Check That Body! The Effects of Sexually Objectifying Music Videos on College Men's Sexual Beliefs

Aubrey, Jennifer Stevens; Hopper, K. Megan; Mbure, Wanjiru G.

doi:10.1080/08838151.2011.597469

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“…Compared to the women in our sample, men in this sample held a higher degree of stereotypical beliefs about sexuality and endorsement of music that degrades women to a higher degree, yet also had higher efficacy to avoid nonsexual physical IPV. Contrary to earlier research (Aubrey et al, 2011;Galdi et al, 2014;Kalof, 1999;Van Oosten et al, 2015), men's endorsement of the degradation of women in music was not associated with any of the consent negotiation outcomes. Additionally, men's beliefs in sexual stereotypes were not associated with their negotiation of sexual consent, which is also inconsistent with prior research (Warren et al, 2015).…”

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Scripting Sexual Consent: Internalized Traditional Sexual Scripts and Sexual Consent Expectancies Among College Students

2017

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College students are at a relatively high risk for both sexual assault victimization and perpetration, and understanding sexual consent is imperative to reduce the incidence of sexual assault. Informed by the interactionist perspective of feminist theory, we surveyed 447 undergraduate students to identify factors associated with heterosexual college students' expectancies related to sexual consent. Women who believed in sexual stereotypes and endorsed music that degrades women were less likely than other women to expect to engage in healthy negotiation of sexual consent. Men who were confident that they could avoid perpetrating nonsexual, physical interpersonal violence were statistically more likely to report practicing healthy negotiation of sexual consent. These results indicate that it is important for practitioners to consider individuals' sexual stereotypes in the prevention of interpersonal sexual violence.

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Scripting Sexual Consent: Internalized Traditional Sexual Scripts and Sexual Consent Expectancies Among College Students

2017

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“…Finally, we did not find an effect of exposure to objectifying video clips on general attitudes toward sexual harassment, possibly because general attitudes are more stable and less malleable. Nevertheless, it is plausible that longer and stronger exposure to such media may modulate general attitudes toward sexual harassment (Aubrey et al, 2011).…”

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“…Second, although Aubrey et al (2011)'s work informs us on the effect of objectifying media on general attitudes toward sexual harassment, it offers little insight into how perceivers may react to actual instances of sexual harassment. Indeed, like all abstract mental representations, general attitudes are often poor predictors of judgment of concrete situations pertaining to the object of the attitude (Correll, Park, Judd, & Wittenbrink, 2002;Fazio & Williams, 1986).…”

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From bodies to blame: Exposure to sexually objectifying media increases tolerance toward sexual harassment.

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2018

Psychology of Popular Media Culture

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This paper investigates whether exposure to sexually objectifying media leads to more tolerance toward sexual harassment of women in the context of a real-life scenario. Moreover, given that self-objectification reflects the internalization of gender-based inequalities, we also tested whether self-objectification was associated with greater tolerance toward sexual harassment of women. Two hundred and ten undergraduate students (112 men) were asked to watch sexually objectifying (vs. neutral) video clips before completing a questionnaire assessing tolerance toward sexual harassment. As expected, we found that watching sexually objectifying video clips led to more victim blame when evaluating a real-life scenario of sexual harassment, but it did not affect general attitudes toward sexual harassment. Moreover, trait self-objectification was associated with general attitudes toward sexual harassment of women, with more tolerance toward sexual harassment among people with high trait self-objectification. In contrast, neither exposure to sexually objectifying video clips nor trait selfobjectification affected perpetrator blame. These findings suggest that even short exposure to sexually objectifying media contributes to shifting attitudes toward sexual harassment of nonsexualized women in the real world, and they also illuminate the role of self-objectification in maintaining gender-based inequalities.

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“…More recently, as previously demonstrated researchers studying sexual objectification (SO) in media depictions (e.g., magazines, MTV videos, television) of women and girls have measured SO in part by the presence of revealing dress in those depictions (Aubrey et al, 2011;Johnson et al, 2007;Zurbriggen et al, 2011). In applying content analysis to various media (music videos, clothing on retail websites, girls' magazines, video game characters), other researchers have operationally defined SO in the media in part as the extent to which women's bodies are exposed to the gaze of others (Goodin et al, 2011;Graff et al, 2013;Vandenbosch et al, 2013).…”

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“…Objectification is harmful to the objectifying person (Aubrey et al, 2011;Johnson, McCreary, & Mills, 2007;Zurbriggen, Ramsey, & Jaworski, 2011), as well as to the individual being objectified (Frederickson, Roberts, Noll, Quinn, & Twenge, 1998;Hebl, King, & Lin, 2004). Many researchers have studied objectification of others as a function of those others' revealing dress (Graff, Murnen, & Smolak, 2012;Gurung & Chrouser, 2007;Loughnan et al, 2010;Loughnan, Pina, Vasquez, & Puvia, 2013;Nezlek, Krohn, Wilson, & Marusken, 2015).…”

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Women’s revealing Halloween costumes: other-objectification and sexualization

2016

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Women are depicted in revealing dress in the media and the depictions have costs such as objectification. Objectification theory explains that women in Westernized cultures are looked at, evaluated, and potentially objectified by others. Accordingly, objectifying gaze (by others) evokes self-objectification which has effects such as habitual body and appearance monitoring. According to the theory being objectified by others precedes self-objectification, which suggests that objectification by others could be more prevalent than self-objectification and potentially just as harmful. Researchers have found that self-objectification and other-objectification can be induced by revealing dress manipulations that vary in tightness or body coverage. We studied Halloween costumes as a site for objectification of others. In Study 1, 124 pairs of men’s and women’s Halloween costumes were content analyzed. Women’s costumes were significantly more revealing than men’s in tightness and body coverage. Since sexual objectification in the media is assessed by the presence of revealing dress in media depictions, we reasoned that women’s revealing Halloween costumes could be sexually objectifying. In Study 2, 295 participants rated women wearing revealing or non-revealing costumes in an online experiment. Women wearing revealing costumes were sexually objectified by participants. Although men rated costumed women higher on the sexually objectifying traits than women, both men and women objectified the costumed women in the revealing dress condition. Dress researchers may wish to apply objectification theory to re-interpret and explain early research on revealing dress.

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Check That Body! The Effects of Sexually Objectifying Music Videos on College Men's Sexual Beliefs

Cited by 84 publications

References 43 publications

Scripting Sexual Consent: Internalized Traditional Sexual Scripts and Sexual Consent Expectancies Among College Students

Scripting Sexual Consent: Internalized Traditional Sexual Scripts and Sexual Consent Expectancies Among College Students

From bodies to blame: Exposure to sexually objectifying media increases tolerance toward sexual harassment.

Women’s revealing Halloween costumes: other-objectification and sexualization

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