Being a Body: Women's Appearance Related Self-Views and their Dehumanization of Sexually Objectified Female Targets

Sex Roles

Volumn 68, Issue 7-8, 2013, Pages 484-495

  Puvia, Elisa ^a   Vaes, Jeroen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dehumanization; Internalization of sociocultural beauty standards; Motivation to look attractive to men; Romantic relationship; Self objectification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874945849     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-012-0255-y     Document Type: Article

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