Erin B. Cooper, M.A.
E-mail: erin.b.cooper@temple.edu
Bio: Erin is currently in her fourth 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 Behavior and is currently gaining clinical experience at the Philadelphia Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center doing couples, individual, and group therapy.
Representative Presentations and/or Publications:
Reid, R. C., Carpenter, B. N., Cooper, E. B., & Olson, J. (submitted). Facets of perfectionism in a patient sample of hypersexual men.
Cooper, E. B., Fauber, R. L. (submitted). Why Women Fake it: Development of the Faking Orgasm Scale.
Cooper, E. B. (August, 2011). Emotion Dysregulation Predicts Motivations for Faking Orgasm during Oral Sex and Sexual Intercourse. Paper presented at Division 35 round-table 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:
Welsh, J. (June, 2011). Uncovering the truth: Why women ‘fake it’. LiveScience.
http://www.livescience.com/14451-fear-intimacy-faking-orgasm.html, June 6, 2011;
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/07/scitech/main20069732.shtml, June 7, 2011;
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/06/07/why-women-fake-orgasms/, June 7, 2011.
Interview with Maggie Mays of KFWB News/Talk 980 Radio in Los Angeles, California; June 6, 2011.
Katz, A. (June, 2011). Why she fakes it. Men’s Health. http://blogs.menshealth.com/health-headlines/why-she-fakes-it/2011/06/15, June 15, 2011.
Dingfelder, S. F. (April, 2011). 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.