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Showing 1 to 20 of 102 for “"Acquaintance"”.
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A 'person-situation' interactive account of acquaintance rape
… validity of a person-situation model on males' acquaintance rape proclivity. Furthermore, very little has been done to explore the role of situational frustration, and how this may relate to males' personality characteristics and sexual misperceptions in a sexual interaction. This thesis aimed …
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Acquaintance and the Formation of Negative Phenomenal Belief
… paper argues that Gertler’s (2012) account of acquaintance is inadequate because it cannot perform the explanatory role that it’s supposed to perform. My argument builds from two central claims. First, I argue that our judgments about phenomenal absences have the special features that …
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Person-Differential Accuracy of Personality Judgment: A Limited-Acquaintance Examination
The current study used a recently-developed measure of judgmental ability, person-differential accuracy (PDA), to address two research questions: a) How accurately do we understand one another in general?, and b) Are there individual differences in the ability to judge personality? PDA is the …
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Social Reactions to Acquaintance Sexual Assault: Perceptions of Responsibility and Blame
Employing a mixed quantitative and qualitative methodology among undergraduate students at the University of Ottawa, this research has explored attributions about sexual assault and the role of perceived intoxication in the context of female and male victims of sexual assault. The use of …
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Sex differences in attitudes and attributions of responsibility in acquaintance rape situations
… attitudes and attributions of responsibility in acquaintance rape situations. The existing literature in this area has focused solely on examining explicit attitudes, or those attitudes that are within an individual's conscious awareness. No attention, however, has been focused on the implicit …
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Power and consent: Relation to self-reported sexual assault and acquaintance rape
… and behaviors may relate to sexual assault and acquaintance rape. Power was examined at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and socio-cultural levels. In addition, two perspectives on power were studied: power as dominating others and power as a sense of personal empowerment or control. A scale to …
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Assessing the Impact of Media on Blaming the Victim of Acquaintance Rape
… for their assault, particularly in cases of acquaintance rape. The current research explores the role of news media coverage in promoting a victim blaming culture in the United States. In Study 1, I content analyzed 179 articles reporting sexual assaults from two newspapers. These media …
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"""Judgable"" persons: Personality characteristics and construct validation"
… of each subject was also provided by two acquaintances. Three indices--subject-acquaintance agreement, acquaintance-acquaintance agreement, and acquaintance behavioral prediction--formed a reliable composite index of judgability. The correlates of judgability suggested that judgable people …
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The Influence of the Observer-Actor Relationship on Causal Attributions for Behaviors
… has been done to systematically vary levels of acquaintance and behavior positivity to assess their influence on attributions. The first, exploratory study focussed on attribution prevalence, but also addressed attribution content. The first question addressed was whether attribution prevalence …
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From mace to restricted movement: feminist social control theory and college women's fear of rape
… relative fear of crime in both stranger and acquaintance situations, an assessment of behavioral/social self-restrictions, and an examination of the relative impact of previous victimization on women's fear. Data are derived from a self-administered questionnaire from a non-probability sample …
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The relationship of multicultural awareness and belief of rape myths with intellectual empathy and empathic emotion for victims of acquaintance and stranger rape among undergraduate women and men
… of male and female college students toward acquaintance or stranger rape victims. This study also sought to explore if there were interactions between and among these variables which would predict additional variance in intellectual empathy and empathic emotion. The results of the study …
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Predicting perceptions of rape: relationship status and perpetrator motivation
… either dating for six months or on a first date (acquaintance). Male participants were found to attribute more blame to the victim and less blame to the perpetrator when compared to female participants. Women who read the acquaintance stimulus attributed more guilt to the perpetrator than men. …
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Women's reactions to a realistic rape portrayal and the influence of feminst identity and rape myth acceptance
… reactions to a popular media depiction of a date/acquaintance rape scene. This study also examined if either feminist identity or rape myth acceptance was related to these reactions. Sixty college females enrolled at the University of Missouri were exposed to either a neutral film clip or one …
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The Mediating Influence of Homophobia on Male Rape Victims
… or heterosexual was raped by a male stranger or acquaintance. Participants then answered questions judging the seriousness of the attack and the degree of responsibility held by the victim and perpetrator. Participants also answered questions measuring their homophobic and traditional gender role …
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A Developmental, Sequential Method of Teaching Library Skills to Student Librarians
… skills in students with little or-no previous acquaintance with the reference tools and resources of the high school library.
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"People laugh, don’t believe it": Unveiling Male Rape Myths through a Mixed Methods Exploration of Professionals, Survivors, and Community Insights.
… titled ‘Professionals’ Insights: Societal Myths, Acquaintance Rape Realities, and Legal Obstacles’, ‘Navigating Re-Traumatisation: Unequal Power and Support Challenges’. For mixed methods integration, the preliminary findings from study one informed phase two’s interview schedule, which was …
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Impressions of Moral Considerations and Actions: An Agreement Approach
Judges reported on how acquaintances (e.g., friends, family members, and co-workers) typically behave and the considerations behind their behavior in a number of morally relevant commonly experienced situations. Acquaintances also reported on their own typical behaviors and the considerations …
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