Revision of Manuscript # 17-02-88 Running head: ATTRACTIVENESS AND SEXUAL HARASSMENT Effects of Physical Attractiveness When Evaluating a Male Employee’s Allegation of Sexual Harassment by His Female Employer Karl L. Wuensch and Charles H. Moore East Carolina University Abstract College students (N = 324) served as mock jurors in a simulated civil case in which a male plaintiff accused a female defendant of sexual harassment. The physical attractiveness of the litigants was experimentally
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Gordon, Maya K. “Media Contributions to African American Girls Focus on Beauty and Appearance: Exploring the Consequences of Sexual Objectification.” Psychology of Women Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 3, 1 Sept. 2008, pp. 245–256. Sage Journals, doi:10.1111/j.1471-6402.2008.00433.x. Accessed 15 Sept. 2017. In this article, Maya Gordon explores how sexual objectification can hinder and influence girls’ beliefs about their appearance. She specifically focuses on young African American girls whose ideals
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question was explored through philosophy in an attempt to find the answer. However, as time passed and other disciplines emerged, other fields, in addition to philosophy, also seek for a solution to the question; social psychology is one of those fields. One of the models in social psychology that attempts to answer the question is the relational interdependence measure. It attempts to define the self based on relational interdependence. Someone who is not relational interdependent defines themselves
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Guadalupe Guerra August 30, 2015 General Psychology Early and Modern Perspectives of Psychology Throughout the years many great minds have opened up to the challenge in opening up to study how the human brain functions and what it can cause a person to do and feel; this is called Psychology. These theorists have each came up with their own ideas of why humans, as well as animals, function the way it does and even though each and every one of them have very different ideas it does mean that
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constantly evaluating my placement in society. What initiated my interest to research social attraction was my weakness for the opposite sex. I was and still am inquisitive as to what draws me to all women and towards certain type of the opposite sex. Originally, I thought I was attracted only to women from a physical appeal in an initial meeting, but I found there is more to the question. Even though physicality is a considerable amount of interpersonal attraction, studies have proved there are
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Differences in Communication Between Genders Roscoe Purdue University Abstract The differences in correspondence styles among men and women have been a subject of interest for research for quite a while. These differences may provoke miscommunication, battle, and even frustration between couples. This study looks at the communication styles among men and women, more especially between married couples. It questions how the different genders express their thoughts and feelings that may lead to conflicts
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“Anthropology is the social science which specializes in knowing about differences — differences in race, in language, in culture."(Mead) Margaret Mead was one of the most well know women of her time, she helped advance the scientific world was we know it. Meads was focus was not only just one doing the research but to also educating those around her and spreading her knowledge. Born on December 16, 1901 Margaret Mead was born in to a high educated family, her mother was teacher and sociologist
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Definition of adolescence and adolescent depression 2 2. Adolescent depressive symptoms 4 3. Problems with diagnosis of depression in adolescents 4 4. Gender factors that may play a role in assessing depression 6 5. Contextual factors that may play a role in assessing depression 8 6. Suicide 9 ‘Like anyone else, I have always had times when I felt deeply depressed, but this was something
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when it was adapted from the French word ‘emouvoir, which means “to stir up”. No aspect of our mental life is more important to the quality and meaning of our existence than emotions. They are what make life worth living, or sometimes ending. “In psychology an emotion is often defined as a complex state of feeling that results in physical and psychological changes that influence thought and behaviour.” David G Myers. The “James-Lange” theory of emotion after William James and Carl G Lange also defines
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old women to build a healthy and positive attitude toward their body image. The research question that I raised is how do TV advertisements and fashion magazine affect 15-30 years old women to build their self-esteem and body image view in the U.S.? More specifically, I will examine the various aspects of negative effects that the television and fashion magazines bring to the 15-30 years old women. I proposed that the negative effects that television and fashion magazines bring to young women is more
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