Pappas, Stephanie. “Our Brains See Men as Whole and Women as Parts. Evolution Might Underlie the Different Processing of Female versus Male Bodies. Both Genders Do It.” LiveScience, 25 July 2012, www.livescience.com/21902-women-objectified-brain.html.

In this article which is published in Scientific American, a publication that covers scientific research in news, it highlights research showing that the brain processes images of men as whole beings, while images of women are processed as individual body parts. This phenomenon is referred to as “objectification,” which contributes to the sexualization of women. This will be useful to my thesis because it provides scientific evidence that men tend to sexualize women and dressing modestly can be used to avoid being objectified. 

• “When viewing female images, participants were better at recognizing individual parts than they were matching whole-body photographs to the originals. The opposite was true for male images: People were better at recognizing a guy as a whole than they were his individual parts.”(Pappas)
• “People were also better at discerning women’s individual body parts than they were at men’s individual body parts, further confirming the local processing, or objectification, that was happening.” (Pappas)