University of Liverpool, UK.
J Interpers Violence. 2022 Jun;37(11-12):NP10345-NP10361. doi: 10.1177/0886260520985499. Epub 2021 Jan 15.
Previous research has established the importance of socially aversive personality traits (i.e., the Dark Triad) in rape cognitions (operationalized here as rape-supportive attitudes, rape victim empathy, and hostile masculinity). However, less is known about how sexist social media content influences attitudes toward rape cognitions depending on the personality of the individual. In an online experiment, after completing the Short Dark Triad-3 questionnaire, participants ( 180) were primed with either sexist or neutral tweets, rating them for acceptability, humor, rudeness, and ignorance. Participants then completed scales for rape-supportive attitudes, victim empathy, and hostile masculinity. Sexist tweets were rated as significantly less acceptable and humorous, and more rude and ignorant than neutral tweets. However, those high in the Dark Triad found the sexist tweets as funny and acceptable. Overall, exposure to the sexist tweets did not increase rape cognitions. Moreover, the Dark Triad traits had similar significant, positive correlations with rape-supportive attitudes, victim blame, and hostile masculinity in both sexist and neutral tweet conditions. Multiple regression analyses (controlling for gender) revealed that psychopathy was the strongest positive predictor for increased rape cognitions. Findings suggest that short exposure to sexist social media content may not influence rape cognitions, but that dispositional factors such as psychopathy are more important.
先前的研究已经确定了具有社会厌恶特质（即“黑暗三人格”）的人在强奸认知（这里表现为支持强奸的态度、对强奸受害者的同理心和敌意男性气质）中的重要性。然而，对于性别歧视的社交媒体内容如何根据个体的人格影响对强奸认知的态度，人们知之甚少。在一项在线实验中，参与者（180 人）在完成“短黑暗三人格-3 问卷”后，会被激发性别歧视或中性的推文，让他们对可接受性、幽默性、粗鲁性和无知性进行评价。然后，参与者完成了支持强奸的态度、对受害者的同理心和敌意男性气质的量表。性别歧视的推文被评价为明显不太可接受和幽默，而且比中性推文更粗鲁和无知。然而，黑暗三人格得分高的人觉得性别歧视的推文很有趣且可以接受。总体而言，接触性别歧视的推文并没有增加强奸认知。此外，在性别歧视和中性推文的情况下，黑暗三人格特质与支持强奸的态度、对受害者的指责和敌意男性气质均呈显著正相关。多元回归分析（控制性别）显示，精神病态是增加强奸认知的最强正向预测因素。研究结果表明，短暂接触性别歧视的社交媒体内容可能不会影响强奸认知，但性格因素，如精神病态，更为重要。
