Cognitive Processes Underlying Women's Risk Judgments: Associations With Sexual Victimization History and Rape Myth Acceptance

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 375-386

  Yeater, Elizabeth A ^a   Treat, Teresa A ^b   Viken, Richard J ^c   McFall, Richard M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

attention; learning; rape myths; risk perception; sexual victimization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RAPE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL ABUSE; ADOLESCENT; CRIME VICTIM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; INDIVIDUALITY; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK; SEXUAL CRIME; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; COERCION; COGNITION; CRIME VICTIMS; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; JUDGMENT; RAPE; RISK; SEX OFFENSES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953246185     PISSN: 0022006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019297     Document Type: Article

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