大脑胜过美丽:对女性认知表现的客观化影响的预先注册测试
1Department of Medical Social Sciences, Psychometrics and Statistics Core, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.
PloS one
|September 21, 2023
概括
这项研究发现,女性在自我客观化或男性凝视条件下录制的视频在工作记忆任务上没有经历认知能力受损. 国家自我客观化并没有对任务的准确性或速度产生负面影响.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 认知心理学 认知心理学
- 社会心理学 社会心理学
背景情况:
- 以前的研究表明,自我客观化和男性的目光可能会对女性的认知功能产生负面影响.
- 然而,经验证据仍然混杂,需要对这些效应进行严格的测试.
研究的目的:
- 实验性地研究状态自我客观化和男性目光对女性工作记忆表现的影响.
- 检查这些体验是否影响身体满意度和情绪.
主要方法:
- 一个预先注册的,强大的实验,对407名女大学生进行了实验.
- 参与者在三个条件下完成了工作记忆任务:自我客观化,男性凝视 (预测男性对视频录制的评估),或控制 (没有录制).
- 测量包括工作记忆任务性能 (延迟,准确性),状态自我客观化,身体满意度和情绪.
主要成果:
- 与对照组相比,在实验条件下的女性报告说,与对照组相比,状态自我客观化增加.
- 在实验组和对照组之间,在工作记忆性能 (延迟或准确性) 中没有发现显著差异.
- 身体满意度和情绪在各个条件之间没有显著差异,状态自我客观化与工作记忆性能没有相关性.
结论:
- 经历状态自我客观化或预测男性目光并不会影响女性工作记忆的表现.
- 这些发现挑战了对客观化的有害认知影响的假设.
- 之前研究的变化可能源于实验设计和结果测量的差异.
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