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Charlotte Patterson

Professor of Psychology and Women, Gender & Sexuality

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    Charlotte J. Patterson is a Professor in the UVA Department of Psychology and in the Center for Children, Families, and the Law, and is Director of UVA’s interdisciplinary program, Women, Gender, and Sexuality (WGS). Her research focuses on the psychology of sexual orientation, with an emphasis on sexual orientation, human development, and family lives...

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Recent Publications

  • Division of labor among gay fathers: Associations with parent, couple, and child adjustment.
  • Racial and sexual minority women’s receipt of medical assistance to become pregnant.
  • Socialization in the context of family diversity
  • Sexual identity, partner gender, and sexual health among adolescent girls in the United States
  • Sexual orientation and sexual and reproductive health among adolescent young women in the United States
  • Coparenting among lesbian, gay, and heterosexual couples: Associations with adopted children's outcomes
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Contact

Department of Psychology
 
College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
434-924-0664
PO BOX 400400
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4400 
cjp@virginia.edu

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