Leanna J Papp
Biographic Data
| ID | 5874093 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leanna J Papp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leanna J |
| FAMILY NAME | Papp |
| SIGNATURE | PAPP L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mary Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3333-9903 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Media Use, Viewing Women as Sexual Objects, and Rape Myth Acceptance Among U.S. College Women
Heavier media exposure is associated with greater rape myth acceptance; one explanatory mechanism proposed is the sexual objectification of women. Sexually objectifying content is prevalent in mainstream media, and embracing this perspective of women is linked to dehumanization and interpersonal violence. Because these associations have been studied primarily among men and in experimental contexts, we focus here on everyday media consumption amon…
Development and Validation of the Acceptance of Sexualized Aggression Scale Among U.S. College Women
Sexualized aggression - common, everyday forms of contact and non-contact sexual violence - is commonly experienced by young women in social drinking settings, such as parties, bars, and clubs. Existing scales intended to assess permissive attitudes toward violence against women do not capture women's attitudes toward sexualized aggression at all, let alone in drinking environments. To address this gap in the literature, we developed the Acceptan…
Where boys learn to be men: Associations between media use and maleadolescents’ gender beliefs and well-being
The Symbolic Racism Scale and the Modern Sexism Scale: Testing measurement invariance in diverse samples
Researchers should consider reevaluating the item that reads: "Over the past few years, the government and news media have been showing more concern about the treatment of women than is warranted by women's actual experiences." Future research is needed to assess how the item is interpreted by Black and Latinx people so it can be modified for use in these communities. Our findings underscore the importance of assessing the validity of the scores …
How Many Terms Does It Take to Define Sexual Assault? Inconsistencies in U.S. Higher Education Sexual Misconduct Policies
Campus sexual misconduct policies (SMPs) outline prohibited conduct. We sought to document the range of terms used to refer to forms of nonconsensual sexual contact in SMPs and to analyze the content of definitions provided for the term "sexual assault." We coded the 2016-2017 SMPs from a sample of 381 U.S. schools. We identified 125 unique terms and documented both a terminological and conceptual morass around sexual assault. Policy language may…
Abortion Stigma: Imagined Consequences for People Seeking Abortion Care in the United States
Prior to and since the 2022 Dobbs decision, U.S. state laws have endorsed individuals surveilling and punishing those associated with abortion care. This practice presents an urgent need to understand the characteristics of abortion stigma, particularly the perspectives of individuals with stigmatizing beliefs. To examine the concept and characteristics of abortion stigma, we interviewed 55 individuals about whether they thought there should be c…
Contributions of Reality TV Consumption to College Women’s Endorsement of the Heterosexual Script and Acceptance of Sexualized Aggression
A prominent feature of mainstream television, especially reality programming, is a heterosexual script that outlines women’s and men’s traditional courtship roles. Although frequent media use is believed to produce greater acceptance of this script, existing analyses have not fully delineated contributions of scripted versus reality programming or tested these notions using a holistic heterosexual script scale. We addressed these limitations in t…
The Impact of Caregiving Disruptions of Previously Institutionalized Children on Multiple Outcomes in Late Childhood
This study examined disruptions in caregiving, as well as the association of these disruptions, with cognitive, behavioral, and social outcomes at age 12 in a sample of 136 Romanian children who were abandoned to institutions as infants and who experienced a range of subsequent types of care. Children were found to experience significantly more caregiving disruptions (CGD) earlier in life than later in childhood. More frequent CGD predicted incre…
Too Common to Count? “Mild” Sexual Assault and Aggression among U.S. College Women
National estimates indicate that approximately 1 in 5 women will experience sexual assault during her time in college. However, measures of assault often exclude "mild" experiences, such as incidents of unwanted touching that were not preceded by force, incapacitation, or coercion. We aimed to document the characteristics of "mild" sexual assault and aggression that college women experience at large parties and bars. In addition, we considered wo…
Slut-shaming on Facebook: Do Social Class or Clothing Affect Perceived Acceptability
Objectification and System Justification Impact Rape Avoidance Behaviors
The Dark Side of Heterosexual Romance: Endorsement of Romantic Beliefs Relates to Intimate Partner Violence
Exploring Perceptions of Slut-Shaming on Facebook: Evidence for a Reverse Sexual Double Standard
Stop Looking at Me!”: Interpersonal Sexual Objectification as a Source of Insidious Trauma
Objectification has been conceptualized as a form of insidious trauma, but the specific relationships among objectification experiences, self-objectification, and trauma symptoms have not yet been investigated. Participants were women with ( n = 136) and without ( n = 201) a history of sexual trauma. They completed a survey measuring trauma history, objectification experiences (body evaluation and unwanted sexual advances), constructs associated …
Stop Looking at Me!”: Interpersonal Sexual Objectification as a Source of Insidious Trauma
Objectification has been conceptualized as a form of insidious trauma, but the specific relationships among objectification experiences, self-objectification, and trauma symptoms have not yet been investigated. Participants were women with ( n = 136) and without ( n = 201) a history of sexual trauma. They completed a survey measuring trauma history, objectification experiences (body evaluation and unwanted sexual advances), constructs associated …
The Dark Side of Heterosexual Romance: Endorsement of Romantic Beliefs Relates to Intimate Partner Violence
Exploring Perceptions of Slut-Shaming on Facebook: Evidence for a Reverse Sexual Double Standard
Too Common to Count? “Mild” Sexual Assault and Aggression among U.S. College Women
National estimates indicate that approximately 1 in 5 women will experience sexual assault during her time in college. However, measures of assault often exclude "mild" experiences, such as incidents of unwanted touching that were not preceded by force, incapacitation, or coercion. We aimed to document the characteristics of "mild" sexual assault and aggression that college women experience at large parties and bars. In addition, we considered wo…
Contributions of Reality TV Consumption to College Women’s Endorsement of the Heterosexual Script and Acceptance of Sexualized Aggression
A prominent feature of mainstream television, especially reality programming, is a heterosexual script that outlines women’s and men’s traditional courtship roles. Although frequent media use is believed to produce greater acceptance of this script, existing analyses have not fully delineated contributions of scripted versus reality programming or tested these notions using a holistic heterosexual script scale. We addressed these limitations in t…
Abortion Stigma: Imagined Consequences for People Seeking Abortion Care in the United States
Prior to and since the 2022 Dobbs decision, U.S. state laws have endorsed individuals surveilling and punishing those associated with abortion care. This practice presents an urgent need to understand the characteristics of abortion stigma, particularly the perspectives of individuals with stigmatizing beliefs. To examine the concept and characteristics of abortion stigma, we interviewed 55 individuals about whether they thought there should be c…
Objectification and System Justification Impact Rape Avoidance Behaviors
How Many Terms Does It Take to Define Sexual Assault? Inconsistencies in U.S. Higher Education Sexual Misconduct Policies
Campus sexual misconduct policies (SMPs) outline prohibited conduct. We sought to document the range of terms used to refer to forms of nonconsensual sexual contact in SMPs and to analyze the content of definitions provided for the term "sexual assault." We coded the 2016-2017 SMPs from a sample of 381 U.S. schools. We identified 125 unique terms and documented both a terminological and conceptual morass around sexual assault. Policy language may…
Slut-shaming on Facebook: Do Social Class or Clothing Affect Perceived Acceptability
Stop Looking at Me!”: Interpersonal Sexual Objectification as a Source of Insidious Trauma
Objectification has been conceptualized as a form of insidious trauma, but the specific relationships among objectification experiences, self-objectification, and trauma symptoms have not yet been investigated. Participants were women with ( n = 136) and without ( n = 201) a history of sexual trauma. They completed a survey measuring trauma history, objectification experiences (body evaluation and unwanted sexual advances), constructs associated …
Exploring Perceptions of Slut-Shaming on Facebook: Evidence for a Reverse Sexual Double Standard
Slut-shaming on Facebook: Do Social Class or Clothing Affect Perceived Acceptability
Objectification and System Justification Impact Rape Avoidance Behaviors
The Dark Side of Heterosexual Romance: Endorsement of Romantic Beliefs Relates to Intimate Partner Violence
The Impact of Caregiving Disruptions of Previously Institutionalized Children on Multiple Outcomes in Late Childhood
This study examined disruptions in caregiving, as well as the association of these disruptions, with cognitive, behavioral, and social outcomes at age 12 in a sample of 136 Romanian children who were abandoned to institutions as infants and who experienced a range of subsequent types of care. Children were found to experience significantly more caregiving disruptions (CGD) earlier in life than later in childhood. More frequent CGD predicted incre…
Too Common to Count? “Mild” Sexual Assault and Aggression among U.S. College Women
National estimates indicate that approximately 1 in 5 women will experience sexual assault during her time in college. However, measures of assault often exclude "mild" experiences, such as incidents of unwanted touching that were not preceded by force, incapacitation, or coercion. We aimed to document the characteristics of "mild" sexual assault and aggression that college women experience at large parties and bars. In addition, we considered wo…
Contributions of Reality TV Consumption to College Women’s Endorsement of the Heterosexual Script and Acceptance of Sexualized Aggression
A prominent feature of mainstream television, especially reality programming, is a heterosexual script that outlines women’s and men’s traditional courtship roles. Although frequent media use is believed to produce greater acceptance of this script, existing analyses have not fully delineated contributions of scripted versus reality programming or tested these notions using a holistic heterosexual script scale. We addressed these limitations in t…
Abortion Stigma: Imagined Consequences for People Seeking Abortion Care in the United States
Prior to and since the 2022 Dobbs decision, U.S. state laws have endorsed individuals surveilling and punishing those associated with abortion care. This practice presents an urgent need to understand the characteristics of abortion stigma, particularly the perspectives of individuals with stigmatizing beliefs. To examine the concept and characteristics of abortion stigma, we interviewed 55 individuals about whether they thought there should be c…
The Symbolic Racism Scale and the Modern Sexism Scale: Testing measurement invariance in diverse samples
Researchers should consider reevaluating the item that reads: "Over the past few years, the government and news media have been showing more concern about the treatment of women than is warranted by women's actual experiences." Future research is needed to assess how the item is interpreted by Black and Latinx people so it can be modified for use in these communities. Our findings underscore the importance of assessing the validity of the scores …
How Many Terms Does It Take to Define Sexual Assault? Inconsistencies in U.S. Higher Education Sexual Misconduct Policies
Campus sexual misconduct policies (SMPs) outline prohibited conduct. We sought to document the range of terms used to refer to forms of nonconsensual sexual contact in SMPs and to analyze the content of definitions provided for the term "sexual assault." We coded the 2016-2017 SMPs from a sample of 381 U.S. schools. We identified 125 unique terms and documented both a terminological and conceptual morass around sexual assault. Policy language may…
Where boys learn to be men: Associations between media use and maleadolescents’ gender beliefs and well-being
Media Use, Viewing Women as Sexual Objects, and Rape Myth Acceptance Among U.S. College Women
Heavier media exposure is associated with greater rape myth acceptance; one explanatory mechanism proposed is the sexual objectification of women. Sexually objectifying content is prevalent in mainstream media, and embracing this perspective of women is linked to dehumanization and interpersonal violence. Because these associations have been studied primarily among men and in experimental contexts, we focus here on everyday media consumption amon…
Development and Validation of the Acceptance of Sexualized Aggression Scale Among U.S. College Women
Sexualized aggression - common, everyday forms of contact and non-contact sexual violence - is commonly experienced by young women in social drinking settings, such as parties, bars, and clubs. Existing scales intended to assess permissive attitudes toward violence against women do not capture women's attitudes toward sexualized aggression at all, let alone in drinking environments. To address this gap in the literature, we developed the Acceptan…
Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (6 works) · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies (6 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Poison control (4 works)