Slut Shaming in a School Bullying Case: Evaluators Ignore Level of Harm When the Victim Self-Presents as Sexually Available.
To investigate slut shaming (condemnation aimed at presumably sexually active females) as a form of bullying, we asked 142 U.S. college students acting as disciplinary committee members to decide a case involving two female high school students. We manipulated the victim's self-presentation (sexuall...
| Publicado en: | Sex Roles Vol. 76; no. 1-2; pp. 89 - 99 |
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