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Women's rape avoidance
| Title: | Women's rape avoidance: an evolutionary psychological perspective. |
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| Name(s): |
McKibbin, William F. Charles E. Schmidt College of Science Department of Psychology |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
| Issuance: | multipart monograph | |
| Date Issued: | 2010 | |
| Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Physical Form: | electronic | |
| Extent: | vi, 84 p.: ill. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | Women have recurrently faced the adaptive problem of rape over evolutionary history. Little research has investigated the potential evolved psychological mechanisms for rape avoidance that women may possess. Here I review evolutionary perspectives on rape avoidance. I follow this review with the results of two studies conducted to design a measure of women's rape avoidance, known as the Rape Avoidance Inventory (RAI). Study 1A included 99 women who self-reported acts they do or might do specifically to avoid being raped. Study 1B included 144 women who filled out a preliminary inventory of rape avoidance behaviors. I used their responses to construct the RAI. In Study 3, I develop and test a number of hypotheses derived from evolutionary psychological theory, using data derived from the sample of women in Study 1B. I conclude by discussing limitations and possible future directions for rape avoidance research. | |
| Identifier: | 608492190 (oclc), 1927315 (digitool), FADT1927315 (IID), fau:2951 (fedora) | |
| Note(s): |
by William F. McKibbin. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2010. Includes bibliography. Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2010. Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject(s): |
Rape -- Psychological aspects Sex differences (Psychology) Women -- Violence against -- United States Rape victims -- Public opinion Man-woman relationships Evolutionary psychology |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/1927315 | |
| Use and Reproduction: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
