An Updated Measure for Assessing Subtle Rape Myths.

By S. McMahon, G. Farmer. 2011

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Victim Blaming Others (2013, unknown): “Similar to the JWB scale, scholars have also debated the construction of different rape myth scales (see Lonsway & Fitzgerald, 1994, 1995; McMahon & Farmer, 2011).”
Beyond Surveys and Scales: How Rape Myths Manifest in Sexual Assault Police Records (2017, background): “…scales include statements that assign blame to the victim, but the statements on these surveys tap beliefs about victims’ culpability for the assault itself, not for the subsequent investigation (e.g., see Kettrey, 2013; Lonsway & Fitzgerald, 1995; McMahon & Farmer, 2011; Payne et al., 1999).”
Rape Myths: History, Individual and Institutional-Level Presence, and Implications for Change (2011, background): “Also, rape myths may often operate implicitly rather than explicitly, and our self-report rape myth measures may not be able to detect these more subtle rape myths (McMahon and Farmer 2011).”
What do we know about rape myths and juror decision making? (2020, unknown): “Both scales have been criticised for their use of complex language (McMahon and Farmer, 2011: 71).”