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From Immortal To Mortal: Objectification And Perceptions Of A Woman's Soul, Nathan A. Heflick
From Immortal To Mortal: Objectification And Perceptions Of A Woman's Soul, Nathan A. Heflick
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Abstract
Objectification most literally refers to perceiving a person as an object. Research shows that when people focus on a woman's appearance, compared to her personality, she is perceived of as more of an object (e.g., lower in human nature traits). These objectification effects, however, rarely occur for male targets. Moreover, humans, unlike objects, are typically believed to have a soul, that is, some part of the self that outlasts the death of the physical body and extends into a post-mortem existence (e.g., Heaven). In turn, I hypothesized that women, but not men, would be perceived as having less soul …