Rape myth acceptance: cognitive, affective and behavioural effects of beliefs that blame the victim and exonerate the perpetrator

By Gerard Bohner, Friederike A. Eyssel, Afroditi Pina, Frank Siebler, G. Viki. 2013

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Attribution of blame in rape cases: A review of the impact of rape myth acceptance, gender role conformity and substance use on victim blaming (2012, background): “Rape myth acceptance as a cognitive schema may also serve to self-perpetuate a more general and more encompassing cognitive motive, referred to as the 'belief in a just world' (Bohner et al., 2009).”
• The Relationship between Rape Myths and Sexual Scripts: The Social Construction of Rape (2011, background): “Rape myths may be part of a cognitive scheme that reflect the belief in a just world and facilitate sexual aggression (Bohner et al. 2009). Rape myths can provide comfort to women and men because they allow them to distance themselves and their own behavior from the possibility of being victims or p”
• A review of the literature relating to rape victim blaming: An analysis of the impact of observer and victim characteristics on attribution of blame in rape cases (2014, unknown): “…assumptions about rape, which “affect subjective definitions of what constitutes a ‘typical rape’, contain problematic assumptions about the likely behavior of perpetrators and victims, and paint a distorted picture of the antecedents and consequences of rape” (Bohner et al., 2009, p. 18).”
• A systematic review of juries' assessment of rape victims: Do rape myths impact on juror decision-making? (2015, background): “Rape myths can encompass a range of beliefs, which according to Bohner et al. (2009) fall into four categories such as 1) beliefs that blame the victim, 2) beliefs that excuse the offender, 3) beliefs that doubt allegations and 4) beliefs that suggest rape is exclusive to specific groups of society.”
• How Rape Myths Are Used and Challenged in Rape and Sexual Assault Trials (2017, background): “It is arguable, then, that rape myths are a combination of stereotypical attitudes about rape with the cultural functioning of a myth, leading to the most common definition: ‘prescriptive or descriptive beliefs about rape that serve to deny, downplay or justify sexual violence’ (Bohner et al., 1998:”