Colleen Sinclair

Education

• B.A., University of Colorado, 1996
• Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2004

Current Research

• Interpersonal Relationships
• Social Influence
• Psychology, Public Policy and the Law
• Aggressive Behavior

Teaching Interests

• PSY 3073: Interpersonal Relationships
• PSY 3314: Experimental Psychology
• PSY 3623: Social Psychology
• PSY 4353: Psychology and the Law
• PSY 4624: Advanced Social Psychology Research Lab
• PSY 8613: Advanced Social Psychology
• PSY 8990: Graduate Seminar in Interpersonal Relationships

Current Publications

For copies of papers go to: http://msstate.academia.edu/HColleenSinclair

Wright, B. L.** &  Sinclair, H.C. (2013). Pulling the strings: Effects of parent and friends opinions on dating choices. Personal Relationships. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6811.2011.01390.x

Sinclair, H. C.  (2012). Still connected: Family and friends in America since 1970, a review. Journal of Social Psychology, 152, 524-527.

Felmlee, D. H., Sweet, E.**, &  Sinclair, H. C. (2012). Can women and men be friends? Cross-gender and same-gender friendship and life-stage. Sex Roles, 66, 518-529.

Sinclair, H. C.  & Lyndon, A. (2012) (Eds.) Issues of Gender in Stalking Research. Special Issue for Sex Roles, vol. 66 (5-6).

Lyndon, A. E.,  Sinclair, H. C. , MacArthur, J. R.**, Fay, B. A.**, Ratajack, E.**, & Collier, K. E.** (2012). An introduction to issues of gender in stalking research. Sex Roles, 66, 299-310.

Sinclair, H. C.  (2012). Stalking myth-attributions: Examining the role of individual, cultural, and contextual variables on judgments of unwanted pursuit scenarios. Sex Roles, 66, 378-391.

Sinclair, H. C., Ladny, R.  T.**, & Lyndon, A. (2011). Adding insult to injury: Effects of Self-regulation, Rejection Sensitivity, and Rejection Type on Obsessive Relational Intrusion. Aggressive Behavior, 37, 503-520.

Sinclair, H. C. & Hertl, J. T.** (2010). Gender-motivated bias crimes: Examining why situational variables are important in the labeling of hate crimes (pp. 1-34). In C. T. Lockhardt, Psychology of Hate. Hauppage, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

Sinclair, H. C. (2009). Stalking, threatening, and attacking public figures: A review. Journal of Police & Criminal Psychology, 24, 139-140.

Sinclair, H. C. & Wright, B. L.** (2009). Social networks: Effects on developed relationships. In H. Reis & S. Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships, vol. 3 (pp. 1543-1548). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Sinclair, H. C. (2007). Searching for the psychology in Women, Psychology, and the Law. Sex Roles, 57, 467-469.

Williams, S, Frieze, I. H., & Sinclair, H. C. (2007). Stalking and intimate violence. In J. Hamel & T. Nicholls (Eds.), Family Therapy for Domestic Violence: A practitioner's guide to gender-inclusive research and treatment (pp. 109-123). New York: Springer Publishing Company.

Sinclair, H. C. & Frieze, I. H. (2005). When courtship persistence becomes intrusive pursuit: A comparison of rejecter and pursuer perspectives of unrequited attraction. Sex Roles, 52, 839-852.

** = student co-author