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ALCOHOL
EXPECTANCIES, DATE LOCATION, AGE, AND DRINKING BEHAVIOR AS PREDICTORS OF
ESTIMATED LIKELIHOOD OF SEXUAL INTERCOURSE IN HYPOTHETICAL DATING SITUATIONS
Heather J.
Brandt (Middlebury class of 1997) and Carlos Vélez-Blasini
Presented at
the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association. Washington, DC,
April 10-14, 1997.
Using
hypothetical dating scenarios this study explored the importance of date
setting, dater's age, alcohol use, and alcohol expectancies on subjects'
perceptions of the likelihood of sexual intercourse between two daters. ANOVA
yielded a three-way interaction between setting, age, and alcohol use.
Alcohol always led to higher estimates of likelihood of sex, however, dater's
age and date setting modified this relationship. Alcohol expectancies were
significant predictors of estimated likelihood of sex.
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