In a recent paper, Bernard and colleagues report that sexual objectification is not driven by revealing clothes, but by suggestive postures. 1 Background information We are constantly exposed to ...

A series of three studies found that women who are more prone to self-objectification tend to have reduced empathy, both affective and cognitive. These women were also more likely to experience ...

Peter Koval receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Elise Holland works for Our Watch, Australia's national foundation to prevent violence against women and their children. Michelle ...

To sexually objectify a woman is to focus on her body in terms of how it can provide sexual pleasure rather than viewing her as a complete human being with thoughts and feelings. While objectification ...

There is a tenacious debate in feminism and academia about sexual objectification. Sexual objectification is an incredibly touchy and multi-layered issue which has been associated with various ...

I wrote in my last post about how the average woman (in a study of university women in Australia) notices unwanted sexual gazing towards them about once every two days, and about 1.5 times a day ...

Several personality traits related to psychopathy -- especially being openly antagonistic -- predict a tendency to view others as merely sex objects, finds a study by psychologists at Emory University ...

1 Athletics Research Center, Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden 2 Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning (IBL), Division of Psychology ...

The idea that advertising, entertainment and news media are guilty of objectifying women is familiar enough to most of us. But recently the balance seems to have shifted, with concerns being expressed ...