Journal of Interpersonal Violence 2018, Vol. 33(2) 228–249 © The Author(s) 2015 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0886260515604414 journals.sagepub.com/home/jiv Article Sexual Attitudes Moderate the Effects of Alcohol Intoxication on Women’s Risk Judgments Elizabeth A. Yeater, 1 Teresa A. Treat, 2 Richard J. Viken, 3 and Kathryn L. Lenberg 1 Abstract This study evaluated the effects of alcohol intoxication, sexual attitudes, and sexual victimization history on the cognitive processes underlying undergraduate women’s risk judgments. Participants were 116 unmarried, undergraduate women between the ages of 21 and 29. The sample was diverse ethnically and composed primarily of heterosexual women. Stimuli were written vignettes describing social situations that varied on dimensions of sexual victimization risk and potential impact on women’s popularity. Participants were assigned randomly to an alcohol or a no-alcohol condition, and completed an explicit classification task in which they rated how risky each situation was in terms of their having an unwanted sexual experience. They then completed the Sexual Experiences Survey (SES) and the Sociosexuality Scale (SS); SES responses were used to quantify the severity of victimization experiences, and SS responses were used to measure endorsement of positive attitudes toward casual, impersonal sex. Although there was no main effect for condition, higher sociosexuality predicted use of higher thresholds for judging situations as risky. Importantly, sociosexuality interacted with condition such that higher sociosexuality predicted lower sensitivity to risk 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA 2 University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA 3 Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA Corresponding Author: Elizabeth A. Yeater, Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Logan Hall, Albuquerque, NM 87131-1161, USA. Email: eyeater@umn.edu 604414JIV XX X 10.1177/0886260515604414Journal of Interpersonal ViolenceYeater et al. research-article 2015