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Article: Alcohol's direct and indirect effects on men's self-reported sexual aggression likelihood *.
- Article from:
- Journal of Studies on Alcohol
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
- Author:
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RESEARCH FINDINGS consistently show that both alcohol consumption by a perpetrator (Abbey et al., 1998; Koss, 1988; Muehlenhard and Linton, 1987) and the use of violent pornography (Malamuth, 1984) are associated with sexual assault. The study presented here investigated the pathways through which alcohol's direct and indirect expectancy effects and direct physiological effects influenced men's self-reported likelihood of committing sexual assault against a woman.
Pre-existing expectancies and sexual aggression
Because pre-existing alcohol expectancies operate as a type of self-fulfilling prophecy (Leigh, 1989), individuals who believe that alcohol ...