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Sum of the Parts? How Our Brains See Men as People and Women as Body Parts | Neuroscien... - 5 views

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  • When casting our eyes upon an object, our brains
    • leah qiu
      leah qiu on 29 Aug 12
       
      shalom
    • emilydonkervoet
      emilydonkervoet on 30 Aug 12
       
      aloha
    • Cori Cummings
      Cori Cummings on 06 Sep 12
       
      Does everyone think of people in a sum of parts or just some?
    • Cori Cummings
      Cori Cummings on 06 Sep 12
       
      Do we think of everything in a sum of parts or only people?
  • In fact, it takes two separate mental functions to see the mosaic from both perspectives.
    • emilydonkervoet
      emilydonkervoet on 05 Sep 12
       
      Maybe this adds to the different way that people perceive the two sexes, as not equals.
  • When presented with images of men, perceivers tended to rely more on “global” cognitive processing, the mental method in which a person is perceived as a whole. Meanwhile, images of women were more often the subject of “local” cognitive processing, or the objectifying perception of something as an assemblage of its various parts.
    • Jordan Gonzales
      Jordan Gonzales on 02 Sep 12
       
      This could be one of the reasons of the idea of male dominance in society
    • emilydonkervoet
      emilydonkervoet on 05 Sep 12
       
      If women are assessed as an assemblage of various parts, does that mean that they are viewed as nonuniform or more lenient, thus making it more plausible that men are dominant. Or should it be viewed as because they are able to be disassembled show the ability to be more open minded, thus being better leaders
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  • Women were perceived in the same ways that objects are viewed.
    • Jordan Gonzales
      Jordan Gonzales on 02 Sep 12
       
      So that means that objectifying women is genetic. Its still inexcusable though.
  • Men might be doing it because they’re interested in potential mates, while women may do it as more of a comparison with themselves
    • Jordan Gonzales
      Jordan Gonzales on 02 Sep 12
       
      So, is idolizing another woman for her body in our DNA as well?
  • the gender of participants doing the observing had no effect on the outcome
  • Our findings suggest people fundamentally process women and men differently, but we are also showing that a very simple manipulation counteracts this effect, and perceivers can be prompted to see women globally, just as they do men,
  • “The subjects in the study’s images were everyday, ordinary men and women … the fact that people are looking at ordinary men and women and remembering women’s body parts better than their entire bodies was very interesting.”
    • Cori Cummings
      Cori Cummings on 06 Sep 12
       
      I think people remember other people by different body parts and how their shaped. Not just their faces.
  • Women’s sexual body parts were more easily recognized when presented in isolation than when they were presented in the context of their entire bodies. But men’s sexual body parts were recognized better when presented in the context of their entire bodies than they were in isolation.
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