My body or my mind: The impact of state and trait objectification on women's cognitive resources

By Emanuele Castano. 2010

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Objectification theory posits that as a result of pervasive sexual objectification of the female body in American culture, women are socialized to take an observers' perspective towards the self, resulting in self-objectification. This tendency, combined with an objectifying context, is hypothesized to increase cognitive load, thereby impairing performance. Two experiments tested this hypothesis by investigating the joint impact of trait and state objectification on cognitive load among women. Results of the first experiment showed longer response latencies on a Letter Number Sequencing task, specifically among women high in trait self-objectification (TSO), in a highly objectifying condition. The second experiment replicated results from the first while also exploring possible correlates of the effects. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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• Female Self-Sexualization in MySpace.com Personal Profile Photographs (2012, background): “Self-objectification has been linked to increased shame (McKinley 1998), depression and disordered eating (Muehlenkamp and Saris-Baglama 2002; Szymanski and Henning 2007; Tiggemann and Kuring 2004), impaired performance related to cognitive load ( Gay and Castano 2010 ), substance abuse (Carr and Sz”