Sexual cues emanating from the anchorette chair : implications for perceived professionalism, fitness for beat, and memory for news
The experimental study reported here employed one of the most compelling visual cues of female sexual attractiveness (low waist-to-hip ratio) to test the influence of news anchor sexualization on audience evaluations of her as a professional and their memory for the news that she presents. Male part...
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| author | Grabe, Maria Elizabeth Samson, Lelia |
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| description | The experimental study reported here employed one of the most compelling visual cues of female sexual attractiveness (low waist-to-hip ratio) to test the influence of news anchor sexualization on audience evaluations of her as a professional and their memory for the news that she presents. Male participants saw the sexualized version of the anchor as less suited for war and political reporting. They also encoded less news information presented by the sexualized than her unsexualized version. Conclusions were drawn in line with evolutionary psychology expectations of men’s cognitive susceptibility to visual sex cues. Women participants, on the other hand, did not vary across conditions in their assessments of the anchor’s competence to report on war and political news. Moreover, they encoded more news information presented by the sexualized than unsexualized anchor condition. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1006522020-03-07T12:15:51Z Sexual cues emanating from the anchorette chair : implications for perceived professionalism, fitness for beat, and memory for news Grabe, Maria Elizabeth Samson, Lelia Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology The experimental study reported here employed one of the most compelling visual cues of female sexual attractiveness (low waist-to-hip ratio) to test the influence of news anchor sexualization on audience evaluations of her as a professional and their memory for the news that she presents. Male participants saw the sexualized version of the anchor as less suited for war and political reporting. They also encoded less news information presented by the sexualized than her unsexualized version. Conclusions were drawn in line with evolutionary psychology expectations of men’s cognitive susceptibility to visual sex cues. Women participants, on the other hand, did not vary across conditions in their assessments of the anchor’s competence to report on war and political news. Moreover, they encoded more news information presented by the sexualized than unsexualized anchor condition. 2014-06-06T02:20:12Z 2019-12-06T20:25:55Z 2014-06-06T02:20:12Z 2019-12-06T20:25:55Z 2011 2011 Journal Article Grabe, M. E., & Samson, L. (2011). Sexual Cues Emanating From the Anchorette Chair: Implications for Perceived Professionalism, Fitness for Beat, and Memory for News. Communication Research, 38(4), 471 - 496. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100652 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19580 10.1177/0093650210384986 180805 en Communication research © 2011 The Author(s). |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology Grabe, Maria Elizabeth Samson, Lelia Sexual cues emanating from the anchorette chair : implications for perceived professionalism, fitness for beat, and memory for news |
| title | Sexual cues emanating from the anchorette chair : implications for perceived professionalism, fitness for beat, and memory for news |
| title_full | Sexual cues emanating from the anchorette chair : implications for perceived professionalism, fitness for beat, and memory for news |
| title_fullStr | Sexual cues emanating from the anchorette chair : implications for perceived professionalism, fitness for beat, and memory for news |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sexual cues emanating from the anchorette chair : implications for perceived professionalism, fitness for beat, and memory for news |
| title_short | Sexual cues emanating from the anchorette chair : implications for perceived professionalism, fitness for beat, and memory for news |
| title_sort | sexual cues emanating from the anchorette chair implications for perceived professionalism fitness for beat and memory for news |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100652 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19580 |
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