Flirting With Disaster: Short-Term Mating Orientation and Hostile Sexism Predict Different Types of Sexual Harassment

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 521-531

  Diehl, Charlotte ^a   Rees, Jonas ^a   Bohner, Gerd ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer harassment paradigm; Hostility; Motivation; Sexual harassment; Sexuality

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXISM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HARASSMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEN; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; SEXISM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HARASSMENT;

EID: 84867337689     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: 10982337     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ab.21444     Document Type: Article

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