Sexualized Avatars Lead to Women’s Self-Objectification and Acceptance of Rape Myths

By Jesse Fox, Rachel Ralston, C. Cooper, Kaitlyn A. Jones. 2015

104 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/e949d4499e7d86c6067ff8b38086266a528683c4

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Jesse Fox
2. Kristine L. Nowak

In Gender Studies

1. Jesse Fox
2. Kristine L. Nowak
3. Jessica E. Tompkins
4. Niki Fritz
5. Teresa Lynch
6. Irene van Driel

Citations in the corpus

• Avatars and computer-mediated communication: a review of the definitions, uses, and effects of digital representations (2018, background): “For example, a meta-analysis revealed that people perceive representations differently when they believe representations are controlled by humans rather than computers (Fox et al., 2015).”
• Sexy, Strong, and Secondary: A Content Analysis of Female Characters in Video Games across 31 Years (2016, background): “Fox, Ralston, Cooper, and Jones (2015) found that when using an avatar that would have garnered a score of three on our sexualization index, female participants engaged in higher self-objectification and subsequent acceptance of rape myths.”