TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2001//
TI  - Paradoxical Effect of Surveyor's Conservative versus Provocative Clothing on Rape Myth Acceptance of Males and Females
JO  - Journal of psychology and human sexuality
A1  - Bryant, Jessica A.
A1  - Mealey, Linda
A1  - Herzog, Elizabeth
A1  - Rychwalski, Wendy
SP  - 55
EP  - 66
VL  - 13
IS  - 1
N2  - For decades researchers have been examining attitudes, cultural beliefs, and stereotypes of rape known as "rape myths," yet demand characteristics of laboratory research can affect participant responses. To investigate one relevant situational variable, 83 young adults approached in a public mall were given the Rape Myth Acceptance Scale (RMAS), by one of two female researchers. One researcher dressed conservatively while the other dressed provocatively; half way through the study the researchers switched clothing to counterbalance any other experimenter effects besides that of clothing. A 2 3 2 between subjects ANOVA found that: (1) as expected, men scored higher than women on the RMAS; (2) surprisingly, both men and women scored higher on the RMAS when the researcher was dressed conservatively than dressed provocatively; (3) this paradoxical effect of researcher's clothing was more pronounced for men's scores than women's. We interpret this experimenter effect in two ways: (1) the respondents may not have wanted to offend the researcher dressed in provocative clothing or (2) respondents felt more free to share their RMA with the researcher who was dressed conservatively. The large effect of a simple situational variable calls into question the generalizability of specific studies of sexual attitudes. (Abstract Adapted from Source: Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by The Haworth Press)  Adult Perceptions Adult Attitudes Rape Myth Rape Perceptions Rape Victim Sexual Assault Perceptions Sexual Assault Victim Clothing Perceptions About Victim Gender Differences Violence Against Women Adult Female Adult Male Male Perceptions Female Perceptions 02-06<p />
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SN  - 0890-7064
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
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