As adult-looking sex dolls become more life-like, critics charge that they spur objectification of women and violence against ...

When I first sat down to write this article, I was going to write about the objectification of women and women alone. After all, women are disproportionately the victims of objectification. But last ...

In a recent interview, actress Cameron Diaz controversially said, "I think every woman does want to be objectified." Decades of research have documented the many ways that objectification can be ...

A series of three studies found that women who are more prone to self-objectification tend to have reduced empathy, both affective and cognitive. These women were also more likely to experience ...

Two studies conducted in China suggest that a sexually objectifying gaze from a male partner increases women’s safety-related anxiety, regardless of the partner’s attractiveness or socioeconomic ...

A study to be published in Sex Roles, published by Springer, offers an explanation for why women fear face-to-face crime more than men, despite being less likely to experience most crimes. The ...

Intimate partner violence is a global scourge. One in four Australian women have experienced physical or sexual violence at the hands of an intimate partner. The perpetrators are overwhelmingly ...