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Rape myths as neutralizing cognitions : evidence for a causal impact of anti-victim attitudes on men's self-reported likelihood of raping
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Men's acceptance of rape myths has been shown to correlate positively with self-reported rape proclivity (RP) as mentioned in this paper, and the causal pathway underlying this correlation has been explored.Abstract:
Men's rape myth acceptance (RMA; prejudiced beliefs that serve to exonerate the rapist and blame the victim) has been shown to correlate positively with self-reported rape proclivity (RP). To explore the causal pathway underlying this correlation, two experiments were conducted in which the relative cognitive accessibility of RMA and RP was varied. Male students were asked to report their RP in the context of a scale assessing attraction toward sexual aggression (Experiment 1) or in response to five realistic date-rape scenarios (Experiment 2), either before or after they filled out a 20-item RMA scale. In both studies, the correlation of RMA and RP was significantly greater in the after than in the before condition, suggesting that the belief in rape myths has a causal influence on men's proclivity to rape. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.read more
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What Have We Learned from Five Decades of Neutralization Research
Shadd Maruna,Heith Copes +1 more
TL;DR: Neutralization theory, though a popular framework for understanding deviant behavior, remains badly underdeveloped as mentioned in this paper, and few attempts have been made to connect it to narrative and sociocognitive research in psychology and related fields.
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Perceptions of stranger and acquaintance rape: the role of benevolent and hostile sexism in victim blame and rape proclivity.
TL;DR: It is shown that benevolent sexism and hostile sexism underpin different assumptions about women that generate sexist reactions toward rape victims and that these assumptions are mediated by different perceptions of the victim.
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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
Amy Grubb,Emily Turner +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effects of key factors that influence individual's attitudes towards victims of rape and found that men demonstrate higher acceptance of rape myths than women and attribute higher levels of blame to victims than women; women who violate traditional gender roles are attributed more blame than those women who do not; and women who consume alcohol prior to their attack are attributed higher levels than those who are not intoxicated.
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Why People Don’t Take their Concerns about Fair Trade to the Supermarket: The Role of Neutralisation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how neutralisation can explain people's lack of commitment to buying Fair Trade (FT) products, even when they identify FT as an ethical concern.
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Social perception of rape: how rape myth acceptance modulates the influence of situational factors.
TL;DR: The less stereotypic the rape situation was, the greater was the influence of attitudes toward rape on attributions, and the interaction between observer characteristics, such as RMA, and situational clues were best explained.
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Techniques of neutralization: A theory of delinquency.
Gresham M. Sykes,David Matza +1 more
TL;DR: A major technique of neutralization centers on the injury or harm involved in the delinquent act as mentioned in this paper, in so far as the delinquent can define himself as lacking responsibility for his deviant actions, the disapproval of self or others is sharply reduced in effectiveness as a restraining influence.
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Human Groups and Social Categories: Studies in Social Psychology
TL;DR: Bruner as discussed by the authors discusses the development of a perspective and the importance of exagerrating in the context of intergroup relations, and the achievement of group differentiation and intergroup conflict.
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Cultural myths and supports for rape.
TL;DR: This article found that acceptance of rape myths can be predicted from attitudes such as sex role stereotyping, adversarial sexual beliefs, sexual conservatism, and acceptance of interpersonal violence, and that younger and better educated people reveal less stereotypic and adversarial, and proviolence attitudes and less rape myth acceptance.