When viewing female images, participants were better at recognizing individual parts than they were matching whole-body photographs to the originals. The opposite was true for male images: People were better at recognizing a guy as a whole than they were his individual parts. In the second experiment, researchers preceded the body-part task with images of letters made up of a mosaic of tiny letters — an H made up of hundreds of little Ts, for example. They told some participants to identify the tiny letters, prompting their brains to engage in local processing. Other participants were asked to identify the big letter, revving up global processing. This latter group became less likely to objectify women, the researchers found. They no longer were better at recognizing a womans parts than her whole body. Pretty interesting findings and hilarious stock photo... I realize this is just one study and needs to be verified and built upon... livescience/21806-brain-male-female-objectification.html
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 01:42:10 +0000
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