Citation

Diehl C, Rees J, Bohner G. Violence Against Women 2018; 24(2): 123-143.

Affiliation

Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801216678092

PMID

27940501

Abstract

Previous research has shown that short-term mating orientation (STMO) and hostile sexism (HS) selectively predict different types of sexual harassment. In a priming experiment, we studied the situational malleability of those effects. Male participants could repeatedly send sexist jokes (gender harassment), harassing remarks (unwanted sexual attention), or nonharassing messages to a (computer-simulated) female target. Before entering the laboratory, participants were unobtrusively primed with the concepts of either sexuality or power. As hypothesized, sexuality priming strengthened the link between STMO and unwanted sexual attention, whereas power priming strengthened the link between HS and gender harassment. Practical implications are discussed.

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Language: en