This study investigated the impact of self-construal levels on people's tendency to blame innocent victims for the victims' fates. The authors hypothesized that when the belief in a just world is threatened, social self-construal is associated with more victim blaming than individual self-construal is. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants were primed with either the individual self (with the wo...

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a social problem that affects roughly 5.3 million women in the U.S. each year, accounts for 1,300 deaths, and often results in a number of physical and mental health consequences. Many women seek counseling as a way to find relief from the symptoms of the abuse they have endured. Previous research indicates that women seeking counseling after facing intimate p...

Abstract It is commonly accepted that non-hypocrisy a condition of blaming, and it moral condition. This paper proposes an alternative, epistemic, view blaming: knowledge necessary for with the added provides (motivating) reason action – sufficient. First argued knowing blamee wrong blaming. Second, shown phenomenon hypocritical blaming extends to circumstances not involving judgment (such as s...

Alcohol and Other Drug Facilitated Sexual Violence (AODFSV), known as “drink-spiking,” is the administration of alcohol or other drugs to someone without their consent, with intent harm them. Investigation into portrayals AODFSV in Australian news media needed. Using feminist critical discourse analysis, this paper investigated portrayal past ten years. 226 articles were included for analysis t...

News media are in a position to project certain perspectives on domestic violence while marginalizing others, which has implications for public understanding and policy development. This study applies discourse analysis to articles on domestic violence in two U.K. national daily newspapers published in 2001-2002 and 2011-2012 to evaluate evidence of change over a 10-year time span. The research...

Following a negative service experience, existing studies assert that consumers attribute blame either internally (self-blame) or externally (other-blame) with little indication the attribution ever changes. This study explores to discover whether there are changes in attribution, specifically it may shift from self other. Analysing qualitative data borrowers payday lending market using I-/They...

PURPOSE To identify if isolated surgical violation of the orbital septum predisposes to "middle lamellar" scarring and subsequent postblepharoplasty lower eyelid retraction. METHODS A retrospective review of patients who underwent transconjunctival blepharoplasty in either a postseptal (orbital septum undisturbed) or preseptal (septal incision required) plane was performed. Patients undergoin...