Gender Differences in the Effect of Visual Sexual Stimulation on the Perceived Covariation Between Freedom and Responsibility
| Autor: | Joseph R. McGahan, Teresa Minchew, Nicholas J Gray, James D Nevala |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
| Předmět: |
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Freedom Male Attractiveness Sexual Behavior media_common.quotation_subject Proposition Experiential learning Education Developmental psychology Beauty Sex Factors Erotica Humans Sexual stimulation General Psychology media_common Social Responsibility business.industry Clothing Attitude Business Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) Female business Psychology Contingency Social psychology Social responsibility Photic Stimulation |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Psychology. 140:133-153 |
| ISSN: | 1940-1019 0022-3980 |
| DOI: | 10.3200/jrlp.140.2.133-153 |
| Popis: | The authors replicated and extended a test of Epstein's cognitive-experiential self-theory (CEST; S. Epstein, 1973, 1980, 1985, 1994, 2003) regarding subjective estimates of the relationship between freedom and responsibility. CEST predicts that information in the form of sexually provocative images is likely to be processed by the experiential system. The authors' hypothesis was that such experiential processing would cause an increase in the likelihood of participants endorsing as true a statement that proposed a negative correlation between freedom and responsibility. University students (N = 97) in introductory psychology classes viewed 25 images of either men or women in provocative clothing, or a control consisting of academic journal covers, after which they responded to 24 statements proposing either a positive, negative, or noncontingent relationship between freedom and responsibility. Judgments were analyzed according to perceiver gender and target gender, as well as the framing of the proposition and its contingency category. The hypothesis was supported for the men and to a lesser extent for the women. Although priming the experiential system by exposing participants to sexually provocative images did not change endorsement rates of positive contingencies, it did lead to an increase in the likelihood of simultaneously endorsing negative contingencies. |
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