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1、PluralisticIgnoranceandHookingUp1PluralisticIgnoranceandHookingUpSarahMaurer,SarahScott,StephanieTurnerHanoverCollegeWinterTerm2007PluralisticIgnoranceandHookingUp2PluralisticIgnoranceandHookingUpWhilecasualsexualrelationshipsinwhichnocommitmentfollowswerecertainlynotunheardofint
2、hepast,itdoesseemthattheyarebecomingmoreprevalentintoday’ssociety(Manning,,Giordana,&Longmore,2006;Vorauer&Ratner,1997).Especiallyamongthecollegeagedpopulation.“Hookingup”isthetermthathascometobeusedbycollegestudentstorefertothecasual,uncommittedsexualencountersthattheyareengagin
3、ginontheweekends,especiallyatparties.HookinguphasbeendefinedbyLambert,Kahn,andApple(2003)as“whentwopeoplewhoarecasualacquaintancesorwhohavejustmet...agreetoengageinsomeformsofsexualbehaviorforwhichtherewilllikelybenofuturecommitment”.Itisnotimportantwhetherornotthetwopeopleknowea
4、chother;thekeycomponentofahookingupsituationisthattherewillbenofuturecommitmentattachedtothesexualbehaviors.Theuncommitted,casualsexualrelationshipsthatwereonceseenasproblematic,butnotprevalentarenowbecomingnormativeoncollegecampusesacrosstheUnitedStates(Manning,,Giordana,&Longmo
5、re,2006).Itseemstosomethat“everyoneisdoingit”.Whilethereappearstobeanillusionofsupportamongthestudentsengaginginthesebehaviors,thismaynotbethecase.Researchonthephenomenonofpluralisticignorancesuggeststhatindeedit’snot.Studentscouldbeoverestimatingthecomfortlevelsoftheirpeerswithr
6、egardstohookingupactivities.Hines,Saris,&Throckmorton-Belzer,(2002)suggestthatpluralisticignoranceaboutsexualrelationshipsisprevalent.PluralisticignorancehasbeenextensivelystudiedbyPrenticeandMiller(1993).Theydefinepluralisticignoranceasa“psychologicalstatecharacterizedbythebelie
7、fthatone’sprivateattitudesandjudgmentsaredifferentfromthoseofothers,eventhoughPluralisticIgnoranceandHookingUp3one’spublicbehaviorisidentical”.MillerandMcFarland(1987)explainthatinpluralisticignorance,peoplebelievethatothersarefeelingdifferentlythantheyareeventhougheveryoneappear
8、stobeactingsimilarly.Itisinterestingtoco
