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 anger when my humanity is denied in this way. But what if there's more ...

In a recent paper, Bernard and colleagues report that sexual objectification is not driven by revealing clothes, but by suggestive postures. 1 Background information We are constantly exposed to ...

Peter Koval receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Elise Holland works for Our Watch, Australia's national foundation to prevent violence against women and their children. Michelle ...

It is no secret that, throughout the ages, women’s bodies have been the source of nearly constant objectification. The ubiquity of social media has further enabled this objectification, as women’s ...

Intimate partner violence is a global scourge. One in four Australian women have experienced physical or sexual violence at ...

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 ...

The idea that advertising, entertainment and news media are guilty of objectifying women is familiar enough to most of us. But recently the balance seems to have shifted, with concerns being expressed ...