From women to objects: Appearance focus, target gender, and perceptions of warmth, morality and competence

By Nathan A. Heflick, Jamie L. Goldenberg, Douglas P. Cooper, Elisa Puvia. 2011

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Marketing, Sociology and Political Science

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Understanding the link between men’s alcohol use and sexual violence perpetration: The mediating role of sexual objectification. (2014, background): “Although many of the negative factors associated with sexual objectification have been well-established (e.g., Heflick et al., 2011; Vaes et al., 2011; Loughnan et al., 2010), understanding why and when people sexually objectify women in the first place is much less well-understood (Gervais,…”
Being a Body: Women’s Appearance Related Self-Views and their Dehumanization of Sexually Objectified Female Targets (2012, unknown): “In a further series of studies, Heflick et al. (2011) extended these findings showing that only female, but not male targets were perceived as less competent, less warm and less moral when U.S. male as well as female participants were instructed to focus on and write about their appearance compared…”
Sexualized Avatars Lead to Women’s Self-Objectification and Acceptance of Rape Myths (2015, result): “…several studies have supported the relationship between objectification and dehumanization (Cikara, Eberhardt, & Fiske, 2011; Heflick & Goldenberg, 2009; Heflick et al., 2011; Loughnan et al., 2010; Vaes et al., 2011), fewer studies have explored the link to beliefs and attitudes about rape.”
Gender Stereotypes. (2018, background): “Such objectification effects do not diminish the perceived qualities of men, even when they are evaluated in terms of their appearance (Heflick et al. 2011).”
My Eyes Are Up Here: The Nature of the Objectifying Gaze Toward Women (2013, background): “Fredrickson and Roberts 1997) and most of the empirical research on this issue suggests that women are objectified more frequently and with greater consequences than men (e.g., Bernard et al. 2012; Gervais et al. 2012b; Heflick et al. 2011; Vaes et al. 2011).”
Sexy, Strong, and Secondary: A Content Analysis of Female Characters in Video Games across 31 Years (2016, background): “For example, when prompted to simply focus on appearance rather than performance, participants dehumanized a female news anchor by perceiving her as less warm, moral, and competent (Heflick et al., 2011).”
Values associated with luxury brand consumption and the role of gender (2017, background): “For instance, women are more concerned with self-appearance, which remains a criterion that others use to evaluate them, leading to detrimental objectification (Heflick et al., 2011).”