Several personality traits related to psychopathy -- especially being openly antagonistic -- predict a tendency to view others as merely sex objects, finds a study by psychologists at Emory University ...

A study to be published in Sex Roles, published by Springer, offers an explanation for why women fear face-to-face crime more than men, despite being less likely to experience most crimes. The ...

It is no secret that, throughout the ages, women’s bodies have been the source of nearly constant objectification. The ubiquity of social media has further enabled this objectification, as women’s ...

A study to be published in Sex Roles, published by Springer, offers an explanation for why women fear face-to-face crime more than men, despite being less likely to experience most crimes. The ...

Understanding the psychology behind objectification might help us fight back. Source: pixabay, no attribution required Let's talk about objectification. At any given moment, according to a recent ...

According to objectification theory, women become culturally desexualized during midlife and have the opportunity to let go of their propensity to self-objectify. In young women, self-objectification ...

When Joan Holloway — the bombshell office worker on the show “Mad Men” — enters a room, she knows she looks good and is going to turn heads. Every morning, Joan meticulously does her makeup and hair ...