The Effect of Sexism and Rape Myths on Victim Blame
Abstract
Rape myths are false beliefs about sexual violence that encourage blaming the victim and exonerating the offender. Within the framework of the Ambivalent Sexism Theory, we tested a model investigating the effect of each dimension of ambivalent sexism on the endorsement of each rape myth, and in turn the effect of each myth on the attribution of responsibility (to the perpetrator vs. to the victim) in case of sexual violence. Participants were...
Paper Details
Title
The Effect of Sexism and Rape Myths on Victim Blame
Published Date
Jul 20, 2018
Journal
Volume
23
Issue
1
Pages
209 - 219
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