Effects of gender, rape-supportive attitudes, and explicit instruction on perceptions of women's momentary sexual interest.

ABSTRACT: Contemporary models of male-initiated sexual aggression toward female acquaintances implicate misperception of women's sexual interest. This study investigated the effects of gender, rape-supportive attitudes and an instructional manipulation on college students' sexual-interest judgments. Two hundred seventy-six women and 220 men judged the cues of momentary sexual interest expressed by photographed women; half received instruction on the differential validity of nonverbal cues of sexual interest for estimation of women's momentary sexual interest. Participants also completed an assessment of rape-supportive attitudes. Overall, college students' perceptions of women's momentary sexual interest are compromised both nomothetically and idiographically. Both male and female college students r

SUBMITTER: Treat TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5393949 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature