Kelly Davis

About

Kelly Cue Davis, PhD, is the Interim Associate Dean for Research and a Professor in the Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University. She is also a licensed clinical psychologist. Dr. Davis's primary research interests focus on health risk behaviors, particularly the intersection of sexual violence, sexual risk, and substance use. Her work addresses sexual assault assessment, response, prevention, and policy across various settings including K-12 and higher education institutions, the military, and the legal system. A significant emphasis of her research is on the role of alcohol in sexual assault perpetration and victimization. Dr. Davis has been recognized with a MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health and is a 2023-2024 Fulbright Scholar. She earned her PhD and MS in Clinical Psychology from the University of Washington and holds a BA in Psychology from Trinity University.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Computer Science
• Medicine
• Medical education
• Physics
• Gerontology
• Business
• Biology
• Marketing
• Applied psychology

Selected publications

• Recruitment and retention of underrepresented and vulnerable populations to research

  Public Health Nursing · 2021 · 63 citations

  Per principles outlined in the Belmont Report, research involving human subjects should minimize risks to participants and maximize benefits to participants and society. Recruitment of participants should be equitable. Once enrolled, participants have the right to withdraw at any point. Researchers must balance these principles with pressures to meet enrollment goals and, in the context of repeated-measures designs, retain participants across time. The purpose of this perspective is to describe…

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• Integrating the Confluence Model and I³ Model to predict sexual assault perpetration intentions.

  Psychology of Addictive Behaviors · 2025-01-27 · 4 citations

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  OBJECTIVE: Sexual assault perpetration is widespread among young men. According to the Confluence Model, hostile masculinity and impersonal sex are trait-level factors associated with sexual assault perpetration likelihood. Additionally, state-level factors, including alcohol intoxication, current emotions, and ability to modulate one's emotions, have been tied to sexual assault perpetration via the I3 Model. This study integrates these trait- and state-level factors into a single model to enhan…

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• Preliminary Efficacy of Positive Change(+Change): A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of an Integrated Alcohol and Sexual Assault Prevention Program Tailored by Gender and Sexual Orientation

  Journal of Interpersonal Violence · 2024-09-27 · 4 citations

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  The current study presents preliminary efficacy findings of a pilot randomized controlled trial of Positive Change © ( +Change © ). +Change © utilizes personalized normative feedback to target alcohol use, sexual assault (SA) victimization, SA perpetration, and bystander intervention tailored for heterosexual cisgender men, heterosexual cisgender women, and sexual and gender-minoritized (SGM) groups. Participants included 165 undergraduate students aged 18 to 25 years old from a large public uni…

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• Men's Coercive Condom Use Resistance: The Roles of Alcohol and Emotional Factors

  Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs · 2024-06-20 · 4 citations

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  OBJECTIVE: Men's coercive condom use resistance (CUR) with female partners is common and is associated with greater alcohol consumption than men's noncoercive CUR engagement. Prior research indicates that emotion-related factors are relevant to alcohol-involved coercive CUR. Thus, in this alcohol administration study, we examined emotional factors as distal and proximal predictors of alcohol-involved coercive CUR among young men who have sex with women. METHOD: = 282) were recruited from the loc…

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• Alcohol Expectancies for Sexual Enhancement, Event-Level Alcohol Use, and Likelihood of Sexual Aggression Perpetration: A Timeline Followback Approach

  The Journal of Sex Research · 2024-03-29 · 3 citations

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  = 2.69) who reported having sex at least once during the follow-up period. Multilevel models showed a significant alcohol expectancies X alcohol use interaction at the between-person level: Controlling for time and alcohol expectancies for aggression, stronger alcohol expectancies for sexual enhancement were associated with greater SA perpetration likelihood among men who consumed high amounts of alcohol before sexual encounters but not among men who consumed low amounts. Alcohol prevention prog…

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Recent grants

• Womens HIV Risk: Alcohol Intoxication and Sexual Victimization History

  NIH · $5.0M · 2007–2018

• Alcohol and Condom Use Resistance in Sexually Coercive/Violent Men

  NIH · $423k · 2009–2014

• Men's Sexual Risk Behaviors: Alcohol, Sexual Aggression, and Emotional Factors

  NIH · $3.3M · 2018–2028

Frequent coauthors

• William H. George

  West Virginia University

  158 shared

• Jeanette Norris

  Seattle Indian Health Board

  157 shared

• Tina Zawacki

  The University of Texas at San Antonio

  81 shared

• Joel Martell

  University of Washington

  60 shared

• Cynthia A. Stappenbeck

  Georgia State University

  57 shared

• Susan A. Stoner

  University of Washington

  56 shared

• Pam McAuslan

  University of Michigan–Dearborn

  54 shared

• Antonia Abbey

  Wayne State University

  54 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Clinical Psychology

  University of Washington

  1999

• M.S., Clinical Psychology

  University of Washington

  1995

• B.A., Psychology

  Trinity University

  1992

Awards & honors

• MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health
• 2023-2024 Fulbright Scholar

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