TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2023//
TI  - Waist-to-hip ratio predicts sexual perception and responses to sexual assault disclosures
JO  - Personality and social psychology bulletin
A1  - Paganini, Gina A.
A1  - McConnell, A. Alex
A1  - Deska, Jason C.
A1  - Almaraz, Steven M.
A1  - Hugenberg, Kurt
A1  - Lloyd, E. Paige
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - The current work investigates the effects of target of perception's waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) on perceivers' judgments of sexual unrestrictedness and sexual victimization prototypicality. Studies 1a and 1b found that women with lower WHRs were perceived as relatively more sexually unrestricted. Studies 2a and 2b found that women with lower WHRs were perceived as relatively more prototypic of sexual victimization. Study 3 built on these findings to consider implications for responses to sexual assault disclosures. Perceivers disbelieved and minimized a disclosure of assault relatively more when made by a woman with a higher WHR. In sum, this body of work implicates WHR as a body cue that can inform consequential sexual perception. Thereby, this work identifies factors that could influence judgments of credibility of sexual violence reports, which may have implications for hesitancy to report sexual violence.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0146-1672
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01461672221148008
ID  - ref1
ER  -