Social Cognitive Processes Underlying Normative Misperception of Sexual Judgments.

ABSTRACT: Acquaintance-initiated sexually aggressive behavior (SAB) is a widespread problem on college campuses, and intervention strategies thus far have not produced sustained reductions in SAB. Peer-related social norms and cognitive processes underlying sexual decision-making have separately been implicated in SAB. The present study integrates this work by examining the effect of perspective (self vs. typical college male referent) on college men's judgments of the justifiability of unwanted sexual advances, determining the cognitive processes underlying men's misperceptions, and evaluating rape-supportive attitudes (RSA) as a correlate of the implicated processes. College men attracted to women (n = 217) completed the Heterosocial Perception Survey-Revised, in which they judged the justifiabili

SUBMITTER: Boyd-Rogers CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12324715 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature