Contact Information
Location: University of DenverDepartment of Psychology
Frontier Hall Mailing Address
The Relationship Center
2155 South Race Street
Denver, CO 80208 Phone#: 303-871-3806
Fax#: 303-871-4747
Director: Wyndol Furman
ProjectSTAR@du.edu
Meredith Jones
Graduate Student
Meredith is a fourth-year graduate student in the Clinical Child Ph.D.
Program who works in the Relationship Center with Dr. Wyndol Furman.
She codes the Romantic Interview and is interested in interpersonal
relationships and sexual behavior in adolescence and emerging
adulthood. Her specific goals are to create biopsychosocial models of
sexual behavior, examine multiple measures and dimensions of young
people's sexual activity, and use longitudinal modeling in SEM and HLM
to examine developmental change. Meredith studied the connections
between representations of attachment in adolescent romantic
relationships and sexual behavior for her M.A. thesis, with a focus on
developing a multifaceted conceptualization of sexual behavior and
using both interview and self-report data. For her dissertation, she
will be working with Dr. Furman and Dr. Julia Dmitrieva to examine
gene x environment, gene x person, and person x environment
interactions in the development of sexual behavior using molecular
genetic techniques in conjunction with Project STAR.
Education: B.A. in Psychology and Anthropology from Brown University
in Providence, RI. M.A. in Clinical Child Psychology from the
University of Denver, 2008.
Personal: Meredith is originally from Wilmington, Delaware, and spent
two years as the coordinator of the Temple University Infant Lab in
Philadelphia. She enjoys traveling, going to see live music, playing
poker, the Philadelphia Eagles and Phillies, watching Welsh rugby and
learning to ski.
Romantic representations and sexual behavior in adolescence (Jones & Furman, 2008)