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Zoë D. Peterson

Researcher at Indiana University

Publications -  63
Citations -  3631

Zoë D. Peterson is an academic researcher from Indiana University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Sexual coercion. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 60 publications receiving 2929 citations. Previous affiliations of Zoë D. Peterson include University of Kansas & University of Missouri–St. Louis.

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Was It Rape? The Function of Women's Rape Myth Acceptance and Definitions of Sex in Labeling Their Own Experiences

TL;DR: This article found that women who accepted the myth and whose experience corresponded to the myth (e.g., they did not fight back) were less likely than other women to acknowledge their experience as rape.
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The Complexities of Sexual Consent Among College Students: A Conceptual and Empirical Review

TL;DR: The conceptual challenges of defining sexual consent and the empirical research on how young people navigate sexual consent in their daily lives are reviewed, focusing primarily on studies of U.S. and Canadian students.
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College students and sexual consent: unique insights.

TL;DR: Men are conceptualized as sexual initiators and women as sexual gatekeepers, and that men's sexual pleasure is primary whereas women's experience of pleasure is secondary, articulate the need for more pointed research aimed at assessing sexual consent among college students.
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Gender Differences in Heterosexual College Students' Conceptualizations and Indicators of Sexual Consent: Implications for Contemporary Sexual Assault Prevention Education

TL;DR: There were significant differences in how men and women indicated their own consent and nonconsent, with women reporting more verbal strategies than men and men reporting more nonverbal strategies than women, and in how they interpreted their partner's consent andNonconsent.
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Evaluating the One-in-Five Statistic: Women???s Risk of Sexual Assault While in College

TL;DR: Given the empirical support for the one-in-five statistic, it is suggested that the controversy occurs because of misunderstandings about studies’ methods and results and because this topic has implications for gender relations, power, and sexuality.