According to Messinger, All of the Following Are Potential Reasons

question 6

Multiple Choice

According to Messinger, all of the following are potential reasons why LGBTQ IPV is incorrectly perceived as less severe EXCEPT ______.

• A) victims are seen as more likely to be able to defend themselves if they are of similar strength and size
• B) same-gender abusers are seen as more sympathetic and easier to identify with than different-gender abusers
• C) same-gender violence is often perceived as two people trying to hurt each other, rather than a directional attack
• D) same-gender relationships are perceived as less committed and less intimate

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Definitions:

Causal Attribution Theory

Theory of attribution that identifies the cause of a person’s actions as circumstance, a stimulus, or the person himself or herself.

Circumstance

A condition or fact that affects a situation, event, or action.

Stimulus

Anything that causes a response or change in an organism or any part of an organism.

Stimuli

Refers to anything that evokes a response in an organism or in any of its parts.