Posted on 02/16/2009 12:54:10 PM PST by GOPGuide
Researchers scanned the brains of certain men as they looked at a photograph of a woman in a bikini and discovered that sections of the brain that usually reacted to objects lit up.
With men, who were known to have sexist tendencies, they also discovered that a part of the brain that usually turned on during social interaction actually de-activated when they saw the photograph.
Professor Susan Fiske, of Princeton University, told the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting that she believes that the results show that some men did not see sexualised women as a "human".
"I am not saying that they literally see them as an object, of course they know she is human," she said.
"But what the brain scans show is that they are reacting to this photograph as people react to objects. It is as if they are not fully human.
"They are not treating them as fully three dimensional humans."
She said that the constant bombardment of society with sexualised images of young women could be to blame and that it "decreased the extinct that they were seen as human".
She said the effect was rather like violence on television that studies had shown to desensitise people to the affects of violence.
"I think that there is a parallel in seeing lots of sexualised women," she added. "You get used to it."
She said the effect was particularly powerful in the workplace and that studies had shown that men interviewing sexually attractive women behaved very differently towards them than other women and men.
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CAPTAIN OBVIOUS....PING!!!!
Ummmm... a photograph IS an object, isn't it?
The men are looking at an object, a photograph. Sheesh.....
I don’t buy it anyway.
Well, duh.
And we pay these guys how much to tell us that?
Men really do see half naked women as ‘objects’, scientists claim (Neuderology)
Fixed the title. It’s better now.
In other news, a team of researchers has concluded that water really IS wet.
Your tax dollars hard at work.
demeaning pseudoscience.
Because they're not human. They're photographs. They are objects!
Scans of his brain revealed nothing.
A nude Helen Thomas might ...........
I would have to see said pictures to pass judgement
reminds me of the psychologist that shows a many an ink blot on a piece of paper and asks him what it makes him think of
“sex” he replies
He shows the man another blot and asks what it makes him think of “sex” the patient replies again.
After a dozen pictures and the identical response, the shrink finally tells him “sir, you are a very disturbed individual”
“Me?! You’re the one with all the dirty pictures!”
Adam’ s fault. After he ate that apple, he looked at Eve somewhat differently.
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