Erin B. Cooper, M.A.
E-mail: erin.b.cooper@temple.edu
Bio: Erin is currently in her fifth year of graduate studies in the Clinical area. She received her B.A. from Kenyon College in 2004 and spent 4 years doing clinical research at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Children’s National Medical Center (in Washington, DC) before coming to Temple. Erin’s current research interests include motivations for and predictors of faking orgasm, sexual dysfunction, sexual compulsivity, and communication in the romantic dyad. Erin is a member of the DSM-V field trial for hypersexual disorder and is currently gaining clinical experience in Cleveland, OH at the Cleveland Center for Eating Disorders in the adult Dialectical Behavior Therapy partial hospitalization/intensive outpatient program for eating disorders.
Representative Publications and Presentations:
Cooper, E. B., Fauber, R.L., & Fenigstein, A. (under review). Development of the Faking Orgasm Scale for Women.
Cooper, E. B., & Steinberg, L. D. (under review). Gender differences in adolescent contraceptive use.
Cooper, E. B., & Reid, R. C. (under review). Relationships between shame and hypersexual disorder from the DSM-5 field trials. Journal of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity.
Reid, R. C., Carpenter, B. N., Hook, J. N., Garos, S., Manning, J. C., Gililand, R., Cooper, E. B., McKittrick, H., Davtian, M., & Fong, T. (in press). Report of findings in a DSM-5 field trial for hypersexual disorder. Journal of Sexual Medicine.
Reid, R. C., Cooper, E. B., Prause, N., Li, D. S., & Fong, T. W. (in press). Facets of perfectionism in a patient sample of hypersexual men. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.
Cooper, E. B., Morrison, A. S., & Heimberg, R. G. (November, 2012). The effects of depression and social anxiety on the decision to fake orgasm among different ethnic groups. Poster to be presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Annual Convention, National Harbor, MD.
Schmitz, T. M., Haywood, J. L., Layton, W. B., Cooper, E. B., & Sayers, S. L. (November, 2012). Dyadic resilience: A new construct in veteran couples. Poster to be presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Annual Convention, National Harbor, MD.
Cooper, E. B. (August, 2012). Exploring female insecurity during oral sex: Expectations, sexual functioning, and satisfaction. Poster presented at American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Washington, DC.
Cooper, E. B. (August, 2011). Emotion dysregulation predicts motivations for faking orgasm during oral sex and sexual intercourse. Oral presentation at Division 35 Roundtable at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Washington, DC.
Cooper, E. B. (May, 2011). Fear of Intimacy Predicts Motivations for Faking Orgasm during Sexual Intercourse. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, Washington, DC.
Cooper, E. B., & Conner, B. T. (March, 2011). Emotion dysregulation predicts motivations for faking orgasm during oral sex and sexual intercourse. Oral presentation presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality Eastern and Midcontinent Regions Joint Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
Cooper, E. B., Hampton, A. S., Seelbach, A. C., & Conner, B. T. (November, 2010). The Faking Orgasm Scale: Examining differences in faking orgasm during oral sex and sexual intercourse. Oral presentation given at the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV.
Cooper, E. B., Conner, B. T., & Fauber, R. L. (November, 2010). Motivations for Faking Orgasm as Predictors of Sexual Functioning and Satisfaction. Oral presentation given as part of LGBT Special Interest Group sponsored symposium at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Annual Convention, San Diego, CA.
Cooper, E. B., Conner, B. T. (May, 2010). Predictors of condom use in sexually active adolescents. Oral presentation given as part of symposium at Association for Psychological Science, Boston, MA.
Select Media Coverage:
Stains, L. R. (2012, March). The life-altering power of faking it. Men’s Health Magazine, 32-36.
Dold, K. (2011, November). Never fake it again. Women’s Health Magazine, 106-107.
Dingfelder, S. F. (2011, April). Understanding orgasm: Scientists are uncovering evolutionary roots and modern function of the female orgasm – and its fake counterpart. Monitor on Psychology, 42(4), 42-45.
Welsh, J. (2011, June). Uncovering the truth: Why women ‘fake it’. LiveScience. Retrieved from
http://www.livescience.com/14451-fear-intimacy-faking-orgasm.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/07/scitech/main20069732.shtml
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/06/07/why-women-fake-orgasms/.
Interview with Maggie Mays of KFWB News/Talk 980 Radio in Los Angeles, California; June 6, 2011.
Interview with Muireann O’Connell of Phantom FM Radio in Dublin, Ireland; June 9, 2011.