GENDER DIFFERENCES IN REACTIONS TO FEMALE VICTIMS
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The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship of gender and level of belief in the just world to reactions to victims. Eighty-six female and sixty-five male college students were led to believe that their partner in a study of work groups was a victim of a sexual assault. A gender difference in the choice of specific justice-restoring strategies was observed. While high just-world males provided significantly more help to victims than controls and low just-world males did not differentiate, female subjects distanced themselves from victims by perceiving them to be less similar to themselves than controls. Findings are discussed in relation to evidence that attempts to restore justice may evoke a multitude of cognitive and behavioral responses.
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A second strategy is to distance oneself from the victim, as a way to reassure oneself that one's own life outcomes can still be governed by fairness principles that ensure bad things only happen to bad people.
“A second strategy is to distance oneself from the victim, as a way to reassure oneself that even if bad things happened to someone else, one's own life outcomes can still be governed by fairness principles that ensure bad things only happen to bad people (Drout & Gaertner, 1994;Hafer, 2000;Lerner, 1980;Pinciotti & Orcutt, 2021).”
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Lerner, M. J. (1980) · doi:10.1007/978-1-4899-0448-5 · Cited by 2,656 · see citing works
Just world research and the attribution process: Looking back and ahead.
Lerner, M. J., & Miller, D. T. (1978) · Psychological Bulletin · doi:10.1037/0033-2909.85.5.1030 · Cited by 1,687 · see citing works
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Hammond, E. M., Berry, M. A., & Rodriguez, D. N. (2011) · Legal and Criminological Psychology · doi:10.1348/135532510x499887 · Cited by 145 · see citing works
Victim blaming and belief in karma
White, C. J. M., & Willard, A. K. (2024) · Asian Journal of Social Psychology · doi:10.1111/ajsp.12654 · Cited by 4 · see citing works
- Authors
- Drout, C. E., & Gaertner, S. L.
- Affiliations
- SUNY Fredonia (US)
- Venue
- Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal
- Publisher
- Scientific Journal Publishers Ltd
- Published
- 1994-01-01
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 267-277
- ISSN
- 0301-2212 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2080667661
- Cited by
- 33
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2014: 4 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Keywords
- gender differences, belief in a just world, sexual assault, restoration of justice, social distance, perceived similarity, university students
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