Select Ongoing & Past Research Projects

Published Papers

  • Role: Co-Project Lead

    Institutional affiliation: The SexTech Lab (Dr. Panteá Farvid; Co-Project Lead: Esenia Cassidy), The New School

    Through interviews of mental health professionals, this work explores client experiences of gender insights and psychedelics.

  • Role: Co-Project Lead

    Institutional affiliation: The SexTech Lab (Dr. Panteá Farvid; Co-Project Lead: Sanjana Basker), The New School

    Using Visual Motif Analysis (Mousa & Farvid, 2022), this research examines the extension of postfeminism into the alt-right online sphere through an aesthetic and rhetorical analysis of online Tradwife content.

  • Role: Research Assistant

    Institutional affiliation: The SexTech Lab (Dr. Sedef Ozoguz), The New School

    Using the Listening Guide developed by feminist psychologist Carol Gilligan (2015), this research examines sexual decision-making, with particular attention to moments of deception—where one outwardly expresses something to a sexual partner incongruent to their internal experiences.

  • Role: Research Assistant

    Institutional affiliation: Pace University, Department of Psychology (Advisor: Lisa Rosenthal; Project Lead: Maria Marchesi Lunardi)

    Through interviews with 20 Brazilian men across various classes, this research explores Brazilian masculinity influenced by hegemonic narratives of gender, culture, media (e.g., porn, social media, film), and mental health.

  • Role: Project Lead

    Institutional affiliation: The Psychopathology Lab (Dr. McWelling Todman), The New School

    This study investigates the relationships between self-reported levels of recent boredom salience (state boredom), boredom proneness (trait boredom), sexual boredom, depression, and the duration of serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) use with adherence to prescription guidelines.

  • Role: Project Lead

    Institutional affiliation: Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, Department of Surgery (Advisor: Dr. R. Jonathan Robitsek)

    I currently lead two projects that investigate intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetrated against women in trauma care settings.

    In one study, I examine the quality of proper documentation of IPV using hospital medical records. I also seek to evaluate the severity and types of injury in these cases.

    In a second study, I utilize data from the National Trauma Data Base to explore injury types, treatment outcomes and care across diverse populations.

  • Riccardi, J., Basker, S., McGinley, C., Nathan, R., Frasier, I., & Farvid, P. (In Press). Where alt-right femininity and illiberal politics collide: unpacking the Tradwife movement using visual motif analysis. Psychology of Women Quarterly.

  • Basker, S., Riccardi, J., Nathan, R., McGinley, C., Frasier, I., & Farvid, P. (In Press). Postfeminism goes alt-right: The rise and impact of the Tradwife influencer movement. Psychology of Women Quarterly.

  • Cassidy, E., Riccardi, J., Healy, B., Golakoti, S. S. M., & Farvid, P. (In Press). Psychedelics and psychological healing among gender-diverse clients: Key informant perspectives. Women & Therapy.

  • Farvid, P., Pond, T., Collens, P., Goffi, E. & Riccardi, J. (In Press). “We don't have to live in such a constrained world”: Plurisexual women navigating heteronormativity. Journal of Sex Research.

  • Read it here

    Riccardi, J., Revill, A., McHugh, S., Weiss, E., Farvid, P., & Todman, M. (2026). Levels of reported depression, boredom salience, and sexual boredom as a function of length of time on antidepressant medications. Psychological Reports. https://doi.org/10.1177/00332941261436742

  • Read it here

    Siderides, C., Cebeci, C., Riccardi J., et al.(2025).A Verbal Pre-Screen for Intrusive Symptoms Improves Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Screening Efficiency. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery.

Scholarly Book Chapters

  • Book Chapter

    Farvid, P., Nathan, R., Riccardi, J., & Whitmer, A. (2023). Gender, Power and Agency in Online Sex Work: An Expanded Framework of (Constrained) Consent in the Context of “Camming.” Consent: Gender, Power, and Subjectivity (p. 234-247). Routledge.