How Media Contribute to Misperceptions of Social Norms About Sex

By Stella C. Chia, Albert C. Gunther. 2006

92 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, General Health Professions, Literature and Literary Theory

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2. Scott W. Campbell
3. Lijiang Shen
4. James Price Dillard
5. Rebecca D Stinson
6. Julia R. Lippman

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Citations in the corpus

• Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't…If You're a Girl: Relational and Normative Contexts of Adolescent Sexting in the United States (2014, background): “The gulf between collective norms and perceived norms is typically greatest in domains in which the ability to gain insight into others’ actual behaviors is limited, as is the case with sexual behaviors (Chia & Gunther, 2006).”
• Gender-specific Normative Misperceptions of Risky Sexual Behavior and Alcohol-related Risky Sexual Behavior (2007, background): “Pluralistic ignorance is evident to the extent that students incorrectly perceive that other students are more comfortable with engaging in risky sexual behavior than they actually are or have more risky sexual behavior than they actually do (Chia and Gunther 2006; Cohen and Shotland 2001; Lambert e”
• Hooking Up in Young Adulthood: A Review of Factors Influencing the Sexual Behavior of College Students (2010, background): “Second, others have linked hooking up to social norms created and enforced by popular culture and peer groups (Agostinelli & Seal, 1998; Bogle, 2008; Chia & Gunther, 2006; Lambert, Kahn, & Apple, 2003).”
• The SAGE handbook of persuasion : developments in theory and practice (2012, background): “Chia and Gunther (2006) concluded that college students’ misperceptions of peer sexual norms could be a function of both presumed influence of sexual media content and projection of their own attitudes.”
• Mass Media Effects on Youth Sexual Behavior Assessing the Claim for Causality (2011, background): “…may exert their infl uence on youth through mediating variables such as sexual self-effi cacy, sexual outcome expectations (Martino et al., 2005), and beliefs about peers’ sexual permissiveness (Chia, 2006a,b) does not affect the mass media’s status as a causal factor in youth sexual behavior.”