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29th APS Annual Convention · 2017

Putting the "Me" in Blame: Self & Collective Construal Priming Effects on Sexual Assault Victim Blaming

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session · Social

  • Anandi Ehman
    University of Mississippi
  • Elicia Lair
    University of Mississippi

Abstract

This study examined if self-construal priming influenced sexual assault victim blaming. For women high in rape myth acceptance, a collective “we” prime (vs. self and neutral) led to increased perpetrator blame and less victim blame. Those low in rape myth acceptance showed low victim blaming regardless of construal.

Social Cognition

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