Welcome to PrismResearch.org

Welcome to PrismResearch.org : Psychosocial Research Initiative on Sexual Minorities. We are a research team dedicated to promoting understanding of and psychosocial improvement in the lives of sexual minorities, focusing on lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and same-gender loving individuals. This research initiative was founded by Sharon Rostosky, Ph.D., Department of Educational & Counseling Psychology, and Ellen Riggle, Ph.D., Department of Political Science and the Program in Gender and Women's Studies, at the University of Kentucky. Members of our research team come from many departments throughout the university, as well as from other universities.

Please click here to read the press release from the National Sexuality Resource Center about our article on the marriage amendment study

To find Press Releases on our research and notes from our presentations, please click on the press release link. The latest APA press release is on the press release page.

Please click here if you would like to read our column, The Positive View, published in the GLSO Newsletter

We invite you to explore our research findings, read the abstracts of our publications and get pre-publication downloads by visiting "Publications and Papers ". The "In Progress" section includes preliminary results of studies.

If you have questions about our research initiative, you may contact Dr. Sherry Rostosky at rostosky@coe.uky.edu or Dr. Ellen Riggle at e.riggle@uky.edu

If you would like to be notified of future studies, please send an email with your first name and email address to e.riggle@uky.edu

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Sharon Scales Rostosky, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology, University of Kentucky

Ellen D.B. Riggle, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science and Gender and Women's Studies, University of Kentucky