Likelihood of Stalking Perpetration: Artificially Inflated Social Norms Resonate with Stalking Perpetrators

Stalking likelihood among college students as a function of inflated and deflated social norms and stalking perpetrator status was examined. Although both groups were impacted by social norms, the effects were stronger when they aligned with perpetrators’ status. Perpetrators were more influenced by inflated norms and non-perpetrators by deflated norms.