College Students' Perception of Rape
Document Type
Oral Presentation
Campus where you would like to present
SURC 137A
Start Date
21-5-2015
End Date
21-5-2015
Keywords
Students' Perceptions, Crime Severity, Alcohol Intoxication
Abstract
College students are the biggest population that experience rape situations and has the biggest population that accepts and endorses rape myths overall. The purpose of this study was to ask college students their perceptions of rape depending on the gender of the perpetrator and whether or not the victim, who was presented as being under the influence of alcohol, repeatedly says “no” to the perpetrator. Participants rated the severity of the assault and had the option of saying the assault was not a crime in order to investigate whether college students realize that having sex with an intoxicated person is rape even if they don’t say no. The results demonstrated that the rape involving a female victim was rated more severely than when the rape victim was a male. The results also demonstrated that when the intoxicated victim said “no”, the rape scenario was rated more severely than when the intoxicated victim said nothing. Implications of these results are discussed.
Recommended Citation
Gutierrez, Laura and Moore, Dorothy, "College Students' Perception of Rape" (2015). Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 55.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2015/oralpresentations/55
Department/Program
Psychology
Additional Mentoring Department
Psychology
College Students' Perception of Rape
SURC 137A
College students are the biggest population that experience rape situations and has the biggest population that accepts and endorses rape myths overall. The purpose of this study was to ask college students their perceptions of rape depending on the gender of the perpetrator and whether or not the victim, who was presented as being under the influence of alcohol, repeatedly says “no” to the perpetrator. Participants rated the severity of the assault and had the option of saying the assault was not a crime in order to investigate whether college students realize that having sex with an intoxicated person is rape even if they don’t say no. The results demonstrated that the rape involving a female victim was rated more severely than when the rape victim was a male. The results also demonstrated that when the intoxicated victim said “no”, the rape scenario was rated more severely than when the intoxicated victim said nothing. Implications of these results are discussed.
Faculty Mentor(s)
Marte Fallshore