Objectified and Dehumanized: Does Objectification Impact Perceptions of Women Political Candidates?

IF 3.2 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Journal of Experimental Political Science Pub Date : 2022-08-18 DOI:10.1017/XPS.2022.15

Claire M. Gothreau, A. Alvarez, Amanda Friesen

引用次数: 1

Abstract

Abstract Objectification and dehumanization are topics often discussed within the social psychology and feminist theory literature. Research on objectification has largely focused on the sexual objectification of women’s bodies, whereas the dehumanization literature has focused on dehumanization in the context of racial and ethnic groups. Extant political science research has only recently begun to engage with these concepts. In this manuscript, we build upon these literatures and apply these insights to questions relevant to politics. In particular, we argue that objectifying and dehumanizing portrayals of women impact how voters evaluate women politicians and how much they support gender parity in politics. Through a proposed experimental design, we test our hypothesis that the objectification of women as a group can decrease positive evaluations and likelihood of electoral support for women political candidates.

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客观化与非人性化：客观化是否影响女性政治候选人的认知？

摘要客观化和非人性化是社会心理学和女权主义理论文献中经常讨论的话题。关于物化的研究主要集中在对女性身体的性物化，而非人性化文学则集中在种族和民族背景下的非人性化。现存的政治学研究直到最近才开始涉及这些概念。在这份手稿中，我们以这些文献为基础，将这些见解应用于与政治相关的问题。特别是，我们认为，对女性的客观化和非人性化描述会影响选民对女性政治家的评价，以及她们在多大程度上支持政治中的性别平等。通过一项拟议的实验设计，我们检验了我们的假设，即将女性作为一个群体客观化会降低对女性政治候选人的积极评价和选举支持的可能性。

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Journal of Experimental Political Science Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

CiteScore

5.10

自引率

8.30%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Experimental Political Science (JEPS) features cutting-edge research that utilizes experimental methods or experimental reasoning based on naturally occurring data. We define experimental methods broadly: research featuring random (or quasi-random) assignment of subjects to different treatments in an effort to isolate causal relationships in the sphere of politics. JEPS embraces all of the different types of experiments carried out as part of political science research, including survey experiments, laboratory experiments, field experiments, lab experiments in the field, natural and neurological experiments. We invite authors to submit concise articles (around 4000 words or fewer) that immediately address the subject of the research. We do not require lengthy explanations regarding and justifications of the experimental method. Nor do we expect extensive literature reviews of pros and cons of the methodological approaches involved in the experiment unless the goal of the article is to explore these methodological issues. We expect readers to be familiar with experimental methods and therefore to not need pages of literature reviews to be convinced that experimental methods are a legitimate methodological approach. We will consider longer articles in rare, but appropriate cases, as in the following examples: when a new experimental method or approach is being introduced and discussed or when novel theoretical results are being evaluated through experimentation. Finally, we strongly encourage authors to submit manuscripts that showcase informative null findings or inconsistent results from well-designed, executed, and analyzed experiments.