Men's and Women's Reactions to Hypothetical Sexual Advances: The Role of Initiator Socioeconomic Status and Level of Coercion

摘要: Research on sexual coercion has revealed a beauty bias in that participants judge coercive advances committed by attractive individuals as more acceptable than unattractive individuals. In this study, we examined the extent to which there exists similar socioeconomic status people's perceptions. Participants (N = 160) read 1 of 8 vignettes depicted and responded several questions about acceptability initiator's behavior. The coerciveness advance was manipulated varying whether touch occurred gentle manner with no threat or forceful harm. Male always received vignette portrayed woman initiating advance, female man advance. Socioeconomic initiator what type clothing he/she wore (shabby expensive) car drove (old new). Results indicated touch, men found did women. rated wealthy poor However, greater appeared hold up only case touch. addition, be prone were Methodological limitations future directions are discussed.