ABSTRACT

The paper presents an open usable tool, the ACME shop paradigm, for experimentally studying self-objectification due to objectifying work activities. The paradigm consists of a simulation in which participants are asked to perform an objectifying (repetitive, fragmented, and other directed) vs a non-objectifying work activity. Two studies tested the construct (convergent and discriminant) validity of the paradigm by showing its effectiveness in inducing different facets of working self-objectification – but not other forms of dehumanization – in laboratory and online settings. In the objectifying condition, participants self-objectified more, that is they self-attributed less human mental state and self-perceived as more instrument-like than participants in the non-objectifying and control (an activity characterized by objectifying features but not related to the work domain) conditions. Moreover, the convergent and discriminant validity of the paradigm in inducing self-objectification, and no other type of dehumanization, was demonstrated by the significant impact of objectifying condition on self-attribution of both agency and experience and not on self-perception as animal-like. Applications of the paradigm will be discussed.

摘要

本文提出了一个开放的可用工具，ACME 商店范式，用于实验研究由于对象化工作活动而导致的自我对象化。该范式包括一个模拟，其中要求参与者执行客观化（重复的、碎片化的和其他定向的）与非客观化的工作活动。两项研究通过展示范式在实验室和在线环境中诱导工作自我客观化的不同方面的有效性（而不是其他形式的非人化）来测试范式的构造（收敛和判别）有效性。在客观化条件下，参与者更多地自我客观化，即他们比非客观化和控制（一种以客观化特征为特征但与工作域）条件。此外，范式在诱导自我客观化方面的收敛性和判别有效性，而不是其他类型的非人化，客观化条件对能动性和经验的自我归因的显着影响，而不是像动物一样的自我感知，证明了这一点。将讨论范式的应用。