Yost and Gilmore report the findings of a climate study of a liberal arts college in Pennsylvania. This climate assessment was comprehensive in content (heterosexual and cisgender individuals' attitudes, and LGBTQ individuals'...
The 23-item Attitudes About Sadomasochism Scale (ASMS; Yost, 2010) assesses stereotypical and prejudicial attitudes about individuals involved in consensual, sexual sadomasochism. The full scale score may be used, but the scale...
Yost, Megan R. Attitudes About Sadomasochism Scale. In Handbook of Sexuality-Related Measures , edited by Terri D. Fisher, Clive M. Davis, William L. Yarber, and Sandra L. Davis, 635-637. New York: Routledge, 2011., The...
Yost, Megan R., and L. E. Hunter. BDSM Practitioners’ Understandings of Their Initial Attraction to BDSM Sexuality: Essentialist and Constructionist Narratives. Psychology and Sexuality 3, no. 3 (2012): 244-259., For more...
Yost, Megan R., and Jennifer F. Chmielewski. Blurring the Line Between Researcher and Researched in Interview Studies: A Feminist Practice? Psychology of Women Quarterly 37, no. 2 (2013): 242-250., There is a rich history of...
This article describes the development and validation of a new measure, the Attitudes about Sadomasochism Scale (ASMS). Exploratory factor analysis with 213 participants yielded four subscales (Socially Wrong, Violence, Lack of...
Yost, Megan R., and Genéa D. Thomas. Gender and Binegativity: Men's and Women's Attitudes Toward Male and Female Bisexuals. Archives of Sexual Behavior 41, no. 3 (2012): 691-702., This study assessed the influence of gender...
Yost, Megan R., and Eileen L. Zurbriggen. Gender Differences in the Enactment of Sociosexuality: An Examination of Implicit Social Motives, Sexual Fantasies, Coercive Sexual Attitudes, and Aggressive Sexual Behavior. The...
Yost, Megan R., and Lauren McCarthy. Girls Gone Wild? Heterosexual Women's Same-Sex Encounters at College Parties. Psychology of Women Quarterly 36, no. 1 (2012): 7-24. and Our purpose was to explore a relatively new sexual...
In our first few years as Assistant Professors of Psychology (midway through our fourth and third years, respectively), we have found ourselves frequently discussing the issue of coming out in the classroom, probably because we...
