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Zoe D. Peterson

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STATE

Indiana

INSTITUTION

Indiana University

TITLE

Director of the Kinsey Institute Sexual Assault Research Initiative and Associate Professor of Counseling and Educational Psychology

EDUCATION

PhD

DISCIPLINE

Psychology (Clinical)

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

11-20 years

BIO

Zoë Peterson has been conducting research on sexual consent, sexual assault, sexual coercion, and unwanted sex for the past 20 years. She has studied men’s and women’s experiences as both victims and perpetrators of sexual aggression. She is interested in how victims make meaning surrounding their experiences of sexual assault and the implications of that meaning-making for victim recovery. She also is interested in identifying risk factors and motivations for sexual assault perpetration with the hope that a better understanding of perpetration will lead to better prevention.

VICTIMIZATION FOCUS

Campus Sexual Assault, Child Abuse and Sexual Abuse, Sexual Abuse or Violence (other than campus sexual assault)

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

LGBTQ victims, Male victims generally, Military personnel victims

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

Data collection, Descriptive studies, Program evaluation, Qualitative studies, Quantitative studies, Quasi-experimental studies, Randomized controlled trial

VICTIM RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Data collection, Descriptive studies, Qualitative studies, Quantitative studies

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