Shifting the Blame: How Narrative Framing, Coercive Strategies, and Rape Myth Acceptance Distort Perceptions of Sexual Assault and Fuel Victim Blame [PDF]
Previous research has shown that both victim intoxication and narrative framing can influence the levels of victim blame. However, far less attention has been paid to how coercive strategy and narrative framing may interact to shape victim-blaming ...
Pantxika Victoire Morlat +3 more
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Blame through my eyes: How first-person perspective shapes social attention and attribution in harmful interactions – a comparative eye tracking study [PDF]
Background Rigid attributional patterns are a key component of social cognitive deficits linked to aggression. Prior eye-tracking research using a third-person perspective revealed that, compared to community adults, incarcerated violent offenders ...
Adrianna Jakubowska +4 more
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Gendered Discourses of Responsibility and Domestic Abuse Victim-Blame in the English Children’s Social Care System [PDF]
Purpose This paper foregrounds the experiences of mothers involved with England’s children’s social care system when experiencing domestic abuse. It reports on data from a survivor-led study on domestic violence and/or abuse (DVA), involving women victim-
Wild, J.
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How Self Relevance and Disclaimers Against Blame Affect Victim Blaming of Sexual Assault Survivors [PDF]
Victim blame can have negative impacts on survivors of sexual assault, leading to increased rates of neurological disorders, like PTSD, depression, and anxiety (Orchowski et al., 2013).
Flores Wolf, Lina Maria
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Sexual Objectification Increases Rape Victim Blame and Decreases Perceived Suffering [PDF]
Sexual objectification changes the way people view women by reducing them to sexual objects—denied humanity and an internal mental life, as well as deemed unworthy of moral concern.
Puvia, Elisa +7 more
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Perceptions of interpersonal versus intergroup violence: the case of sexual assault. [PDF]
The social identity approach makes a distinction between behavior motivated by intergroup versus interpersonal identities, which may be relevant to victim blaming in the case of rape. Using a mock jury paradigm, we examined the impact of defining rape as
Lisa Droogendyk, Stephen C Wright
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Medical students’ experiences, perceptions, and management of second victim: an interview study
Background The term second victim describes a healthcare professional who has been involved in an adverse event and feels wounded by the event. The effects of this experience differ.
Tobias Browall Krogh +4 more
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Female rape victims who display “appropriate” emotions (versus “inappropriate” or no emotions) are often judged to be more credible. The authors studied the interplay of different emotion displays with perceivers’ acceptance of modern myths about sexual ...
Gerd Bohner, Evelyn Schapansky
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In the eye of the beholder: Decision-making of lawyers in cases of sexual harassment.
ObjectiveThe purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of deliberative vs. intuitive thinking styles on forensic judgments of legal professionals.
Liza Zvi, Mally Shechory-Bitton
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Attributions of responsibility, blame and justifiability to a perpetrator and victim in an acquaintance rape scenario: The influence of Marijuana intoxication [PDF]
Marijuana is a commonly used illicit drug by young adults and has been implicated in about one third of sexual assaults. However, the influence of Marijuana intoxication on rape attributions has not been previously investigated.
Qi, Sandie J. +2 more
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