Gender Differences in Emotional Responses to Clothing

Gender Differences in Emotional Responses to togCon tennerts (Jump to)AbstractIntroductionMethodParticipantsProcedureChapter 1 undecided skin1.1 Specific personify dowers1.1.1 Upper breast dust ( hump, shoulder and chest)a) Resultsb) Discussion1.1.2 Backa) Resultsb) Discussion1.1.3 Lega) Resultsb) Discussion1.2 How dead is as well short-circuit?1.2.1 backdrop develop ment1.2.2 ResultsChapter 2 Color2.1 comment in with informal implications2.1.1 Heu2.1.2 strength2.1.3 Brightness2.1.4 Discussion2.2 Colors that evince tender character2.2.1 Heu2.2.2 Saturation2.2.3 Brightness2.2.4 DiscussionChapter 3 Dressing zeal3.1 Loose and bastardly3.1.1 Background information3.1.2 Results3.2 Uniforms3.2.1 Uniforms that conjure up custodys interest3.2.2 Uniforms that decrease mens interest3.2.3 Discussion of the case of the uniform phenomenonConclusionBibliographyAbstractSince s washbasintily cladding is sometimes believed to be the cause to sexual bedevilment, it is necessary to become fall bug out whether they be related, and if so, how they ar related. When discussing the birth mingled with scantily cladding and sexual harassment, the key fragment is the sensational chair that wearable sends out from women to men.This study set an audition to find out how disagreeent aspects including capable skin, affectation, and style of women clothing can effect young self-aggrandizing mens emotion, then study the seek result in psychological and genial sectors. The result of the experiment indicates a strong relationship between the mens emotion and certain clothing style. It was found that men are more attracted to exposed pep pill front body, relatively short arrange, impassioned color, tight uniform and tralatitious fe ph anyic profession uniforms. It was to a fault found that women who wear low-toned saturation color clothes are thought to be dim and can be teased without worrying about r regularge, thus institutionalize themsel ves in danger. The line upk of the relationship between color and merciful psychology explains the mens ro whilece preference in flying color, especially ruddy is based on animal instinct. The study also canvas the uniform appreciation in the observational learning theory.The study affirm that the womens clothing can be the cause of mens sexualarousal, and whitethorn also be negative stimulus to mens clean sense. These findings provide a base for further research on relationship between scantily cladding and sexual harassment.Key words clothing, emotional response, sexual harassment, exposed skin, colorIntroductionSexual harassment is the assault behavior with sex suggestions that happened in public or cloak-and-dagger situation, from one person to the some other(prenominal), including verbal assault, touching, etc. Dressing style is the ecumenic idea of elements of clothing, including color, tightness, uniforms etc. The former research has tried to relate the mens be havior with the womens clothing style, scarce all of them failed to countersink sexy look or compare the looks of women. One detailed research has related the red and mens sexual arousal but did not explain the reason of that phenomenon.MethodParticipantsThe stir upicipants are the wellnessy male adults in Tianjin University, ranging in age from 18 to 28, who is considered to be able to view the visual signal and give feed fanny. The experiment randomly interviewed 200 men, among which at that place are 180 valid questionnaires.ProcedureIn the experiment, the participants viewed several movies and were asked to consequence a few questions. The insures were downloaded from the internetespecially from shopping website, and then for retirement and accuracy reason, the Photoshop software was used to erase the background and blank the stumpers faces of all pictures. Then the pictures were showed to the participants. In the well-nigh time, the participants are asked to pick pic tures that can set to questions. The experiment was divided into five parts.In the first part, the tierce pictures are all of a same model, wearying tight white dresses the three dresses exposed antithetical part of her body. Then we asked the participants to learn the approximately fascinating one.In the second part, the same model in the pictures wears white dresses that differ in aloofnesss. The lengths of the four dresses in the pictures are thirty centimeters above the knees, ten centimeters above the knees, ten centimeters below the knees and thirty centimeters below the knees. The participants are asked to choose two pictures that they find inviting.In the third part, the delineations are processed by Photoshop software to convince the color of the girls dress. The original color is yellow, then the color of the dress was changed in heu, illumination and saturation, separately step is a group and has four moving pictures. The participants were asked to choose on e photo from each group that they find attractive. Then they are asked to choose one photo from each group that they think the women in the picture is weak, the reason of idea so was also asked.In the fourth part, the photos are all of a same model wearing distinguishable style dresses. The dresses differ in tightness. The participants are asked to choose from two pictures the women they find attractive. In one picture the model wears a lose black dress, in the other picture, the model wears a tight black dress.In the fifth part, the pictures are different uniforms, including police uniform, army uniform, maintain uniform, fixate uniform, seduce uniform and hostess uniform. Participants were asked to choose the uniforms that they find around attractive and least(prenominal) attractive.Chapter 1 capable skin1.1 Specific body parts1.1.1 Upper front body (neck, shoulder and chest)a)ResultsMore than 50% participants chose the exposed chest as the more or less attractive photo. b)DiscussionThe breast, as a secondary sex characteristic of women, has a effect a lot like pygal, and also a attribute of estrogen level. In the antique times, the gentle ancestors always use doggy style pose to intercourse. During the intercourse, pygal is the body part men would see. Breasts are the front side version of pygal, which allows the men to evaluate the womens fertility when they meet. Also, the contour of breasts indicates the womens age, health condition and nutritional state, which are crucial elements for an ancient man to choose his mate, because the charrs body condition lead affect their descendants. This tendency has been in humans brain for thousands of geezerhood and has been inherited till today.1.1.2 Backa) ResultsLess than 10% participants chose the exposed back as the most attractive photo.b) DiscussionBack is an Copernican part of human body, but not a key element in mate choosing. Still, Straight spinal column, smooth skin and well structured muscles can tell a man that a woman is in good body situation and can raise children by her own. The health condition is always an important element in mate choosing, so the exposed back is still attractive to some participants, but the other exposed body parts give do the backs work just as well.1.1.3 Lega) Results30% participants chose the exposed legs to be the most attractive photo.b) DiscussionLegs are a large part of body. From the ancient times, long legs are considered to be beautiful and attractive this norm has never been doubt. This norm is determined by the living state of ancient human. Archeologists find out that most unnatural death of ancient human was death caused by wounds of their back side of head, like a trash or a bite. This finding indicates that the ancient human were living in dangerous environment and always need to run to escape from predictors. tenacious legs give a person the ability to run away from evil and deadly attacks so long legs are even m ore important than strong body for a person to survive. In this case, it is no strike that men tended to choose women with long legs and are attracted by exposed legs.Fig. 1.1.2 How short is too short?1.2.1 Background informationIn this part of experiment, the leg was chose to be the part for quantitative experiment because it is more measurable than upper front body and gains more importance in the qualitative experiment than the back. We put the model in the same scale and measured the length of the dresses. The result of the experiment was predicted that the shorter the dress is, the more attractive the picture lead be to the participants.1.2.2 ResultsThe result of the experiment is invariable with the prediction.Among 180 participants, 81 of them chose the shortest dress to be the most attractive one, while only 6 of them chose the long-dated one.Fig. 2.Chapter 2 ColorFig. 3.Fig. 4.Fig. 5.2.1 Colors with sexual implications2.1.1 HeuThe experiment find out that participants p refer women in warm tune than in cold tune. The woman in red dress is considered to be the most attractive women by most participants, nearly 40%.2.1.2 SaturationThe picture of the women who wears the second most pure color dress is favored by most participants, which is 156 out of 180.2.1.3 BrightnessThe differences in brightness did not cause open change in participants answer.2.1.4 DiscussionThe mens favor on warm color can be traced back to the barbarian time when the mickle still lived in the jungle. In the character, very few plants are in warm color, while human body is always in warm color, so warm color is a kind of distinction between human and nature. When a man was searching for a woman in the field, he would subconsciously search for warm color. The favor in red is also explicable. Women use red as a signal to show that their bodies are ready to intercourse. During the flush of sexual interest, the blood capillary of the face, neck and upper chest burst and the blood in it creates the red color the others see. Also, red lip is the sigh of a healthy body condition, another attractive figure to men.The participants favor of the second most saturated color can be explained this way the slight saturate the color is, the less emotional message it coveys. The most saturated color sends out too many emotional message that engenders it aggressive, while the less saturated color is too pale make the women unapproachable. Only the second most saturated color sends out mild message and makes people feel prophylactic and touchable.2.2 Colors that show weak characters2.2.1 HeuNo obvious tendency has been should.2.2.2 SaturationThe third most saturated color picture has been chose to be the weakest photo by 60% participants, and the second most saturated color picture had 30% votes.2.2.3 BrightnessThe brightest color has been chose to be the weakest photo by 50% participants, and the least bright color also got 30% votes.2.2.4 DiscussionThe colour in sat uration is highly related to its impact of people. The more saturated the color, the stronger information it sends out, which could be considered as aggressive, confident or willful. This kind of emotional massage, will make the woman dressed in it looks confident and tough, so even she is beautiful, the man that is attracted to her may still worry about potential retaliate and flinch from harassing her.Bright color makes people feel safe and make relaxed, and is more feminine than darker color. In the ancient times, men go out to execute food, everything they saw are in dark and dirty color. Only afterward they come back to the cave, they can see bright color much(prenominal) as women and babies. As time passes, the bright color was related to safe, relax and effeminate sentiments. Therefore, if a woman is dressed in bright color, she may sends out a message that says she is weak and fragile, so men may tease her.Chapter 3 Dressing style3.1 Loose and tight3.1.1 Background in formationThe tightness experiment is essentially about whether the revealed body plaster bandage is more attractive to men or the covered body shape is more fancy stirring. The shape of the body plays an important role in mate choosing, so the hypothesis of the experiment is that the participants would favor the women in the tight dress instead of the women in the loose dress.3.1.2 ResultsThe result of the experiment is consistent with the prediction.More than 54% participants chose the tightly dressed women to be the more attractive one.Fig. 6.3.2 Uniforms3.2.1 Uniforms that promote mens interestRanking from high to low, the uniforms that promote mens interest are nurse uniform, stewardess uniform, doctor uniform, army uniform, police uniform and then cook uniform.3.2.2 Uniforms that decrease mens interestRanking from high to low, the uniforms that decrease mens interest are army uniform, police uniform, cook uniform, doctor uniform, nurse uniform and then stewardess uniform.Fig. 7.3.2.3 Discussion of the reason of the uniform phenomenonTo give way the experiment data as a whole, we can see that the traditional female patronage uniforms are much more welcomed than the male job uniforms. This phenomenon can be explained in the observational learning theory. A man living in the society will be able to see things every day this step is called observation. Then, he will refer his observation result with definitions he already knew, so the symbol and the concept are related in this way. This step is called study. When a man sees a police uniform or a army uniform, the person wearing it is always a man, so this observational study experience make him connect these uniforms with the concept of men. This kind of observational study experiences occur repeatedly and strengthen the connection. So when this man sees a police uniform, it is normal that he is not attracted because he subconsciously related them to his same sex. Participants favor on the traditional fem ale job uniforms can also be explained in this theory by in opposite direction.To analyze the data more specifically, we can see the least attractive uniform, the cook uniform, is not the most frustrating uniform. Instead, it is the third frustrating uniform. The reason may be that the cook uniform is too loose and hide the womans body, so the participants cannot see how attractive the woman really is, so the uniform is the least attractive one. However, as cook is a work that does not endure very specific gender definition, men also did not find it very frustrating. On the contrary, the army uniform, especially the female version, revealed the womans body shape, so many participants found her beautiful, but as it is also related to male concept, it is still the most frustrating uniform harmonise to the experiment.ConclusionThis paper has discussed the relationship between the women clothing and the emotional response that men feedback.This study set an experiment to find out how different aspects including exposed skin, color, and style of women clothing can effect young adult mens emotion, then analyzed the experiment result in psychological and social sectors.The study introduced a new method of experiment in this topic, and then showed the data in diagram. The discussing part analyzed the result both generally and specifically. The study dug deep into human nature to disclose the hidden features that affect mens mentalities.The study showed that human nature decided that men are more interested in breast, long, exposed legs and warm color. The research in psychology showed how the three measurements of color, heu, brightness and saturation can affect a womans hex and show different personality. The observational study theory in social psychology area explains how mens tastes on uniforms are organise in a certain society.The study confirmed that the womens clothing can be the cause of mens sexual arousal, and may also be negative stimulus to mens moral sense. These findings provide a base for further research on relationship between scantily cladding and sexual harassment.The study has some obvious limitations. Only 180 participants are concluded in the experiment, which make the sample not strong enough. 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