Bidirectional violence is the most common form of intimate partner violence (IPV) and may influence public reactions to it. Laypeople recruited from Amazon's MTurk (n = 2248) were randomly assigned a fictional IPV vignette manipulating relationship gender dyad, direction of violence, and severity of injury. Participants generally perceived lower offender risk, lower physical and psychological harm to victim, and higher victim responsibility when violence was bidirectional, often incrementally to other case factors. Increasing our understanding of how bidirectionality influences perceptions of IPV may help combat stereotypes about IPV, improve support-seeking behaviors from “non-typical” victims, and increase accuracy of case management decisions.

双向暴力是亲密伴侣暴力 (IPV) 最常见的形式，可能会影响公众对此的反应。从亚马逊 MTurk 招募的非专业人士（n  = 2248）被随机分配一个虚构的 IPV 小插曲，操纵性别二元关系、暴力方向和伤害严重程度。当暴力是双向的（通常是与其他案件因素有关的）时，参与者普遍认为犯罪风险较低，对受害者的身体和心理伤害较低，受害者责任较高。加深我们对双向性如何影响 IPV 认知的了解，可能有助于消除对 IPV 的刻板印象，改善“非典型”受害者寻求支持的行为，并提高案件管理决策的准确性。