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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Jordan Gonzales

Jordan Gonzales

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

  • In fact, it takes two separate mental functions to see the mosaic from both perspectives.
  • 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
       
      This could be one of the reasons of the idea of male dominance in society
  • Women were perceived in the same ways that objects are viewed.
    • Jordan Gonzales
       
      So that means that objectifying women is genetic. Its still inexcusable though.
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  • 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
       
      So, is idolizing another woman for her body in our DNA as well?
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