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Frauen erscheinen als Sexobjekte
Der Spiegel: Was sieht jemand beim Blick auf das Foto einer kaum bekleideten oder nackten Frau: einen Menschen oder ein Objekt? Und werden Männer in Badehose oder Unterwäsche anders wahrgenommen? Diesen Fragen sind belgische und
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People See Sexy Pictures of Women as Objects, Not People
Perfume ads, beer billboards, movie posters: everywhere you look, women’s sexualized bodies are on display. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that both men and
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Why the Powerful Lie, Cheat and Steal
Discovery News: The trial of former Sen. John Edwards, who is currently facing charges of allegedly diverting funds from his failed 2008 presidential campaign to his former mistress, Rielle Hunter, raises a question that comes
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What You See Affects What You Can Do
The Huffington Post: It is tempting to think of our eyes as video cameras that take in information about the world and try to give us a reasonably accurate picture of what is going on
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What Cocktail Parties Teach Us
The Wall Street Journal: You’re at a party. Music is playing. Glasses are clinking. Dozens of conversations are driving up the decibel level. Yet amid all those distractions, you can zero in on the one
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The Innate Irresistibility of Film
Scientific American: When I was seven years old, my mom took me to see Curly Sue. Though I don’t remember much of the movie, two scenes made quite the impression: the first, when James Belushi
