{"id":1050,"date":"2017-01-26T12:25:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T12:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2017-01-26T12:25:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T12:25:32","slug":"link-between-sexual-objectification-and-aggression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2017\/01\/26\/link-between-sexual-objectification-and-aggression\/","title":{"rendered":"Link between sexual objectification and aggression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong class=\"lead\">There is a direct relation between the sexual objectification of girls and aggression towards them, research by psychologists at the University has shown.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The study, which looked at youth members of gangs as well as those with no gang affiliation, provides the <strong>first evidence of a link between objectification and non-sexual aggression in young people<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/vasqueze\/\">Dr Eduardo Vasquez<\/a> and colleagues at the School of Psychology, together with a former student, found that higher levels of objectification were significant predictors of aggression towards girls.<\/p>\n<p>Their findings are consistent with the claim that, among other negative outcomes, the perception of women as nothing but sexual objects also evokes aggression against them.<\/p>\n<p>The research also established that watching television and playing violent video games were positively correlated with both sexual objectification and aggression towards girls.<\/p>\n<p>To read more, please go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/12377\/link-between-sexual-objectification-and-aggression\">Kent News Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a direct relation between the sexual objectification of girls and aggression towards them, research by psychologists at the University has shown. The study, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2017\/01\/26\/link-between-sexual-objectification-and-aggression\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14802,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140633,3684,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14802"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}