Show me the data! Empirical support for the “centerfold syndrome”.

Wright, Paul J.

doi:10.1037/a0023783

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“…This theory asserts that men who hold centerfold beliefs have more difficulties in establishing an intimate relationship with women. Sexual objectification socialization makes establishing healthy intimate and sexual relationships with women difficult for men because the objectifying media gives men unrealistic expectations about their female partners' appearance and leads to lower satisfaction in the intimate domain (Brooks, 1995;Wright, 2012). Beyond objectifying media, the high occurrence of male objectifying behaviors (gazing, commenting, or making unwanted sexual advances) leads to negative outcomes in their intimate relationships (Sáez et al, 2019).…”

Section: Male Sexual Objectification and Sexual Coercion Perpetrationmentioning

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The Detrimental Effect of Sexual Objectification on Targets’ and Perpetrators’ Sexual Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Sexual Coercion

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Sexual objectification is a variable to consider for understanding the sexual violence that takes place into intimate context. The set of studies presented here aims to connect sexual objectification phenomena with sexual coercion and explore the consequences that both have on sexual satisfaction. Two studies examined the association between sexual objectification and sexual satisfaction for both views: female target (Study 1) and male perpetrator (Study 2) perspectives. The results of the first study (n = 138 heterosexual women) demonstrated that perceiving partner objectification (but not reporting general sexual objectification victimization) is indirectly linked to a lower sexual satisfaction because of lower rejection and higher sexual coercion rates. The second study (n = 136 heterosexual men) showed the indirect effect of partner objectification and general sexual objectification perpetration on sexual satisfaction after sexual coercion perpetration. Results of both studies demonstrated the negative consequences that sexual objectification has on sexual satisfaction for both male perpetrators and female targets.

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Section: Male Sexual Objectification and Sexual Coercion Perpetrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Detrimental Effect of Sexual Objectification on Targets’ and Perpetrators’ Sexual Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Sexual Coercion

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“…Researchers argue that contemporary society socializes girls and women to treat themselves as objects to be evaluated solely for their physical attractiveness (Moradi & Huang, 2008). Previous research has shown that media content is replete with these kind of messages (Wright, 2012), which trigger a psychological process in which girls internalize an observer's perspective on their own body and value their appearance higher than their health or personality (e.g., Moradi & Huang, 2008). Girls have been shown to report higher levels of self-objectification than boys (e.g., Vandenbosch & Eggermont, 2014).…”

Section: Gender and The Endorsement Of Dysfunctional Appearance Beliefsmentioning

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Beauty is Good: The Appearance Culture, the Internalization of Appearance Ideals, and Dysfunctional Appearance Beliefs Among Tweens

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Eggermont

2016

Hum Commun Res

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Dysfunctional appearance beliefs have been identified as important risk factors in the development of body dissatisfaction and disordered eating behaviors among early adolescents. The current two‐wave study among 10–14‐year‐olds (N = 1,597, Mage = 11.25, SD = 1.05) aimed to delineate factors that contribute to the endorsement of such beliefs. Results showed that tweens discussed appearance‐related topics with their friends more often when they frequently watched tween television programs (all time 1). Both media exposure and peer conversations (time 1) were related to attributing benefits to attractiveness (time 1), which, in turn, predicted the internalization of appearance ideals (time 1). The internalization of appearance ideals positively predicted the endorsement of dysfunctional appearance beliefs 6 months later.

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“…The specific script that objectifying media provide men is that women are sexual instruments that should behave in ways that facilitate men's sexual gratification(Brooks, 1995;Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997;Wright, 2012). Thus, in objectifying media women's role as a source of male sexual pleasure is emphasized and their humanity is deemphasized.Arch Sex Behav…”

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Men’s Objectifying Media Consumption, Objectification of Women, and Attitudes Supportive of Violence Against Women

2015

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A recent White House Council Report on Women and Girls called attention to sexual assault on college campuses and encouraged continued research on this important public health problem. Media that sexually objectify women have been identified by feminist scholars as encouraging of sexual assault, but some researchers question why portrayals that do not feature sexual assault should affect men's attitudes supportive of violence against women. Guided by the concepts of specific and abstract sexual scripting in Wright's (Communication Yearbook 35:343-386, 2011) sexual script acquisition, activation, application model of sexual media socialization, this study proposed that the more men are exposed to objectifying depictions, the more they will think of women as entities that exist for men's sexual gratification (specific sexual scripting), and that this dehumanized perspective on women may then be used to inform attitudes regarding sexual violence against women (abstract sexual scripting). Data were gathered from collegiate men sexually attracted to women (N = 187). Consistent with expectations, associations between men's exposure to objectifying media and attitudes supportive of violence against women were mediated by their notions of women as sex objects. Specifically, frequency of exposure to men's lifestyle magazines that objectify women, reality TV programs that objectify women, and pornography predicted more objectified cognitions about women, which, in turn, predicted stronger attitudes supportive of violence against women.

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Show me the data! Empirical support for the “centerfold syndrome”.

Cited by 15 publications

References 103 publications

The Detrimental Effect of Sexual Objectification on Targets’ and Perpetrators’ Sexual Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Sexual Coercion

The Detrimental Effect of Sexual Objectification on Targets’ and Perpetrators’ Sexual Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Sexual Coercion

Beauty is Good: The Appearance Culture, the Internalization of Appearance Ideals, and Dysfunctional Appearance Beliefs Among Tweens

Men’s Objectifying Media Consumption, Objectification of Women, and Attitudes Supportive of Violence Against Women

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