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Overview

Neil M. Malamuth is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of social sciences and psychology, with notable contributions in several subfields including gender studies, sociology and political science, health, clinical psychology, and literature and literary theory.

The main topics covered by their work focus significantly on issues related to sexual assault and victimization studies, gender, feminism, and media, as well as intimate partner and family violence. Additional research interests extend to sexuality, behavior, and technology, media influence and health, social and intergroup psychology, and sex work and related issues.

Neil M. Malamuth has published extensively in various academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Aggressive Behavior
  • Sex Roles
  • Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • Psychology of Violence

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • Factors predictive of sexual violence: Testing the four pillars of the Confluence Model in a large diverse sample of college men (2021, Aggressive Behavior)
  • "Feeling my Sister's Pain": Perceived Victim Suffering Moderates the Impact of Sexualized Music Videos on Fijian Women's Responses to Men's Intimate Partner Violence against Women (2020, Sex Roles)
  • Priming Self-Affirmation Reduces the Negative Impact of High Rape Myth Acceptance: Assessing Women's Perceptions and Judgments of Sexual Assault (2020, Journal of Interpersonal Violence)
  • Corrigendum to Malamuth et al. (2021): Reference correction (2021, Aggressive Behavior)
  • Strongly identified White Europeans' humanization of the complainant predicts elevated punishment for a Black but not White university student accused of sexual assault (2024, Psychology of Violence)

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Neil M. Malamuth include:

  • Mark Huppin
  • Raina V. Lamade
  • Mary P. Koss
  • Elise Lopez
  • Christopher Seaman

Best Publications

  • The Influence of Media Violence on Youth

    Craig A. Anderson;Leonard Berkowitz;Edward I Donnerstein;L. Rowell Huesmann

  • Characteristics of aggressors against women: testing a model using a national sample of college students.

    Neil M. Malamuth;Robert J. Sockloskie;Mary P. Koss;J. S. Tanaka

  • Rape proclivity among males.

    Neil M. Malamuth;Neil M. Malamuth

  • Predictors of naturalistic sexual aggression.

    Neil M. Malamuth

  • Using the confluence model of sexual aggression to predict men's conflict with women: A 10-year follow-up study.

    Neil M. Malamuth;Daniel Linz;Christopher L. Heavey;Gordon Barnes

  • Sex role stereotyping and reactions to depictions of stranger versus acquaintance rape.

    James V. Check;Neil M. Malamuth

  • The Effects of Mass Media Exposure on Acceptance of Violence against Women: A Field Experiment.

    Neil M Malamuth;James V.P Check

  • Pornography and sexual aggression: are there reliable effects and can we understand them?

    Neil M. Malamuth;Tamara Addison;Mary Koss

  • The longitudinal impact of demand and withdrawal during marital conflict.

    Christopher L. Heavey;Andrew Christensen;Neil M. Malamuth

  • Self-Perceived Effects of Pornography Consumption

    Gert Martin Hald;Neil M. Malamuth

  • Pornography and attitudes supporting violence against women: revisiting the relationship in nonexperimental studies.

    Gert Martin Hald;Neil M. Malamuth;Carlin Yuen

  • Juvenile sex offenders: toward the development of a typology.

    John A. Hunter;Aurelio J. Figueredo;Neil M. Malamuth;Judith V. Becker

  • Testing hypotheses regarding rape: Exposure to sexual violence, sex differences, and the “normality” of rapists

    Neil M Malamuth;Scott Haber;Seymour Feshbach

  • The effects of aggressive pornography on beliefs in rape myths: Individual differences

    Neil M. Malamuth;James V.P. Check

  • Self-reported likelihood of sexually aggressive behavior: Attitudinal versus sexual explanations ☆

    John Briere;Neil M Malamuth;Neil M Malamuth

  • Pornography and Sexual Aggression.

    Pauline B. Bart;Neil M. Malamuth;Edward Donnerstein

  • Sexual arousal to rape depictions: individual differences.

    Neil M. Malamuth;James V. Check

  • Penile Tumescence and Perceptual Responses to Rape as a Function of Victim's Perceived Reactions1

    Neil M. Malamuth;James V. P. Check

  • Sexually aggressive men's perceptions of women's communications: testing three explanations

    Neil M. Malamuth;Lisa M. Brown

  • The attraction to sexual aggression scale: Part one 1

    Neil M. Malamuth

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Linz
Daniel Linz University of California, Santa Barbara
Seymour Feshbach
Seymour Feshbach University of California, Los Angeles
Mary P. Koss
Mary P. Koss University of Arizona
Aurelio José Figueredo
Aurelio José Figueredo University of Arizona
Judith V. Becker
Judith V. Becker University of Arizona
John Briere
John Briere University of Southern California
Edward Donnerstein
Edward Donnerstein University of Arizona
L. Rowell Huesmann
L. Rowell Huesmann University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Andrew Christensen
Andrew Christensen University of California, Los Angeles
Craig A. Anderson
Craig A. Anderson Iowa State University

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