Whether it's an inappropriate comment in the workplace or a catcall from a passing car, sexual objectification of women can cause anxiety about personal safety, hypervigilance toward appearance and ...

Most of us grew up with media, environments, and interpersonal interactions suggesting that women’s value is tied to their looks and sexual appeal to men. This is known as sexual objectification (SO), ...

An international study led by Western University is confirming the link between experiencing sexual objectification and feeling anxious about personal safety, researchers say. Researchers developed a ...

What does it mean to a woman’s self-worth to live in a culture of sexual objectification? Or, to put it another way, what’s wrong with a few harmless catcalls, or with a man complimenting a woman’s ...

When we talk about women internalizing cultural messages of objectification, so that they begin to think of themselves as objects, we imply that they disconnect, in some way, from their bodies. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you've ever been objectified, you know that it doesn't feel great. For me, it brings on a queasy mix of shame and long-burning ...

Several personality traits related to psychopathy -- especially being openly antagonistic -- predict a tendency to view others as merely sex objects, finds a study by psychologists at Emory University ...

When Joan Holloway – the bombshell office worker on the show “Mad Men” – enters a room, she knows she looks good and is going to turn heads. Every morning, Joan meticulously does her makeup and hair ...