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  • Beck, V. S., Boys, S., Rose, C., & Beck, E. (2012). Violence Against Women in Video Games: A Prequel or Sequel to Rape Myth Acceptance? Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 27(15), 3016-3031. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260512441078

  • Bongiorno, R., Langbroek, C., Bain, P. G., Ting, M., & Ryan, M. K. (2020). Why Women Are Blamed for Being Sexually Harassed: The Effects of Empathy for Female Victims and Male Perpetrators. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 44(1), 11-27. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361684319868730

  • Chang, S. C.-H. (2012). Effect of perpetrator and victim ethnicity in perception of sexual assault : is it stereotyping? (T). University of British Columbia. Retrieved from https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0073066

  • De Wilde, M., Carrier, A., Casini, A., & Demoulin, S. (2021). The drawback of sexual empowerment: Perceiving women as emancipated but still as sexual objects. Sex Roles, 84(9-10), 626–643. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-020-01115-1

  • Dvir M and Nagar M (2022). Would victims blame victims? Effects of ostracism, sexual objectification, and empathy on victim blaming. Front. Psychol. 13:912698. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.912698

  • Ferrão, M. C., & Gonçalves, G. (2015). Rape crimes reviewed: The role of observer variables in female victim blaming. Psychological Thought, 8(1), 47–67. https://doi.org/10.5964/psyct.v8i1.13

  • Fraser, C. (2015). From “Ladies First” to “Asking for It”: Benevolent Sexism in the Maintenance of Rape Culture. California Law Review, 103(1), 141–203. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24758470

  • Friedlander, K., & Rudolph, L. (2010). The bias beneath: Uncovering juror bias in sexual assault cases. Plaintiff Magazine. https://plaintiffmagazine.com/images/issues/2010/06-june/reprints/Friedlander-and-Rudolph_The-bias-beneath_Uncovering-juror-bias-in-sexual-assault-cases_Plaintiff-magazine.pdf

  • George, W. H., & Martínez, L. J. (2002). Victim Blaming in Rape: Effects of Victim and Perpetrator Race, Type of Rape, and Participant Racism. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 26(2), 110-119. https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-6402.00049

  • Ghidina, M. (2019). Deconstructing Victim-Blaming, Dehumanization, and Othering: Using Empathy to Develop a Sociological Imagination. Teaching Sociology, 47(3), 231-242. https://doi.org/10.1177/0092055X19843978

  • Gordijn, E. H., Wigboldus, D., & Yzerbyt, V. (2001). Emotional Consequences of Categorizing Victims of Negative Outgroup Behavior as Ingroup or Outgroup. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 4(4), 317-326. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430201004004002

  • Hernandez, A., Redersdorff, S. & Martinot, D. (2015). Minimizing a sexist act and derogating the female victim: To be or not to be in the same boat?. L’Année psychologique, 115, 327-350. https://doi.org/10.3917/anpsy.153.0327

  • Hlavka, H. R. (2014). NORMALIZING SEXUAL VIOLENCE: Young Women Account for Harassment and Abuse. Gender and Society, 28(3), 337–358. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43669888

  • Hollander, J. A., & Rodgers, K. (2014). Constructing Victims: The Erasure of Women’s Resistance to Sexual Assault. Sociological Forum, 29(2), 342–364. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43654098

  • Kaplan, H. (2012). Belief in a Just World, Religiosity and Victim Blaming. Archiv Für Religionspsychologie / Archive for the Psychology of Religion, 34(3), 397–409. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23919002

  • Ken Q, J. C., & Wallace, R. H. (2020). On Not Blaming and Victim Blaming. Teorema: Revista Internacional de Filosofía, 39(3), 95–128. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26977745

  • Keygnaert, I. e. (2021). Understanding the Mechanisms, Nature, Magnitude and Impact of Sexual Violence in Belgium : Final Report for the Belgian Science Policy Office. Brussels: Belgian Science Policy Office

  • Lerner, M. J. (1980), The belief in a just world: A fundamental delusion. New York: Plenum Press

  • Lizzio-Wilson, M., Klas, A., & Clarke, E. J. R. (2023). When “good guys” do bad things: Evaluations of sexual harassment allegations against male allies. Psychology of Men & Masculinities, 26(5), 387–399. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302221094432

  • Marchal, C., Leys, C., Bernard, P. & Klein, O. (2013). If it were to happen to me, would I see it coming? How identifying with the victim influences the foreseeability of a sexual aggression. Revue internationale de psychologie sociale, 26, 5-28. https://www.cairn.info/revue--2013-2-page-5.htm.

  • Matz, Elizabeth M. (1994). When Backlash Causes Whiplash: The Media Blitz of Victim Blaming. Off Our Backs, 24(10), 8–10. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20834961

  • Murthi, M. (2009). Who Is to Blame? Rape of Hindu-Muslim Women in Interethnic Violence in India. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 33(4), 453-462. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.2009.01523.x

  • Schnittker, J. (2022). What makes sexual violence different? Comparing the effects of sexual and non-sexual violence on psychological distress. SSM - Mental Health, 2, 100115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2022.100115

  • Stringer, R. (2013). Vulnerability after Wounding: Feminism, Rape Law, and the Differend. SubStance, 42(3), 148–168. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24540729

  • Williamson, J.R. Self-Compassion Differences in Those Who Have Experienced Sexual Assault and Non-Sexual Assault Trauma. Gender and Women’s Studies.

    2019; 2(3):3.

  • World Health Organisation. (2024). Violence against women. WHO. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/violence-against-women