tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1769349339576283724.post9117209090416530409..comments2023-09-03T04:04:21.900-04:00Comments on Disney Princess Recovery: That Swimsuit Becomes YouMary Finucanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01972900058999375075noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1769349339576283724.post-70826558328344728992011-01-20T10:25:27.139-05:002011-01-20T10:25:27.139-05:00Anonymous #1: Valid points. I too was considerin...Anonymous #1: Valid points. I too was considering how I'd fare on a test in a swimsuit vs. sweater (I'd be cold!) but Fredrickson has tested this theory in a variety of circumstances and found consistent results. <br />(Another example: throwing like a girl---http://jss.sagepub.com/content/29/1/79.short)<br /> <br />Her more recent work has focused on positive psychology, which is another interesting area if you are into that.<br /><br />Anonymous #2: "but in a bathing suit I feel self-conscious, weird, and a little bit judged." Well put. I think this is more the norm, why else such stress about the approach of *swimsuit season!* <br /><br />Objectification theory states "that Western culture socializes girls and women to self-objectify by adopting a third-person perspective on their bodies." And that this can impede performance.Mary Finucanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01972900058999375075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1769349339576283724.post-11964645834783423532011-01-18T22:26:38.258-05:002011-01-18T22:26:38.258-05:00^...the men did better on the tests when they were...^...the men did better on the tests when they were wearing the swim suit than when they were wearing the sweater. <br /><br />Why would a woman have more anxiety in a bathing suit than in a sweater if it had nothing to do with her body? If she were simply nervous about the test then the results would be the same in the sweater or the bathing suit. <br /><br />Oh, and last time I checked, I was pretty sure of my gender regardless of my outfit - sweater or bathing suit - yep, still a chick - but in a bathing suit I feel self-conscious, weird, and a little bit judged. Perhaps other women forget they're actually women when wearing sweaters and then forget they're supposed to be bad at math?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1769349339576283724.post-26478776479325784722011-01-17T19:30:45.496-05:002011-01-17T19:30:45.496-05:00Bad Science, Mary!
Isn't this just a study sh...Bad Science, Mary!<br /><br />Isn't this just a study showing that people do worse on math tests when they're anxious and that wearing swimsuits makes women more anxious than men? Why do we need to jump straight to higher-order constructs like "objectification" when we have good old fashioned simple ones like anxiety?<br /><br />Alternatively, we could be looking at an effect caused by stereotype threat--I'm sure Mary knows what this is, but for those who don't, I'm talking about the effect wherein women who are reminded that they're women (and thus reminded of the stereotype that women are bad at math) actually do more poorly on math tests than they would if they weren't reminded of their gender. What better way to remind women that they're women than to make them get naked and put on revealing clothes?<br /><br />But, um, awesome blog otherwise!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1769349339576283724.post-30064605802302197812011-01-17T19:23:40.037-05:002011-01-17T19:23:40.037-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.The Single Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11548184391319124654noreply@blogger.com