Title: Moral typecasting and perceptions of victims and perpetrators of sexual assault: the role of gender stereotypes and sexual orientation
Abstract:
When sexual assault victims do not conform to the stereotypical sexual assault scenario (i.e.,stereotypically feminine women as victims of male strangers) they are often stigmatized after the assault. A possible explanation for such biases is Moral Typecasting, a theory stating that people perceive a moral act as having a moral agent (a person morally responsible for the action) and a moral patient (a passive sufferer of its consequences). This project aims to contribute by proposing Moral Typecasting as a psychological mechanism underlying the perceptions of victims and aggressors in non-stereotypical sexual assault cases. It also aims to understand its impact on prosocial behaviours towards sexual assault victims. Finally, we seek to understand how intraindividual variables may explain differences in perceptions and proclivity to help the victim, as well as victim’s characteristics (specifically sexual orientation) that seem crucial in social judgements towards sexual assault victims but have not been sufficiently explored.
Marta Matos
Research Fellow
Centro
de Investigação e Intervenção Social - IUL
ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
[CIÊNCIA-IUL | ORCID | RESEARCH
GATE]
Office D.508 - Building II
Ext. 795081
Marta Matos
Research Fellow
Centro
de Investigação e Intervenção Social - IUL
ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
[CIÊNCIA-IUL | ORCID | RESEARCH
GATE]
Office D.508 - Building II
Ext. 795081