Sexual harassment has been found to be common in the workplace. Forty-two percent to 88% of working women report having been sexually harassed. Recent research on sexual harassment has taken a cognitive approach, arguing that male sexual harassment of women results from 2 types of sexism in combination with stereotypes: hostile sexism and benevolent sexism. This study considers a model that a deeper personality characteristic, authoritarianism, contributes to the likelihood of sexual harassment, in combination with variables identified as influencing sexual aggression. Results consistent with a model of emotional displacement indicated that authoritarianism predicts men's self-reported likelihood of engaging in sexual harassment, mediated by belief in rape myths and S. Fiske and P. Glick's (1995) Hostile Sexism. Benevolent sexism did not predict the likelihood of sexual harassment.

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