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Article History

Received: 29 January 2019

Revised: 6 June 2020

Accepted: 10 June 2020

First Online: 8 July 2020

Compliance with Ethical Standards

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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

: All procedures performed in these studies were in accordance with the ethical standards of the British Psychology Society’s research ethics code of conduct and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments. All procedures were approved by both institutional Research Ethics Boards.

: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. (All participants knew they were going to answer questions about sexual scenarios and that some of them included scenarios where consent was not given—i.e., rape). Further, participants were instructed that if they had personal experience with rape, that they should not take part in the study. In Study 2, where we asked participants to imagine themselves as initiators of sex, special consideration was paid to how the study was framed and the support services offered after the study. On completion of the scenarios, the participant was presented with the legal definition of rape and a series of support services and information about the study as part of the debriefing information. This information explicitly pointed participants to campaigns running at the same time in the University regarding education students about consent.