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Current Research Interests:



  • commitment signaling,

  • mothers'/mothers'-to-be eliciting of help from family/partner,

  • a mother-related instance of swearing,

  • cross-cultural psychology, and

  • psychology and the law (criminal and family)

 

​I love to collaborate, with both students and faculty! I have successfully done so with diverse scholars  -- from the law, and from social, cognitive, clinical, and forensic psychology--from my own institution and ones at a distance. Interested in a potential collaboration? Please contact me and let's discuss. 

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Media:

 

Clark, A. (September 26, 2022). 6 disadvantages of not changing your name after marriage.  

https://jupair.com/relationship/disadvantages-of-not-changing-name-after-marriage/ 

  

Lopes, R. (July 2022). Interview of Melanie MacEacheron. The Dissenter  (podcast).

https://youtu.be/FzHMnDZEQkc 

 

Nova Southeastern University (2020). Adjunct professor receives travel grant for psychology    conference. https://psychology.nova.edu/news-events/2019/cop-heterodox.html  

  

University of Phoenix & Winger, A. (October 17, 2019). Women's marital surname                      change/retention in Canada and across the U.S., and its relationship with marital duration   before divorce in one county. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cl3xVOzgFs&feature=youtu.be  

  

Alba, B. (April 6, 2016). Do women take their husbands’ surname after marriage because of biology? The Conversation. http://theconversation.com/do-women-take-their-husbands-surname-after-marriage-because-of-biology-56991:

re-published (April 7, 2016). Comment: Why women taking their husband’s names could be about biology. SBS News. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/comment-why-womentaking-their-husband-s-name-couldbe-about-biology: re-published (April 11, 2016). A name-change theory to bank on. The Herald. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11620125   

re-published (in Norwegian: 2020). Tar kvinnor sin mans efternamn efter äktenskap på grund av biologi? Sv.lipsumtech.com. https://sv.lipsumtech.com/do-women-take-their-husbands-surname-after-marriage-because-biology-729812 

  

Donovan, A. (n.d.). How Women Compete for Men with Maryanne Fisher. Dating Skills Review.  16:54-18:02, https://www.datingskillsreview.com/ep-90-how-women-compete-formenmaryanne-fisher/  

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Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law (SEAL), indexing of "North American women’s marital surname change: Practices, law, and patrilineal descent reckoning" (Evolutionary Psychological Science) under "Useful Sources: Biology, Evolution, and Law -- Selected Articles and Essays". https://wp0.vanderbilt.edu/seal/scholarly-resources/useful-sources/  

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