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The Theory of 'Identity Dissonance': Mass Communication, Romance Fiction, and the Self-Concept
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Negotiating Images: Popular Culture, Imagination, and Hope in Clinical Social Work Practice
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What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs about Relationships
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Psycho-social Development of the Main Characters in the Novels Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers and Cantik itu Luka by Eka Kurniawan: A Comparative Study
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Romance-Themed Novels: Influenced on Relationship Satisfaction
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ETC: A Review of General Semantics
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PhD,
Simon Fraser University
(2008)
"A very Glamorized Picture, that": Images of Scottish Female Herring Workers on Romance Novel Covers
Social Semiotics
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(2022)
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PhD thesis,
Pacifica Graduate Institute
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Romance-Themed Novels: Influenced on Relationship Satisfaction
International Journal of Literature Studies
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Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
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(2018)
Discursive Vulnerability and Identity Development: A Triangular Model of Bio-Forces in Cultural Ecological Analysis of American Romance Fiction
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Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction
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Note from the Field: Reflecting on Romance Novel Research: Past, Present and Future
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The Scientification of Love: A Cognitive Literary Approach to Romance Novels
PhD,
Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara
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Confessions of a Harlequin Reader: Romance and the Myth of Male Mothers
Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory
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(1980)
Popular Feminine Narratives: A Study of Romances, Gothics, and Soap Operas
PhD,
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The Disappearing Act: A Study of Harlequin Romances
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Forum for World Literature Studies
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ETC: A Review of General Semantics
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(2001)
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Psychological Reports
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Gender Roles, Romantic Fiction and Family Therapy
Psycoloquy
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Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
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Fantasy and Reconciliation: Contemporary Formulas of Women’s Romance Fiction
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Rape myths are the theory--romance novels are the practice: The impact of exposure to images of women in popular culture
PhD,
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(2021)
How Damsels Love: The Transgressive Pleasure of Romance
New Horizons in English Studies
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Reading Literary Fiction Is Associated With a More Complex Worldview
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
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(2018)
The Language of Romance: An Open Vocabulary Analysis of the Highest Rated Words Used in Romance Novels
Journal of Language and Social Psychology
37.6:680-691
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(2009)
Le roman sentimental. Productions contemporaines et pratiques de lecture
PhD,
Université Libre de Bruxelles
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Re-inventing romance: Reading popular romantic fiction
Women's Studies International Forum
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(2007)
Healing Writes: Restorying the Authorial Self through Creative Practice: and Birthright, a speculative fiction novel
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Romance and Repetition: Testing the Limits of Love
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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(2025)
Mind-Reading the Romance Novel: Effects of Single Perspective and Dual Perspective in Christina Lauren’s The Unhoneymooners and Julie Olivia’s The Fiction Between Us
Master's in English Studies,
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(2023)
Romance-Themed Novels: Influenced on Relationship Satisfaction
International Journal of Literature Studies
3.3:35-48
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Psycho-social Development of the Main Characters in the Novels Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers and Cantik itu Luka by Eka Kurniawan: A Comparative Study
INTERACTION: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa
12.1:892–905
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“Are You Clean?” Encouraging STI Communication in Casual Encounters through Narrative Messages in Romance Novels
Communication Studies
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Inaugurating a (Feminine) Public: Women’s Romances in Kannada, 1950s–1960s
Indian Journal of Gender Studies
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Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure
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Feminist Studies
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Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature
Chapel Hill:
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(1996)
The effects of romance in young adult fiction on pre-adolescent African-American females
MA thesis,
Michigan State University
(2019)
Romance Novels and Higher Education
Inter-Text: An Undergraduate Journal for Social Sciences and Humanities
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(Loves) Me, (Loves) Me Not: Unbuilding of Selfhood in the Romance of the Present
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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International Journal of Women's Studies
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American Journal of Family Therapy
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Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
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Forever After: Desire in the 21st-Century Romance Blockbuster
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Reading Literary Fiction Is Associated With a More Complex Worldview
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
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Gender, Romance Novels and Plastic Sexuality in the United States: A Focus on Female College Students
Journal of International Women’s Studies
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Reading Romance Novels and Female Sexuality among American Heterosexual and Lesbian College Students
The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations
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Romance by the book: a morphological analysis of the popular romance
MA thesis,
California State University, San Bernardino
(2024)
Personality structure of the main character Reid Buchanan in Susan Mallery's Sizzling
Undergraduate,
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