Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Harris, Lauren E. 2023. The virus be damned: Older adults seek romantic relationships during a pandemic. Journal of Women & Aging, 36(2), 166-179. 10.1080/08952841.2023.2282025
Reed, Megan N., Linda Li, Luca Maria Pesando, Lauren E. Harris, Frank F. Furstenberg, and Julien O. Teitler. 2023. Family Communication with Kin in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Socius. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23780231231199388
Harris, Lauren E. 2023. Older Adults on the Dating Market: The Role of Family Caregiving Responsibilities. Journal of Marriage and Family 85(3):739–759. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12904
Harris, Lauren E. and Jerry A. Jacobs. 2023. Emerging Ideas: Digital Parenting Advice: Online Guidance Regarding Children’s Use of the Internet and Social Media. Family Relations 72(5):2551–2568. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12813
Harris, Lauren E. 2021. Committing Before Cohabiting: Pathways to Marriage Among Middle-Class Couples. Journal of Family Issues 42(8):1762-1786. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0192513X20957049
Furstenberg, Frank F., Lauren E. Harris, Luca Maria Pesando, and Megan N. Reed. 2020. Kinship Practices Among Alternative Family Forms in Western Industrialized Societies. Journal of Marriage and Family 82(5):1403-1430. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/RZMUVBVRMNYM6FZIGURN?target=10.1111/jomf.12712
Works in Progress
Harris, Lauren E. Initiating an Intrauterine Device: How Adolescent and Young Adult Women Exercise Autonomy in the Decision-Making Process. Forthcoming.
Harris, Lauren E. I Don’t Need Your Money, I have My Own: Financial Considerations in Older Adult Repartnering. Under Review.
Harris, Lauren E. and Celia M. Melanson. “The Shop is Not Closed”: Sex and Sexuality Among Older Adult Daters. In Progress.
Other Publications
Harris, Lauren E. Older Adults Searching for Love: The Experiences and Motivations of Later Life Repartnering. National Council on Family Relations Report, Summer 2024. https://www.ncfr.org/ncfr-report/summer-2024/older-adults-searching-love-experiences-motivations-later-life-repartnering
Harris, Lauren E. February 2024. Don’t Worry, We’ll Eat Outside: Older Adult Dating in a Pandemic. Council on Contemporary Families blog post. The Society Pages. https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/
Harris, Lauren E. January 2024. Get by with a little help from my extended family: Communication with collateral kin in a crisis. Council on Contemporary Families blog post. The Society Pages. https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/
Harris, Lauren E. November 2023. What The Golden Bachelor Gets Right About Older Adult Dating. Contexts Magazine blog post. https://contexts.org/blog/golden-bachelor/
Harris, Lauren E. July 2023. Single Older Man Seeks Single Older Woman… Without Family Baggage. Council on Contemporary Families blog post. The Society Pages. https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2023/07/04/single-older-man-seeks-single-older-woman-without-family-baggage/
Research In The Press
Coffey, Donavyn. 2024, August 13. Older Adults Redefine Love to Combat Loneliness. WebMD. https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20240813/older-adults-redefine-love-to-combat-loneliness
Stassi, Laura (Host). 2024, February 22. Revisiting that Other Reality Dating Show (S6, E2) [Audio podcast episode]. Featured in Dating While Gray. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revisiting-that-other-reality-dating-show/id1497374383?i=1000646370352
Underwood, Katherine. 2024, February 14. Normalizing Love for Any Age. Interviewed on WMUR. https://www.wmur.com/article/gray-dating-unh-new-hampshire-aarp/46905489
Testa, Keith. 2024, February 6. Fall In Love with Relationship Research This Valentine’s Day. UNH Today. https://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2024/02/fall-love-relationship-research-valentines-day
Wise, Dan (Host). February 2024. Interviewed on AARP’s Senior Speak NH, ConcordTV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQuzrCTTg7E
Roberson, Patricia N. E., Sarah Woods, and Sesen Negash (Hosts). 2023, November 7. Communicating in a Crisis (S5, E5) [Audio podcast episode]. In Attached. https://attachedpodcast.com/podcast/s5e5
Stassi, Laura (Host). 2023, October 26. Dating, With Children (S4, E4) [Audio podcast episode]. Interviewed for Dating While Gray. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/969137083/dating-while-gray
Stassi, Laura (Host). 2023, October 5. All That Glitters (S4, E1) [Audio podcast episode]. Interviewed for Dating While Gray. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/969137083/dating-while-gray
White, Jen (Host). 2023, October 4. ‘The Golden Bachelor’ and finding love After 60 [Radio show episode]. Interviewed for 1A. https://wamu.org/story/23/10/03/the-golden-bachelor-and-finding-love-after-60/
Schmitgen, Nicole. August 24, 2023. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue: Online Dating May Have a Gendered View. Discoveries blog post. The Society Pages. https://thesocietypages.org/discoveries/2023/08/24/roses-are-red-violets-are-blue-online-dating-may-have-a-gendered-view/
Larson, Vicki. 2023. The Surprising Reason Why Older Single Men Don’t Find Older Single Women Desirable. OMGChronicles.com. https://omgchronicles.medium.com/the-surprising-reason-why-older-single-men-dont-find-older-single-women-desirable-a85c4da48098
Roberson, Patricia N. E., Sarah Woods, and Sesen Negash (Hosts). 2023, February 14. Looking for Love in All the Places: Workplace Infidelity, Gray Dating, and Teens Opening Up (S4, E9) [Audio podcast episode]. In Attached. https://attachedpodcast.com/podcast/s4e9
Lauren E. Harris, PhD 