A bioecological theory of sexual harassment of girls: Research synthesis and proposed model

CS Brown, SD Biefeld, N Elpers - Review of General …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
In the United States, many adolescent girls experience sexual harassment before they leave
high school, and between 20% and 25% of college women are survivors of sexual assault …

How do adolescents experience sexting in dating relationships? Motivations to sext and responses to sexting requests from dating partners

LA Reed, MP Boyer, H Meskunas, RM Tolman… - Children and Youth …, 2020 - Elsevier
Although most sexting among adolescents occurs in the context of a dating relationship, less
is known about adolescents' motivations to sext and the emotional experience of sexting …

Media and modern manhood: Testing associations between media consumption and young men's acceptance of traditional gender ideologies

S Giaccardi, LM Ward, RC Seabrook, A Manago… - Sex Roles, 2016 - Springer
Content analyses of popular media have consistently documented the narrow and
stereotypical ways in which women and men are frequently depicted. Despite growing …

Girl power or powerless girl? Television, sexual scripts, and sexual agency in sexually active young women

RC Seabrook, LM Ward, LM Cortina… - … of Women Quarterly, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Both traditional gender roles and traditional heterosexual scripts outline sexual roles for
women that center on sexual passivity, prioritizing others' needs, and self-silencing …

The association between stereotypical gender and dating beliefs and digital dating abuse perpetration in adolescent dating relationships

LA Reed, LM Ward, RM Tolman… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Digital media have become a significant context for adolescent dating relationships. As the
use of social media and mobile phones increases, so do concerns that these media might …

Video game playing and beliefs about masculinity among male and female emerging adults

G Blackburn, E Scharrer - Sex Roles, 2019 - Springer
Video games have been soundly critiqued for their depiction of gender, and emerging
research has shown that playing can be associated with holding stereotypical or narrow …

Sexual object or sexual subject? Media use, self-sexualization, and sexual agency among undergraduate women

LM Ward, RC Seabrook, P Grower… - … of Women Quarterly, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectification theorists argue that repeated exposure to sexually objectifying media content
leads to higher levels of self-objectification. Although consequences of self-objectification for …

The Madonna-whore dichotomy is associated with patriarchy endorsement: Evidence from Israel, the United States, and Germany

R Kahalon, O Bareket, AC Vial… - … of Women Quarterly, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The madonna-whore dichotomy denotes polarized perceptions of women as either good
and chaste or as bad and promiscuous. In the present research, we examined the correlates …

A tale of two distrusts: Memory distrust toward commission and omission errors in the Chinese context.

Y Zhang, F Qi, H Otgaar, RA Nash… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
People differ in their skepticism toward their own memories, which is called memory distrust
and is measured by the Squire Subjective Memory Questionnaire (SSMQ) and the Memory …

Following their lead? Connecting mainstream media use to Black women's gender beliefs and sexual agency

LM Ward, M Jerald, L Avery, ER Cole - The Journal of Sex …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Although media exposure has emerged as a significant predictor of consumers' sexual
decision making, less is known about the mechanisms involved and about the dynamics of …