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Dr. Jacquelyn White
 
 
 
Professor, PhD, Kent State University, 1971

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 Jacquelyn W. White is a Professor of Psychology and the 2002-2004 Linda Arnold Carlisle Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies www.uncg.edu/wms/. She is a past UNCG’s Undergraduate Research Committee www.uncg.edu/rsh/stuResearch.html. She received her Ph. D. from Kent State University in social psychology www.kent.edu.
  For information on social psychology:  http://www.uncg.edu/psy/graduateprogram/social.html
  For information on submitting manuscripts to PWQ:  http://www.apa.org/divisions/div35/quarter.html

 

 
Teaching
    PSY 260, Introduction to Social Psychology
    PSY 433, Independent Study in Psychology 
    Various graduate level seminars 
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Research
    Dr. White applies theories and research from social psychology to problems of sexual aggression and victimization, social influence, and gender issues.  Her research has focuses primarily on gender issues and aggression using research techniques ranging from laboratory experiments to surveys and interviews. She has published numerous articles and chapters during this time. Her most recent publications reflect an ecological developmental perspective to aggression and violence. She is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences. 
Current projects:
    Dr. White is currently analyzing data on dating violence and sexual assault among adolescents and college students, based on a five-year longitudinal study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, with additional funding from National Institute of Justice. She is also conducting pilot projects looking at the relationship between child abuse and delinquency in girls and predictors of risky sexual behavior in adolescent girls.

    Group of Territorial Interest (GIT),  Equal Opportunities- Puglia (Italy), 
    Equality Quality Development Conference, Lecce, Italy, October 22-24, 2004

    Web Address for Presentation in Word Format: http://www.uncg.edu/psy/courses/jwwhite/git/GIT presentation.doc
    Web Address for PowerPoint Presentation: http://www.uncg.edu/psy/courses/jwwhite/git/GIT presentation.ppt

Professional Activities:
    Dr. White is the past editor of the Psychology of Women Quarterly and is an associate editor for Aggressive Behavior, the journal of the International Society for Research in Aggression (www.israsociety.com). She has served as president of the Southeastern Psychological Association (www.sepaonline.com) and is a member of the Southeastern Society of Social Psychologists (www.ssrc.msstate.edu/sssp/) and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (www.spssi.org).
    Member, Council of Representatives, American Psychological Association (www.apa.org
    She has been a consultant on a project with the US Navy examining the impact of pre-military experiences with physical and sexual abuse on military experiences. 
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Awards
    Women's History Committee Service Award given by the Commission on the Status of Women and the Greensboro YWCA
    UNCG's 1996 Senior Research Excellence Award Recipient, the highest research honor the university can bestow on a faculty member 
    Kent State University’s Honors Alumna of 2000 
    Fellow of the American Psychological Association  (Divisions 9 and 35)
 
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Selected Publications

White, J. W. (in press). Gendered aggression across the lifespan. In J. Worell (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Gender. Academic Press. 

White, J. W., Donat, P. L. N., & Bondurant, B. (2001). A developmental examination of violence against girls and women. In R. Unger (Ed). Handbook of the Psychology of Women and Gender. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. pp. 343-357. 

White, J. W., Kowalski, R. M., Lyndon, A., & Valentine, S. (2000). An Integrative Contextual Developmental Model of Male Stalking. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 15, 373-388. 

Humphrey, J. A., & White, J. W. (2000). Women's Vulnerability to Sexual Assault from Adolescence to Young Adulthood. Journal of Adolescent Health, 27, 419-424. 

White, J. W., Smith, P. H., Koss, M. P., & Figueredo, A. J. (2000). Intimate Partner Aggression: What Have We Learned? Commentary on Archer’s Meta-Analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 690-696. 

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