Lara Seefeld, PhD
Dr. Lara Seefeld joined the CaSH lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 2025, following completion of her PhD in Perinatal Psychology at the Technical University Dresden, Germany. She has published on the importance of parents’ subjective birth experience for their postpartum mental health, parent-child bonding, and couples’ relationship satisfaction, for which she has mostly used dyadic data […]
Infographic – Connecting through touch!
Click here for the full document! Enjoy an infographic summarizing our paper. Tavares, I.*, Brandelli, Y.*, Dawson, S. J., Debrot, A., Impett, E. A. & Rosen, N. O. (2024). Connecting through touch: Attitudes toward touch in pregnancy are associated with couples’ sexual and affectionate behaviors across the transition to parenthood. Journal of Social and Personal […]
Infographic – Does reading your mood get you in the mood?
Click here for the full document! Enjoy an infographic summarizing our paper. Huberman, J. S. p, Tavares, I. M. p, Goruk, K. J.u, & Rosen, N. O. (2025). Empathic accuracy for a partner’s negative affect is associated with couples’ daily sexual wellbeing. Journal of Family Psychology. Infographic by Jackie Huberman
Infographic – Communication patterns during sexual conflict
Click here for the full document! Enjoy an infographic summarizing our paper. Rosen, N. O., Dubé, J. P. *, Bosisio, M., & Bergeron, S. (2024). Do demand-withdrawal communication patterns during sexual conflict predict couples’ sexual and relationship well-being? An observational and longitudinal study. Journal of Sex Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2024.2386997 Infographic by Dr Natalie Rosen
Infographic – Intimacy promotes wellbeing on a daily basis and over one year
Click here for the full document! Enjoy an infographic summarizing our paper. Bergeron, S., Vaillancourt-Morel, M-P., Péloquin, K., & Rosen, N. O. (2024). Intimacy promotes couples’ sexual wellbeing on a daily basis and over one year: The role of positive sexual cues. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 53, 2737-49. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-024-02912-7 (Infographic by Megan Bautista)
Infographic – Dyadic coping and sexual wellbeing in couples seeking assisted reproductive technology
Click here for the full document! Enjoy an infographic summarizing our paper. El Amiri, S., Rosen, N. O., Brassard, A., Rossi, M. A.g, Bergeron, S. & Péloquin, K. (2023). Dyadic coping and sexual well-being in couples seeking assisted reproductive technology. Family Relations , 72, 3134-51. http://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12874 Infographic by Audrey Chu
Why pleasing others can hurt: Sexual activity for external validation affects men with lower desire
By Andronika Kelso and Grace Wang This blog is a summary of our published article: McClung, E., Rosen, N. O., Dubé, J. P., Wang, G. A., & Corsini-Munt, S. (2023b). Motivation when desire is low: Associations between sexual motivation and sexual intimacy, sexual satisfaction, and sexual distress for men with hypoactive sexual desire disorder […]
Infographic – Why pleasing others can hurt
Click here for the full document! Enjoy an infographic summarizing our paper. McClung, E., Rosen, N. O., Dubé, J. P., Wang, G. A., & Corsini-Munt, S. (2023). Motivation when desire is low: Associations between sexual motivation and sexual intimacy, sexual satisfaction, and sexual distress for men with Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder and their partners. Archives […]
The power of compassion for new parents: The role of self-compassion and compassionate love in sexual and relational well-being
By Alice Bourne This blog is a summary of our published article: Dawson, S. J., Fitzpatrick, E. T., Farm, G. H.-J., & Rosen, N. O. (2023). Self-compassion and compassionate love are positively associated with expectant and new parent couples sexual and relational well-being. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 52, 3393–3404 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-023-02658-8 The perinatal period […]
What to expect when you’re expecting: What is the role of perinatal sex education?
By Audrey Chu This blog is a summary of our published article: Fitzpatrick, E. T., Rosen, N. O., & Dawson, S. J. (2023). What to expect when you’re expecting: Perinatal sexual education is linked with couples’ sexual well-being in pregnancy and the postpartum. Journal of Sex Research, 60(9), 1269-1282. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2023.2193570 The period from pregnancy […]
