Citation

Romero-Sánchez M, Carretero-Dios H, Megías JL, Moya M, Ford TE. Violence Against Women 2017; 23(8): 951-972.

Affiliation

Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801216654017

PMID

27386879

Abstract

Three experiments examined the effect of sexist humor on men's self-reported rape proclivity (RP). Pilot study demonstrated that people differentiate the five rape scenarios of Bohner et al.'s. RP Scale based on the degree of physical violence perpetrated against the victim. Experiment 1 demonstrated that men higher in hostile sexism report greater RP upon exposure to sexist jokes when a woman (vs. a man) delivers them, and that this effect is limited to rape scenarios depicting a moderate versus a high level of physical violence. Experiment 2 further demonstrated that the relationship between hostile sexism and rape proclivity in response to a moderately violent rape scenario after exposure to sexist humor generalizes beyond women in the immediate humor context to women as a whole.

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Language: en