12 Belief in a Just World, Religiosity, and Victim Blaming

2015 ◽  
pp. 255-266
Keyword(s):  
Victim Blaming ◽  
Just World

scholarly journals Victim Blaming and Exoneration of the Perpetrator in Domestic Violence: The Role of Beliefs in a Just World and Ambivalent Sexism

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inmaculada Valor-Segura ◽  
Francisca Expósito ◽  
Miguel Moya
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Ambivalent Sexism ◽  
Hostile Sexism ◽  
Victim Blaming ◽  
Just World Beliefs ◽  
Just World ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Male Friend

The existence of domestic violence is closely linked to several ideological factors that include sexism and other beliefs about society in general, namely the belief in a just world. In this study, which involved 485 people of both sexes aged between 18 and 70 years, we analyzed the influence of these ideological variables of the perceivers and characteristics of the situation on judgments of a gender aggression – blaming the victim and exonerating the perpetrator. Results showed differences in the reactions of observers depending on the cause that triggered the aggression. Participants blamed the victim and exonerated the aggressor more when no cause of the aggression was mentioned than when a cause was mentioned (the woman wanted to separate, to see an old male friend, or simply to take a trip with her female friends). We also found clear effects of hostile sexism and just world beliefs on the dependent variables. Results showed that the influence of just world beliefs depended on the fact of mention or not a cause for the aggression.

scholarly journals Belief in free will and victim blaming

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Genschow ◽  
Benjamin Vehlow
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Victim Blaming ◽  
Just World Beliefs ◽  
Just World ◽  
Criminal Offenders ◽  
Religious Worldviews

The more people believe in free will, the harsher their punishment of criminal offenders. A reason for this finding is that belief in free will leads individuals to perceive others as responsible for their behavior. While research supporting this notion has mainly focused on criminal offenders, the perspective of the victims has been neglected so far. We filled this gap and hypothesized that individuals’ belief in free will is positively correlated with victim blaming—the tendency to make victims responsible for their bad luck. In three studies, we found that the more individuals believe in free will, the more they blame victims. Study 3 revealed that belief in free will is correlated with victim blaming even when controlling for just world beliefs, religious worldviews, and political ideology. The results contribute to a more differentiated view of the role of free will beliefs and attributed intentions.

scholarly journals Victim blaming among young students

2021 ◽  
pp. 178-186
Author(s):  
V. P. Kurachinskaya ◽  
O. A. Kulikova
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Victim Blaming ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Just World ◽  
Negative Experience ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
The Impact

The article presents basic information on the problem of victim blaming, describes the history of the appearance of this concept. Major factors in the formation of victim blaming such as patriarchal attitudes, the phenomenon of a just world, family and upbringing, established social cliches and patterns of relationships and the media have been identified. The results of the study have been presented, from which the level of awareness of young people about the problem of victim blaming and their views in the context of the problem have been outlined. The role of the immediate environment in relation to the victim of the situation has been considered, and the influence of the media on the formation of victim blaming among students has been outlined. The problem outlined reflects the impact of victim blading on young people and the further consequences of this negative experience. 

scholarly journals Does long-term focus increase victim-blaming? A study on the just-world hypothesis using the modified Stroop task

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Zsuzsa Komáromy ◽  
◽  
Réka János ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Stroop Task ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Victim Blaming ◽  
Just World ◽  
Modified Stroop ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The World ◽  
Justice Motive ◽  
World Hypothesis

According to the just-world hypothesis (Lerner, 1980), people have an inherent need to believe that the world is a just place, where people generally get wha t they deserve. One of the benefits of holding this conviction is that it can promote investing in long-term goals. Acts of secondary victimization, such as blaming or derogating the victim can also be explained by just-world beliefs. This study looked at the effect of perceiving an innocent victim (a supposed threat to the belief in a just world) and long-term focus on the activation of the justice motive. We measured participants’ reaction times for justice-related and other stimuli with the help of the modified Stroop task (N=66). A significant difference between justice-related and neutral words has been found after being confronted with the threat to the belief in a just world, indicating that it indeed activated participants’ justice motive. Long-term focus did not have any significant effect. Higher levels of belief in a random world have been associated with greater victim-blaming tendencies.

scholarly journals Not All Victims Matter”: Belief in a Just World, Intergroup Relations and Victim Blaming

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 775-786 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Gabriel Modesto ◽  
Ronaldo Pilati
Keyword(s):  
Intergroup Relations ◽  
Victim Blaming ◽  
Just World

scholarly journals Why Perpetrators and Innocent Victims are Sometimes Harshly judged? Belief in a Just World and Other Situational Determinants

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehdi Mikani ◽  
Parisa Rafiee
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Interaction Effects ◽  
Victim Blaming ◽  
Just World ◽  
General Belief ◽  
Maintenance Strategies ◽  
Specific Strategy ◽  
Situational Cues ◽  
Victim Derogation ◽  
Defensive Mechanisms

Although Belief in a Just World (BJW) has positive influences on well-being, the attempts to maintain these beliefs may give rise to awry judgments in contexts of harm. In a scenario-based study, we examined the associations of general belief in a just world (GBJW) with BJW maintenance strategies, including victim blaming, victim derogation, perpetrator demonization, and compensation. We hypothesized that because these harsh judgments about victims and offenders along with compensation are used as defensive mechanisms against threats to BJW, using a specific strategy depends on the availability of each strategy and the level of a person’s GBJW. Thus, we also tested whether GBJW and situational cues for victim’s respectability and perpetrator’s evilness have interaction effects on various strategies to defend BJW. By manipulating the characteristics of the victim (professor vs. car dealer) and offender (with evilness cues vs. without evilness cues) in a crime scenario, the interaction effects on judgments about victims and perpetrators as well as compensation were investigated. The results indicated that while GBJW interacted with victim’s respectability and perpetrator’s evilness to predict demonization and derogation, there was no three-way interaction and two-way interaction effects between victim’s respectability and perpetrator’s evilness on the four BJW-maintenance strategies. Taken together, our findings highlight the nuanced effects of just world beliefs on how people react to and make sense of violent incidents.

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