Blaming the victim: Belief in control or belief in justice?

Maes, Jürgen

doi:10.1007/bf02333823

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“…Thus, female workers may conclude that they would not act submissively and therefore they would not be subject to hostile work environment harassment. Work by Maes (1994) with cancer patients showed that these two explanations were separate and found evidence for both phenomena in victim blaming. Future research examining discrimination judgments of female workers about other submissive complainants will certainly have a great deal to add to both the applied and basic research in this area.…”

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Complainant behavioral tone, ambivalent sexism, and perceptions of sexual harassment.

Wiener¹,

Reiter‐Palmon²,

Winter³

et al. 2010

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

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Previous research has examined the impact of the law on decisions made about social sexual interactions in the workplace in the context of a variety of individual difference variables including gender of the observer and sexist attitudes, as well as situational factors including legal standard and prior exposure to aggressive and submissive complainants. The current study continued this line of inquiry by testing whether hostile or benevolent sexist attitudes behaved differently under manipulated exposure to aggressive and submissive complainants. Full-time workers watched 1 videotape in which aggressive, submissive, or neutral (i.e., businesslike) women complained that male coworkers sexually harassed them; then, participants viewed a second complainant who always acted in a neutral behavioral tone. In the first case, participants high in hostile sexism who took a reasonable person perspective (but not those with a reasonable woman point of view) and all men who viewed an aggressive complainant found less evidence of harassment. With the second set of allegations, female workers who were exposed to a submissive complainant in the first case found less evidence of harassment against the neutral complainant, suggesting that exposure to a submissive complainant triggered some type of victim blaming in female workers. Policy and training implications are discussed.

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confidence: 99%

Complainant behavioral tone, ambivalent sexism, and perceptions of sexual harassment.

Wiener¹,

Reiter‐Palmon²,

Winter³

et al. 2010

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

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“…Individuals dier in their need for justice (Maes, 1994;Rubin & Peplau, 1973) and in the extent to which they consider justice to be a central human value (Dalbert, Montada & Schmitt, 1987;Schwartz, 1992). Therefore, it can be expected that the consequences of justice judgments such as the ones identi®ed by Tyler (1994) depend on how important procedural justice is for the person.…”

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Procedural injustice at work, justice sensitivity, job satisfaction and psychosomatic well-being

Schmitt

Dörfel

1999

Eur. J. Soc. Psychol.

145

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In a ®eld study with 295 factory employees, three hypotheses were tested: (1) Procedural injustice at work is correlated negatively with job satisfaction and psychosomatic wellbeing. (2) The perception of procedural injustice depends on the person's chronic justice sensitivity. (3) Justice sensitivity moderates the correlation of procedural injustice with satisfaction and well-being, the correlation becoming larger with increasing justice sensitivity. Procedural injustice was de®ned as the discrepancy between desired (ought) and perceived (is) procedures. Justice sensitivity and procedural fairness according to Leventhal's criteria (consistency, nonpartiality, accuracy, correctability, representativeness) and one additional criterion (open information) were measured via questionnaire. Job satisfaction, number of sick days during the last six months and number of days a person felt sick at work during the last six months served as indicators of psychosomatic well-being. The ®rst and second hypotheses were supported by the data. Partial support was also obtained for the third hypothesis: Justice sensitivity moderated the correlation of procedural unfairness with (a) the number of days the person felt sick at work and (b) the sum of this variable with the number of sick days.

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“…Victims of conditions such as tobacco use and addiction suffer from terrible tobacco-related illnesses and must endure the spectre of being blamed, marginalised and derogated 13. Victim blaming manipulates attributions of responsibility 14. Crawford suggests victim blaming is used to justify restrictions in access to medical services and to divert attention from social determinants as well as the failure of commercial products and services 15…”

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