Media-induced sexual harassment: The routes from sexually objectifying media to sexual harassment

S Galdi, F Guizzo - Sex Roles, 2021 - Springer
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 …

From attire to assault: Clothing, objectification, and de-humanization–A possible prelude to sexual violence?

B Awasthi - Frontiers in psychology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
In the context of objectification and violence, little attention has been paid to the perception
neuroscience of how the human brain perceives bodies and objectifies them. Various …

The exonerating effect of sexual objectification: Sexual objectification decreases rapist blame in a stranger rape context

P Bernard, S Loughnan, C Marchal, A Godart, O Klein - Sex roles, 2015 - Springer
A blossoming body of research documents the effect of sexual objectification on social
perception, but little is known about the consequences of sexual objectification. This paper …

Toward a unified theory of objectification and dehumanization

SJ Gervais, P Bernard, O Klein, J Allen - Objectification and (de) …, 2013 - Springer
Objectification and dehumanization represent motivational conundrums because they are
phenomena in which people are seen in ways that are fundamentally inaccurate; seeing …

From sex objects to human beings: Masking sexual body parts and humanization as moderators to women's objectification

P Bernard, SJ Gervais, J Allen… - … of women quarterly, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent studies have shown that sexualized female bodies are objectified at a cognitive
level. Research using the body-inversion recognition task, a robust indicator of configural …

Objectifying objectification: When and why people are cognitively reduced to their parts akin to objects

P Bernard, SJ Gervais, O Klein - European Review of Social …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Objectification occurs when people are seen and treated similarly to things. Research on
this topic has been dominated by an interest in the content of impressions people form of …

Revealing clothing does not make the object: ERP evidences that cognitive objectification is driven by posture suggestiveness, not by revealing clothing

P Bernard, F Hanoteau, S Gervais… - Personality and …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent research found that sexualized bodies are visually processed similarly to objects.
This article examines the effects of skin-to-clothing ratio and posture suggestiveness on …

From bodies to blame: Exposure to sexually objectifying media increases tolerance toward sexual harassment.

P Bernard, S Legrand, O Klein - Psychology of Popular Media …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
This paper investigates whether exposure to sexually objectifying media leads to more
tolerance toward sexual harassment of women in the context of a real-life scenario …

The neural correlates of cognitive objectification: An ERP study on the body inversion effect associated with sexualized bodies

P Bernard, T Rizzo, I Hoonhorst… - Social …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
At an early stage of visual processing, human faces and bodies are typically associated with
larger N170s when presented in an inverted (vs. upright) position, indexing the involvement …

A multilevel Bayesian meta-analysis of the body inversion effect: Evaluating controversies over headless and sexualized bodies

JW Griffin, F Oswald - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2022 - Springer
Face and body perception rely on specialized processing mechanisms to interpret social
information efficiently. The body inversion effect (BIE), refers to an inversion effect for bodies …