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Gender and skin color are recognized factors that influence social judgments. We approach this problem by proposing that the color of the victim’s skin and the sex of the observers will influence the blaming of a woman for violence she has suffered, just as the belief in a just world (BJW...
vaccinated COVID-19 victims, people believe that unvaccinated COVID-19 victims could have done otherwise—that is, they could have chosen to get vaccinated. The present research also suggests that liberals and conservatives differentially engage in victim blaming to corroborate their partisan attitudes....