TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Use of the response-latency paradigm for eliciting and evaluating women's responses to the threat of date rape
JO  - Violence and victims
A1  - Anderson, RaeAnn E.
A1  - Cahill, Shawn P.
SP  - 248
EP  - 261
VL  - 29
IS  - 2
N2  - This study evaluates the novel use of the response-latency paradigm to elicit women's hypothetical behavioral responses to the threat of acquaintance rape. There were 146 college women recruited and randomly assigned to 4 study conditions. In 3 of the conditions, the threat to which participants responded was experimentally controlled; in the fourth control condition, participants selected the level of threat themselves, following standard procedure of the response-latency paradigm. <br><br>RESULTS indicated that participant's responses became more intense as threat levels increased; this relationship was not moderated by whether the threat was controlled by the experimenter or the participant. These results indicate the response-latency paradigm is useful for eliciting and evaluating women's hypothetical responses to the threat of acquaintance rape to learn more about this process.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0886-6708
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -