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Research Overview
Dr. Natalie D. Smoak is an assistant professor at Illinois Wesleyan University. Her primary areas of basic social psychological research include intergroup bias, implicit attitudes, the impact of romantic relationships on health behaviors, and gender stereotypes. In the area of health research, she has been examining (along with Kerry Marsh and David Portnoy) the role of implicit associations between condoms, sexuality, and positivity as related to HIV risk behaviors. Natalie has also been a part of the SHARP research team, and has been meta-analytically examining the effectiveness of HIV interventions in developing countries and the role of condom distribution on sexual frequency. While at Purdue University, Dr. Smoak’s research focused on intergroup bias from an emotion perspective. In particular, her dissertation examined the role of changing implicit associations between negative emotions and outgroup members and how that change at the implicit level affected nonverbal behaviors within an intergroup interaction. Additionally, she has examined the role of relationship commitment in contraceptive behaviors and the malleability of implicit gender stereotypes.
Education
Ph.D., Purdue University, 2004
M.S., Purdue University, 2001
B.S., Ball State University, 1998
Featured Publications
Smoak, N. D., Scott-Sheldon, L. A. J., Johnson, B. T., & Carey, M. P. (2006). Do sexual risk reduction interventions inadvertently increase the overall frequency of sexual behavior? Answers from a meta-analysis of 174 studies with 116,735 participants. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, 43, 374-384.
Smoak (*published as Dove), N. L., & Wiederman, M. W. (2000, March). Cognitive distraction and women’s sexual functioning. Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 26, 67-78.
Smoak, N. D. (forthcoming). Beliefs. In R. F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of social psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Dovidio, J. F., Kawakami, K., Smoak, N. D., & Gaertner, S. L. (in press). The roles of implicit and explicit processes in contemporary prejudice. To appear in R. E. Petty, R. H. Fazio, & P. Brinol (Eds.), Attitudes: Insights from the new wave of implicit measures. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Wegener, D. T., Petty, R. E., Dove (Smoak), N. L, & Fabrigar, L. (2004). Multiple routes to resistance. In E. S. Knowles & J. A. Linn (Eds.), Resistance and Persuasion. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Rogers, M., Smoak, N. D., & Liu, J. (2006). Self-reported criminal computer behavior: A Big-5, moral choice and manipulative exploitive behavior analysis. Deviant Behavior, 27, 245-268.
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