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Dr. Jennifer Harman, PhD — Prevalence & Sociological Research

Social psychologist whose work has established population-level prevalence estimates of parental alienation in the US and brought social-science methodology into a field previously dominated by clinical case-study work.

Key contributions

  • Parental Alienating Behaviors: An Unacknowledged Form of Family Violence (Harman, Kruk, Hines — Psychological Bulletin, 2018) — the field's most-cited sociological framing piece.
  • Prevalence research — Harman et al. estimate ~3.8% of US adults report being targets of PA, representing approximately 22 million people.
  • TED Talk: "Parental Alienation: The Silent Epidemic" — accessible public-facing introduction.
  • Multiple peer-reviewed studies operationalising PA conduct at population scale.

Where to find her work

  • CSU faculty page: https://psychology.colostate.edu/faculty/jennifer-harman/
  • Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=harman+jennifer+parental+alienation
  • PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Harman+Jennifer+parental+alienation

Why she matters here

Harman's work is what you cite when the framing question is "is this real" or "how common is this." The 3.8% US prevalence stat and the Psychological Bulletin 2018 framing piece are the two most powerful upstream citations for population-level arguments.

— Catalogued by Alan Markson · AntiAlienate.com · CC BY 4.0