10.18710/FDJEIB Noël, Tania Tania Noël https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2417-9909 University of Liège Larøi, Frank Frank Larøi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-7407 University of Bergen Burnay, Jonathan Jonathan Burnay https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7577-1454 University of Liège DataverseNO 2021 Social Sciences Video games Cognitive load Sexualization Rape myths Dehumanization University of Bergen University of Bergen University of Bergen Noël, Tania Tania Noël University of Liège 2020-10-05 2021-03-19 experimental data 10.3389/FPSYG.2021.614502 10.18710/FDJEIB/GRAXXG 10.18710/FDJEIB/28JIVY 10.18710/FDJEIB/HUZEVN 14717 14913 8821 text/tab-separated-values text/plain text/plain 1.0 Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. This study examined the consequences of sexualized video game content and cognitive load on rape myth acceptance, and whether dehumanization of the victim and of the perpetrator mediated these effects. Participants (N=142) played a video game using sexualized or non-sexualized female characters. Cognitive load was manipulated by setting the difficulty level of the game to low or high. After gameplay, participants read a rape date story, and were then asked to judge the victim’s and the perpetrator’s degree of responsibility and dehumanization. It was hypothesized that playing the video game with a sexualized content would increase the responsibility assigned to the victim and diminish the responsibility assigned to the perpetrator. Further, dehumanization of the victim and the perpetrator was expected to mediate this relation. The dataset consists of three files, containing the "read me" document providing all the information needed to understand the data files and two data files. These last two files are identical except for their file formats. They contain the data of the study.