Whereas it is often suggested that the media have assumed a prominent role in the sexual
socialization of American youth, empirical evidence supporting this premise has been slow …

This article is a review of academic research on the content and effects of sexual information
in advertising (ie, sex in advertising). In addition to covering common types of sexual content …

Nominated for the 2012 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in
Psychology! Why are women more likely to be positioned or diagnosed as mad than men? If …

A number of journalists and scholars have pointed to the sexual objectification of women
and men in popular media to argue that Western culture has become “sexualized” or even …

Dr Linda Papadopoulos is one of the most well-known and respected psychologists working
in the UK. Her comments regarding the psychology behind news and current events are …

The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption by Gad Saad applies Darwinian principles in
understanding our consumption patterns and the products of popular culture that most …

As a media genre, advertising offers a unique opportunity to study how the beauty ideal is
constructed across cultures. This research analyzes the content of advertisements from …

Increasingly, social marketers are using sexual information in public service announcements
and collateral material for a wide range of causes. This study builds on previous research to …

Wir leben in einer visuellen Medienkultur, einer „visual culture “, in der wir ständig mit
„Bildern “verschiedenster Art konfrontiert sind: Werbung versucht, uns mit perfekt …

Magazine advertisements from 2003 were content analyzed as an extension of a study
reported in Journalism Quarterly that assessed sex in advertising in 1983 and 1993. As …