soraya giaccardi | media psychologist

speaking.

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press.

selected talks.

  • Bringing Up Boys in a Digital World for Children & Screens Ask The Experts Webinar

  • Environmental Issues in Entertainment for Nielsen’s Green/Cares speaker series

  • Latine Women in Media for Occidental College’s The Matrix Series

  • Teens, Video Games, & Masculinity for Geffen Academy at UCLA’s Digital Media Awareness Group

  • Women in Sports for The Representation Project’s #RespectHerGame panel event

  • The Double-Edged Sword of Online Gaming for The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media’s 2021 See Jane Salon

  • Why Media Representations Matter for The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media’s 2020 Social Justice Teach-In

  • Children’s TV in 2019 for The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media’s 2019 See Jane Salon

  • Women in STEM for the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program, #HiddenNoMore: Empowering Women Leaders in STEM

  • Finding Your Voice: Overcoming the Imposter Syndrome for Los Angeles County’s Women’s Leadership Conference

  • The Power of Women: On the Screens & Behind the Scenes for the Writer’s Guild of America West,
    We’re Mad as Hell and We’re Not Going to Take it Anymore: A WGA Town Hall on Gender Parity in TV & Film

  • Pornography & Sexual Socialization at the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood Media Pre-Conference

academic conference presentations.

*Perez, R. & Giaccardi, S. (2018, May). A Fruit Loop amongst the Cheerios: LGBT characters in modern sitcoms. Poster to be presented at the 27th Annual UCLA Psychology Undergraduate Conference in Los Angeles, California. 

*Perez, R. & Giaccardi, S. (2018, April). Let me be perfectly Queer: We need better media representation. Poster presented at the 4th Annual Mental Health Research Symposium, in Farmington Hills, Michigan. 

Giaccardi, S. (2016, November). Pornography use, beliefs about sexuality, and sexual deception. In Frats, Bros, Media, and Pornos: Contexts of Young Men’s Dating Violence. Symposium to be presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality Conference in Phoenix, AZ.

Giaccardi, S. (2016, June). Pornography use and sexual deception. In Investigating Campus Rape Culture: Beyond Blaming the Victim. Symposium presented at the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Conference, Minneapolis, MN.

Seabrook, R.C., Ward, L.M., Giaccardi, S. (2016, June). A longitudinal analysis of fraternity culture and sexual assault. In Investigating Campus Rape Culture: Beyond Blaming the Victim. Symposium presented at the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Conference, Minneapolis, MN.  

Ward, L.M., Giaccardi, S., & Seabrook, R.C. (2016, March). Less than human: Media use, objectification of women, and young men’s attitudes toward dating aggression. In Sexual socialization and gendered violence in the media. Symposium presented at the Association for Women in Psychology Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.

Giaccardi, S., Kernsmith, P., Smith-Darden, J., & Kernsmith, R. (2015, March). Pornography exposure and adolescent experiences of gender role strain. In L.M. Ward (Chair), Gleaned from the screen: Modern media and adolescents’ romantic and sexual relationships. Symposium presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Philadelphia, PA.

Giaccardi, S. (2015, March). Media use and men’s risk behavior: Examining the role of masculinity ideology. Developmental Area Brownbag, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Giaccardi, S., Seabrook, R.C., & Ward, L.M. (2014, October). Media contributions to adolescent gender attitudes. Poster presented at the Gender Development Conference, San Francisco, CA.  

Giaccardi, S., Ward, L.M, Seabrook, R.C., & Lippman, J. (2014, March). Media use and risk behavior: Looking at masculinity ideology. In R.Seabrook (Chair), Bad for their health? Media use and adolescent mental and physical health. Symposium presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Austin, TX.

 Giaccardi, S. (2014, March). In R.C. Seabrook (Chair), Bad for their health? Media use and adolescent mental and physical health. Symposium presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Austin, TX.

Giaccardi, S., & Ward, L.M (2013, August). Disentangling media effects through perceived realism measures. Poster presented at the American Psychological Association Conference, Honolulu, HI.  

*supervised undergraduate projects