yearbooks and popular magazines and were black and white portrait-style. The most attractive (M = 7.7) and least attractive (M = 2.6) male photographs were selected for use in the study. Likewise, the most attractive (M = 7.6) and least attractive (M = 1.9) female photographs were selected. Experimental Materials and Procedure Each participant was provided with a packet containing the following items: Instructions, case background, summaries of the litigants’ testimony, summaries of the litigants’ character witness testimony, a photograph of each litigant, a summary, and a participant response form. These materials (available in electronic format upon request from the first author) were nearly identical to those used by Moore et al. (1994), except for changes involved in reversing the genders of the litigants. In the plaintiff’s testimony, it was explained that in the years that he had been working for the defendant as an assistant manager of her apartment complex, her harassing behaviors had escalated. Initially she made inappropriate and unwanted remarks about his clothing and physique. She stared at his crotch and made remarks about the size of his genitals. She tried to touch and caress his body. When he objected to these behaviors, she told him that he must like it or he would have found other employment. He alleged that in recent months she had tried to put her hand under his clothing, had chased him around the office trying to kiss him, and repeatedly tried to fondle his buttocks and genitals. She even went so far as to describe to him the sexual acts in which she desired to engage him. Since few people would argue that the alleged behaviors do not constitute sexual harassment, we assumed that any juror who believed the plaintiff’s testimony would find in his favor.
yearbooks and popular magazines and were black and white portrait-style. The most attractive (M = 7.7) and least attractive (M = 2.6) male photographs were selected for use in the study. Likewise, the most attractive (M = 7.6) and least attractive (M = 1.9) female photographs were selected. Experimental Materials and Procedure Each participant was provided with a packet containing the following items: Instructions, case background, summaries of the litigants’ testimony, summaries of the litigants’ character witness testimony, a photograph of each litigant, a summary, and a participant response form. These materials (available in electronic format upon request from the first author) were nearly identical to those used by Moore et al. (1994), except for changes involved in reversing the genders of the litigants. In the plaintiff’s testimony, it was explained that in the years that he had been working for the defendant as an assistant manager of her apartment complex, her harassing behaviors had escalated. Initially she made inappropriate and unwanted remarks about his clothing and physique. She stared at his crotch and made remarks about the size of his genitals. She tried to touch and caress his body. When he objected to these behaviors, she told him that he must like it or he would have found other employment. He alleged that in recent months she had tried to put her hand under his clothing, had chased him around the office trying to kiss him, and repeatedly tried to fondle his buttocks and genitals. She even went so far as to describe to him the sexual acts in which she desired to engage him. Since few people would argue that the alleged behaviors do not constitute sexual harassment, we assumed that any juror who believed the plaintiff’s testimony would find in his favor.
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