Sum of the Parts? How Our Brains See Men as People and Women as Body Parts | Neuroscien... - 5 views
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In fact, it takes two separate mental functions to see the mosaic from both perspectives.
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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.
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Women were perceived in the same ways that objects are viewed.
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