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PREDICTING
HOOKUP BEHAVIORS: THE RELATIVE ROLE OF SOCIAL NORM MISPERCEPTION IN THE
DECISION TO HOOKUP.
Megan Guffin
(Middlebury class of 2006) & Carlos Vélez-Blasini
Presented at
the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia,
P.A. March 23, 2007.
One-hundred-and-eighty
six college students reported on personal hookup behavior and attitudes and
estimated those of their peers.
Peers’ hookup behavior and attitudes were overestimated, though
only females overestimated their peers’ attitudes. Descriptive norms predicted non-coital
activity. Personal comfort and injunctive norms predicted intimate behaviors.
Results suggest social norm misperception may help explain hookup behavior in
college students.
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