In June 2020, the Kinsey Institute lost a friend and benefactor, Dr. Arthur Myers.
Dr. Myers was a physician, and through his career learned that his medical skills were sometimes inadequate to fully heal people confronting emotional pain and suffering. He was also trained in fine art photography, and in his retirement from medical practice, he turned to art to pursue a dream of building up individuals in their darkest moments in life. (more…)
Dr. Zoë Peterson Promoted to Full Professor and Senior Scientist
Dr. Peterson has been promoted to Full Professor of Counseling and Educational Psychology (School of Education) & Senior Scientist at the Kinsey Institute. Her latest research project is a study of the impact of COVID-19 on mental health and feelings of safety, conducted with Dr. Ellen Vaughn of the IU School of Education. Congratulations, Dr. Peterson! (more…)
In summer 2018, the Institute started a multi-phase move from the Sarah Parke Morrison Hall to the refurbished Lindley Hall in the Old Crescent area of the IU Bloomington campus. In the first phase of the Kinsey Institute’s relocation to Lindley Hall, the researchers and administrative staff were relocated, and shared laboratory space was constructed for our researchers.
Over the next 18 months, Kinsey Institute collections staff and IU colleagues oversaw the second phase: the transfer of thousands of items in our archival and art collections from various storage facilities to their new centralized home in the IU Libraries Ruth Lilly Auxiliary Library Facility. (more…)
The Kinsey Institute is thrilled to announce that the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP) in partnership with the Dillon Fund has awarded a $290,000 gift to the institute to provide funding for trauma recovery research being conducted at the Kinsey Institute Traumatic Stress Research Consortium (KI-TSRC). This gift joins a previous gift of $260,000 in 2019 to support the KI-TSRC’s trauma research and archival preservation.
We are excited about the promising research the KI-TSRC is producing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and are happy to continue our shared support of this valuable and unique mission,” said Dr. Christopher Walling, President, USABP.
The KI-TSRC’s mission is to explore the science of human connection and the role that stress and trauma experiences play in disrupting a person’s ability to feel safe and to socially engage. Their most recent study seeks to learn about coping behaviors and mental and physical health during the COVID-19 pandemic and how they are impacted by prior trauma history.
Read the full press release here
by Justin Lehmiller
Asexuality is a term that different people define in somewhat different ways. Most often, however, asexuals tend to be characterized as persons who do not experience sexual attraction. This definition doesn’t entirely capture all of the diversity that exists within the asexual community, though. (more…)