All participants read a fictitious potential sexual harassment scenario.
Those participants in the experimental conditions were exposed to a scripted audio-taped discussion in which there was one persuasive communicator and several 'filler' speakers. On the discussion tapes, the communicator was either male or female, who argued either for, or against, the classification of the scenario as sexual harassment. The control group was not exposed to any audio-taped discussions. All subjects were required to fill out a short questionnaire regarding their judgments of the scenario. By comparing the results of the various conditions we will be able to determine if, and how, persuasive communications effect people's judgments of sexual harassment.