The sources and consequences of sexual objectification

LM Ward, EA Daniels, EL Zurbriggen… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
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 …

Sexual objectification: advancements and avenues for future research

C Pecini, F Guizzo, H Bonache… - Current opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Sexual objectification is a pervasive phenomenon with dreadful
consequences.•We review the literature and propose new directions for research and …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental evidence that activewear retail imagery elicits physiological, attentional and self-reported markers of body image threat in women

RC Hollett, M Bhusal, SZ Gilani, C Harms, S Griffiths - Body Image, 2024 - Elsevier
Online apparel retail imagery is a prominent threat to women's body image, particularly
segments such as activewear which emphasize the value of women's bodies. In a within …

Pornography use and sexual objectification of others

AJ Bridges, M Willis, MB Ezzell, CF Sun… - Violence against …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Researchers have demonstrated associations between use of pornography and sexual
objectification of women. We examine whether self-reported preference for degrading …

The influence of bystander presence on evaluations of public breastfeeding among adults in the United States

AE Houlihan, Y Zaikman, AM Alford - BMC Public Health, 2023 - Springer
Background In general, people tend to support private breastfeeding more than public
breastfeeding, and discomfort surrounding public breastfeeding may contribute to sub …

Evidence that pervasive body gaze behavior in heterosexual men is a social marker for implicit, physiological, and explicit sexual assault propensities

RC Hollett, H West, C Craig, L Marns… - Archives of Sexual …, 2024 - Springer
Deliberate and effortful attempts to gaze at the bodies of women is emerging as a valuable
marker of sexual objectification in men. Some preliminary evidence suggests that pervasive …

The effect of sexual objectification on dishonesty

KT Poon, HS Lai, RSW Chan - Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2023 - Springer
In daily life, women often experience various forms of sexual objectification such as being
stared at in public settings and receiving unsolicited sexual remarks on social media. These …

Gaze behaviour, body image in women and online apparel shopping

RC Hollett, PM Panaia, AH Smart - International Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Online apparel shopping is popular among women, with possible negative body image
consequences, particularly when the website imagery is body‐focused. We investigated …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental evidence that browsing for activewear lowers explicit body image attitudes and implicit self-esteem in women

RC Hollett, M Challis - Body Image, 2023 - Elsevier
Online apparel shopping is popular amongst women and offers salient visual information for
making body image and self-worth judgements. Apparel segments which emphasize the …

Performing like a Learning Machine: The Emphasis on Performance Goals Results in Self-Objectification

J Zhang, L Cheng, Y Yang… - Personality and Social …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Little attention has been given to self-objectification, which refers to viewing oneself as an
instrument or object rather than a full human, in an educational context. To address this gap …