Faculty and Staff
Angela Neal
Title: | Associate Professor |
Department: | Business, Behavioral Sciences, Criminal Justice, and Education USC Lancaster |
Email: | amneal@mailbox.sc.edu |
Phone: | 803-313-7025 |
Fax: | 803-313-7106 |
Office: | Bradley 216 |

Background
Her main area of research is social psychology. It is the goal of her research to uncover why people behave the ways they do in relationships and social situations in order to both further the field and better our understanding of human behavior.
Publications
Neal, A. M., Dixon, K. J., Edwards, K. M., & Gidycz, C. A. (2015). Why did she do
it? College women’s motives for intimate partner violence perpetration. Partner Abuse,
6(4),
425-441. DOI: 10.1891/1946-6560.6.4.425
Edwards, K. M., Sylaska, K. M., & Neal, A. M. (2015). Intimate partner violence among
sexual minority populations: A critical review of the literature and agenda for future
research. Psychology of Violence, Vol 5(2), 112-121. DOI: 10.1037/a0038656
Neal, A. M., & Lemay, E. P., Jr. (2014). How partners' temptation leads to their heightened commitment: The daily management of partners' extradyadic temptation. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 31(7), 938-957. DOI: 10.1177/0265407513512745
Lemay, E. P., Jr., & Neal, A. M. (2014). Accurate and biased perceptions of responsive
support predict well-being. Motivation and Emotion, 38(2), 270-286. DOI: 10.1007/s11031-013-9381-2
Lemay, E. P., Jr., & Neal, A. M. (2013). The wishful memory of interpersonal responsiveness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104(4), 653-672. DOI: 10.1037/a0030422
Lemay, E. P., Jr., Bechis, M. A., Martin, J., Neal, A. M., & Coyne, C. (2013). Concealing negative evaluations of a romantic partner’s physical attractiveness. Personal Relationships, 20, 669-689. DOI: 10.1111/pere.12007
Media Citations:
Eckel, S. (2016, November). Listening to jealousy. Psychology Today. Retrieved from
https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201611/listening-jealousy?collection=1095151.
Neal, A. M. (2015, Spring). An investigation of both partners’ perspectives of intimate partner violence perpetration. The Rookie, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Newsletter. Retrieved from https://www.spssi.org/_data/n_0001/resources/live/SPSSI-Forward-Issue-253-Spring-2015.pdf
Domonell, K. (2014, January). Does she think you’re cheating? Look for these signs, then learn how to ease her mind. Men’s Health. Retrieved from http://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/does-she-think-you-re-cheating.