ABSTRACT

Objectification occurs when people are seen and treated similarly to things. Research on this topic has been dominated by an interest in the content of impressions people form of targets, but much less is known about the processes involved in the objectification of others. To fill this gap, this paper reviews a recent line of research that investigates the cognitive objectification of others (i.e., the processes – early visual processing, attention and memory – through which a person is no longer perceived as a global physical entity, thereby reduced to its parts akin to objects). We consider research that examined when and why this cognitive objectification occurs using methods borrowed from cognitive psychology and neuroscience. In doing so, we provide information for the sequential ordering of cognitive objectification processes that may occur during person perception. We finally propose a novel process-oriented model aimed at understanding the antecedents and outcomes of cognitive objectification.

摘要

当人们看到和对待事物与事物相似时，就会发生客观化。对这一主题的研究主要是对人们对目标形式的印象内容的兴趣，但是对涉及其他对象的客观化过程所知甚少。为了填补这一空白，本文回顾了最近的一项研究，该研究调查了其他人的认知客体化（即过程-早期视觉处理，注意力和记忆力-通过这些过程，人们不再被视为一个全局的物理实体，从而减少了一个人）其部分类似于对象）。我们考虑使用从认知心理学和神经科学借来的方法检查何时以及为什么发生这种认知客观化的研究。在这样做，我们提供了可能在人的感知过程中发生的认知客观化过程的顺序信息。最后，我们提出了一种新颖的面向过程的模型，旨在了解认知对象化的前提和结果。