APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Names, Blame, and Gender: A Look at Victim Blame in Sexual Assault
- Michael Keiter
James Madison University - Natalie Hicks
James Madison University - Kyrus Smith
James Madison University - Brenna Freeman
James Madison University - Kethera Fogler
James Madison University
Abstract
The present study investigated the role of race, the use of names and gender on levels of blame for a hypothetical sexual assault victim. Names were masculine or feminine and Anglicanized or ethnic. Whether names personify a victim was examined by including a condition in which the victim was unnamed.
Gender Issues/Sex Roles
