@article{ref1,
title="Victim and Observer Characteristics as Determinants of Responsibility Attributions to Victims of Rape",
journal="Journal of applied social psychology",
year="1988",
author="Krahé, Barbara",
volume="18",
number="1",
pages="50-58",
abstract="Two field studies were conducted to investigate the influence of observer and victim characteristics on attributions of victim and assailant responsibility in a rape case. In the first study, male and female subjects completed a measure of rape myth acceptance and were presented with a rape account after which they were asked to attribute responsibility to victim and assailant. In the second study, a new sample was asked to attribute responsibility to victim and assailant on the basis of one of two rape accounts in which victim's pre-rape behavior was manipulated. Results showed that both rape myth acceptance and victims' pre-rape behavior influenced the degree of responsibility attributed to victims and assailants. No significant effects of subject gender were found. A more complex conceptualization is suggested of the link between observer and victim characteristics in social reactions to and evaluations of rape victims.<p />",
language="",
issn="0021-9029",
doi="10.1111/j.1559-1816.1988.tb00004.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.1988.tb00004.x"
}