Citation

Jacques-Tiura AJ, Abbey A, Parkhill MR, Zawacki T. Person. Soc. Psychol. Bull. 2007; 33(11): 1467-1480.

Affiliation

Wayne State University. ajacques@wayne.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0146167207306281

PMID

17933743

Abstract

Although many researchers have documented men's tendency to misperceive women's friendliness as a sign of sexual interest, few have examined individual differences in men's attitudes and past experiences that might predict their likelihood of making these types of misjudgments. We applied an expanded version of Malamuth, Sockloskie, Koss, and Tanaka's (1991) Confluence model to predict frequency of misperception of women's sexual intent with a sample of 356 male college students. Using structural equation modeling, hostile masculinity, impersonal sex, and drinking in dating and sexual situations predicted men's frequency of misperception. Furthermore, the more risk factors men possessed, the more times they misperceived women's sexual intentions. Suggestions are made for theory development and future research incorporating situational as well as personality measures in longitudinal studies.

Language: en