Intoxicated bystanders' alcohol expectancies and valuations and the ability to detect risk in a potential sexual assault.

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Jacquelyn D. Wiersma-Mosley, Lindsay S. Ham, T. Marcantonio, K. Jozkowski, Ana J. Bridges
Addictive Behaviours, 2020

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Wiersma-Mosley, J. D., Ham, L. S., Marcantonio, T., Jozkowski, K., & Bridges, A. J. (2020). Intoxicated bystanders' alcohol expectancies and valuations and the ability to detect risk in a potential sexual assault. Addictive Behaviours.

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Wiersma-Mosley, Jacquelyn D., Lindsay S. Ham, T. Marcantonio, K. Jozkowski, and Ana J. Bridges. “Intoxicated Bystanders' Alcohol Expectancies and Valuations and the Ability to Detect Risk in a Potential Sexual Assault.” Addictive Behaviours (2020).

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Wiersma-Mosley, Jacquelyn D., et al. “Intoxicated Bystanders' Alcohol Expectancies and Valuations and the Ability to Detect Risk in a Potential Sexual Assault.” Addictive Behaviours, 2020.

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@article{jacquelyn2020a,
  title = {Intoxicated bystanders' alcohol expectancies and valuations and the ability to detect risk in a potential sexual assault.},
  year = {2020},
  journal = {Addictive Behaviours},
  author = {Wiersma-Mosley, Jacquelyn D. and Ham, Lindsay S. and Marcantonio, T. and Jozkowski, K. and Bridges, Ana J.}
}

Abstract

Alcohol intoxication, alcohol expectancies, and alcohol valuations are associated with impaired risk detection for victims of sexual assault; these factors may also impair risk detection of bystanders in a potential sexual assault. However, the relationship between expectancies, valuations and alcohol intoxication on bystanders’ risk detection abilities has not been examined; the goal of this study was to address this gap in the literature. The current study used an alcohol administration experimental design that assessed 123 young adults’ (50% women) alcohol expectancies and valuations, as well as their risk appraisal using a sexual assault vignette. Participants in the alcohol condition (n = 61) reported diminished ability to detect risk when they reported higher positive valuations compared with participants in the control condition (n = 62), but there were no effects of expectancies on bystanders’ ability to detect risk in either condition. Risk detection is a crucial step in bystander prevention; alcohol intoxication, in combination with positive alcohol valuations may impede those appraisals.

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