Effects of Gender and Sexuality on Judgements of Victim Blame and Rape Myth Acceptance in a Depicted Male Rape

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 391-398

  Davies, Michelle ^a   Mccartney, Samantha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Judgement; Male rape; Rape myths; Victim blame

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141680892     PISSN: 10529284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/casp.741     Document Type: Article

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