Who Sees the Risk? What Men and Women Notice Before Danger | Profiling Evil

Why can two people walk through the same place and notice completely different warning signs? In this special Profiling Evil episode, we’ll draw on lessons from law-enforcement and behavioral-analysis alongside a fascinating peer-reviewed study by Robert A. Chaney, PhD, Alyssa Baer, MPH, and L. Ida Tovar, MPH. The researchers asked 571 college students to examine campus walking environments under changing conditions of lighting and entrapment. Women tended to focus more on bushes, darkness, and areas outside the path, while men tended to focus more directly on the path ahead.

Those differences don’t tell us that one gender is naturally better at detecting danger, nor does the study measure actual victimization or predict who would avoid an attack. What it gives us is a useful way to think about our environment and the blind spots that increase our chances of being victimized. We’ll explore how offenders take advantage of location, situation and circumstances to get the upper hand on their intended victims and we’ll talk about how simple choices can lower exposure without surrendering your freedom. This conversation is about prevention, not blame and it’s all about giving good people more options and making predatory behavior harder to carry out.

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