SEXUALLY AGGRESSIVE MENS RESPONSES TO A DATE RAPE ANALOG - ALCOHOL ASA DISINHIBITING CUE

Sexually aggressive and nonaggressive college men listened to an audio tape date rape analogue during which cues of nonconsent and force gra dually escalated over time, and signified when unwanted sexual advance s should terminate. Before listening to the scenario, participants wer e instructed that the couple depicted on the tape either had or had no t consumed alcohol. Alcohol acted as a permissive cue for the sexually aggressive group, delaying their decisions to desist sexual advances compared to aggressive peers who were not provided with this situation al disinhibitor. However the presence or absence of character alcohol consumption did not differentially impact nonaggressive men's decision s. In partial support of a suspicious schema explanation relatively mo re aggressive men rated the woman as less honest in expressing her fee lings about sex, resulting in overestimations of how much she really w anted to have sex, However; they rated her behavior as less typical th an most women's behavior given the same sexual scenario. Suspiciousnes s was enhanced in the alcohol condition.