Director of the Sexual Assault Research Initiative at the Kinsey Institute and Professor of Applied Psychology in Education and Research Methodology, Indiana University
Dr. Peterson is a licensed clinical psychologist, and she has researched the topics of sexual consent, sexual assault, sexual coercion, and unwanted sex for over 20 years. She has studied men’s and women’s experiences as both victims and perpetrators of sexual aggression.
Dr. Peterson is an author on over 75 peer-reviewed journal articles and is the editor of the Wiley Handbook of Sex Therapy. She is past-president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, and she is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.