Directed by Dr. Asia Eaton

The PWR Lab (for “power, women, and relationships”) was founded in 2010 by Dr. Asia Eaton. We conduct feminist, social psychological research on how gender intersects with race, sexual orientation, class, and other social identities to affect people’s access to and experience with power in intimate relationships and in the workplace. We also made a music video and wrote a book together on Navigating Your PhD.

Some of the questions we are currently working on include:

  • What are the causes and consequences of technology-facilitated sexual abuse?
  • How do culturally-specific gender roles influence power dynamics in intimate relationships?
  • How do gender roles and heteronormativity relate to intimate partner and dating violence?
  • How do stereotypes about gender, race, and sexuality affect people’s access to power in organizations?
  • How do people decide to disclose stigmatized identities in the workplace, and what are the consequences of disclosure for diverse women and men?

Recent student publications:

*Dours, N., & Eaton, A. A. (in press). Using routine activity theory to predict technology-facilitated violence among U.S. adults during COVID-19. Violence Against Women.
*Spiker, R., Eaton, A. A., & Saunders, J. (in press). Victimization by nonconsensual distribution of intimate images is related to lower holistic well-being in a diverse sample of U.S. adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Violence and Victims.
†Siegel, J., *Miller, A., †Krieger, M., & Eaton, A. A. (2024). “Anything I could do to not have it paralyze me was welcome”: Coping strategies employed by survivors of image-based sexual abuse. Psychology of Violence.
*Maddocks, S., †Siegel, J., Eaton, A. A., & *Agarwal, S. (2024). Who is Invited to the Metaverse? Analyzing media coverage of an emerging virtual world. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 27(1), 76-82. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2022.0394
*denotes graduate student author, **denotes undergraduate student author, † denotes postdoc

For all of Dr. Eaton’s publications, see: Dr. Eaton’s Website

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