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1 RAPE VICTIM BLAMING Rape Victim Blaming as System Justification: The Role of Gender and Activation of Complementary Stereotypes Kayla Shaw Liberty University

2 RAPE VICTIM BLAMING Abstract This research examined reactions towards female rape victims from a system justification perspective. Study 1 demonstrated that gender-related system justification motivation (Modern Sexism) predicted the propensity to blame a female rape victim among men, but not among women. Modern sexism predicted rape victim blaming among men even when statistically controlling for a general antipathy towards women, and the results were unaffected by social desirability concerns. Consistent with previous study on system justification theory, we demonstrated in Study 2 that system justification motivation can predict victim blaming also among women, provided that complementary stereotypes about women have been activated. By contrast, system justification motivation predicted men's propensity to blame a rape victim irrespective of whether complementary stereotypes about women had been experimentally activated. Keywords : Victim Blaming, System Justification, Modern sexism, Complementary stereotypes, Rape myths

3 RAPE VICTIM BLAMING Rape Victim Blaming as System Justification: The Role of Gender and Activation of Complementary Stereotypes There have been many studies discussing the role genders and victim blaming rape victims. This article discusses what victim blaming is and argues that attributing blame to a rape victim can be as a response to a threat to the status quo. Jost and Banaji (1994) state, “More specifically, we argue that innocent rape victims threaten system justifying beliefs that contemporary society offers ‘‘a level playing field’’ for men and women,” (p. 240). Consequently, we expect that system justification motivation should contribute to negative reactions towards rape victims beyond what can be explained by a general hostility towards women. It also discusses what a rape victim myth is, and that while the mythological belief is that “women always lie about being raped” they point out that evidence shows that women are “highly reluctant to report that they have been raped when it is the truth” (e.g., BRA, 2005). This article also focuses on whether the gender-related system focuses on the rape victim blaming being among men rather than women, they then proceed to test whether this theory is correct and explains everything that they go through to get their results. This paper attempts to advance the understanding of the negative responses to rape victims, and their research backs up their claim very well.

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4 RAPE VICTIM BLAMING References Tomas Stahl, Daniel Eek, Ali Kazemi (2010). Rape Victim Blaming as System Justification: The Role of Gender and Activation of Complementary Stereotypes . Social Justice Research , Volume 23 (4) , 239-258 http://www.springerlink.com/content/en5221h02m81870t/fulltext.pdf

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