The Effects of Exposure to Negative Social Reactions and Participant Gender on Attitudes and Behavior Toward a Rape Victim

Bibliographic Data

ID12438136
AuthorsAmy L Brown (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume25
Issue2
Pages208-222
Publication date2018-03-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueViolence Against Women (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8012 • E-ISSN: 1552-8448
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1077801218761603
PMID29504472
OpenAlexW2794106889
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited36

Research has shown that judgments of a rape victim could be influenced by exposure to negative social reactions: students indicated less willingness to provide sympathy and support to a hypothetical rape victim when they learned she had been blamed and stigmatized. The current study, which utilized a sample of 100 college students, replicated and extended these results and showed that men were affected by others' negative social reactions in their hypothetical judgments and in their behavioral responses to a rape victim (sitting farther away). This study demonstrates the potentially far-reaching detrimental influence of negative social reactions

Developmental psychology · Injury prevention · Medical emergency · Poison control · Suicide prevention · Sympathy · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Medicine · Psychology · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology