Glossary H
Glossary H
Hostile environment harassment refers to a type of sexual harassment that occurs when an individual is subjected to unwelcome repeated sexual comments, innuendoes, or visually offensive material or touching that interferes with school or work. It is a type of harassment characterized by a pattern of unwanted conduct related to gender that interferes with an individual’s work performance.
Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment is defined as a workplace which promotes or tolerates sexual harassment
Hostile expectation bias refers to the tendency to assume that people will react to potential conflicts with aggression.
Hostile media phenomenon refers to the tendency for people who feel strongly about an issue to believe that the media coverage of the issue is biased against their side
Hostile perception bias refers to the tendency to perceive social interactions in general as being aggressive
Hostility is the propensity for an individual to become angry and act aggressively.