The results indicated that gender and personal experience impacted ratings of stalking behavior. Men with personal experience of stalking were more likely to rate mild stalking scenarios as stalking behavior than men without personal experience of stalking. However, personal experience had no impact on women’s ratings of stalking behavior. Overall, women were more likely to rate both mild and severe stalking scenarios as stalking behaviors. Participants were 60 female and 42 male college students recruited from an introductory psychology course. Participants were asked to rate a list of potential stalking behaviors that ranged from mild, ambiguous examples to more severe examples of stalking behavior. Statistical analysis techniques, including MANOVA, examined the interaction of gender and personal knowledge on perceptions of stalking behaviors. Future research is planned to examine how perceptions of stalking become activated and how differences in these perceptions might affect memory, attention, and interpretation of the events. Table, references, appendix