@article{ref1,
title="Who perceives sexual harassment? Sex differences and the impact of mate value, sex of perpetrator, and sex of target",
journal="Personality and individual differences",
year="2022",
author="Hehman, Jessica A. and Salmon, Catherine A. and Pulford, Anthony and Ramirez, Eric and Jonason, Peter K.",
volume="185",
number="",
pages="e111288-e111288",
abstract="The #MeToo movement has drawn attention to sexual harassment in the workplace. Using an adaptationist approach, two studies were designed to investigate sex differences in perceptions of a sexually ambiguous comment and individual differences that may explain variation in those perceptions. Study 1 (n = 179) was a within-subjects study to investigate whether there is a sex difference in perceptions of sexual harassment and whether sex of speaker/target influences these perceptions. We found women were more likely than men to perceive the comment as sexual harassment when the speaker was a woman. However, for men and women, the comment was more likely to be perceived as sexual harassment, insulting, intentional, and less funny when the speaker was a man and the target was a woman. Study 2 (n = 742) was a between-subject study examining the effect of individual differences on perceptions of sexual harassment. We found, beyond sex differences and sex of speaker/target, one's own self-perceived mate value predicted perceptions of sexual harassment while sociosexuality did not. These findings suggest men and women perceive sexually ambiguous situations differently and that sex of the perpetrator/target as well as one's own mate value influences those perceptions.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0191-8869",
doi="10.1016/j.paid.2021.111288",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.111288"
}