Seeing (and treating) others as sexual objects: Toward a more complete mapping of sexual objectification

TPM - Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 309-325

  Loughnan, Steve ^a,b   Pacilli, Maria Giuseppina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dehumanization; Gender; Morality; Objectification; Sex; Social psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907524688     PISSN: 19726325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4473/TPM21.3.6     Document Type: Article

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