Thin, Sexy Women and Strong, Muscular Men: Grade-School Children's Responses to Objectified Images of Women and Men

By Sarah K. Murnen, L. Smolak, J. Mills, Lindsey Good. 2003

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies

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Sexy Dolls, Sexy Grade-Schoolers? Media & Maternal Influences on Young Girls’ Self-Sexualization (2012, background): “In addition, girls with stronger internalized body ideals such as the thin ideal are more likely to respond positively to pictures of sexually objectified women (Murnen et al. 2003).”
Low-Cut Shirts and High-Heeled Shoes: Increased Sexualization Across Time in Magazine Depictions of Girls (2013, background): “Girls who rejected these images as important to their selfdefinition showed the highest body esteem of the girls studied, especially compared to girls who “didn’t know”what to make of these images (Murnen et al. 2003).”
Materialism, Sociocultural Appearance Messages, and Paternal Attitudes Predict College Women's Attitudes About Cosmetic Surgery (2009, background): “Such internalization begins in childhood ( Murnen, Smolak, Mills, & Good, 2003 ), but, of course, continues beyond these formative years (Cusumano & Thompson, 1997; Morry & Saska, 2001).”
Keeping Abreast of Hypersexuality: A Video Game Character Content Analysis (2010, background): “Differences between female body sizes in the media and actual body sizes have been linked to eating disorders (Field et al. 1999), low self-esteem (Polce-Lynch et al. 2001), body dissatisfaction (Harrison and Cantor 1997), feelings of objectification (Frederickson and Roberts 1997), and to the attit”
It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Gender Stereotype!: Longitudinal Associations Between Superhero Viewing and Gender Stereotyped Play (2014, background): “…has found that there are strong themes of masculinity in superhero programs that appeal directly to young boys and many parents are fine with the messages these programs portray (Baker and Raney 2007; Brown et al. 2009; Hoffner 1996; McCreary and Sasse 2000; Murnen et al. 2003; Pecora 1992).”
Are Feminist Women Protected from Body Image Problems? A Meta-analytic Review of Relevant Research (2009, background): “In a study of grade school girls it was found that some girls could reject comparing themselves to sexually objectified images of women and that this rejection was associated with positive body esteem ( Murnen et al. 2003 ).”