Stop Harassment! Men's reactions to victims’ confrontation

Scientific harassment by pharmaceutical companies: time to stop.

Public Reactions to the Confrontation with an Industrial Hazard

In this study differences in feelings of insecurity and ways of coping were assessed between 225 residents of an industrial area near a chemical complex and a control group at a distance of at least 15 kilometers from that complex. The results show that the residents of the industrial area judge the hazards as less threatening and less unacceptable than the control group and report less feeling...

Upsetting Behavior: Reactions to Personal and Bystander Sexual Harassment Experiences

The current research was designed to examine objective and contextual factors related to the appraisal of potentially sexually harassing situations. Working female participants (n = 208) from a mid-sized southwestern university completed a workplace experiences survey in small groups. The majority of participants were Hispanic/ Latina (77.9%). We predicted that characteristics of personal haras...

What actually makes bullying stop? Reports from former victims.

School bullying is a serious, worldwide problem which is not easily counteracted. The present study focuses on the perspective of former victims, asking them what it was that made the bullying stop in their case. Participants were 273 18-year-old former victims in Sweden, a country in which schools are doing extensive work against bullying and the bullying prevalence is relatively low. Results ...

Double Victimization in the Workplace: Why Observers Condemn Passive Victims of Sexual Harassment

Five studies explore observers’ condemnation of passive victims. Studies 1 and 2 examine the role of observers’ behavioral forecasts in condemning passive victims of sexual harassment. Observers generally predicted that they would engage in greater confrontation than victims typically do. More importantly, the more confrontation participants predicted they would engage in, the more they condemn...