Use of the response-latency paradigm for eliciting and evaluating women's responses to the threat of date rape.
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. 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.
RaeAnn E
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Anderson
Shawn P
SP
Cahill
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003380:Courtship; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011902:Rape / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States; D055815:Young Adult