TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2001//
TI  - Can Blaming Victims of Rape be Logical? Attribution Theory and Discourse Analytic Perspectives
JO  - Human relations
A1  - Anderson, Irina
A1  - Beattie, Geoffrey
A1  - Spencer, Christopher
SP  - 445
EP  - 467
VL  - 54
IS  - 4
N2  - While it is frequently assumed that blaming the victims rather than the perpetrators of rape is the result of biases in causal reasoning, one rape perception study (Calhoun et al., 1976) suggests that blame attributions directed at the victim can occur as a result of logical attributional processes through the systematic and rational application of the covariational rules of inductive reasoning. The aim of the present study was to investigate this assertion. The study is unique in two ways. First, participants were asked to discuss a rape incident rather than evaluate it using questionnaire methods. Second, the study focused on the rape of males as well as the rape of females. Two analyses were performed on the conversational data ñ a content analysis yielding quantitative data and a qualitative discourse analysis. The main findings were that, contrary to predictions, participants did not use the covariation information to blame the victim of rape ëlogically'. Instead, the most frequently utilized category was ëmetacommentary' which showed that the participants were extremely sensitive to the inferences implied by the covariation information and the task in general. The findings are discussed in relation to attribution theory and rape perception. (Abstract Adapted from Source: Human Relations, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by SAGE Publications)  Rape Victim Rape Perceptions Sexual Assault Perceptions Sexual Assault Victim Adult Perceptions Social Perceptions Victim Characteristics Victim Blaming Perceptions About Victim Adult Female Adult Victim Female Victim Violence Against Women Victim Responsibility 12-02<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 0018-7267
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -