Romantic and Sexual Relationships
Hosted by: The Institute for Children, Youth and Families
Division of Family Studies and Human Development
Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences
"What's love got to do with it? Rethinking the nature and development of same-sex love and desire"
Dr. Lisa M. Diamond
University of Utah
Friday, September 29, 2006
Room 219 School of Family and Consumer Sciences
Dr. Diamond is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at the University of Utah, Department of Psychology. Her research focuses on the emotional dynamics of attachment relationships between romantic partners and family members, and how they influence health-related physiological processes. Dr. Diamond also studies the longitudinal development of same-sex sexuality in women. She received her B.S. in Psychology from the University of Chicago and her Ph.D. in Human Development from Cornell. She has received, among other awards, the Boyd McCandless Award for Distinguished Contribution to Developmental Psychology from the American Psychological Association, the Recognition Award for Emerging Scholars from the American Association of University Women, and the Outstanding Young Scientist Award from the Personal Relationships Interest Group of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.