Playing a Videogame with a Sexualized Female Character Increases Adolescents' Rape Myth Acceptance and Tolerance Toward Sexual Harassment

Games for Health Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 91-94

  Driesmans, Karolien ^a   Vandenbosch, Laura ^b   Eggermont, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PERCEPTION; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RAPE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STEREOTYPING; VIDEO GAME;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PREJUDICE; RAPE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL VALUES; STEREOTYPING; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 84992724118     PISSN: 2161783X     EISSN: 21617856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/g4h.2014.0055     Document Type: Article

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