“…Stemming from this definition, I take interpretation of sexual harassment to mean the subjective cognitive process through which a person extracts meaning from ambiguous information regarding sexual conduct in order to construct a mental representation of sexual harassment. Also, in identifying the different ways women appraise a sexual conduct such as frightening, bothersome (Settles, Harrell, Buchanan, & Yap, 2011), upsetting (Hitlan, Schneider, & Walsh, 2006) and evoking other emotional responses such as fear, anxiety, and anger (Wright & Fitzgerald, 2007), I use the umbrella term 'harassing' to encompass a range of interpretations, from feeling offended and uncomfortable to frightened.…”