Objectification leads to depersonalization: The denial of mind and moral concern to objectified others

By S. Loughnan, Nick Haslam, T. Murnane, Jeroen Vaes, C. Reynolds, Caterina Suitner. 2010

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Seeing green: Mere exposure to money triggers a business decision frame and unethical outcomes (2013, background): “When individual targets are objectified and the social bonds with them weakened, the psychological evidence seems clear that they are treated in less moral ways (e.g., Gruenfeld, Inesi, Magee, & Galinsky, 2008; Loughnan et al., 2010).”
Mind Perception Is the Essence of Morality (2012, background): “For example, making the bodies of women salient can increase dementalized perceptions of them (Cikara et al, 2010; Heflick & Goldenberg, 2009 ; Loughnan, Haslam, Murnane, et al, 2010 ), as can focusing on the bodies of medical patients (K.”
Revisiting the Jezebel Stereotype (2018, background): “A large body of research suggests that being presented in sexualized ways facilitates a target’s objectification (e.g., Holland & Haslam, 2013; Loughnan et al., 2010).”
Seeing women as objects: The sexual body part recognition bias (2012, background): “Sexual objectification represents a form of body reduction (Langton, 2009), which focuses on sexual body parts more than the entire body and face (e.g., Loughnan et al., 2010; Vaes, Paladino, & Puvia, 2011, see also Archer, Iritani, Kimes, & Barrios, 1983).”
From political opponents to enemies? The role of perceived moral distance in the animalistic dehumanization of the political outgroup (2016, background): “Dehumanization can assume different forms, such as objectification (Loughnan et al., 2010; Loughnan & Pacilli, 2014), mechanization (Haslam, 2006), and demonization (Giner-Sorolla, Leidner, & Castano, 2012).”
Causes and consequences of mind perception. (2010, background): “47 Barrett, J.L. (2004) Why Would Anyone Believe in God? Altamira 48 Gray, K.”
My Eyes Are Up Here: The Nature of the Objectifying Gaze Toward Women (2013, background): “This study contributes to a growing literature focusing on the predictors and consequences of objectified perceptions and behaviors toward women (e.g., Cikara et al. 2011; Heflick and Goldenberg 2009; Gervais et al. 2012a; Loughnan et al. 2010; Vaes et al. 2011).”
Understanding the link between men’s alcohol use and sexual violence perpetration: The mediating role of sexual objectification. (2014, background): “has negative consequences for how perceivers view women, including decreased mind attribution and agency (Cikara, Erberhardt, & Fiske, 2011; Loughnan et al., 2010), a biased focus on sexual body parts (Bernard, Gervais, Allen, Campomizzi, & Klein, 2012;”
Sexualized Avatars Lead to Women’s Self-Objectification and Acceptance of Rape Myths (2015, background): “Loughnan et al. (2010) found that when women are sexually objectified, others’ perceptions of the objectified women’s humanity are diminished and that they are not perceived as deserving of moral consideration.”