Denise Hines, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Clark University
Worcester, MA 01610-1477
508.793.7458
Dr. Hines received a B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross in 1995, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Boston University in 1999 and 2004, respectively. From 2003 until 2005, she was an NIMH Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Family Research Laboratory (FRL) and Crimes Against Children Research Center (CCRC) at the University of New Hampshire, and from 2005 until 2007, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Since 2005, she has been affiliated with the University of New Hampshire’s FRL and CCRC as a Research Associate. She has been at Clark since 2007.
Current Teaching and Research
Dr. Hines’ research centers on issues of family violence. As a doctoral student at Boston University, she received an NIMH individual predoctoral National Research Service Award to conduct a study on genetic and environmental influences on intimate partner violence, a study that she plans to replicate and expand on in future research. Through her affiliation with the University of New Hampshire, she conducts research using data from the International Dating Violence Study, in which she investigates the cross-cultural validity of various theories of dating violence. She is currently the Principal Investigator of a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study the mental health of men who sustain partner violence from their female partners and seek help. She is also pursuing grants to study issues of stalking and cyberstalking and its association with partner violence, and racial/ethic differences in outcomes of children who have been referred to Child Protective Services. Dr. Hines teaches undergraduate courses in Quantitative Methods, Psychological Perspectives on Criminal Behavior, Research on Family Violence, and graduate courses in Statistical Methods.
Selected Publications
Hines, D. A., & Straus, M. A. (2007). Binge Drinking and Violence Against Dating Partners: The Mediating Effect of Antisocial Traits and Behaviors in a Multi-national Perspective. Aggressive Behavior, 33, 441-457.
Hines, D. A., & Saudino, K. J. (2007). Etiological similarities between psychological and physical aggression in intimate relationships: A behavioral genetic exploration. Journal of Family Violence, 22, 121-129.
Malley-Morrison, K., & Hines, D. A. (2007). Attending to the role of race/ethnicity in family violence research. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 22, 943-972.
Hines, D. A. (2007). Post-traumatic stress symptoms among men who sustain partner violence: A multi-national study of university students. Psychology of Men and Masculinity, 8, 225-239.
Hines, D. A., & Malley-Morrison, K. (2005). Family Violence in the United States: Defining, Understanding, and Combating Abuse. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Malley-Morrison, K., & Hines, D. A. (2004). Family Violence in a Cultural Perspective: Defining, Understanding, and Combating Abuse. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Hines, D. A., & Saudino, K. J. (2004). Genetic and environmental influences on intimate partner aggression: A preliminary study. Violence and Victims, 19, 701-718.