@article{ref1,
title="When and why we see victims as responsible: the impact of ideology on attitudes toward victims",
journal="Personality and social psychology bulletin",
year="2016",
author="Niemi, Laura and Young, Liane",
volume="42",
number="9",
pages="1227-1242",
abstract="Why do victims sometimes receive sympathy for their suffering and at other times scorn and blame? Here we show a powerful role for moral values in attitudes toward victims. We measured moral values associated with unconditionally prohibiting harm (&quot;individualizing values&quot;) versus moral values associated with prohibiting behavior that destabilizes groups and relationships (&quot;binding values&quot;: loyalty, obedience to authority, and purity). Increased endorsement of binding values predicted increased ratings of victims as contaminated (Studies 1-4); increased blame and responsibility attributed to victims, increased perceptions of victims' (versus perpetrators') behaviors as contributing to the outcome, and decreased focus on perpetrators (Studies 2-3). Patterns persisted controlling for politics, just world beliefs, and right-wing authoritarianism. Experimentally manipulating linguistic focus off of victims and onto perpetrators reduced victim blame. Both binding values and focus modulated victim blame through victim responsibility attributions. <br><br>FINDINGS indicate the important role of ideology in attitudes toward victims via effects on responsibility attribution.<br><br>© 2016 by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0146-1672",
doi="10.1177/0146167216653933",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167216653933"
}