Rape and Seduction Scripts of University Students: Implications for Rape Attributions and Unacknowledged Rape

By H. Littleton, D. Axsom. 2003

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies

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Sexual Assault Victims' Acknowledgment Status and Revictimization Risk (2009, background): “Indeed, studies of individuals’ rape scripts supports that these scripts often involve a highly violent stranger assault (Littleton & Axsom, 2003; Littleton, Radecki Breitkopf, & Berenson, 2007; Ryan, 1988).”
Risky Situation or Harmless Fun? A Qualitative Examination of College Women’s Bad Hook-up and Rape Scripts (2009, methodology): “Consistent with recent research examining the rape scripts of US college students (e.g., Littleton and Axsom 2003 ), a sizable percentage of women in the current sample described a typical rape as a violent, stranger assault.”
Coping with the Experience of Rape (2006, background): “Recent research also suggests that college women have become more aware of alcohol-facilitated rape (Littleton & Axsom, 2003), and thus, victims who had been drinking may be less likely to be blamed for the assault or to blame themselves relative to victims in the past.”
The Relationship between Rape Myths and Sexual Scripts: The Social Construction of Rape (2011, background): “Subsequent research showed the key features of rape scripts are the assailant’s use of physical violence and the victim’s resistance (e.g., Krahé et al. 2007; Littleton and Axsom 2003), as well as negative psychological consequences for the victim (e.”
A Match-and-Motivation Model of How Women Label Their Nonconsensual Sexual Experiences (2011, background): “…scripts—in which the man determinedly pursues sexual activity and the woman acts as the sexual gatekeeper—and many women’s experiences with acquaintance rape—in which the man persists in obtaining sex after the woman has expressed unwillingness (e.g., Littleton & Axsom, 2003; Ryan, 1988).”
Barriers to Reporting Sexual Victimization: Prevalence and Correlates among Undergraduate Women (2011, background): “Rape script theory offers some hypotheses regarding which assault victims would be more likely to report their experiences than others ( Littleton & Axsom, 2003 ; Littleton, Rhatigan, & Axsom, 2007 ).”
“Victim is Not Credible”: The Influence of Rape Culture on Police Perceptions of Sexual Assault Complainants (2019, background): ““Real rape” is believed to be physically violent, involving suspect weapon use or threats of use, and resulting in victim injuries (Littleton & Axsom, 2003; Ryan, 2011).”
Sexual Script Theory: Past, Present, and Future (2015, background): “Similarly, Littleton and Axsom (2003) asked college student respondents to rate how typical several script elements were for “seduction” and “rape.””