psych article review

Kevin Schil
Psychology 101


The article Personality and the Likelihood to Sexual Harass is an article about three psychologists using descriptive research to try to link a mans personality with the likelihood to sexually harass a female employee. The psychologists names are Kibeom Lee, Marie Gizzarone and Michael C. Ashton. The three thought this would be easy because one of the most common forms of aggressive behavior at work is sexual harassment. They surveyed a group of men to analyze their different personalities and to put the into groups based on who is more or less likely to sexually harass a woman. To determine their personalities that related to sexual harassment they used to measure the Likelihood to Sexual Harass (LSH). They also used the Big Five factors and a newer major dimension, named Honesty--Humility to represent the subjects personalities.
The LSH scale has ten different given scenarios that puts the subject in a position where he has power over ...