Study: Brain Objectifies Women As Body Parts, Men As Whole

**Zuberi** · 27th-July-2012

Study: Brain Objectifies Women As Body Parts, Men As Whole

[Nebraska]

Study: Brain Objectifies Women As Body Parts, Men As Whole « CBS St. Louis
LINCOLN, Neb. (CBS St. Louis) — A recent study finds that our brain objectifies women as different body parts, while viewing men as a whole.
The study, published in June’s European Journal of Social Psychology, was conducted by Sarah Gervais, a psychology professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
She conducted experiments by presenting 227 participants of the study with images of men and women, finding that men were perceived as a “global” – or whole – cognitive processing level, while women were seen on a “local” cognitive processing level.

See, it's nature's fault, not ours.
Seriously, the person behind this study is a quart low.

**haute macabre** · 27th-July-2012

Where the hell do they get this information?

**Celtic Druid** · 27th-July-2012

Double vision: How our brains see men as people and women as body parts | Mail Online

My (unposted) response:

The words 'scientist' and 'psychology' is an oxymoron, as psychology has become a slavish extension of feminist ideology within academia. The author has begun the study with a preconcieved premise and crafted the (shoddy) methodology to dovetail with her blinkered worldview. Googling the work of Sarah Gervais (which includes women's studies) confirms my suspicions, as it reads like a cliched list of stereotypes and paranoia which was out of date even in the 70s. Modern psychology has more in common with a cult, than the rigour, methodology, empirical processes and peer review you associate with genuine science. It's no more scientific than the cult of scientology! Both are cults with mindless devotees. It's another embarassing example of junk science which is only fit to line a litter tray. And doesn't this so-called study conflict with a more extensive study Daily Mail covered a few months ago, which concluded we all (men and women) essentially objectify one another.

**Celtic Druid** · 27th-July-2012

Quote from haute macabre

Where the hell do they get this information?

Can you picture a feminist pulling a wad of spurious documents out of her fat ass?

**haute macabre** · 27th-July-2012

Quote from Celtic Druid

Can you picture a feminist pulling a wad of spurious documents out of her fat ass?

You should put that on a tshirt. lol

**FloatyBoaty** · 27th-July-2012

The type of images used would change the way men see women. There's a study on that somewhere; I'll find it tomorrow.

**paul parmenter** · 27th-July-2012

Another example of what feminist quota academics get up to when they are over-promoted and feather-bedded by our taxes. This one is slightly more subtle than most, but the underlying message is the same old cant: women are perpetual victims, men always have it better.

Go stick it where the sun doesn't shine, Sarah Gervais. Then try getting a real job where you actually do something worthwhile for a change and make a positive contribution to humanity.

**FloatyBoaty** · 29th-July-2012

I think this topic is the best place to put this given the choices.

Here is a piece with links about a study in which images of women wearing bikinis activated the region of a male's brain that is associated with tools.
Women as Sex Objects - After Seeing Sexy Images, Researchers Find Men View Women as Objects

"Freedom" brings a LOT of responsibility with it.

**FloatyBoaty** · 29th-July-2012

Here is a piece with links about a study in which images of women wearing bikinis activated the region of a male's brain that is associated with tools.
Women as Sex Objects - After Seeing Sexy Images, Researchers Find Men View Women as Objects

"Freedom" brings a LOT of responsibility with it.

I made a new thread here: http://antimisandry.com/dating-love-...#ixzz21yRDjdJK

**Bigger Brother** · 29th-July-2012

So a 'study' of:

21 heterosexual male undergraduates at Princeton .....

..... confirms a long-suspected effect of sexy images on the way women are perceived

"When there are sexualised images in the workplace, it's hard for people not to think about their female colleagues in those terms. It spills over from the images to the workplace," she said.

Susan Fiske, Nobel Prizewinner for Bullshit?

In other words, if you search hard enough and selectively enough you can come up with 'evidence' to 'prove' that your prejudices are justified.

**The Possible Human** · 29th-July-2012

Make sense. I always want to fire up the planer-joiner and make a cabinet after I see pictures of women in bikinis. That explains why I can't move around my house very readily due to all the cabinets, hutches, bookshelves, and Armoires I've made in my spare time.

Damn that Bikini calendar in my shop!

**MrWombat** · 29th-July-2012

"areas of the brain that normally light up in anticipation of using tools, like spanners and screwdrivers, were activated."

You mean, areas of the brain involved with doing delicate, precise manual (hand-oriented) tasks? Duh. Going from there to the idea that this constitutes "objectification" is a very long stretch. You want to know something? A bra strap *is* an object.

**Marx** · 29th-July-2012

I wonder if there's a study on which part of a woman's brain lights up when a man pulls out his wallet?

**FloatyBoaty** · 29th-July-2012

Quote from Marx

I wonder if there's a study on which part of a woman's brain lights up when a man pulls out his wallet?

That would make for an interesting study...

**FloatyBoaty** · 29th-July-2012

Quote from Bigger Brother

So a 'study' of:

[...]

Susan Fiske, Nobel Prizewinner for Bullshit?

In other words, if you search hard enough and selectively enough you can come up with 'evidence' to 'prove' that your prejudices are justified.

The point of this study is that women are the ones to blame. If they don't want to be viewed as objects, they shouldn't dress like objects. A woman or girl who dresses properly will be seen properly. The first impression someone gets of another person is what they see.