| dc.description.abstract | Victim blaming is an act of holding someone responsible for a negative outcome or harm they have experienced. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether describing a woman as racially stereotypical or counter-stereotypical influences whether or not she is likely to be victim blamed. Victim-blaming is typically associated with sexual assault, but has been shown to occur in a wide variety of scenarios such as physical assault, robbery or mugging, illness, and accidents (Hafer & Begue, 2005; Rieck, Hicks, & Kim, 2014). Participants read different fictional newspaper articles about a woman that was victimized during a robbery and was described with traits that were stereotypical (or counter-stereotypical) of her racial group. Participants then completed questions about victim-blaming and system justification. Our results showed that participants were the least likely to derogate Keisha (Black), but most likely to derogate Claire (White), when they were described as being counter-stereotypical | en |
