Mere Exposure: Gender Differences in the Negative Effects of Priming a State of Self-Objectification

By T. Roberts, Jennifer Y. Gettman. 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, Marketing

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The Relationship of Yoga, Body Awareness, and Body Responsiveness to Self-Objectification and Disordered Eating (2005, background): “…state increases feelings of shame and other negative emotions (Calogero, 2004; Fredrickson et al., 1998; Gapinski, Brownell, & LaFrance, 2003; Roberts & Gettman, 2004), reduces performance on a math test suggesting interference with processes of attention (Fredrickson et al., 1998; Gapinski…”
Sex, Lies, and Video Games: The Portrayal of Male and Female Characters on Video Game Covers (2007, background): “Recent research has even suggested that exposure to objectifying media, such as that found in this analysis, can induce a self-objectified state in both men and women and that this state is associated with significant, negative psychological states ( Roberts and Gettman 2004 ).”
The Effect of Thin Ideal Media Images on Women’s Self-Objectification, Mood, and Body Image (2008, background): “Just as this process can be activated through objectifying word primes ( Roberts and Gettman 2004 ) or the anticipation of a male gaze (Calogero 2004), it would seem that typical magazine images featuring thin female models can encourage women to consider the appearance of the body by adopting a thi”
Self-Objectification Among Physically Active Women (2005, background): “Several researchers have examined the psychological and behavioral impact that self-objectification can have on women (e.g., Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997; Gapinski, Brownell, & LaFrance, 2003; McKinley & Hyde, 1996; Roberts & Gettman, 2004 ).”
The mass marketing of disordered eating and Eating Disorders: The social psychology of women, thinness and culture (2006, background): “" Self-objectification is theorized to lead to a variety of emotional and behavioral costs " (Roberts & Gettman, 2004, p. 17–18).”
Effect of Environment and Appearance Compliment on College Women's Self-Objectification, Mood, Body Shame, and Cognitive Performance (2008, background): “Relatedly, Roberts and Gettman (2004) found state self-objectification was primed by the use of a scrambled-sentence task containing objectifying words, resulting in increased shame, disgust, and appearance anxiety.”
Oppressive Beliefs at Play: Associations among Beauty Ideals and Practices and Individual Differences in Sexism, Objectification of Others, and Media Exposure (2010, background): “Numerous studies and commentaries have documented negative psychological consequences for women as a result of objectification and objectified body consciousness (e.g., Frederickson & Roberts, 1997; McKinley & Hyde, 1996; Roberts & Gettman, 2004).”
Predicting Objectification: Do Provocative Clothing and Observer Characteristics Matter? (2007, background): “Research on objectification has primarily focused on self-objectification where the result of constant evaluation by others, makes one view his or her own body as an object (Prichard and Tiggemann 2005; Quinn et al. 2006; Roberts and Gettman 2004 ).”
Female Self-Sexualization in MySpace.com Personal Profile Photographs (2012, background): “Even limited exposure to objectifying media has been shown to have a significant impact on the initiation of self-objectification ( Roberts and Gettman 2004 ).”
Complimentary Weightism: The Potential Costs of Appearance-Related Commentary for Women's Self-Objectification (2009, background): “…levels of SO predict a variety of negative outcomes, including increased body shame (Calogero, 2004; Noll & Fredrickson, 1998), appearance anxiety (Roberts & Gettman, 2004; Tiggemann & Slater, 2001), suppression of internal bodily cues (Myers & Crowther, 2008; Tylka & Hill, 2004), cognitive…”
The Impact of Sexually Objectifying Media Exposure on Negative Body Emotions and Sexual Self-Perceptions: Investigating the Mediating Role of Body Self-Consciousness (2007, background): “Second, experimental research that has used male and female participants (Fredrickson et al., 1998; Hebl, King, & Lin, 2004; Roberts & Gettman, 2004) has found that it is possible to induce self-objectification using short-term priming tasks in men and women.”