Disco clothing, female sexual motivation, and relationship status: Is she dressed to impress?

The relationship between a female's clothing choice, sexual motivation, hormone levels, and partners...

Ovulating women unconsciously buy sexier clothing to outdo attractive women

Ovulating women unconsciously buy sexier clothes, says new research. The study finds that ovulating...

Dress and sex: a review of empirical research involving human participants and published in refereed journals - Fashion and Textiles

Our research purpose was to assess research addressing relationships between dress and sex. Our revi...

Women’s Perceptions of Sexual Exploitability Cues and Their Link to Sexual Attractiveness

Archives of Sexual Behavior - Two studies examined women’s perception of the relationship between se...

From Agents to Objects: Sexist Attitudes and Neural Responses to Sexualized Targets

Abstract. Agency attribution is a hallmark of mind perception; thus, diminished attributions of agen...

Of Animals and Objects: Men’s Implicit Dehumanization of Women and Likelihood of Sexual Aggression - Laurie A. Rudman, Kris Mescher, 2012

Although dehumanizing women and male sexual aggression are theoretically aligned, the present resear...

Cute Little Things: The Objectification of Prepubescent Girls - Elise Holland, Nick Haslam, 2016

In two studies, we examined the impact of sexualization of prepubescent girls on college students’ p...

Body satisfaction, thin-ideal internalization, and perceived pressure to be thin among Canadian women: The role of acculturation and religiosity

In an online study, 143 Canadian women of various religious backgrounds completed measures of accult...

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Strength of faith and body image in Muslim and non-Muslim women

A questionnaire was completed by 98 Muslim and 91 non-Muslim Australian women to examine the relatio...

Redefining Hijab: American Muslim Women's Standpoints on Veiling

Feminist standpoint theory suggests that, although powerful discourses attempt to define women on th...

Body Image and Religiosity among Veiled and Non-Veiled Turkish Women

Abstract The positive relationship between body image and religiosity, as found in Christian samples...

Balancing agency, gender and race: how do Muslim female teenagers in Quebec negotiate the social meanings embedded in the hijab?

In the past decade, the hijab has increasingly come to be regarded in the West as an unambiguous sym...

The hijab as a protective factor for body image and disordered eating: a replication in French Muslim women

We examined differences in body image and disordered eating between Muslim women who do and do not w...

The Effect of Religious Clothing on Gaze Behavior: An Eye-Tracking Experiment

There are very few experimental studies regarding religious clothing. In the current study, we hypot...

Hijab and “Hitchhiking”: A Field Study

Evolutionary Psychological Science - In the West, the style of a woman’s dress is perceived as a cue...

Public house patrons' engagement in hypothetical sexual assault: a test of Alcohol Myopia Theory in a field setting

Previous research has found that drinking establishments are often antecedent to sexual aggression o...