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Juliana French
Assistant Professor
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Juliana French integrates theories and knowledge from Social Psychology and relationship science (e.g., attachment theory, interdependence theory) with functional perspectives to investigate key questions central to intimate relationship functioning. French utilizes dyadic, intensive longitudinal, survey, and experimental methods to examine how people choose relationship partners and maintain satisfying long-term relationships such as marriage. She is especially interested in how features of modern society (e.g., hormonal contraceptive use) alter psychological mechanisms underlying relationship functioning.
French has published in top peer-reviewed Psychology journals, including Psychological Science and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Education
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Ph.D. Florida State University; M.S. Villanova University
SPECIALTY AREA
Cognition, Neuroscience, & Social
Selected Publications
French, J. E., Bolton, L., & Meltzer, A. L. (2024). Virtual speed dating: Utilizing modern technology to study initial attraction and relationship formation. Personal Relationships.
French, J. E., Makhanova, A., & Meltzer, A. L. (2024). Adaptive calibration of dyadic sexual desire is sex differentiated and disrupted by hormonal contraceptives. Archives of Sexual Behavior.
French, J. E., McNulty, J. K., Makhanova, A., Maner, J. K., Eckel, L. A., Nikonova, L., & Meltzer, A. L. (2022). An empirical investigation of the roles of biological, relational, cognitive, and emotional factors in explaining sex differences in dyadic sexual desire. Biological Psychology.
French, J. E., & Meltzer, A. L. (2020). The implications of changing hormonal contraceptive use after relationship formation. Evolution and Human Behavior, 41, 274-283.
French, J. E., Whitley, K. A., Altgelt, E. E., & Meltzer, A. L. (2020). Attachment anxiety is associated with childhood unpredictability and predicts intentions to engage in unprotected sex. Personality and Individual Differences, 159, 109858.
French, J. E., Altgelt, E. E., & Meltzer, A. L. (2019). The implications of sociosexuality for marital satisfaction and dissolution. Psychological Science, 30, 1460-1472.
French, J. E., & Meltzer, A. L. (2019). Maximizing tendencies in marriage: Accentuating the implications of readily observable partner characteristics for intimates’ satisfaction. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45, 1468-1481.
French, J. E., Meltzer, A. L., & Maner, J. K. (2017). Men’s perceived partner commitment and mate guarding: The moderating role of partner’s hormonal contraceptive use. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 2, 173-186.