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Underrepresented Rather than Misrepresented? A Content Analysis of Female Characters’ (non)Sexualization in Virtual Reality (VR) Games
With the increasing popularity and availability of virtual reality (VR) video games, the representation of women within these immersive environments...
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Sexy, Thin, and White: The Intersection of Sexualization, Body Type, and Race on Stereotypes about Women
Media images often present one idealized type of woman: she is thin, sexualized, and White. Although research has shown that there are stereotypes...
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Women and #MeToo in Italy: Internalized sexualization is associated with tolerance of sexual harassment and negative views of the #MeToo movement
As a consequence of exposure to sexualized messages, girls and women may internalize the belief that sexual attractiveness to men is an important...
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The Sexual Objectification and Alcohol Use Link: The Mediating Roles of Self-Objectification, Enjoyment of Sexualization, Body Shame, and Drinking Motives
Alcohol consumption is on the rise among U.S. women, especially college women, despite the negative consequences that uniquely and disproportionately...
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Does Sex Really Sell? Paradoxical Effects of Sexualization in Advertising on Product Attractiveness and Purchase Intentions
To test the “sex sells” assumption, we examined how Italian men and women react to sexualized advertising. Women showed lower product attractiveness...
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Hypersexualization and Sexualization in Advertisements for Halloween Costumes
Concerns about sexualization of Halloween costumes appear frequently in the lay press, but systematic investigation of such costumes or the ads in...
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“You Can Catch More Flies with Honey than Vinegar”: Objectification Valence Interacts with Women’s Enjoyment of Sexualization to Influence Social Perceptions
Although objectification is a common experience for women (Fredrickson & Roberts,
1997 ), little is understood about how women perceive sources of...
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Putting a Sexy Self Forward on Tinder: What Do Viewers Think About Sexualized White Men?
Very little is known about viewers’ attitudes toward sexualized portrayals of men on social media platforms. Using an experimental methodology, the...
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“Being Talked to Like I Was a Sex Toy, Like Being Transgender Was Simply for the Enjoyment of Someone Else”: Fetishization and Sexualization of Transgender and Nonbinary Individuals
Despite the growing interest in the experiences of transgender individuals, the phenomenon of fetishization of transgender bodies and identities has...
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“Their Great Shame is Poverty”: Women Portrayed as Among the “Undeserving Poor” are Seen as Deserving Sexual Assault
In three survey experiments, we considered the role of stereotypes in blame assessments related to “undeserving” poor and Black women. U.S....
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Victim blaming 2.0: blaming sexualized victims of online harassment lowers bystanders’ hel** intentions
This article examines the influence of the sexualization of victims’ appearance on bystanders’ hel** intentions when witnessing an online...
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A multilevel Bayesian meta-analysis of the body inversion effect: Evaluating controversies over headless and sexualized bodies
Face and body perception rely on specialized processing mechanisms to interpret social information efficiently. The body inversion effect (BIE),...
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#ChokeMeDaddy: A Content Analysis of Memes Related to Choking/Strangulation During Sex
Recent research indicates that some young people initially learn about sexual choking through Internet memes. Thus, a qualitative content analysis...
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Gender and Media
The intersectionality of how the media presents and portrays body image, sexuality, and gender is complex and longstanding. The media often...
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Sex Object vs. Athlete: Boys’ and Men’s Responses Toward Sexualized Male Athletes
Using a between-participants experimental paradigm, the present study investigated U.S. adolescent boys’ ( n = 96) and college men’s ( n = 194)...
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Fleeing the Scene of Sex and Race
What does it mean to be human untethered to modalities of sex and race? What other styles of human being may have already emerged by posing that very...
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The Drawback of Sexual Empowerment: Perceiving Women as Emancipated but Still as Sexual Objects
The belief that sexualization might be used as a source of power for women in Western societies is spreading (Anderson
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Predicting Adolescents’ Self-Objectification from Sexualized Video Game and Instagram Use: A Longitudinal Study
A growing body of research has demonstrated negative effects of sexualization in the media on adolescents’ body image, but longitudinal studies and...
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The sources and consequences of sexual objectification
Sexual objectification (treating a person as a body or collection of body parts) involves a cultural prioritizing of women’s sexual appearance and...
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Fleeing the Scene of Sex and Race
What does it mean to be human untethered to modalities of sex and race? What other styles of human being may have already emerged by posing that very...