Assessing women's responses to sexual threat: Validity of a virtual role-play procedure

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 475-484

  Jouriles, Ernest N ^a   Simpson Rowe, Lorelei ^a   McDonald, Renee ^a   Platt, Cora G ^a   Gomez, Gabriella S ^a  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ASSERTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMERSION; MALE; MULTIMETHOD STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; ROLE PLAYING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL CRIME; THREAT; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; VALIDITY; VICTIM; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADULT; AFFECT; ASSERTIVENESS; COERCION; CRIME VICTIMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ROLE PLAYING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WOMEN;

EID: 79958139041     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: 18781888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2010.11.005     Document Type: Article

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