Effects of media framing in news articles on blame attributional attitudes towards rape victims

• Main Author: Chen, Sylvia Lixia
• Other Authors: Ho Moon-Ho Ringo
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/76854
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Victim blaming, which is the tendency to hold the victim responsible for the crime, was well studied in the context of rape and sexual violence (Grubb & Harrower, 2009). However, the focus was usually placed on gender and rape myth acceptance (RMA) of the observer and circumstances of the indivi...