SPECIAL ISSUES

“Sexuality and Individual Differences”, Personality and Individual Differences [Special Issue]. Amanda N. Gesselman, Justin R. Garcia, David P. Schmitt (Editors). (2020). https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/personality-and-individual-differences/specialissue/10ZHDGTD0TM

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Garcia, J.R. & Segal, N.L. (2025). In Memoriam: Helen E. Fisher. Evolution & Human Behavior, 46(3),106684.

Wetzel, G.M, Sanchez, D.T., Gesselman, A.N., Adams, O.R., Campbell, J.T., & Garcia, J.R. (2025). Exploring the orgasm gap across racial/ethnic groups: A descriptive analysis. Journal of Sex Research. 2025 May-Jun;62(5):683-692. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2024.2308044. Epub 2024 Feb 8. PMID: 38329940.

Campbell, J.T., Bennett-Brown, M., Kaufman, E.M., Gesselman, A.N., Frederick, D.A., Garcia, J.R., & Mark, K.P. (2025). Women who experience more affectionate touch report better body satisfaction and relationship outcomes. Journal of Sex Research. 2025 May-Jun;62(5):776-786. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2024.2310705. Epub 2024 Feb 16.

Aneiros, A., Garcia, J.R., Hille, J., Moore, S., Peterson, Z.D., Prenkert, J., Sellers, A., Weeks, L.Y., Westerhaus-Renfrow, C. (2024). Sex and gender in a business law class. Midwest Law Journal, 34: 134, 1-17.

Gesselman, A.N., Bennett-Brown, M., Dub., S., Kaufman, E.M., Campbell, J.T., & Garcia, J.R. (2024). The lifelong orgasm gap: Exploring age’s impact on orgasm rates. Sexual Medicine, 12(3), qfae042.

Dub., S., Gesselman, A.N., Kaufman, E.M., Bennett-Brown, M., Ta-Johnson, V.P., & Garcia, J.R. (2024). Beyond words: Relationships between emoji use, attachment style, and emotional intelligence. PLoS ONE, 19(12): e0308880

Gesselman, A.N., Kaufman, E.M., Weeks, L.Y.S., Moscovici, Z., Bennett-Brown, M., Adams, O.R., Campbell, J.T., Piazza, M., Bhuyan, L., Dub., S., Hille, J.J., & Garcia, J.R. (2024). Exploring patterns in mental health treatment and interests of single adults in the United States: A secondary data analysis. Frontiers in Public Health, 12, 1292603.

Peterson, Z.D., Carver, D.N., Klann, E.M., Gesselman, A.N., Akers, B.M., & Garcia, J.R. (2023). Sexual harassment and assault in public spaces: Individual vulnerability and contextual risk factors. Sex Roles, 89, 685-701.

Reynolds, T., Maner, J.K., Frederick, D.A., Forney, K.J., & Garcia, J.R. (2023). A slim majority: The influence of sex ratio on women’s body dissatisfaction and weight loss motivations. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 52, 3043-3062.

Drouin, M., Hernandez, E., Machette, A., Garcia, J.R., & Boyd, R.L. (2023). An exploration of marks/injuries related to BDSM sexual experiences. Sexual Medicine, 11(3), qfad020.

Frederick, D.A., Alley, J.C., Semenya, S., & Garcia, J.R. (2023). Mating strategy variation by sexual orientation. In D.M. Buss The Oxford Handbook of Human Mating, (pp. 286-314). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Campbell, J.T., Bennett-Brown, M., Marcotte, A.S., Kaufman, E.M., Moscovici, Z., Adams, O.R., Lovins, S., Garcia, J.R., & Gesselman, A.N. (2023). American singles’ attitudes toward future romantic/sexual partners’ COVID-19 vaccination status: Evidence for both vigilance and indifference in a national sample. Sexuality & Culture, 27, 1915-1938.

Jonason, P.K., Czerwiński, S.K., Brewer, G., C.ndea, C.A., De Backer, C.J.S., Fern.ndez, A.M., Garcia. J.R., Koehn, M.A., Kruger, D.J., Massar, K., Oberzaucher, E., Quintelier, K.J.P., Štěrbov., Z., van Geffen, R.E., Varella Valentova, J., Varella, M.A.C., & Fisher, M.L. (2023). Three factors of the intrasexual competition scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 213, 112312.

Csajb.k, Z., Štěrbov., Z., Brewer, G., C.ndea, C.A., De Backer, C.J.S., Fern.ndez, A.M., Fisher, M.L., Garcia. J.R., Kruger, D.J., Massar, K., Oberzaucher, E., Quintelier, K.J.P., van Geffen, R.E., Varella Valentova, J., Varella, M.A.C., & Jonason, P.K. (2023). Individual differences in how desirable people think they are as a mate. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 52, 2475-2490.

Vanterpool, K.B., Yarber, W.L., Rosenberg, M., Mowatt, R.A., & Garcia, J.R. (2023). Concurrent partnerships among Black women in the United States. Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships, 9(3-4), 79-91.

Gesselman, A.N., Kaufman, E.M., Marcotte, A.S., Reynolds, T.A., & Garcia, J.R. (2023). Engagement with emerging forms of Sextech: Demographic correlates from a national sample of adults in the United States. Journal of Sex Research, 60(2), 177-189.

Balzarini, R.N., Muise, A., Zoppolat, G., Gesselman, A.N., Lehmiller, J.L., Garcia, J.R., Slatcher, R.B., & Mark, K.P. (2022). Sexual desire in the time of COVID-19: How COVID-related stressors are associated with sexual desire in romantic relationships. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 51, 3823-3838.

Frederick, D.A., Gordon, A.R., Cook-Cottone, C.P., Brady, J.P., Reynolds, T.A., Alley, J., Garcia, J.R., Brown, T.A., Compte, E.J., Covertino, L., Crerand, C.E., Malcarne, V.L., Nagata, J.M., Parent, M.C., Pennesi, J., Perez, M., Pila, E., Rodgers, R.F., Schaefer, L.M., Thompson, J.K., Tylka, T.L., & Murray, S.B. (2022). Demographic and sociocultural predictors of sexuality-related body image and sexual frequency: The U.S. Body Project I. Body Image, 41, 109-127.

Vanterpool, K.B., Yarber, W.L., Rosenberg, M., Mowatt, R.A., & Garcia, J.R. (2022). The impact of sex ratio perceptions on condom use attitudes and behaviors among Black women in the United States. International Journal of Sexual Health, 34(2), 221-232.

O’Sullivan, L.F., Belu, C.F., & Garcia, J.R. (2022). Loving you from afar: Attraction to others (“crushes”) among adults in exclusive relationships, communication, perceived outcomes, and expectation of future intimate involvement. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 39(2), 413-434.

Vanterpool, K.B., Yarber, W.L., Rosenberg, M., Mowatt, R.A., & Garcia, J.R. (2022). Association of black women’s perceptions of the sex ratio to their attitudes towards and experiences of intimate partner violence. Violence Against Women, 28(3-4), 946-965.

Marcotte, A.S., Kaufman, E.M., Campbell, J.T., Reynolds, T.A., Garcia, J.R., & Gesselman, A.N. (2021). Sextech use as a potential mental health reprieve: The role of anxiety, depression, and loneliness in seeking sex online. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(17), 8924.

Frederick, D.A., Gillespie, B.J., Lever, J., Berardi, V., & Garcia, J.R. (2021). Debunking lesbian bed death: using coarsened exact matching to compare sexual practices and satisfaction of lesbian and heterosexual women. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 50, 3601-3619.

Marcotte, A.S., Gesselman, A.N., Reynolds, T.A., & Garcia, J.R. (2021). Young adults’ romantic investment behaviors on social media. Personal Relationships, 28(4), 822-839.

Hamer, D., Mustanski, B., Sell, R., Sanders, S.A., & Garcia, J.R. (2021). Technical Comment on “Large-scale GWAS reveals insights into the genetic architecture of same-sex sexual behavior.” Science, 371 (6536), eaba2941.

Gesselman, A.N., Wion, R.K., Garcia, J.R., & Miller, W.R. (2021). Relationship and sexual satisfaction are associated with better disease self-management in persons with epilepsy. Epilepsy & Behavior, 119, 107937.

Moors, A.C., Gesselman, AN., & Garcia, J.R. (2021). Desire, Familiarity, and Engagement in Polyamory: Results from a National Sample of Adults in the United States. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 619640.

Miller, L.R., Garcia, J.R., & Gesselman, A.N. (2021). Dating and sexualities across the life course: The interactive effects of aging and gender. Journal of Aging Studies, 57, 100921.

Frederick, D., Gillespie, B.J., Lever, J., Berardi, V., & Garcia, J.R. (2021). Sexual practices and satisfaction among gay and heterosexual men in romantic relationships: A comparison using coarsened exact matching in a U.S. national sample. Journal of Sex Research, 58(5), 545-559.

Selterman, D., Garcia, J.R., & Tsapelas, I. (2021). What do people do, say, and feel when they have affairs? Associations between extradyadic infidelity motives with behavioral, emotional, and sexual outcomes. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 47(3), 238-252.

Marcotte, A.S., Gesselman, A.N., Fisher, H.E., & Garcia, J.R. (2021). Women’s and men’s reactions to receiving unsolicited genital images from men. Journal of Sex Research, 58(4), 512-521.

Lehmiller, J.L., Garcia, J.R., Gesselman, A.N., & Mark, K.P. (2021). Less sex, but more sexual diversity: Changes in sexual behavior during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Leisure Sciences, 43(1-2), 295-304.

Burić, J., Garcia, J.R., & Štulhofer, A. (2021). Is sexting bad for adolescent girls’ psychological well-being? A longitudinal assessment in middle to late adolescence. New Media & Society, 23(7), 2052-2071.

Frederick, D.A., Garcia, J.R., Gesselman, A.N., Mark, K.P., Hatfield, E., & Bohrnstedt, G. (2020). The Happy American Body 2.0: Predictors of affective body satisfaction in two U.S. national internet panel surveys. Body Image, 32, 70-84.

Kolacz, J., Hu, Y., Gesselman, A.N., Garcia, J.R., Lewis, G.F., & Porges, S.W. (2020). Sexual function in adults with a history of childhood maltreatment: Mediating effects of self-reported autonomic reactivity. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 12(3), 281-290.

Giroux, S.A., Gesselman, A.N., Garcia, J.R., Luetke, M., & Rosenberg, M. (2020). The magnitude and potential impact of missing data in a sexual violence campus climate survey. Journal of American College Health, 68(5), 468-476.

Price, D.M., Gesselman, A.N., Garcia, J.R. (2020). Single bisexual men’s and women’s perceptions of acceptance in the LGBTQ community. Journal of Homosexuality, 67(14), 1923-1947.

BOOKS

Garcia, J.R. (forthcoming 2026). The Intimate Animal: The Science of Sex, Fidelity, and Why We Live and Die for Love. New York, NY: Little Brown Spark.

Gray, P. B., Garcia, J. R., (2013). Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Fisher, M.L., Garcia, J. R., Chang, R. S. (2013). Evolution's Empress: Darwinian Perspectives on the Nature of Women. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Fisher, H.E. & Garcia, J.R. (2023). Mate choice in the digital age. In D.M. Buss The Oxford Handbook of Human Mating, (pp. 777-795). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Reprinted: Lehmiller, J.L., Garcia, J.R., Gesselman, A.N., & Mark, K.P. (2022). Less sex, but more sexual diversity: Changes in sexual behavior during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. In B. Lashua, C.W. Johnson, D.C. Parry (Eds.), Leisure in the Time of Coronavirus: A Rapid Response. New York: Routledge.

Haupert, M.L., Pope, A.R.D., Garcia, J.R., & Smith, E.R. (2019). An Inclusive Gender Identity Measure. In R.R. Milhausen, J.K. Sakaluk, T.D. Fisher, C.M. Davis, & W.L. Yarber (Eds.), Handbook of Sexuality-Related Measures (4th Edition), (pp. 353-354). New York: Routledge.

Fisher, M.L., Garcia, J.R., Burch, R.L. (2020). Evolutionary Psychology: thoughts on integrating feminist perspectives. In L. Workman, W. Reader, & J.H. Barkow (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behavior, (pp. 378-392). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

ACADEMIC CONFERENCES

The Kinsey Institute at 76-years: Sex research in a new era of politicized (de)funding
Keynote, 27th Congress of the World Association for Sexual Health

Bridging the Divide: Psychoanalysis, Sexology, and the Imperative for Understanding Human Sexuality
43rd Annual Spring Conference, Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology.

Preserving Diverse Sexual and Relationship Histories: Kinsey Institute Library & Special Collections
Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. [delivered virtually]

The Current War on Sex Research and Sex Education
Keynote, Sexuality Pre-Conference, Society for Personality and Social Psychology. 

PUBLIC SPEAKING

An Evening with “Dr. Ruth” Westheimer and Dr. Justin Garcia: Salon moderated by Christie Hefner
New York City, NY. 

Salon: Sex Research Today
The Music Room. New York City, NY. 

Sexual and Gender Diversity and Terminology
United States Navy Defense Counsel Symposium. [delivered virtually].

Love and Sex in the Digital Age
Keynote, Young President’s Organization LGBTQ Network. Milwaukee, WI. 

Salon: Sexual, Gender, and Relationship Diversity
President’s Organization LGBTQ Network. Milwaukee, WI. 

Panel Discussion: Gender Equity and Business
Annual Conference, Academy of Legal Studies in Business. San Diego, CA. 

Sex And Relationships In The Post-Pandemic Digital Age
Commonwealth Club of California
Also available as a podcast 

The Fall and Rise of Dating in America
TEDxBinghamtonUniversity

The Science of Better Sex
HumanLab: The Science Between Us

DOCUMENTARY APPEARANCES

• Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age (HBO)
• Sex: How it Works (National Geographic)
• Never Satisfied: Why Powerful Men Cheat (A&E Biography Channel)
• The Sex Researchers (Channel 4, UK)
• From Kiss to Kiss: The Biochemistry of Love (Mona Lisa Production, France)

Current

• Match Group
• National Institutes of Health
• National Institute for Child Health and Human Development
• TAWANI Foundation

Previous

• Dr. Anita Aldrich Sexual Health Research Fund
• Docler (Duodecad IT Services)
• Kay Family Foundation
• K-Y Brand
• Social Science Research Council
• Teva Women's Health

Academic appointments

• Executive Director, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University
• Senior Scientist, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University
• Ruth N. Halls Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University
• Founding Co-Director, Human Sexuality and Health Scholarly Concentration (IU Bloomington), IU School of Medicine, Indiana University
• Co-Chair, Interdepartmental Graduate Committee on Human Sexuality, University Graduate School, Indiana University

Other affiliations

• Founding Faculty, Kinsey-Kelley Center for Gender Equity in Business, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Family Medicine, IU School of Medicine, Indiana University
• Research Fellow, Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention, School of Public Health–Bloomington, Indiana University
• Adjunct Faculty, Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University Indianapolis
• Affiliate Faculty, Cognitive Science Program, Indiana University
• Affiliate Faculty, Common Themes in Reproductive Diversity (CTRD), Indiana University
• Affiliate, Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior (CISAB), Indiana University

• 2021 50 Distinguished Sexual and Gender Health Revolutionaries Award, Program in Human Sexuality, University of Minnesota Medical School
• 2020 Bicentennial Medal, Indiana University
• 2019 IU Bicentennial Professorship, Office of the President, Indiana University
• 2019 Service Award, Department of Gender Studies, Indiana University
• 2018 Hugo G. Beigel Award, Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (for best article published in Journal of Sex Research in 2017) [Authors: D.A. Frederick, J. Lever, B.J. Gillespie, J.R. Garcia]
• 2017 Gordon Faculty Award, Division of Student Affairs, Indiana University
• 2017 Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Office of the Vice Provost for Research & Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs, Indiana University
• 2016 Ruth N. Halls Endowed Professorship, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University
• 2016 Recognition Award, Adam W. Herbert Presidential Scholars Program, Indiana University
• 2015 Trustees’ Teaching Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University
• 2015 Best Poster Award, Human Behavior and Evolution Society [Authors: S. Cohen, P.M. Todd, J.R. Garcia, H.E. Fisher]
• 2014 Teaching Award, Department of Gender Studies, Indiana University
• 2009 Award for Excellence in Research - Best Student Oral Presentation, Northeastern Evolutionary Psychology Society