@article{ref1,
title="Was she wearing red? The function of victim-blaming in women's intrasexual competition",
journal="Scandinavian journal of psychology",
year="2022",
author="Brown, Mitch and Burnett, Lucienne and Boykin, Kaitlyn",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Previous research indicates that women frequently use red clothing to signal their sexual receptivity, with men and women both recognizing this as a reliable cue to such receptivity. Nonetheless, receptivity cues can inform perceptions of women's culpability for experiencing sexual assault. Thus, women experiencing sexual assault could become more of a target for victim-blaming if assaulted while wearing red. Such victim-blaming could be especially apparent especially among those who believe the world is just. The current study presented a sexual assault vignette to American undergraduates (155 women, 66 men) describing a woman wearing either red or green whom participants evaluated for the degree of culpability she has for the assault. <br><br>RESULTS indicated that the red-wearing target was viewed as more culpable for the assault, particularly for women with heightened just-world beliefs. We frame results from an evolutionary framework considering victim-blaming as part of women's intrasexual competition.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0036-5564",
doi="10.1111/sjop.12870",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12870"
}