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Sexual Cognition Processes in Men High in the Likelihood to Sexually Harass

Illinois State University

Lynnette M. Stoller

Illinois State University

This research explored the cognitive processes that underlie sexual harassment proclivities in men. It was postulated that men who are high in the likelihood to sexually harass women (LS perceive a connection between sexuality and social dominance. Such a sexuality/dominance cognitive link was hypothesized to bias the processing of social information so as to create an illusory correlation between dominance and sexuality terms in a frequency estimation task. Male subjects viewed a series of word pairs in which sexuality and dominance terms were paired equally often with each other and with neutral control words. High-LSH subjects were more confident in their recognition of the sexuality-dominance pairs and estimated having seen them more frequently than low-LSH subjects. Cognitive and behavioral implications of a sexuality/dominance knowledge structure are discussed.

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 20, No. 2, 163-169 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167294202003


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