Alcohol-Related Victim Behavior and Rape Myth Acceptance as Predictors of Victim Blame in Sexual Assault Cases
- Two studies analyzed the influence of victim behavior, drink type, and observer rape myth acceptance (RMA) on attributions of blame to victims of sexual assault. In Study 1, people higher in RMA blamed the victim more when she accepted rather than rejected the aggressor’s invitation to buy her a drink. In Study 2, we analyzed if the effects depended on who offered the invitation for a drink (a friend or aggressor). RMA was more closely related to victim blame when she accepted (vs. rejected) the offer of a drink from the aggressor. In both studies, drink type (alcoholic vs. nonalcoholic) did not interact with the other variables.
| Author details: | Monica Romero-Sanchez, Barbara KraheORCiDGND, Miguel Moya, Jesús L MegíasORCiD |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801217727372 |
| ISSN: | 1077-8012 |
| ISSN: | 1552-8448 |
| Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29332529 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Violence Against Women |
| Publisher: | Sage Publ. |
| Place of publishing: | Thousand Oaks |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2018/10/25 |
| Publication year: | 2018 |
| Release date: | 2021/11/12 |
| Tag: | alcohol; rape myth acceptance; victim blame |
| Volume: | 24 |
| Issue: | 9 |
| Number of pages: | 18 |
| First page: | 1052 |
| Last Page: | 1069 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
| DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
