Check and Malamuth's Study of Responses to Stories Involving Voluntary

question 140

Multiple Choice

Check and Malamuth's study of responses to stories involving voluntary intercourse and rape found that

• A)44 percent of college males would consider rape if they could get away with it.
• B)college males low in sex-role stereotyping were most aroused by the rape stories.
• C)male students' responses were found to be dissimilar to actual rapists.
• D)60 percent of the sexually active males had engaged in date rape.

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