ICPS
2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021
Social Cognitive Processes Underlying Normative Misperception of the Justifiability of Unwanted Sexual Advances
- Caroline Boyd-Rogers
University of Iowa - Teresa Treat
University of Iowa - William Corbin
Arizona State University - Richard Viken
Indiana University
Abstract
We examined the impact of a social norms manipulation on 234 college men’s judgments of the justifiability of unwanted sexual advances. Participants showed marked normative misperception of peers’ judgments, as well as three distinguishable cognitive processes underlying these misperceptions. Effects were more pronounced for men who endorsed more rape-supportive attitudes.
Sexual Behavior
