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Women, not objects: testing a sensitizing web campaign against female sexual objectification to temper sexual harassment and hostile sexism
No full textWe investigated the novel hypothesis that a sensitizing web campaign against media sexual objectification would lead to lower male gender-harassing conduct (i.e., number of sexist jokes sent to a chat partner), lower sexual coercion intention (via the Likelihood to Sexually Harass scale), and lower hostile sexism (via the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory). Across two experiments (Ns = 157; 159), male participants were exposed to one of three videos: (a) a web campaign against female objectification (sensitizing), (b) a nature documentary (control), or (c) a video in which women are portrayed as sexual objects (sexually objectifying). Study 1 and Study 2 together demonstrated that men exposed to the sensitizing video showed lower gender-harassing behavior, lower hostile sexism, and lower sexual coercion intention than participants in the other two conditions altogether. Moreover, the sexually objectifying vs. control video condition led to higher gender-harassing behavior. Mediation analyses demonstrated that the sensitizing video led to lower hostile sexism, which in turn was associated with both lower gender-harassing behavior and lower sexual coercion intentions. The sensitizing video led to unexpectedly higher benevolent sexism; however, benevolent sexism was not associated with higher sexual harassment. We conclude by discussing the importance and practical implications of the results
L’isolato tra via Fara e via Santa Margherita a Stampace: i temi
No full textViene presentato il lavoro del Workshop, con il tema di progetto e i tre gruppi che hanno presentato tre diverse proposte, coordinati dagli autori
Comparing Self-Stereotyping with Ingroup-Stereotyping and Outgroup-Stereotyping in Unequal-Status Groups: The Case of Gender
No full textWe compared self-stereotyping, ingroup-stereotyping, and outgroup-stereotyping, among members of high- and low-status groups. Because gender inequality is still present in society, we operationalized status in terms of gender. We considered the male (female) gender category to possess relatively high (low) status. As predicted on the basis of an extension of Mullen’s model (1991), Italian men showed significant levels of outgroup-stereotyping, but no significant levels of self-stereotyping or ingroup-stereotyping. In contrast, Italian women showed significant levels of self-stereotyping, ingroup-stereotyping, and outgroup-stereotyping. Looked at differently, men showed significantly stronger outgroup-stereotyping than women, and women showed significantly stronger self-stereotyping than men. Women also showed marginally stronger ingroup-stereotyping than men. The stronger self-stereotyping among women was mediated by greater female ingroup identification
From Sexualized Media Consumption to Salary Negotiation: The Relation Between Chronic Self-Objectification Processes and Women's Negotiation Intentions
Full text linkDespite the advancement in women's conditions in the past fifty years, women are still the targets of forms of oppression that span from sexual objectification to gender economic inequality, which, among other factors, is linked to challenges that women may face with wage negotiation. Bridging these two research areas, in the present correlational study (N = 552), we took the female target perspective and investigated whether everyday sexualized media consumption may be indirectly linked with Italian women's negotiation intentions in a working scenario (i.e. salary request, negotiation probability, salary raise negotiation). We hypothesized that this association would be mediated by internalization of mainstream beauty ideals, chronic self-objectification, and subsequent lower self-attribution of the fundamental social dimensions of competence, agency, and morality. Path analyses supported the indirect path model on all the negotiation behaviors via self-attribution of competence; a significant indirect path via self-attribution of morality was also found on women's negotiation probability. Implications for gender economic inequality as well as possible interventions are discussed
Effetti dell'esposizione ai programmi della televisione italiana sulle prestazioni cognitive delle donne
No full textDoes Sex Really Sell? Paradoxical Effects of Sexualization in Advertising on Product Attractiveness and Purchase Intentions
Full text linkTo test the “sex sells” assumption, we examined how Italian men and women react to sexualized advertising. Women showed lower product attractiveness and purchase intentions toward products presented with sexualized female models than with neutral ads, whereas men were unaffected by ads’ sexualization (Study 1, n = 251). Study 2 (n = 197) replicated the overall results. Study 3 (n = 198) tested hostile sexism as a moderator as well as negative emotions as a mediator of consumers’ responses. Especially men with higher hostile sexism showed more purchase intentions after viewing female sexualized ads than neutral ads. Moreover, women’s lower consumer responses toward sexualized female ads were due to higher negative emotions. Study 4 (n = 207) included ads with both female and male models, replicating responses to female sexualization and showing that both women and men had lower product attractiveness and purchase intentions toward male sexualized ads than neutral ads. Replicating and extending Study 3’s results, women’s negative emotions was the mediator. The present study has practical implications for marketers because it suggests that “sex does not sell.” In addition, considering both the psychological damage and practical inefficacy of sexualized ads, our findings have important implications for public policy
The best way to tell you to use a condom: The interplay between message format and individuals’ level of need for cognition
No full textAutstereotipizzazione implicita nei gruppi a basso status sociale: omosessuali e donne lo fanno più degli outgroup ad alto status
No full textDimmi chi sei e ti dirò cosa penso: processi di stereotipizzazione in contesti di giustificazione
No full textThe Cognitive Representation of Self-Stereotyping
No full textThe present work looks at the self-stereotyping process and reveals its underlying cognitive structure. When this process
occurs, it is necessarily the result of an overlap between the representation of the ingroup and that of the self. Two studies measured this overlap and showed that it was higher on stereotype-relevant than on stereotype-irrelevant traits, it involved both positive and negative stereotypical traits, and it implied a deduction-to-the-self process of ingroup stereotypical dimensions. Moreover, the status of one’s social group was found to be a key variable in this process, showing that selfstereotyping is limited to low-status group members. Indeed, results of Study 2 showed that the overlap between the self and the ingroup for high-status group members was the result of an induction-to-the-ingroup process of personal characteristics. Implications for research on people’s self-construal are discussed
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