APS
APS Virtual Poster Showcase · 2020
Perceptions of Believability in a Hypothetical Sexual Assault Narrative
- Jenny Rinehart
University of California, Irvine - Erica Nason
Texas State University - Ryan Ross
University of New Mexico - Kristen Vitek
University of New Mexico - Meredith Blackwell
University of New Mexico - Elizabeth Yeater
University of New Mexico
Abstract
This study examined college students’ ratings of believability of a hypothetical sexual assault narrative. Alcohol use and perpetrator’s social status did not influence ratings of believability. Men rated the narrative as less believable than women, but these gender differences became non-significant when accounting for rape myth acceptance and rape empathy.
Sexuality/Sexual Behavior
