面部关注对女性性客体化的影响

The Impact of Facial Attention on Female Sexual Objectification

性客体化通常是指女性失去其内在属性,沦为供人使用或取悦他人的客体事物。同时,性客体化会给女性的生理和心理带来不容忽视的负面影响。以往的研究已发现身体性感部位的显著性是影响对女性身体进行客体化的关键因素,而对其他相关的认知因素探讨较少。本文主要针对面部关注对于女性性客体化的影响进行探究。本研究采用2 (位置:正立,倒置) ×2 (被试性别:男性,女性) ×2 (像素化水平:无,面部)的混合实验设计,招募34名大学生参加实验。要求被试对随机呈现的性感女性图片进行识别,以被试的识别正确率和反应时为因变量进行数据分析,结果发现,相对于未经面部处理的女性目标,人们对于经过面部处理的女性目标的识别会出现更明显的倒置效应;而对于未经面部处理的对照组来说,人们对于直立和倒置目标的识别则没有显著差异。结论为减少对面部的特定关注能够促使人们对女性身体进行更多非客体化处理(即产生倒置效应)。

Sexual objectification usually refers to the loss of women’s intrinsic properties and their reduction to objects for the use or pleasure of others. At the same time, sexual objectification can have negative physical and psychological consequences for women that cannot be ignored. Previous research has identified the salience of sexualised body parts as a key factor influencing the objectification of the female body, while other related cognitive factors have been less explored. The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of facial attention on female sexual objectification. We recruited 34 undergraduates to participate in the experiment by using a mixed experimental design of 2 (position: upright, inverted) *2 (gender: male, female) *2 (pixelized level: no, face). Participants were asked to recognize 96 sexy female images randomly presented, including two groups: upright and inverted. In each group, half of the faces were pixelized and half of the faces were unprocessed. The results showed that compared with the female targets without facial processing, the recognition of the female targets with facial processing had a more obvious inversion effect. It suggested that the recognition of upright targets was better than that of inverted targets. While for the control group without facial processing, there was no significant difference in the recognition of upright and inverted targets. In addition, the gender of the subjects had no effect on sexual objectification. In conclusion, by reducing the attention to the face, people can make more non-objectification of the female body (i.e. inversion effect).