TY - JOUR
AU - Perkins, James
AB - Although the field of evolutionary psychology has been perceived to generate predictions that are untestable, one potentially falsifiable prediction of the evolutionary approach is that women should be less upset by unwanted sexual advances from high than from low status men. Three experiments tested this hypothesis within a workplace and an academic setting. Across the first two experiments, women and men were actually more upset by perceived sexual harassment from higher than lower status members of the other sex. Results of Study 3 suggested that women only showed this difference when there was a power relationship involved. These results conflict with the evolutionary prediction and support a sociocultural explanation of reactions to sexual harassment; that is, that they are influenced by power differentials.
TI - A Test of Evolutionary and Sociocultural Explanations of Reactions to Sexual Harassment
JO - Sex Roles
DO - 10.1023/A:1025160120455
DA - 2004-09-28
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/a-test-of-evolutionary-and-sociocultural-explanations-of-reactions-to-pQLZCcMfPH
SP - 343
EP - 351
VL - 49
IS - 8
DP - DeepDyve
ER -