The causal impact of rape myth acceptance on men's rape proclivity: comparing sexually coercive and noncoercive men

By Gerard Bohner, Christopher I. Jarvis, Friederike A. Eyssel, Frank Siebler. 2005

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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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): “However, they consistently follow a pattern whereby, they blame the victim for their rape, express a disbelief in claims of rape, exonerate the perpetrator and allude that only certain types of women are raped (Bohner et al., 1998; Briere, Malamuth & Check, 1985; Burt, 1980, 1991; Costin, 1985; Gerg”
Television's Role in the Culture of Violence Toward Women: A Study of Television Viewing and the Cultivation of Rape Myth Acceptance in the United States (2011, background): “In men, rape myth acceptance can lead to increased rape proclivity ( Bohner, Jarvis, Eyssel, & Siebler, 2005 ; Malamuth & Check, 1981 ).”
Athletic Participation, Fraternity Membership, and Sexual Aggression Among College Men: A Meta-analytic Review (2007, background): “Rape myth acceptance has been empirically and theoretically related to self-report of sexual aggression (e.g., Bohner et al. 2005; Hall and Hirschman 1991; Lonsway and Fitzgerald 1994; Murnen et al. 2003).”
Social Perception of Rape Victims in Dating and Married Relationships: The Role of Perpetrator’s Benevolent Sexism (2010, background): “It is well known that the presence of this type of attitudes can promote aggressive behavior towards women, for instance, rape proclivity (Abrams et al. 2003; Bohner et al. 1998; Bohner et al. 2005; Bohner et al. 2006), and negative reactions towards victims of sexual aggression, for instance, not r”
Prevalence of Rape Myths in Headlines and Their Effects on Attitudes Toward Rape (2008, background): “Several researchers have shown that men’s endorsement of rape myths is correlated with their admitted likelihood to commit sexual assault if assured no repercussions (Bohner et al. 2005; Bohner et al. 1998).”
A systematic review of the association between rape myth acceptance and male-on-female sexual violence (2018, methodology): “5 Despite this heterogeneity in measurement tools, RMA has shown strong predictive validity in several studies (McDermott, Kilmartin, McKelvey, & Kridel, 2015; Süssenbach et al., 2013; Vega & Malamuth 2007; Abrams, Viki, Masser, & Bohner, 2003; Bohner et al., 2005).”
Rape myth acceptance: cognitive, affective and behavioural effects of beliefs that blame the victim and exonerate the perpetrator (2013, background): “The results of three studies, two conducted in Germany and one in the UK, were clearly in line with the first alternative: making participants’ own RMA accessible to them (by presenting the RMA scale before the rape proclivity measure) consistently yielded a higher correlation than did the reverse o”