caa a22 4500 463198174 CHVBK 20180406164928.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10869-007-9056-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10869-007-9056-7 Contrast and Rater-Perspective Effects on Judgments of Sexual Harassment Severity: What He Thinks She Thinks, and Vice Versa [Elektronische Daten] [Bryan Pesta, Kenneth Dunegan, Mary Hrivnak] We looked at whether ratings biases can influence judgments people make about sexually harassing behaviors. Online participants (N=176) read and rated the severity of complaint scenarios describing different incidents of alleged harassment. We manipulated: (1) contrast effects, by having people judge other, independent scenarios before judging a target scenario, and (2) rater-perspective effects, by having people judge from both a self- and then an opposite-gender perspective. For the former, we hypothesized that if judgments about harassment are qualitatively similar to judgments made in other areas (e.g., performance appraisal), they too should show contrast effects. For the latter, we hypothesized people would use stereotypes about the other gender, thereby overestimating the true (i.e., self-perspective driven) gender difference. Results supported both hypotheses, suggesting that decision makers should be aware of the possible influence of biases when judging whether behaviors constitute harassment. Springer Science+Business, LCC, 2007 Sexual harassment nationallicence Gender differences nationallicence Rater-biases nationallicence Pesta Bryan Department of Management and Labor Relations, Cleveland State University, 1860 East 18th Street, 44114, Cleveland, OH, USA aut Dunegan Kenneth Department of Management and Labor Relations, Cleveland State University, 1860 East 18th Street, 44114, Cleveland, OH, USA aut Hrivnak Mary Department of Management and Labor Relations, Cleveland State University, 1860 East 18th Street, 44114, Cleveland, OH, USA aut Journal of Business and Psychology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 22/2(2007-12-01), 155-165 0889-3268 22:2<155 2007 22 10869 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-007-9056-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-007-9056-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pesta Bryan Department of Management and Labor Relations, Cleveland State University, 1860 East 18th Street, 44114, Cleveland, OH, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dunegan Kenneth Department of Management and Labor Relations, Cleveland State University, 1860 East 18th Street, 44114, Cleveland, OH, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hrivnak Mary Department of Management and Labor Relations, Cleveland State University, 1860 East 18th Street, 44114, Cleveland, OH, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business and Psychology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 22/2(2007-12-01), 155-165 0889-3268 22:2<155 2007 22 10869 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer