http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Women who are more aware of their bodies from within are less likely to think of their bodies principally as objects, according to research published February 6 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Vivien Ainley and Manos Tsakiris from the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-heart-body-image.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:00:06 EST news279388537 Perfume ads, beer billboards, movie posters: everywhere you look, women's sexualized bodies are on display. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that both men and women see images of sexy women's bodies as objects, while they see sexy-looking men as people. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-people-sexy-pictures-women.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 15 May 2012 10:52:55 EST news256297965 Male bodies are increasingly objectified by mass media. Consider Michael 'The Situation' Sorrentino, a cast member of MTV's Jersey Shore reality show, who garnered fame by flashing his chiseled abs before cameras. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-boys-bodies.html Health Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:06:07 EST news236250351