utilize digital technology to engage with texting and social media on a daily basis, with many using these mediums to engage in sexting (sending sexual texts, pictures, or videos via digital mediums). While research in the last decade has disproportionately focused on the potential risk factors and negative consequences associated with sexting, the data are limite…
Simmering on the Back Burner or Playing with Fire? Examining the Consequences of Back-Burner Digital Communication Among Ex-Partners
Back burners are people with whom one communicates to potentially establish a future romantic or sexual relationship, and these relationships are common among college students. Using a sample of noncollege adults currently in committed relationships (N = 246) obtained via Amazon's MTurk, this study examines how a prior relationship role with a desired back burner (i.e., whether a back burner was an ex-partner or not) affects digital communication…
Are You Going to Delete Me? Latent Profiles of Post-Relationship Breakup Social Media Use and Emotional Distress
When a relationship ends, former partners must make decisions about their online, often public, connections and history, which involve a complex disentangling process. We examined post-breakup behaviors including monitoring, interacting, deleting posts/photos, deleting the former partner, deleting the partner's family/friends, stopping social media (SM) use, and keeping digital possessions. Participants (N = 256) who had experienced a breakup wit…
Daily technoference, technology use during couple leisure time, and relationship quality
The landscape of couple leisure time has shifted to include and, in some relationships, rely upon technology use. Technology has the potential to intrude upon face-to-face interactions and quality time together – i.e., technoference, phubbing. However, it is also likely that couples engage in shared technology use, which could lead to bonding. In the current work, we examined one’s own, one’s partner’s, and shared technology use during couple tim…
The Relationship between Dark Triad Personality Traits and Sexting Behaviors among Adolescents and Young Adults across 11 Countries
The present study provided empirical evidence that different sexting behaviors were predicted by Dark Triad Personality Traits, showing a relevant role of Machiavellianism in all kinds of investigated sexting behaviors. Research, clinical, and education implications for prevention programs are discussed
How Do Age, Sex, Political Orientation, Religiosity, and Sexism Affect Perceptions of Sex Assault/Harassment Allegations
Perhaps It Was Too Soon: College Students’ Reflections on the Timing of Their Sexual Debut
Early sexual debut has been a focus of social scientific research due to its association with adverse circumstances and negative outcomes. However, there has been a recent shift to considering not only chronological age, but also the degree to which the event is viewed to be optimally timed (i.e., the perception that it occurred at the "right time" versus too soon). The purpose of this study was to assess how individual/family background variable…
Introduction to the special issue on communication technologies and relationships
This introduction to a special Technology and Relationships issue of the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships introduces the collection of articles. It describes the editorial development of the issue, identifies how the articles are organized into three clusters reflecting the developmental arc of relationships, provides a precis of each article, and ends with reflections on a question (is technology beneficial or detrimental?) and two n…
Psychology (42 works) · Social Psychology (29 works) · Developmental psychology (26 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (17 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (17 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works)