Abstract
Research into the problem of sexual harassment has tended to focus on harassment that occurs within overt power relationships, e.g., bosses and employees, teachers and students, doctors and patients, lawyers and clients. However, sexual harassment that occurs between peers‐persons whose relationship is not based on an overt power or status differential‐can be devastating. In this paper, we report the results of two university studies conducted to more fully understand the problem of peer sexual harassment. Of specific interest in Study 1 are the numbers of female and male students who had been victims/targets of peer sexual harassment, along with information regarding their relationship to their harassers, the settings in which harassment occurred, and the verbal and nonverbal behaviors communicated. Study 2 was designed to access students' views as to what behaviors constituted sexual harassment, as well as to examine differences in men's and women's judgments regarding the severity of each behavior. As ...
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