Sex Differences in the Perception of Rape Victims
- 1 September 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Interpersonal Violence
- Vol. 4 (3) , 278-288
- https://doi.org/10.1177/088626089004003002
Abstract
The present study investigated the effects of victim characteristics on people's perceptions of a rape incident. Subjects read an account of a rape incident in which the victim was described either as a virgin or as a sexually promiscuous woman. It was predicted that, because of the different attributional perspectives adopted by males and females when explaining a rape incident, the characteristics of the victim would influence the judgments of male subjects but not of female subjects. The results obtained supported this prediction.Keywords
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