William Ryan coined the phrase "blaming the victim" in his 1971 book of that title. In the book, Ryan described victim blaming as an ideology used to justify...

likely to participate in victim-blaming. Men tend to blame other men for their own sexual assaults. They also tend to blame individuals who do not adhere...

victim in the situation, thus reversing the positions of victim and offender. It often involves not just playing the victim but also victim blaming....

Blaming appears to relate to include brain activity in the temporoparietal junction (TPJ). The amygdala has been found to contribute when we blame others...

uncontrollable and must be satisfied. For females, victim-blaming correlates with fear. Many rape victims blame themselves. Female jurors might look at the woman...

sexuality. Behaviors commonly associated with rape culture include victim blaming, slut-shaming, sexual objectification, trivializing rape, denial of...

reference to the tendency for blaming one's misfortunes on somebody else's misdeeds, which is also referred to as victimism. Victim mentality is primarily developed...

suffering on the grounds that the sufferers "deserve" it. This is called victim blaming. This fallacy popularly appears in the English language in various figures...

Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question is a collection of essays, co-edited by Palestinian scholar and advocate Edward...

herself, she would be more likely to blame the placement of the rock (situational). Victim proneness or victim blaming can be a form of fundamental attribution...