Just Say Yes? A Cluster Analytic Approach to Evaluating College Students’ Understandings of Affirmative Consent

Mattson, Richard E.; Parker, Maggie; McKinnon, Allison M.; Massey, Sean G.; Merriwether, Ann; Hardesty, Melissa; Young, Sarah

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“…Il apparait d’autant plus utile de disposer de stimuli permettant d’étudier l’effet de la variation de l’intensité dans l’expression des intentions sexuelles, alors même que ces intentions—et en particulier une absence d’intérêt sexuel, voire une absence de consentement sexuel—peuvent ne pas toujours être exprimées de manière explicite dans un certain nombre de situations sociales (Mattson et al, 2022). À titre d’illustration, un certain nombre de situations de violences sexuelles surviennent à la suite d’une interaction sociale initialement consentante ou à la suite d’un évènement de groupe, comme une soirée étudiante.…”

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“…D’une part, il s’agissait d’améliorer la validité écologique des opérationnalisations disponibles, en prenant notamment en compte la dynamique sous-tendant le processus de perception des intentions sexuelles. D’autre part, il s’agissait de développer des stimuli permettant d’étudier l’effet de la variation de l’intensité dans l’expression des intentions sexuelles, alors que ces intentions peuvent ne pas toujours être exprimées de manière explicite dans un certain nombre de situations sociales (Mattson et al, 2022). À cette fin, une première étape a consisté à développer les stimuli vidéo avec l’aide de comédiennes professionnelles, puis à sélectionner le matériel développé en deux étapes : tout d’abord, sur la base de leur validité apparente; ensuite, auprès d’un échantillon de 46 participants pour classifier les stimuli vidéo selon des catégories mutuellement exclusives.…”

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« Percept-Int » : Développement et validation d’un ensemble de stimuli vidéo pour étudier la perception des intentions sexuelles.

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La perception des intentions sexuellesLes interactions sociales, lorsqu'elles sont susceptibles de mener à un comportement sexuel, reposent le plus souvent sur un échange au travers duquel des individus expriment leur intérêt sexuel tout en This article was published Online First November 2, 2023. Massil Benbouriche https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7490-5417 Le matériel supplémentaire est disponible, en libre accès, sur la OSF du projet (https://osf.io/w9v74). Un rapport plus complet sera fourni sur demande.Toute correspondance concernant le présent article doit être adressée à Massil Benbouriche,

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« Percept-Int » : Développement et validation d’un ensemble de stimuli vidéo pour étudier la perception des intentions sexuelles.

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2024

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“…These findings depict a broad frame whereby sex-based asymmetries in sexual interest and corresponding appraisals of it may partially explain behavioral asymmetries in sexual misconduct. Although sex-based differences do not always emerge in the context of sexual communication (e.g., performative understanding of affirmative consent policy; Mattson et al, 2022), the effect that male observers tend to perceive higher degrees of flirtatiousness than female observers is stable across converging operations (Abbey, 1982; Cahoon & Edmonds, 1989; Farris et al, 2008; Koukounas & Letch, 2001). This robust effect has underwritten lines of research aimed at identifying the mechanisms that perpetuate this perceptual bias.…”

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Accurately detecting happy facial expressions associates with perceptions of flirtatiousness

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Emotional facial expressions are relevant to flirtation because they provide information on an individual’s intentions or motivations. Individual differences in the ability to accurately detect and discriminate between normative facially expressed emotions could lead to misperceptions of the level of sexual interest being conveyed, which has been linked to sexual assault and harassment. To explore this notion, we recruited a national sample of college aged male and female participants ( N = 219) who completed a novel facial expression recognition task used to detect accuracy in processing facial emotions of happiness, surprise, anger, and disgust. Participants also viewed multiple video clips of blind dates between two different-sex participants and rated each partner on their degree of flirtatiousness. Consistent with predictions, we found that individuals who misidentified other facial emotions for happiness appeared to overestimate flirtation. Though not predicted, participants who failed to accurately identify happy faces also overestimated flirtation, whereas individuals who took longer to respond to emotional facial expressions and misidentified an emotion as conveying happiness made greater errors in perceptions of flirtatiousness. Overall, these findings suggest that individual differences in the ability to detect and discriminate happiness through facial expressions are relevant to misperceptions of flirtatious behavior, and more broadly illuminates the role of basic emotion recognition on perceptions of flirtatiousness.

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What Is Affirmative Consent?

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Byrnes,

Maturi

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Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies

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Affirmative consent was first articulated on college campuses in the United States in the 1990s. Affirmative consent demanded verbal, positive consent during each sexual encounter, and for each individual part of the sexual activity. Consent had to be meaningful and enthusiastic. While later interpretations would shift and change, and in many instances, non-verbal communication might count as affirmative consent, the model required active and positive participation from everyone during a sexual encounter. An absence of agreement—through silence or passivity—does not meet the standard of affirmative consent.This chapter outlines what affirmative consent was and is, how and why it developed, and why it has been widely imagined as a useful tool for navigating sexual encounters, and for preventing sexual violence. It charts what was initially a radical, alternative suggestion, to a concept that is now institutionalised in the mainstream. Just as importantly, it investigates the challenges of affirmative consent, in particular noting that power imbalances do not allow all people the freedom and bodily autonomy to assert consent. The chapter examines cases where affirmative consent cannot be freely given or denied, including situations where intimate partner violence occurs, or where other practices of coercion or powerlessness are in place. Finally, the chapter traces some of the recent legislative changes across Western cultures, which have enshrined affirmative consent in the law, despite the challenges of ensuring equal access to autonomy.

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Just Say Yes? A Cluster Analytic Approach to Evaluating College Students’ Understandings of Affirmative Consent

Cited by 7 publications

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« Percept-Int » : Développement et validation d’un ensemble de stimuli vidéo pour étudier la perception des intentions sexuelles.

« Percept-Int » : Développement et validation d’un ensemble de stimuli vidéo pour étudier la perception des intentions sexuelles.

Accurately detecting happy facial expressions associates with perceptions of flirtatiousness

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