title: Clark and Hatfield's evidence of women's low receptivity to male strangers' sexual offers revisited.
abstract: Although frequently cited, there has been no published scientific replication of Clark and Hatfield's (1989) and Clark's (1990) findings concerning women's low receptivity to male strangers' offers of casual sex. Consistently across three identically designed naturalistic experiments (aggregated N = 144), these authors reported a 0% acceptance rate by women. The present research analyzed an informal "real-life" journalistic project (N= 100) initiated by an Austrian magazine, in which results indicated a 6.1% acceptance rate (95% CI: 2.8-12.6%) for a complete stranger offering women immediate sexual involvement. Various contextual differences, such as setting, subjects' age and attractiveness, and age differences between requestor and receiver, probably contributed to the observed difference in outcome between the journalistic project and the original experiments. The present findings point to the importance of contextual effects in naturalistic investigations of women's receptivity to sexual offers.
authors.affiliation: University of Vienna, Austria. martin.voracek@univie.ac.at
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Voracek
authors.forename: Angelika
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hofhansl
authors.forename: Maryanne L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Fisher
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D003625:Data Collection; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012928:Social Desirability; D012931:Social Environment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors