Youth sexuality has been primarily studied with a focus on its potential public health issues,
such as sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancies, and its comorbidity with …

Hooking up, or casual “no strings attached” sexual encounters, has become the normative
heterosexual relationship on college campuses. This phenomenon has only recently …

Celebrated scientists Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler explain the amazing power of
social networks and our profound influence on one another's lives. Your colleague's …

ABSTRACT A cross‐temporal meta‐analysis found that narcissism levels have risen over
the generations in 85 samples of American college students who completed the 40‐item …

Noted for its accessibility, this text--now revised and updated to reflect a decade of advances
in the field--examines how attitudes and beliefs about gender profoundly shape all aspects …

It happens every weekend: In a haze of hormones and alcohol, groups of male and female
college students meet at a frat party, a bar, or hanging out in a dorm room, and then hook up …

This study investigated 832 college students' experiences with hooking up, a term that refers
to a range of physically intimate behavior (eg, passionate kissing, oral sex, and intercourse) …

In this article, I propose a sex-positive framework for research on adolescent sexuality in
which I consider consensual sexual activities in adolescence as developmentally normative …

A sexual double standard in adolescence has important implications for sexual development
and gender inequality. The present study uses longitudinal social network data (N= 914; 11 …

Abstract “Hookups,” sexual interactions between partners who do not expect a romantic
commitment, are believed to be common among adolescents and young adults. Most …