Research Interests:
Dimensions of women’s sexual health and well-being, including sexual desire, sexual pleasure, and orgasm.
The influence of social and sexual norms on women’s sexuality and sexual pleasure.
How specific sexual contexts, such as hook ups, influence women’s sexual pleasure and sexual health.
Use of mixed-methods designs, both qualitative and quantitative, to study women’s sexuality using a phenomenological approach.
Publications:
Bell, S. N., & McClelland, S. I. (2017). When, If, and How: Young women contend with orgasmic absence. The Journal of Sex Research 55(6), 679-691. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2017.1384443
Rubin, J. D., Bell, S. N., & McClelland, S. I. (2017). Graduate education in qualitative methods in U.S. psychology: Current trends and recommendations for the future. Qualitative Research in Psychology 15(1), 29-50. doi: 10.1080/14780887.2017.1392668
Chadwick, S. B., Burke, S. M., Goldey, K. L., Bell, S. N. & van Anders, S. M. (2017). Sexual desire in sexual minority and majority women and men: The multifaceted Sexual Desire Questionnaire. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 46(8), 2465-2484. doi: 10.1007/s10508-016-0895-z
Goldey, K. L., Posh, A. R., Bell, S. N., & van Anders, S. M. (2016). Defining pleasure: A focus group study of solitary and partnered sexual pleasure in queer and heterosexual women. Archives of Sexual Behavior , 45(8), 2137-2154. doi: 10.1007/s10508-016-0704-8
McClelland, S. I., Rubin, J. D., Savas, O., Bell, S. N. (2015). A mixed methods study of faculty attitudes about qualitative research methods in U.S. psychology graduate programs. Report submitted to the Executive Committee of the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology (SQIP). http://qualpsy.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/SQIP-Grad-Training-Report.-Exec-Summary.-2015.pdf
Van Anders, S. M., Goldey, K. L., & Bell, S. N., (2013). Testosterone in human sexuality research: Methodological considerations. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43(2), 231-250. doi: 10.1007/s10508-013-0123-z