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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Rape Myths"”.
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The assessment and structure of rape myths
… considerable amount of research on the topic of rape myths, this research has been limited by several factors, including the lack of effort devoted to understanding the structure and composition of rape myths, and the poor quality of existing measures of rape myth acceptance. This project …
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Peer education and its effects on the beliefs of rape myths
… is a relationship between men's acceptance of rape myths and violence against women (Malamuth, 1989). These stereotypical ideas about rape, rape victims, and rapists, perpetuate rape. Peer education may play a beneficial part in teaching students about rape, and is the primary focus of this …
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Male rape myths: Measurement and relation to the gender role strain paradigm
… purpose of this research was to revise the Male Rape Myths Scale (MRMS; Kerr Melanson, 1999) and gather psychometric information using the gender role strain paradigm (GRSP; Pleck, 1991, 1995) as a theoretical framework in samples of U.S. undergraduate students. I provided evidence for a 16-item …
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A content analysis of women's safety websites: rape myths and the internet
… choices and neglect men’s accountability. Rape myths support an explanation of rape that allows women to remain fearful of sexual victimization. This thesis questions whether contemporary websites regarding women’s safety reinforce rape myths. Components of rape myths include the idea that …
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“Hideous things have happened here”: Rape myths, rape culture, and healing in adolescent literature
<p>Adolescent novels about rape are one way to discuss rape and rape culture with a young audience. These novels can depict and challenge aspects of rape culture, including the myths that ultimately reinforce a culture hostile to rape victims. Considering the prevalence of rape in society at large, …
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'It shouldn't have to be this way' : a focus group analysis of rape myths in Clery act timely warnings
… been federal-level efforts to help eradicate rape-supportive cultures on college campuses across the country. Among those, the Clery Act and Title IX are heavy-hitters. However, when policy fails to account for the rape-supportive mechanisms, systems and procedures that permeate society, the …
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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.
Research shows that misconceptions, or rape myths, about male sexual violence survivors are prevalent in England. These myths lead to adverse outcomes such as obstacles in reporting incidents, secondary victimisation, and hesitation in seeking medical and psychological support. Despite these known …
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Rape myths are the theory--romance novels are the practice: The impact of exposure to images of women in popular culture
… to images in popular culture and women's rape judgments. Two experiments were conducted, the first of which examined undergraduate women's (N = 204) judgments about rape following priming with images depicted on romance novel covers. Participants were primed with: (a) slides of romance …
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Talking about rape: a discursive study of convicted adult rapists' accounts of rape
At least 167 women are raped every day in the UK, yet rape remains one of the most under reported and least prosecuted of all violent crimes. Low conviction rates can be attributed in part to the failings of the criminal justice system including the infiltration of rape myths into said system and …
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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
… the contribution of observer sex, type of rape, multicultural awareness and belief in rape myths to intellectual empathy and empathic emotions of male and female college students toward acquaintance or stranger rape victims. This study also sought to explore if there were interactions …
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(Re)Presentations of Sexual Violence Against Women: An Analysis of Media Reports of Rape
… and show popular adhesion to assumptions about rape that have been criticized and combatted by feminists. These assumptions are known as “rape myths.” It is important to look at the role newspapers play in contemporary discourse around rape and the extent to which they reproduce rape myths or, …
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The Impact and Influence of Sexual Interpersonal Violence and Beliefs on Barriers in Help-Seeking for College Students
… Current research has examined SIPV experiences, rape myth beliefs, and help-seeking barriers in isolation. However, understanding how these factors interact is crucial to understanding how to improve resources for survivors. The present study investigated the relationship among these three …
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COLLEGE STUDENTS' ATTITUDES TOWARD RAPE: A COMPARISON OF NEW ZEALAND AND THE UNITED STATES.
… cross-cultural study used the "Attitudes Toward Rape Victims Survey" (ARVS), designed by Ward (1984), to examine the attitudes of college students in New Zealand and the United States. The instrument (ARVS) is the first of its kind to test for victim blame, and the first to be limited to the …
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Influence of Exposure to Sexually-Violent Rap Lyrics on Acceptance of Violence towards Women
… between consuming rap music and acceptance of rape myths and general attitudes towards violence were also examined. Participants for this study were 87 high and low-hostile college males between the ages of 18 and 25, who were randomly assigned to one of three exposure conditions …
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Exploring rape myth acceptance among general medical practitioners in South Africa
Rape myths have several negative effects on society, and can affect those who come into contact with victims of sexual assault on a professional level. One group of professionals that assist victims are general medical practitioners and in a country like South Africa, that has a high rate of rape, …
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Negotiating Boyhood and Victimisation in the Adolescent Male Rape Novel
… novels depicting boys experiencing particularly rape taken from a corpus of 64 fictional, Anglophone adolescent narratives depicting the sexual abuse (including attempted abuse and rape) of boys published between 1984 and 2022. It is situated at the intersection of masculinity studies and the …
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The problem with belief: the history and present of discursive violence in policing rape
… examines the discursive development of various rape myths within the United States, and Illinois specifically, while also tracing the development of policing. To do this, I thoroughly contextualize rape myths and their development within the US cultural and legal systems including within …
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Schematic effects of rape myth acceptance
… investigates the type of influence exerted by rape myth acceptance (RMA). Rape myths may be defined as "beliefs about rape (i.e., about its causes, context, consequences, perpetrators, victims, and their interaction) that serve to deny, downplay or justify male sexual aggression against women" …
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Sex differences in attitudes and attributions of responsibility in acquaintance rape situations
… 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 attitudes that …
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Does Gender Play a Role?: Judges and Trial Outcomes in Sexual Assault Cases in Canada
… undertook a major reform of the laws surrounding rape beginning in 1983. As a result of this reform, rape was re-conceptualized as ‘sexual assault’, and laws surrounding consent and earlier sexual history were introduced in 1992. These changes were greatly influenced by feminist groups in the hope …
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