Academic Publications & Papers

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Selterman, D., Welker, K., & Duong, M. (2025). Moral reframing accuracy is enhanced through an educational intervention: Evidence from the Perspectives program. Journal of Moral Education. 

Selterman, D., Bowen, J., Datwani, R., Moors, A. C. (2025). Moral Judgment Toward Individuals in Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships As A Function of Moral Foundations And Disgust Sensitivity. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 

Selterman, D., Joel, S., & Dale, V. (2023). No Remorse: Sexual Infidelity is Not Clearly Linked with Relationship Satisfaction or Well-Being in Ashley Madison Users. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 52(6):2561-2573. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-023-02573-y  

Selterman, D., & Gideon, S. (2022). Experiences of Romantic Attraction Are Similar Across Dating Apps and Offline Dates in Young Adults. Journal of Social Psychology Research, 1(2), 145–163. https://doi.org/10.37256/jspr.1220221542

Lehmiller, J. J., & Selterman, D. (2022). 17 The Nature of Infidelity in Nonheterosexual Relationships. In T. DeLecce & T. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of infidelity (pp. 373–396). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197502891.013.19  

Selterman, D. (2022). Monogamy and Relationship Ethics. Routledge Encyclopedia of Psychology in the Real World.

Selterman, D., Garcia, J., & Tsapelas, I. (2020). What Do People Do, Say, and Feel When They Have Affairs? Associations Between Extradyadic Infidelity Motives with Behavioral, Emotional, and Sexual Outcomes. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy. DOI: 10.1080/0092623X.2020.1856987. https://osf.io/kd9rt/  

Selterman, D., Gesselman, A. N., Moors, A. C. (2019). Sexuality Through the Lens of Secure Base Dynamics: Individual Differences in Sexploration. Personality and Individual Differences, 147, 229-236. https://osf.io/gv8y5/  

Selterman, D. (2019). Altruistic Punishment in the Classroom: An Update on the Tragedy of the Commons Extra Credit Question. Teaching of Psychology, 46(2), 153-157.

Selterman, D., Garcia, J., & Tsapelas, I. (2019). Motivations for Extra-Dyadic Infidelity Revisited. The Journal of Sex Research, 56(3), 273-286. osf.io/edcba/

Mattingly, B. A., McIntyre, K. P., & Selterman, D. (2018).  Individual differences and romantic relationships: Bidirectional influences on self and relational processes. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. Shackelford (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of personality and individual differences. London, UK: SAGE.

Selterman, D., Moors, A. C., & Koleva, S. (2018). Moral Judgment Toward Relationship Betrayals (and Those Who Commit Them). Personal Relationships, 25(1), 65-86. osf.io/nr4q7/

Moors, A. C., Conley, T. D., & Selterman, D. (2017). Personality Correlates of Attitudes and Desire to Engage in Consensual Non-monogamy among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals. Journal of Bisexuality, 17(4), 418-434.

Open Science Collaboration (2017). Maximizing the reproducibility of your research.  In S. O. Lilienfeld & I. D. Waldman (Eds.), Psychological Science Under Scrutiny: Recent Challenges and Proposed Solutions (pp. 3-21). New York, NY: Wiley.  

Selterman, D. (2016). Attitudes Toward Dreaming Predict Subjective Well-Being Outcomes Mediated Through Emotional Positivity Bias. The International Journal of Dream Research, 9 (1), 34-39.

Selterman, D. (2016). On the Current State of Science Journalism. In-Mind Magazine, 29.

Selterman, D. & Koleva, S. (2015). Moral judgment of close relationship behaviors. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 32(7), 922-945.

Selterman, D., Chagnon, E., & Mackinnon, S. (2015). Do Men and Women Exhibit Different Preferences for Mates? A Replication of Eastwick & Finkel (2008). SAGE Open, 5(3).

Open Science Collaboration (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349 (6251). DOI: 10.1126/science.aac4716

Selterman, D., Mashek, D. J., Balzarini, R., & Holmes, B. M. (2014). Teaching about consensual non-monogamy in relationship science and sexuality courses. Relationship Research News, 13 (2), 5-11.

Selterman, D. (2014). “Fast Friends”: A scientific icebreaker. University of Maryland Teaching & Learning News, 24 (2). Retrieved from http://blog.umd.edu/cte/2014/08/20/fast-friends-ascientific-icebreaker/

Koleva, S., Selterman, D., Iyer, R., Ditto, P., & Graham, J. (2014). The moral compass of insecurity: Anxious and avoidant attachment predict moral judgment. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5(2), 185-194.

Selterman, D., Apetroaia, A., Riela, S. & Aron, A. (2014). Dreaming of you: Romantic behavior and emotion in dreams of significant others predict subsequent relational behavior. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5(1), 111-118.

Open Science Collaboration. (2014).  The Reproducibility Project: A model of large-scale collaboration for empirical research on reproducibility. In V. Stodden, F. Leisch, & R. Peng (Eds.), Implementing Reproducible Computational Research (A Volume in The R Series) (pp. 299-323).  New York, NY: Taylor & Francis.

Selterman, D., & Maier, M. (2013). Secure attachment and material reward both attenuate romantic jealousy. Motivation and Emotion, 37(4), 765-775.

Mohr, J. J., Selterman, D., & Fassinger, R. E. (2013). Romantic attachment and relationship functioning in same-sex couples. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 60(1), 72-82.

Open Science Collaboration. (2012). An open, large-scale, collaborative effort to estimate the reproducibility of psychological science.  Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7(6), 657-660.  

Selterman, D., Apetroaia, A., & Waters, E. (2012). Script-like attachment representations in dreams containing current romantic partners. Attachment & Human Development, 14(5), 501-515.

Selterman, D. (2012).  Attachment, sleep and dreams. In D. Barrett and P. McNamara (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.

Selterman, D. (2010). Positive psychology and the importance of close relationships in TV sitcoms: That 70s Show, Entourage, and How I Met Your Mother. In-Mind Magazine, 11.

Selterman, D., & Drigotas, S. (2009). Attachment styles and emotional content, stress, and conflict in dreams of romantic partners. Dreaming, 19(3), 135-151.