Men's empathic bias, empathic inaccuracy, and sexual harassment

Sex Roles

Volumn 60, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 142-150

  Schweinle, William E ^a   Cofer, Carol ^b   Schatz, Sandra ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c W O Farber Center for Civic Leadership   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Empathic accuracy; Overattribution bias; Sexual harassment; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149113165     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-008-9507-2     Document Type: Article

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