caa a22 4500 60623201X CHVBK 20210128101224.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10508-015-0590-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10508-015-0590-5 Effects of Experimenter Contact, Setting, Inquiry Mode, and Race on Women's Self-Report of Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors: An Experimental Study [Elektronische Daten] [Ethan McCallum, Zoë Peterson] Factors related to the research context, such as inquiry mode, setting, and experimenter contact, may affect participants' comfort with and willingness to disclose certain sexual attitudes or admit to engaging in sensitive sexual behaviors. In this study, 255 female undergraduates (42.7% non-White) completed a survey containing measures of sexual behavior and attitudes. The level of experimenter contact (high vs. low contact), setting (in lab vs. out of lab), and inquiry mode (pencil-and-paper vs. computer) were manipulated and participants were randomly assigned to conditions. We hypothesized that low-contact, out-of-lab, computer conditions would be associated with more liberal sexual attitudes and higher rates of reported sexual behaviors than high-contact, in-lab, and paper-and-pencil conditions, respectively. Further, we hypothesized that effects would be moderated by race, such that differences would be greater for non-White participants because of concerns that reporting socially undesirable behavior might fuel racial stereotypes. For attitudinal measures, White participants endorsed more liberal attitudes toward sex in high-contact conditions and non-White participants endorsed more liberal attitudes in low-contact conditions. For behavioral measures, non-White participants reported more behaviors on pencil-and-paper surveys than on computers. White participants demonstrated no significant mode-related differences or reported more sexual behaviors in computer conditions than paper-and-pencil conditions. Overall, results suggest that experimenter contact and mode significantly impact sexual self-report and this impact is often moderated by race. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Sexual attitudes nationallicence Sexual behaviors nationallicence Sexual risk nationallicence Race nationallicence McCallum Ethan Department of Psychology, Minneapolis VA Medical Center (116A), One Veterans Drive, 55417, Minneapolis, MN, USA aut Peterson Zoë Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA aut Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/8(2015-11-01), 2287-2297 0004-0002 44:8<2287 2015 44 10508 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-015-0590-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-015-0590-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McCallum Ethan Department of Psychology, Minneapolis VA Medical Center (116A), One Veterans Drive, 55417, Minneapolis, MN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Peterson Zoë Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/8(2015-11-01), 2287-2297 0004-0002 44:8<2287 2015 44 10508