F Oswald
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 47288 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | F Oswald |
| NOMBRES | F |
| APELLIDO | Oswald |
| FIRMA | OSWALD F |
| AFILIACIONES | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1491-1860 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1915 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Enhancing scientific and practical insights into identity safety cues
Naming Benevolence, Exposing Heterosexism
We write in response to the letter to the editor, “Rethinking ‘Benevolent Heterosexism’: A Critical Look at Nuance and Omission in LGBTQ+ Prejudice Research” by Irawan et al. (2026). In their lette
Marginalized and Advantaged Parents’ Perceptions of Identity-Safety Cues in K-12 Classrooms
Across four studies ( N = 1,427), we examined the impact of identity-safety cues (Black Lives Matter or Pride posters) on marginalized (Black, LGBTQ+) and advantaged (White, cisgender-heterosexual) parents’ evaluations of elementary classrooms. Black (Study 1) and LGBTQ+ parents (Studies 2 and 3a) perceived identity-relevant safety cues as more appropriate and as prompting more positive education-related outcomes (child belonging, classroom inter…
Diverse representations of physician body size, gender, and race strengthen belonging and lessen anticipated weight stigma among fat women
Fat people, and particularly fat women, face pervasive and salient stigma in healthcare contexts, resulting in downstream health disparities. We investigated whether a representational identity safety cue could mitigate experiences of threat and stigma, and prompt feelings of belonging. In two preregistered studies with fat women samples ( N = 1512), we manipulated physician demographics to examine the function of physician concordance as an iden…
Effects of Inclusion and Exclusion From U.S. Psychology Department Diversity Statements Among Undergraduate Students of Color and Fat Students
Although many organizations, including university psychology departments, have expanded diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, these initiatives often center a limited set of marginalized identities, leaving others underrepresented and potentially undermining identity safety. We analyzed diversity statements from 100 U.S. psychology departments (Study 1) and found that race/ethnicity, gender/sex, and sexual orientation were most frequent…
Dying while fat
Like all people, fat people will die. Yet, fat people are particularly likely not only to die of anti-fatness, but also to be perceived as blameworthy for their own deaths. I argue that fat people are subject to postmortem inequality and discrimination via exclusionary death and dying technologies. I show that fat people’s dignity and right to choice in death are constrained. I highlight how technologies relating to both cremation and burial – th…
Fat people’s expectations of prejudice
Fat people experience and anticipate significant prejudice on the basis of their body size. Like experiencing prejudice, anticipating prejudice is associated with a host of negative health outcomes. In the current study, in a sample of 193 fat participants, we examined and compared fat people’s expectations of stigma from members of four different groups: people in general, medical professionals, thin people, and fat people. We also examined pred…
“I know what's best for my child”
Diversity education in the K‐12 years is a contentious issue in the contemporary US context. Given evidence that parental identity influences beliefs about and support for diversity education, we qualitatively explored cisgender‐heterosexual and LGBTQ+ parents’ ( N = 609) beliefs about the appropriateness of inclusive educational policies in K‐12 classrooms. We collected qualitative data on parental perceptions of inclusive signals in classrooms …
Between a prosecutor and a convicted felon? Political allegiance, abolition, and felon's rights in the context of the 2024 U.S. presidential election
U.S. Yet, following Donald Trump's 2024 convictions on 34 felony counts, Republicans questioned the legitimacy of the legal system and continued to endorse Trump as a fit presidential candidate, while Democrats praised the justice system and construed Trump as unfit for office due to his felon status. In a mixed‐method study, we examined how political allegiance and abolitionist ideology shaped perceptions of Trump's felony charges and beliefs ab…
“They are fat and want special treatment for being fat”
Fat activism is a movement that seeks to acknowledge and eliminate the oppression of fat people. The movement and those who participate face significant backlash, yet fat activism is understudied. We sought to understand lay theories about fat activism; that is, how everyday people think about the goals and motivations of fat activism, and people who engage in fat activism, to understand how these perceptions shape support for and backlash toward…
Development and validation of the Abolitionist Ideology Scale with abolitionist‐identifying and nationally representative samples
Building upon recent calls for the integration of abolition into psychology, we develop and validate a measure of Abolitionist Ideology. In two studies with abolitionist leaning ( N = 201, abolitionist‐identifying n = 58) and nationally representative ( N = 350) samples, we identify and confirm a three‐factor, 26‐item measure including subscales of Alternatives to State Violence, Revolutionary Abolitionism, and Abolitionist Identity. The Abolitio…
Intersectional Perspectives on Technology-Facilitated Sexualized Violence
Trans and Nonbinary Perspectives on Gender Diversity in Psychological Stimuli
Social cognition research has begun to examine perceptual underpinnings of pervasive bias toward gender-diverse people (including trans*, nonbinary, genderqueer, and additional identities). Though nascent work orients toward reducing bias against gender minorities, the stimuli used in this work often fail to reflect naturalistic gender diversity—in part due to the lack of representation of gender diversity in available stimulus resources. In the …
Diversifying Social Cognition Through Participatory Action Research Methods for Stimulus Development and Validation
Stimuli are an essential component of social cognition research. Researchers instruct participants to look at, listen to, remember, reflect on, or otherwise engage with stimuli. Yet, most stimulus sets lack reproducibility, validity, and diverse representation. Conventional methods for developing and validating stimuli often uphold traditional power dynamics, centering the perspective and expertise of the researcher. In this tutorial, we challeng…
Illustrations of Benevolent and Hostile Heterosexism in LGBTQ+ People's Lives
In this study, we aimed to define heterosexism-a form of sexual stigma that accounts for interpersonal attitudes and institutionalized ideology-in a multi-dimensional way, centering on LGBTQ+ people's experiences. We draw from an ambivalent theory of prejudice and focus on heterosexism, or an ideology that stigmatizes nonheterosexual behaviors, identities, relationships, and communities. We aimed to learn how LGBTQ+ people would narrate their exp…
GLP1s and antifatness
Defying carceral logics in technology-facilitated sexualized violence
Technology-facilitated sexualized violence (TFSV) refers to a broad range of sexually aggressive behaviors mediated by or otherwise involving technology. The severe consequences of TFSV victimization, including victim-survivor suicidality, are particularly salient among marginalized populations (e.g. women of color) and render TFSV a source of emerging public concern. Correspondingly, an emerging literature provides recommendations for best preve…
Men’s differential identification with female-perpetrated intimate partner victimization
Men are often reluctant to self-identify as victims of female-perpetrated intimate partner violence (f-IPV), despite significant harms. This reluctance results in underreporting of experiences and a concomitant lack of support and resources for male victims. We examined predictors of men's differential self-identification as victims of f-IPV; that is, between men who self-identify both as having experienced and as being a victim of f-IPV (abuse a…
The virility-fertility tradeoff
The stress, exhaustion, and negative impacts on sexual relationships associated with parenthood are well documented, but father's perceptions of these changes are underexplored. Since sexuality and physicality are cornerstones of traditional/hegemonic masculine norms, changes in these domains resulting from fatherhood may produce concerns about masculinity maintenance and loss of masculine status. However, fatherhood provides clear evidence of a …
I Had Already Reconciled With Being a Slut When I Came out as Bisexual”
Bisexual people encounter pervasive stigmatization resulting in significant negative health outcomes. To avoid stigmatization, bisexual people may attempt to resist stereotyping by acting in ways counter to common bisexual stereotypes (i.e., rejecting binormativity). The current mixed-methods study investigated the effects of binormativity through an online survey (N = 68, Mage = 31.56) completed by self-identifying bisexual individuals. Our quan…
A ‘Pandemic within a Pandemic’
Bisexual Women’s Meaning Making of Same-Sex Performativity
Beyond Just Gender
Positionality statements should not force us to 'out' ourselves
Visual perception of group fatness as a precursor to social identity threat and safety
Across two studies (N = 190), we evaluate how fat people perceive groups of bodies and how this visual processing predicts social identity threat and safety. We examined how fat people ensemble code – rapidly and simultaneously extract visual information from a group – body size from groups of bodies. Stimuli included sets of 3-d modeled bodies varying in body mass index (BMI; Study 1) and real photographs of groups of people with known BMI (Stud…
I’ll Show You Mine so You’ll Show Me Yours
Given that the sharing of genital images - colloquially known as "dick pics" - has become a widespread phenomenon, the purpose of the present study was to explore men's motivations for sending unsolicited images of their genitalia. A secondary purpose was to investigate the personality and sexuality characteristics of men who send dick pics relative to those who do not. 1,087 men completed an online survey, which included a demographic questionna…
Anti-fatness in the Ozempic era
The recent popularity of a new type of drug – semaglutide, brand named Ozempic or Wegovy – for fat loss has created significant public interest and garnered social media attention. The fat loss effects of Wegovy, Ozempic, and similar semaglutides are being hailed as miracles, allowing for the elimination of fatness – a goal severely aligned with anti-fatness and severely misaligned with the lives and politics of many fat people and their allies. …
Bridging Feminist Psychology and Open Science
Feminist researchers have long embraced the challenging, dismantling, and reimagining of psychology, though their contributions to transforming psychological science remain largely overlooked in the mainstream open science movement. In this article, we reconcile feminist psychology and open science. We propose that feminist theory can be leveraged to address central questions of the open science movement, and the potential for methodological syne…
The Influence of Body Shape on Impressions of Sexual Traits
The assumptions people make from body shape can have serious implications for the well-being of the individuals inhabiting such bodies. Fat people are subject to pervasive and resilient social stigma and discrimination, leading to negative mental and physical health outcomes, including negative sexuality-related outcomes. Though previous studies have examined the personality traits attributed to, or the sexual attractiveness of, varying body shap…
Examining Responses to Women’s Same-Sex Performativity
Heterosexual women’s public same-sex performativity (SSP) is thought to have significant negative impacts for queer women (e.g., Hamilton, 2007). SSP may (mis)inform observers’ assumptions about women’s same-sex sexuality more generally. In Studies 1a and 1b (N = 541), we examined how heterosexual people perceive the sexual orientation and motivations of women engaging in SSP. We expanded on conceptualizations of SSP as harmful to queer identitie…
Illustrations of Benevolent and Hostile Heterosexism in LGBTQ+ People's Lives
In this study, we aimed to define heterosexism-a form of sexual stigma that accounts for interpersonal attitudes and institutionalized ideology-in a multi-dimensional way, centering on LGBTQ+ people's experiences. We draw from an ambivalent theory of prejudice and focus on heterosexism, or an ideology that stigmatizes nonheterosexual behaviors, identities, relationships, and communities. We aimed to learn how LGBTQ+ people would narrate their exp…
I Had Already Reconciled With Being a Slut When I Came out as Bisexual”
Bisexual people encounter pervasive stigmatization resulting in significant negative health outcomes. To avoid stigmatization, bisexual people may attempt to resist stereotyping by acting in ways counter to common bisexual stereotypes (i.e., rejecting binormativity). The current mixed-methods study investigated the effects of binormativity through an online survey (N = 68, Mage = 31.56) completed by self-identifying bisexual individuals. Our quan…
Examining the Gendered Impacts of Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence
GLP1s and antifatness
Beyond Just Gender
Positionality statements should not force us to 'out' ourselves
Flirting with Gender
Trans and Nonbinary Perspectives on Gender Diversity in Psychological Stimuli
Social cognition research has begun to examine perceptual underpinnings of pervasive bias toward gender-diverse people (including trans*, nonbinary, genderqueer, and additional identities). Though nascent work orients toward reducing bias against gender minorities, the stimuli used in this work often fail to reflect naturalistic gender diversity—in part due to the lack of representation of gender diversity in available stimulus resources. In the …
Bisexual Women’s Meaning Making of Same-Sex Performativity
Visual perception of group fatness as a precursor to social identity threat and safety
Across two studies (N = 190), we evaluate how fat people perceive groups of bodies and how this visual processing predicts social identity threat and safety. We examined how fat people ensemble code – rapidly and simultaneously extract visual information from a group – body size from groups of bodies. Stimuli included sets of 3-d modeled bodies varying in body mass index (BMI; Study 1) and real photographs of groups of people with known BMI (Stud…
Gayzing Women’s Bodies
The heterosexual male gaze is often credited with producing bodily anxieties among women, yet empirical and popular cultural evidence suggest gay men have especially negative views toward women's bodies, particularly women's genitalia. Across two studies ( N = 6,129; M age = 27.58; 2,047 women, 4,082 men) we conducted secondary analyses of existing datasets to test the hypotheses that gay men would evaluate labia more negatively than heterosexual…
Revealing more than gender
In search of the appeal of the ‘Dilf’
Contemporary culture has afforded a new sexualised identity to fatherhood. Fathers are often labelled as nurturing, dominant, and domesticated; attributes demonstrably appealing to females. Colloquially, the sexy dad has come to be referred to as ‘DILF’ (i.e., Dad I’d Like to Fuck), a concept popularised in the media since its debut online in 2011. DILFs are increasingly searched for by women on pornography websites, evidence of an increasing sex…
Perceptions of Female Genitalia Following Labiaplasty
Labiaplasty - a common form of female genital cosmetic surgery involving the removal of portions of the labia minora - is becoming increasingly popular, yet little research has examined perceptions of postoperative labia relative to perceptions of unaltered labia. The purpose of this study was therefore to examine perceptions of preoperative and postoperative labia. A sample of 4513 participants - 42% women, 56% men, and 3% non-binary ( M age 27.…
Handbuch der Regionalen Geologie
Is Aging in Place a Resource for or Risk to Life Satisfaction?
Environmental characteristics at home and in the neighborhood need to be considered to better understand differential processes of aging in place with respect to well-being.
I’ll Show You Mine so You’ll Show Me Yours
Given that the sharing of genital images - colloquially known as "dick pics" - has become a widespread phenomenon, the purpose of the present study was to explore men's motivations for sending unsolicited images of their genitalia. A secondary purpose was to investigate the personality and sexuality characteristics of men who send dick pics relative to those who do not. 1,087 men completed an online survey, which included a demographic questionna…
Treat Sexual Stigma to Heal Health Disparities
Despite recent strides toward equality in the United States, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people continue to report experiences of sexual stigma and psychological and physical health problems. This article reviews empirical evidence of sexual stigma and sexual orientation-based health disparities. The current framework proposes that sexual orientation does not cause health disparities; homophobic individuals and societie…
In search of the appeal of the ‘Dilf’
Contemporary culture has afforded a new sexualised identity to fatherhood. Fathers are often labelled as nurturing, dominant, and domesticated; attributes demonstrably appealing to females. Colloquially, the sexy dad has come to be referred to as ‘DILF’ (i.e., Dad I’d Like to Fuck), a concept popularised in the media since its debut online in 2011. DILFs are increasingly searched for by women on pornography websites, evidence of an increasing sex…
Examining Responses to Women’s Same-Sex Performativity
Heterosexual women’s public same-sex performativity (SSP) is thought to have significant negative impacts for queer women (e.g., Hamilton, 2007). SSP may (mis)inform observers’ assumptions about women’s same-sex sexuality more generally. In Studies 1a and 1b (N = 541), we examined how heterosexual people perceive the sexual orientation and motivations of women engaging in SSP. We expanded on conceptualizations of SSP as harmful to queer identitie…
Showing Skin
The Influence of Body Shape on Impressions of Sexual Traits
The assumptions people make from body shape can have serious implications for the well-being of the individuals inhabiting such bodies. Fat people are subject to pervasive and resilient social stigma and discrimination, leading to negative mental and physical health outcomes, including negative sexuality-related outcomes. Though previous studies have examined the personality traits attributed to, or the sexual attractiveness of, varying body shap…
Perceptions of Female Genitalia Following Labiaplasty
Labiaplasty - a common form of female genital cosmetic surgery involving the removal of portions of the labia minora - is becoming increasingly popular, yet little research has examined perceptions of postoperative labia relative to perceptions of unaltered labia. The purpose of this study was therefore to examine perceptions of preoperative and postoperative labia. A sample of 4513 participants - 42% women, 56% men, and 3% non-binary ( M age 27.…
Understanding body size and bisexuality via femme theory
Existing literature fails to address bisexual women’s experiences at the intersection of fem(me)ininity and fatness. Fat fem(me)inine bisexual women experience hyper-visibility in their fatness and hyper-invisibility in their fem(me)inine and queer identities; their concurrent violations of dominant norms of thinness, heterosexuality, monosexism, and expectations of queer women’s gender expression (as masculine) position them as uniquely and mult…
Revealing more than gender
Bisexual Stereotypes Apply Differently by Body Size
We blend person perception work with queer appearance psychology to examine the relationship between body size and bisexuality. In an online survey (N = 472, Mage = 25.15, 63.8% women), we examined the specific traits associated with a range of computer-modeled bodies identified as bisexual. We found that average body sizes were perceived as most prototypical of both bisexual men and bisexual women, skinny, and fat bodies were more associated wit…
The association of genital appearance satisfaction, penis size importance, and penis-centric masculinity to chronically discriminatory ideologies among heterosexual men
Flirting with Gender
Bridging Feminist Psychology and Open Science
Feminist researchers have long embraced the challenging, dismantling, and reimagining of psychology, though their contributions to transforming psychological science remain largely overlooked in the mainstream open science movement. In this article, we reconcile feminist psychology and open science. We propose that feminist theory can be leveraged to address central questions of the open science movement, and the potential for methodological syne…
Signaling sizeism
Pervasive stigma against fat people and evidence for its harmful health consequences highlight the need for a better understanding of people's first‐hand experiences of navigating the world with a stigmatized body size. Drawing on social identity threat theory, we conducted a mixed‐method study with a qualitative examination of threat and safety cues as experienced by people who self‐identify as overweight. In an online survey, 48 people who self…
A multilevel Bayesian meta-analysis of the body inversion effect
The Effects of Body Esteem Dimensions on Sexual Esteem in Men
We examined the relationship between men’s perceptions of their bodies and how they see themselves sexually. The goals of this study were to explore the following: (1) the relationship between dimensions of body esteem and sexual esteem, (2) the influence of adherence to male gender norms on the relationship between body esteem and sexual esteem, (3) the influence of body-focused anxiety on the relationship between body esteem and sexual esteem. …
Evaluations of Black and White Female Genitalia by Labiaplasty Status
Labiaplasty is an increasingly common form of cosmetic surgery involving the removal of portions of the labia minora to achieve a smaller, more symmetrical labial appearance. Labiaplasty is inextricably linked to the colonial medicalization of Black women's labia, necessitating examination of labiaplasty and race in concert. Participants ( N = 4351, M age = 26.58; SD age = 8.89) were shown 12 randomized images of White and Black female genitalia …
Stereotype Application at the Intersection of Body Shape, Gender/Sex, and Sexual Orientation
Though much work has examined how sexual orientation and body shape are jointly constituted, less has examined the joint perception of body shape, gender/sex, and sexuality. We draw upon multifarious person perception approaches to examine how personality and sexuality-related traits are attributed to bodies of varying shape (skinny, average, fat) when presented with differing social identities along the axes of gender/sex (male, female) and sexu…
Gayzing Women’s Bodies
The heterosexual male gaze is often credited with producing bodily anxieties among women, yet empirical and popular cultural evidence suggest gay men have especially negative views toward women's bodies, particularly women's genitalia. Across two studies ( N = 6,129; M age = 27.58; 2,047 women, 4,082 men) we conducted secondary analyses of existing datasets to test the hypotheses that gay men would evaluate labia more negatively than heterosexual…
Examining the Gendered Impacts of Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence
People Watching
Latent class analysis of college women's motivations for engaging in s ame‐sex performativity
Same‐sex performativity (SSP), or public performances of sexuality (e.g., kissing) between women who identify as heterosexual, is a relatively common relational experience among college‐aged women. Identifying patterns of women's motivations for engaging in SSP can elucidate the heterogeneity among women's social and sexual behaviors during a critical developmental period (i.e., college). We used latent class analysis to identify classes of heter…
They Might Be Wondering Why I Didn’t Set My Sights Higher
Fatness and fat people are pervasively stigmatized in Western cultures, with significant negative implications for fat people's well-being. Negative evaluations of those in sexual and romantic relationships with fat people (i.e. associative stigma) may have harmful implications for shared relational well-being. Here, we examined whether non-fat (i.e. thin) sexual and romantic relationship partners of fat people experience associative stigma. Firs…
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