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ArticlePsychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law2025

Investigating the role of psychopathic personality traits, gender and ethnicity in rape myth acceptance.

Dominic Willmott, Aklima Rafique, B Kennath Widanaralalage, Amuda Agneswaran

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Article in Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Dominic WillmottDepartment of Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7449-6462
Aklima RafiqueDepartment of Psychology, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK.
B Kennath WidanaralalageInstitute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College University, London, UK.
Amuda AgneswaranDepartment of Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Research has found widespread endorsement of rape mythology, with several psychosocial variables underpinning beliefs in rape myths, including psychopathic personality traits. However, findings on the relationship between psychopathy and rape myths are often contradictory. The current study examined the role of four psychopathic personality traits (Affective Responsiveness, Cognitive Responsiveness, Interpersonal Manipulation and Egocentricity) on Rape Myth Acceptance (RMA) scores, controlling for the effects of gender and ethnicity while making use of subtle, contemporary measurement tools never previously employed. A cross-sectional community sample (

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Affective and cognitive responsivenessempathypsychopathic personality traitspsychopathyrape myth acceptance

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PMID40454379
PMCPMC12123939

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