GENDER DIFFERENCES IN REACTIONS TO FEMALE VICTIMS

Cheryl E. Drout · Samuel L. Gaertner

33 citations0/0 files storedSocial Behavior and Personality An International Journal

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies Social and Intergroup Psychology Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

Abstract

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.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 33 citations exist upstream.

References

1980The Belief in a Just World 1982The Belief in a Just World: A Fundamental Delusion.1978Just world research and the attribution process: Looking back and ahead.1986Gender and aggressive behavior: A meta-analytic review of the social psychological literature.1975Who Believes in a Just World?1977The justice motive: Some hypotheses as to its origins and forms 1 1980Who Believes in a Just World 1983Anger, the misunderstood emotion

Cited by

2005Experimental Research on Just-World Theory: Problems, Developments, and Future Challenges.2006Race and Media Coverage of Hurricane Katrina: Analysis, Implications, and Future Research Questions 2014Perpetrator characteristics and blame attributions in a stranger rape situation 2012Altruism Behind Bars: Sharing, Justice, Perspective Taking and Empathy Among Inmates 2018#sendeanlat (#tellyourstory): Text Analyses of Tweets About Sexual Assault Experiences

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.