A picture is worth twenty words (About the Self): Testing the priming influence of visual sexual objectification on women's self-objectification

Communication Research Reports

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 271-284

  Aubrey, Jennifer Stevens ^a   Henson, Jayne R ^a   Hopper, K Megan ^a   Smith, Siobhan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Body Image; Media Priming Effects; Self Objectification; Sexual Objectification

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955272444     PISSN: 08824096     EISSN: 17464099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08824090903293551     Document Type: Article

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