Recent News Articles Brains see men as people, women as parts
Both genders process images of men and women differently — men
are seen as people, women as body parts, U.S. researchers
suggest. Lead author Sarah Gervais, assistant professor of
psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said in the
study, participants were randomly presented with dozens of
images of fully clothed, average-looking men and women. Each
person was shown from head to knee, standing, with eyes focused
on the camera. After a brief pause, participants then saw two
new images on their screen: One was unmodified and contained the
original image, while the other was a slightly modified version
of the original image that comprised a sexual body part.
Participants then quickly indicated which of the two images they
had previously seen. The study, published in the European
Journal of Social Psychology, found women’s sexual body parts
were more easily recognized when presented in isolation than
when they were presented in the context of