Sexual objectification (treating a person as a body or collection of body parts) involves a
cultural prioritizing of women's sexual appearance and appeal over other attributes. Sexual …

Media that sexually objectify women by portraying them in ways that emphasize physical
beauty and sexual readiness as well as reduce them to decorative and sexual objects have …

Social exclusion refers to the experience of being disregarded or rejected by others and has
wide-ranging negative consequences for well-being and cognition. Cyberball, a game …

Previous research finds that both men and women perceive sexualized women as lacking in
certain human qualities such as mental capacity and moral status. The mechanism …

Recent research has examined the sexualization–objectification link (ie, whether sexualized
individuals are appraised as if they were objects rather than persons). This research has …

Online video games are played by billions of people all over the world. A new science,
ludology has recently emerged in response to the ever-increasing popularity of online video …

Sexual objectification is a subtle manifestation of sexist discrimination and violence against
women that involves seeing and treating women as sex objects of male sexual desire. The …

Despite growing scientific interest in the sexually objectifying male gaze, the relation
between men's gazing behavior and their sexually objectifying attitudes has not yet been …

Does wearing makeup benefit women by changing how they perceive themselves, and are
the perceptions that others make of makeup wearers positive, or negative? In two pre …

Objectification theory provides a theoretical framework for understanding how socialization
and experiences of objectification can lead women to place excessive value on their …