L R Avery
Biographic Data
| ID | 46271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L R Avery |
| GIVEN NAMES | L R |
| FAMILY NAME | Avery |
| SIGNATURE | AVERY L R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1434-5985 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
More Than a Woman
Black women are disproportionally impacted by intimate partner violence (IPV), yet limited research considers the role of culturally salient, gendered-racial schemas such as the Strong Black Woman (SBW) schema on Black women’s intimate relationships. Given the SBW schema’s emphasis on masking pain and vulnerability, self-sacrificial caretaking, and demonstrating unwavering emotional stoicism in the face of adversity, it is important to understand…
Shrunken and Recolored
In digital spaces, Black women's natural physical characteristics are marginalized by racially biased photo-editing technologies. This has implications for Black women who are vulnerable to appearance concerns at the intersections of dual pressures to adhere to white and culturally specific body and appearance ideals (i.e., double consciousness body image). In this cross-sectional online survey-based study, we applied aspects of the tripartite in…
It’s not actually all peaches and roses
The Strong Black Woman (SBW) schema prescribes a complex set of behavioral expectations for Black women, namely, that they render a guise of self-reliance, emotional and physical strength, self-sacrifice, and resilience in the face of adversity. Thus, this study sought to explore the role of SBW, a culturally salient gendered-racial schema believed to represent a central aspect of Black womanhood, on Black women’s experiences of romantic and inti…
Young Black American Women's Social Media Use and Online Victimization
Despite young Black women's high rates of social media use and risks for victimization at the nexus of sexism and racism, the relationship between these variables remains under researched in this segment. We surveyed 354 Black American women aged 18-30 to explore the associations between two aspects of social media use-time spent daily on social media platforms (i.e., Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Tumblr, Twitter, and YouTube) and type o…
Black sexual minority women’s Internalized stigma and coping motivated alcohol use
Black sexual minority women have an increased risk for excessive alcohol use, which has been attributed to their use of alcohol to cope with oppression. Internalized stigma is suggested to be one of the most insidious byproducts of systemic oppression whereby people internalize ideologies of self-hatred. Still, research has yet to examine the association between internalized stigma and alcohol use among sexual minorities of color. This survey-bas…
Revisiting Self-Objectification Among Black Women
Models of self-objectification utilized by the existing literature have been normed with predominantly White samples and may not account for the unique pressures on Black women to engage in beauty practices that prioritize European appearance expectations. Additionally mainstream media have historically rejected Black women’s bodies and beauty, instead reifying Western European aesthetics. We expand the existing literature by testing the contribu…
Black Women's Social Media Use Integration and Social Media Addiction
Black American women are among the largest consumer groups of social media in the United States. In recent years, Black American women have curated spaces on social media platforms to authentically converse about Black womanhood and resist structural gendered racism. Still, there is a dearth of research on the subjective importance of Black American women's social media use and risks for social media addiction. This study tested the association b…
Online Victimization, Womanism, and Body Esteem among Young Black Women
The Strong, Silent (Gender) Type
Gendered Racial Microaggressions Scale
Gendered racial microaggressions are often assessed using the Gendered Racial Microaggressions Scale. Despite its use with mixed samples of heterosexual and sexual minority Black women, this instrument has yet to be evaluated for its measurement invariance across sexual orientation. This study evaluated the measurement invariance of the Gendered Racial Microaggressions Scale across sexual orientation (heterosexual [ n = 1,147] versus lesbian, gay…
Remixing the Script? Associations Between Black-Oriented Media Consumption and Black Women’s Heteropatriarchal Romantic Relationship Beliefs
Black-oriented media may offer Black women an opportunity to produce and consume empowering messages that challenge heteropatriarchal relationship beliefs, but they may also foster their endorsement. Drawn by this paradox, we surveyed 597 undergraduate and graduate Black women aged 18 to 30 years to examine exposure to Black-oriented media and their association with the acceptance of heteropatriarchal relationship beliefs. Correlation and regress…
Becoming Strong
This study examines the precedents and consequences of Black girls' Strong Black Woman schema (SBW) endorsement. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that, among Black girls (N= 308), racial discrimination experiences and racial barrier socialization messages were positively associated with SBW endorsement. However, there was no significant interaction between racial discrimination and racial barrier messages in predicting SBW endorsement. O…
Subverting the Mandates of Our Methods
Psychological science has had a long history of both being in collusion with and resisting the colonial and violent nature of White supremacy in the academy. The field of psychology has culpability in creating and maintaining dominant narratives that have served to justify the dehumanization of marginalized groups, particularly in regards to the methodologies used. Meaningfully integrating reproductive justice (RJ) frameworks into psychological s…
Following Their Lead? Connecting Mainstream Media Use to Black Women’s Gender Beliefs and Sexual Agency
Although media exposure has emerged as a significant predictor of consumers' sexual decision making, less is known about the mechanisms involved and about the dynamics of these relations for adults, in general, and for African American adults, in particular. To address these gaps, we used structural equation modeling (SEM) to test whether heterosexual Black women's endorsement of traditional gender and sexual roles mediates connections between th…
Social Media Contributions to Strong Black Woman Ideal Endorsement and Black Women’s Mental Health
Although research findings highlight the complex dualities of the Strong Black Woman ideal and demonstrate its effects on Black women’s mental health and well-being, there is less understanding of the role that social media may play in Black women’s negotiation of this ideal. To what extent might Black women’s engagement with race-related social media, such as the use of Black-oriented blogs and hashtags, contribute to their well-being and potent…
Tuning Gender
Although analyses indicate that mainstream media are a prominent force in the gender socialization of Black youth, little is known about the nature of gender messages in contemporary music, especially in music by Black artists. To explore this issue, we conducted a systematic content analysis of 527 top songs by Black artists released from 1990 to 2010, coding each song for the presence of 23 attributes reflecting hegemonic masculinity and femini…
Sexual Fantasies and Gender/Sex
Research links explicit sexuality (e.g., physical attraction and pleasure) to high testosterone (T) and nurturance (loving contact) to low T. Engaging in sexual fantasy, which can include explicit sexual and nurturant elements, increases T in women but not in men. We examined whether individual differences in the explicit sexual and nurturant content of fantasy were linked with T or with estradiol (E2). In addition, we explored whether fantasy co…
Against Nature
This article examines the public debate over marriage law to investigate how arguments based on claims about what is natural privilege some relationships while stigmatizing others and justifying discriminatory policies toward sexual minorities. Articles about same‐sex marriage appearing in major newspapers were content‐coded according to absence or presence of four dimensions of naturalness: change over time, norms, procreation, and welfare of ch…
Social Media Contributions to Strong Black Woman Ideal Endorsement and Black Women’s Mental Health
Although research findings highlight the complex dualities of the Strong Black Woman ideal and demonstrate its effects on Black women’s mental health and well-being, there is less understanding of the role that social media may play in Black women’s negotiation of this ideal. To what extent might Black women’s engagement with race-related social media, such as the use of Black-oriented blogs and hashtags, contribute to their well-being and potent…
Following Their Lead? Connecting Mainstream Media Use to Black Women’s Gender Beliefs and Sexual Agency
Although media exposure has emerged as a significant predictor of consumers' sexual decision making, less is known about the mechanisms involved and about the dynamics of these relations for adults, in general, and for African American adults, in particular. To address these gaps, we used structural equation modeling (SEM) to test whether heterosexual Black women's endorsement of traditional gender and sexual roles mediates connections between th…
Against Nature
This article examines the public debate over marriage law to investigate how arguments based on claims about what is natural privilege some relationships while stigmatizing others and justifying discriminatory policies toward sexual minorities. Articles about same‐sex marriage appearing in major newspapers were content‐coded according to absence or presence of four dimensions of naturalness: change over time, norms, procreation, and welfare of ch…
Becoming Strong
This study examines the precedents and consequences of Black girls' Strong Black Woman schema (SBW) endorsement. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that, among Black girls (N= 308), racial discrimination experiences and racial barrier socialization messages were positively associated with SBW endorsement. However, there was no significant interaction between racial discrimination and racial barrier messages in predicting SBW endorsement. O…
Sexual Fantasies and Gender/Sex
Research links explicit sexuality (e.g., physical attraction and pleasure) to high testosterone (T) and nurturance (loving contact) to low T. Engaging in sexual fantasy, which can include explicit sexual and nurturant elements, increases T in women but not in men. We examined whether individual differences in the explicit sexual and nurturant content of fantasy were linked with T or with estradiol (E2). In addition, we explored whether fantasy co…
The Strong, Silent (Gender) Type
Gendered Racial Microaggressions Scale
Gendered racial microaggressions are often assessed using the Gendered Racial Microaggressions Scale. Despite its use with mixed samples of heterosexual and sexual minority Black women, this instrument has yet to be evaluated for its measurement invariance across sexual orientation. This study evaluated the measurement invariance of the Gendered Racial Microaggressions Scale across sexual orientation (heterosexual [ n = 1,147] versus lesbian, gay…
Online Victimization, Womanism, and Body Esteem among Young Black Women
Tuning Gender
Although analyses indicate that mainstream media are a prominent force in the gender socialization of Black youth, little is known about the nature of gender messages in contemporary music, especially in music by Black artists. To explore this issue, we conducted a systematic content analysis of 527 top songs by Black artists released from 1990 to 2010, coding each song for the presence of 23 attributes reflecting hegemonic masculinity and femini…
Young Black American Women's Social Media Use and Online Victimization
Despite young Black women's high rates of social media use and risks for victimization at the nexus of sexism and racism, the relationship between these variables remains under researched in this segment. We surveyed 354 Black American women aged 18-30 to explore the associations between two aspects of social media use-time spent daily on social media platforms (i.e., Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Tumblr, Twitter, and YouTube) and type o…
Revisiting Self-Objectification Among Black Women
Models of self-objectification utilized by the existing literature have been normed with predominantly White samples and may not account for the unique pressures on Black women to engage in beauty practices that prioritize European appearance expectations. Additionally mainstream media have historically rejected Black women’s bodies and beauty, instead reifying Western European aesthetics. We expand the existing literature by testing the contribu…
Black Women's Social Media Use Integration and Social Media Addiction
Black American women are among the largest consumer groups of social media in the United States. In recent years, Black American women have curated spaces on social media platforms to authentically converse about Black womanhood and resist structural gendered racism. Still, there is a dearth of research on the subjective importance of Black American women's social media use and risks for social media addiction. This study tested the association b…
Subverting the Mandates of Our Methods
Psychological science has had a long history of both being in collusion with and resisting the colonial and violent nature of White supremacy in the academy. The field of psychology has culpability in creating and maintaining dominant narratives that have served to justify the dehumanization of marginalized groups, particularly in regards to the methodologies used. Meaningfully integrating reproductive justice (RJ) frameworks into psychological s…
Against Nature
This article examines the public debate over marriage law to investigate how arguments based on claims about what is natural privilege some relationships while stigmatizing others and justifying discriminatory policies toward sexual minorities. Articles about same‐sex marriage appearing in major newspapers were content‐coded according to absence or presence of four dimensions of naturalness: change over time, norms, procreation, and welfare of ch…
Sexual Fantasies and Gender/Sex
Research links explicit sexuality (e.g., physical attraction and pleasure) to high testosterone (T) and nurturance (loving contact) to low T. Engaging in sexual fantasy, which can include explicit sexual and nurturant elements, increases T in women but not in men. We examined whether individual differences in the explicit sexual and nurturant content of fantasy were linked with T or with estradiol (E2). In addition, we explored whether fantasy co…
Social Media Contributions to Strong Black Woman Ideal Endorsement and Black Women’s Mental Health
Although research findings highlight the complex dualities of the Strong Black Woman ideal and demonstrate its effects on Black women’s mental health and well-being, there is less understanding of the role that social media may play in Black women’s negotiation of this ideal. To what extent might Black women’s engagement with race-related social media, such as the use of Black-oriented blogs and hashtags, contribute to their well-being and potent…
Tuning Gender
Although analyses indicate that mainstream media are a prominent force in the gender socialization of Black youth, little is known about the nature of gender messages in contemporary music, especially in music by Black artists. To explore this issue, we conducted a systematic content analysis of 527 top songs by Black artists released from 1990 to 2010, coding each song for the presence of 23 attributes reflecting hegemonic masculinity and femini…
Following Their Lead? Connecting Mainstream Media Use to Black Women’s Gender Beliefs and Sexual Agency
Although media exposure has emerged as a significant predictor of consumers' sexual decision making, less is known about the mechanisms involved and about the dynamics of these relations for adults, in general, and for African American adults, in particular. To address these gaps, we used structural equation modeling (SEM) to test whether heterosexual Black women's endorsement of traditional gender and sexual roles mediates connections between th…
Subverting the Mandates of Our Methods
Psychological science has had a long history of both being in collusion with and resisting the colonial and violent nature of White supremacy in the academy. The field of psychology has culpability in creating and maintaining dominant narratives that have served to justify the dehumanization of marginalized groups, particularly in regards to the methodologies used. Meaningfully integrating reproductive justice (RJ) frameworks into psychological s…
Remixing the Script? Associations Between Black-Oriented Media Consumption and Black Women’s Heteropatriarchal Romantic Relationship Beliefs
Black-oriented media may offer Black women an opportunity to produce and consume empowering messages that challenge heteropatriarchal relationship beliefs, but they may also foster their endorsement. Drawn by this paradox, we surveyed 597 undergraduate and graduate Black women aged 18 to 30 years to examine exposure to Black-oriented media and their association with the acceptance of heteropatriarchal relationship beliefs. Correlation and regress…
Becoming Strong
This study examines the precedents and consequences of Black girls' Strong Black Woman schema (SBW) endorsement. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that, among Black girls (N= 308), racial discrimination experiences and racial barrier socialization messages were positively associated with SBW endorsement. However, there was no significant interaction between racial discrimination and racial barrier messages in predicting SBW endorsement. O…
Online Victimization, Womanism, and Body Esteem among Young Black Women
The Strong, Silent (Gender) Type
Gendered Racial Microaggressions Scale
Gendered racial microaggressions are often assessed using the Gendered Racial Microaggressions Scale. Despite its use with mixed samples of heterosexual and sexual minority Black women, this instrument has yet to be evaluated for its measurement invariance across sexual orientation. This study evaluated the measurement invariance of the Gendered Racial Microaggressions Scale across sexual orientation (heterosexual [ n = 1,147] versus lesbian, gay…
Black sexual minority women’s Internalized stigma and coping motivated alcohol use
Black sexual minority women have an increased risk for excessive alcohol use, which has been attributed to their use of alcohol to cope with oppression. Internalized stigma is suggested to be one of the most insidious byproducts of systemic oppression whereby people internalize ideologies of self-hatred. Still, research has yet to examine the association between internalized stigma and alcohol use among sexual minorities of color. This survey-bas…
Revisiting Self-Objectification Among Black Women
Models of self-objectification utilized by the existing literature have been normed with predominantly White samples and may not account for the unique pressures on Black women to engage in beauty practices that prioritize European appearance expectations. Additionally mainstream media have historically rejected Black women’s bodies and beauty, instead reifying Western European aesthetics. We expand the existing literature by testing the contribu…
Black Women's Social Media Use Integration and Social Media Addiction
Black American women are among the largest consumer groups of social media in the United States. In recent years, Black American women have curated spaces on social media platforms to authentically converse about Black womanhood and resist structural gendered racism. Still, there is a dearth of research on the subjective importance of Black American women's social media use and risks for social media addiction. This study tested the association b…
Young Black American Women's Social Media Use and Online Victimization
Despite young Black women's high rates of social media use and risks for victimization at the nexus of sexism and racism, the relationship between these variables remains under researched in this segment. We surveyed 354 Black American women aged 18-30 to explore the associations between two aspects of social media use-time spent daily on social media platforms (i.e., Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Tumblr, Twitter, and YouTube) and type o…
Shrunken and Recolored
In digital spaces, Black women's natural physical characteristics are marginalized by racially biased photo-editing technologies. This has implications for Black women who are vulnerable to appearance concerns at the intersections of dual pressures to adhere to white and culturally specific body and appearance ideals (i.e., double consciousness body image). In this cross-sectional online survey-based study, we applied aspects of the tripartite in…
It’s not actually all peaches and roses
The Strong Black Woman (SBW) schema prescribes a complex set of behavioral expectations for Black women, namely, that they render a guise of self-reliance, emotional and physical strength, self-sacrifice, and resilience in the face of adversity. Thus, this study sought to explore the role of SBW, a culturally salient gendered-racial schema believed to represent a central aspect of Black womanhood, on Black women’s experiences of romantic and inti…
More Than a Woman
Black women are disproportionally impacted by intimate partner violence (IPV), yet limited research considers the role of culturally salient, gendered-racial schemas such as the Strong Black Woman (SBW) schema on Black women’s intimate relationships. Given the SBW schema’s emphasis on masking pain and vulnerability, self-sacrificial caretaking, and demonstrating unwavering emotional stoicism in the face of adversity, it is important to understand…
Psychology (16 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Black women (5 works)