Studying sexual aggression: A review of the evolution and validity of laboratory paradigms.

Davis, Kelly Cue; Parrott, Dominic J.; George, William H.; Tharp, Andra Teten; Hall, Gordon C. Nagayama; Stappenbeck, Cynthia A.

doi:10.1037/a0037662

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“…Nonetheless, both men and women victims of sexual violence show the same negative psychological outcomes, making all forms of sexual violence worthy of further study. Laboratory sexual aggression paradigms developed for women would be informative (see Davis et al, 2014 ).…”

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Aggression in Women: Behavior, Brain and Hormones

Denson

O’Dean

Blake

et al. 2018

Front. Behav. Neurosci.

116

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We review the literature on aggression in women with an emphasis on laboratory experimentation and hormonal and brain mechanisms. Women tend to engage in more indirect forms of aggression (e.g., spreading rumors) than other types of aggression. In laboratory studies, women are less aggressive than men, but provocation attenuates this difference. In the real world, women are just as likely to aggress against their romantic partner as men are, but men cause more serious physical and psychological harm. A very small minority of women are also sexually violent. Women are susceptible to alcohol-related aggression, but this type of aggression may be limited to women high in trait aggression. Fear of being harmed is a robust inhibitor of direct aggression in women. There are too few studies and most are underpowered to detect unique neural mechanisms associated with aggression in women. Testosterone shows the same small, positive relationship with aggression in women as in men. The role of cortisol is unclear, although some evidence suggests that women who are high in testosterone and low in cortisol show heightened aggression. Under some circumstances, oxytocin may increase aggression by enhancing reactivity to provocation and simultaneously lowering perceptions of danger that normally inhibit many women from retaliating. There is some evidence that high levels of estradiol and progesterone are associated with low levels of aggression. We highlight that more gender-specific theory-driven hypothesis testing is needed with larger samples of women and aggression paradigms relevant to women.

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“…As the data to date are descriptive and correlational, experimental research with laboratory sexual aggression paradigms is needed to identify causal influences and moderators. Such paradigms exist but to our knowledge have not yet been used with women (for a review, see Davis et al, 2014 ).…”

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Aggression in Women: Behavior, Brain and Hormones

Denson

O’Dean

Blake

et al. 2018

Front. Behav. Neurosci.

116

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“…As stated, our composite effect size and null tests of moderation are likely an oversimplification of the complexity of the alcohol-aggression relationship predicated by an insufficient body of research. Despite the complexity of alcohol administration studies, including resistance from regulating bodies and practical complications associated with alcohol administration and participant compensation, carefully controlled experimental methods remain the gold standard for establishing a causal relationship between alcohol intoxication and adverse behavioral outcomes that cannot be determined through cross-sectional or event-level methods alone (Davis et al, 2014). …”

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The Proximal Effects of Acute Alcohol Consumption on Male-to-Female Aggression

Crane

Godleski

Przybyla

et al. 2016

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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The current meta-analytic review examined the experimental literature to quantify the causal effect of acute alcohol consumption on self-reported and observed indicators of male-to-female general, sexual, and intimate partner aggression. Database and reference list searches yielded 22 studies conducted between 1981 and 2014 that met all criteria for inclusion and that were subjected to full text coding for analysis. Results detected a significant overall effect (d = .36), indicating that male participants who consumed alcohol evidenced greater aggressive behavior toward females while completing a subsequent laboratory aggression paradigm than male participants who received no alcohol. We found homogeneity across all categories of potential moderator variables. Results further indicated that alcohol resulted in comparable increases of male-to-female sexual (d = .32) and intimate partner (d = .45) aggression. Further research is required to draw meaningful conclusions about individual and situational factors that may interact with acute alcohol consumption to produce the highest levels of risk.

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“…Thus, those in clinical practice are encouraged to use interview techniques in addition to multiple, standardized questionnaires to identify cases. For those engaging in prevention work, the use of behavioral and analog assessments such as virtual reality paradigms and vignette assessments (Davis, Parrott, et al, 2014;Jouriles, Simpson Rowe, McDonald, Platt, & Gomez, 2011) is recommended as helpful supplements to standardized questionnaires to assess risk related to sexual victimization and sexual perpetration. Policies which support basic, as well as applied science, are important to answer the types of methodological questions explored here.…”

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Discordance between the Sexual Experiences Surveys-Short Forms and the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales in College Men

Anderson¹,

Cahill²,

Delahanty³

2019

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Objective: Sexual victimization affects at least one in five college women and up to one in six college men; however, the exact rates of sexual perpetration are difficult to ascertain because of inconsistencies in the measurement of these behaviors. The present study is the first to evaluate the extent to which three commonly used measures of sexual violence (The Sexual Experiences Survey- Short Form Victimization (SES-SFV), The Sexual Experiences Survey-Short Form Perpetration (SES-SFP) and the Revised Conflicts Tactics Scales-Sexual Coercion Subscale (CTS2-SC)) concurred in identifying cases of sexual victimization and sexual perpetration. This is the first study to simultaneously examine victimization and perpetration, provide kappa estimates of discordance, and control for order of survey administration effects.Methods: Undergraduate men (N = 397) completed the study measures in a randomized order.Results: The SES-SFV identified 109 cases of sexual victimization (27.5% of the sample) while the CTS2-SC identified 164 cases (41.3% of the sample). Results were similar for sexual perpetration. There was no effect of the order of administration on sexual victimization reports. However, there was an order effect for sexual perpetration. When the CTS2-SC was administered first response rates on the CTS2-SC were higher.Conclusions: These results highlight the lack of precision in the measurement of sexual violence. Conceptually, the SESs should identify a greater number of cases; yet we consistently found that the CTS2-SC identified more cases of sexual violence. We suggest that differences in the instructional cues, internal item structure, and measure structure may account for these differences.

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Studying sexual aggression: A review of the evolution and validity of laboratory paradigms.

Cited by 49 publications

References 79 publications

Aggression in Women: Behavior, Brain and Hormones

Aggression in Women: Behavior, Brain and Hormones

The Proximal Effects of Acute Alcohol Consumption on Male-to-Female Aggression

Discordance between the Sexual Experiences Surveys-Short Forms and the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales in College Men

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