Graduate student Alison Cooke (mentored by Dr. Doris Bazzini) presented a poster at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual conference in Longbeach, CA based on their eye-tracking research that explored where females fixate when they are look at images of other females. Previous research has found that females report less self-objectification after looking at a powerful image of another female than when they look at a sexual image. To explore this finding, this study examined whether or not females fixate on powerful and sexual images differently. Results replicated previous research by finding that individuals who viewed powerful images reported less self-objectification. In addition, females fixation patterns for the two images types differed significantly: females fixated longer on the limbs for the powerful images, and longer on the face and torso for the sexual images. Additional findings were presented at the Southeastern Psychological Association conference in Hilton Head, SC.
Alison Cooke with her poster
