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Frederickson et al. (1998) administered a math test to modestly/immodestly-dressed male/female university students. The immodestly-dressed males performed slightly better than the modestly-dressed males, but the modestly-dressed females performed significantly better than the immodestly-dressed females.
A later study (Hebl, King, & Lin 2004), however, applied a similar treatment to a larger sample of university males. Their results favored the modestly-dressed subjects.
The experimenters attributed these differences to a feeling of self-consciousness which they called "self-objectification."
Not to be a bad sport, I admit that my suggestion would not work if instituted for the first time on the university level.
That is understandable, because those students had twenty years to learn that nudity is shameful and sinful.
I can only pity those poor, oppressed students who were deprived of an early start. More than anything else, they needed proud and loving mommies who would send their boys to school naked beginning in kindergarten and elementary school.
A kindergarten class with 10 happy, well-dressed girls and 10 happy, naked boys will be a class with 20 happy kindergarten children.
Keep it up throughout the years of maturation, and a university class with 10 happy, well-dressed girls and 10 happy, naked boys will be a class with 20 happy university students.
Fredrickson, B. L.; Roberts, T-A.; Noll, S/ M.; Quinn, D. M.; & Twenge, J. M. 1998. That swimsuit becomes you: Sex differences in self-objectification, restrained, eating, and math performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 75, 1: 269-284.
Hebl, M. R.; King, E. B.; & Lin, J. 2004. The swimsuit becomes us all: Ethnicity, gender, and vulnerability to self-objectification. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 30: 1322-1331.
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