Want people to see you as sensitive? Strip off your clothes.
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 8:27 pm
http://www.sciencenewsline.com/psycholo ... 40042.html
I find this part interesting:
So in other words, we subconsciously judge people due to their lack of clothes or if they are dressed. However, our mind's may not necessarily perceive a person who has little or no clothes on as immoral, unless we have been brought up to see them that way. Our minds may naturally see lack of clothing as representing the masking of the human being's emotional or irrational state of mind while clothing implies the mind is in control. This works well either with Jung's Shadow or Freud's id v. super ego. May change the context of many arguments centering on modesty whether presented by religious conservatives or hard-line feminists.
I find this part interesting:
Traditional research and theories on objectification suggest that we see the mind of others on a continuum between the full mind of a normal human and the mindlessness of an inanimate object. The idea of objectification is that looking at someone in a sexual context—such as in pornography—leads people to focus on physical characteristics, turning them into an object without a mind or moral status.
However, recent findings indicate that rather than looking at others on a continuum from object to human, we see others as having two aspects of mind: agency and experience. Agency is the capacity to act, plan and exert self-control, whereas experience is the capacity to feel pain, pleasure and emotions. Various factors – including the amount of skin shown – can shift which type of mind we see in another person.
So in other words, we subconsciously judge people due to their lack of clothes or if they are dressed. However, our mind's may not necessarily perceive a person who has little or no clothes on as immoral, unless we have been brought up to see them that way. Our minds may naturally see lack of clothing as representing the masking of the human being's emotional or irrational state of mind while clothing implies the mind is in control. This works well either with Jung's Shadow or Freud's id v. super ego. May change the context of many arguments centering on modesty whether presented by religious conservatives or hard-line feminists.