Use of the Response-Latency Paradigm for evaluating women’s responses to threat of date rape

Authors

RaeAnn E. Anderson, University of North DakotaFollow
Shawn P. Cahill

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2014

Publication Title

Violence and Victims

Volume

29

Abstract

This study evaluates the novel use of the response-latency paradigm to elicit women’s hypothetical behavioral responses to the threat of acquaintance rape. There were 146 college women recruited and randomly assigned to 4 study conditions. In 3 of the conditions, the threat to which participants responded was experimentally controlled; in the fourth control condition, participants selected the level of threat themselves, following standard procedure of the response-latency paradigm. Results indicated that participant’s responses became more intense as threat levels increased; this relationship was not moderated by whether the threat was controlled by the experimenter or the participant. These results indicate the response-latency paradigm is useful for eliciting and evaluating women’s hypothetical responses to the threat of acquaintance rape to learn more about this process.

Issue

2

First Page

248

Last Page

261

DOI

10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-12-00101R1

ISSN

1945-7073

Comments

Pre-print DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/scgmd

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Recommended Citation

RaeAnn E. Anderson and Shawn P. Cahill. "Use of the Response-Latency Paradigm for evaluating women’s responses to threat of date rape" (2014). Psychology Faculty Publications. 3.
https://commons.und.edu/psych-fac/3