Expectancy violation and perceptions of rape victim credibility Hackett, Louisa, Day, Andrew and Mohr, Philip 2008, Expectancy violation and perceptions of rape victim credibility, Legal and criminological psychology, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 323-334. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Expectancy violation and perceptions of rape victim credibility Author(s) Hackett, Louisa Day, Andrew Mohr, Philip Journal name Legal and criminological psychology Volume number 13 Issue number 2 Start page 323 End page 334 Total pages 12 Publisher British Psychological Society Place of publication Leicester, England Publication date 2008-09 ISSN 1355-3259 2044-8333 Summary Purpose. Rape victims have been found to have a heightened risk of secondary victimization in the legal system through biased perceptions of their credibility. In this study, participants observed a video of a rape victim reporting the crime and evaluated her credibility, to establish the influence of victim emotional expressiveness on evaluations of victim credibility. Methods. The nonverbal (eye-contact, crying) and paralinguistic (tone of voice) behaviour of the rape victim was manipulated such that the emotional presentation viewed by observers was either expressive, or not expressive. One hundred and thirty seven participants were randomly allocated to observe a videotape of either an expressive or a non-expressive victim. Participants' specific expectations about the emotional expressiveness of rape victims in general were also measured. Results. Results revealed no significant main effect of emotional expressiveness on perceptions of credibility. However, among participants with a strong expectation of emotional expressiveness, a rape victim who was emotionally expressive was perceived to be significantly more credible than a victim who was not emotionally expressive. Conclusions. It appears to be expectancy violation rather than emotional expressiveness per se that biases observers' perceptions of rape victim credibility. Language eng Field of Research 170106 Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal HERDC collection year 2008 Copyright notice ©2008, The British Psychological Society Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30020618 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Psychology Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 14 Oct 2009, 08:30:58 EST Fri, 16 Oct 2009, 07:59:25 EST Fri, 16 Oct 2009, 08:38:51 EST Fri, 16 Oct 2009, 08:43:51 EST Fri, 16 Oct 2009, 08:44:40 EST Mon, 16 Jun 2014, 13:25:25 EST Thu, 11 Dec 2014, 16:20:03 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 37 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 605 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Wed, 14 Oct 2009, 08:30:58 EST