Publications

Publication details [#52001]

Stevens Aubrey, Jennifer, Megan Hopper, Jayne R. Henson and Siobhan E. Smith. 2009. A Picture is Worth Twenty Words (About the Self): Testing the Priming Influence of Visual Sexual Objectification on Women's Self-Objectification. Communication Research Reports 26 (4) : 271–284.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bodily posture | image | mass media | object | sex

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper demonstrates that visual depictions of female bodies' sexual objectification (via body-display images and images of women segmented into body parts) can increase women's state self-objectification (SO) in the short term. It then discusses implications for objectification theory and mass media priming effects.