Forscher fanden heraus, dass ein erhöhter Testosteronspiegel dazu führt, dass Männer konservativ gekleidete Frauen entmenschlichen, selbst wenn keine Hinweise auf Sexualisierung vorliegen. Dieser Befund verdeutlicht, wie physiologische Veränderungen, wie beispielsweise ein erhöhter Testosteronspiegel, die Art und Weise verändern können, wie Männer Frauen wahrnehmen.

I’ve linked to the news release in the post above. In this comment, for those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030645302400218X

From the linked article:

A recent study published in Psychoneuroendocrinology offers new insights into how testosterone influences men’s perceptions of women. While sexualized women are often dehumanized based on their appearance, the researchers discovered that elevated testosterone levels also lead men to dehumanize women dressed conservatively, even in the absence of sexualization cues. This finding highlights how physiological changes, such as increased testosterone, can alter the way men perceive women.

Dehumanization is a harmful process where individuals are stripped of qualities that make them uniquely human, such as emotions and moral capacity. Research has shown that sexualization plays a significant role in how people perceive women. Both men and women are more likely to dehumanize women who are sexualized by wearing revealing clothing.

The researchers found that testosterone had a specific effect on emotion-based dehumanization. Men who took testosterone attributed fewer uniquely human emotions to the conservatively dressed woman compared to men who took the placebo. In other words, testosterone increased emotion-based dehumanization toward the conservatively dressed woman by reducing the extent to which men believed she could experience human-specific emotions, like hope and remorse.

Interestingly, the results for the sexualized woman were different. Men dehumanized the woman in the sexualized video regardless of whether they had received testosterone or the placebo. This suggests that the mere presence of sexualization cues was enough to trigger dehumanization in both conditions, and that testosterone did not exacerbate this effect.