Sexually Aggressive Men's Responses to a Date Rape Analogue: Alcohol as a Disinhibiting Cue

Journal of Sex Research, Nov, 1998 by Jeffrey A. Bernat, Karen S. Calhoun, Stephanie Stolp

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Manuscript accepted March 12, 1998

Jeffrey A. Bernat, Karen S. Calhoun, and Stephanie Stolp

University of Georgia

Portions of this paper were presented at the 31st annual convention of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy (1997), Miami, Florida. The authors wish to thank Alan Gross and Brian Marx for providing the audio tape stimulus, Henry E. Adams for comments on an earlier draft, and the under-graduate research assistants who served as experimenters.

Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Jeffrey A. Bernat, Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 30602-3013; e-mail: jbernat@arches.uga.edu