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REFINING
NORMATIVE PERCEPTIONS OF HOOKUP BEHAVIORS: EFFECTS OF PROXIMITY, GENDER, AND
IDEALIZED BEHAVIOR RATES
Scott Guenther
(Middlebury class of 2007) & Carlos Vélez-Blasini
Presented at the
annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA, 2007.
This
study examined the normative perceptions have of hookup behavior. College students (N=181) at a small
liberal arts college estimated hookup behaviors and the level of comfort with
those behaviors for friends and students of both genders, and answered
questions about their own hookup comfort, frequencies and preferred
frequencies. Perceptions of others’ hookup frequencies and comfort
levels were significantly overestimated.
Estimates of same sex friends were most accurate and mirrored self-reported
ideal rates.
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