
The Body Beautiful
Evolutionary and Sociocultural Perspectives
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 30. November 2007
Book
Hardback
XVII, 316 pages
978-0-230-52186-5 (ISBN)
Description
In this volume, contributors from a range of perspectives - evolutionary psychology to anthropology, sociology to cognitive and motivational psychology - explore questions of what our attractiveness preferences are and why we find certain others physically attractive, offering a fresh perspective to understanding the perception of attractiveness.
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Edition
2007
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
11 s/w Abbildungen
XVII, 316 p. 11 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-52186-5 (9780230521865)
DOI
10.1057/9780230596887
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Persons
FARID UDDIN AHAMED Professor and Chair at the Department of Anthropology, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh
MELISSA BATESON Royal Society University Research Fellow at the Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, Newcastle University, UK
GILLIAN R BENTLEY Professor of Anthropology, Durham University, UK
MICHAEL BOROUGHS Faculty Researcher at the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, USA
RACHEL M CAGOLERO currently completing her Ph.D. in social psychology at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
DOROTHY EINON Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University College London, UK
JINTU FAN Professor of Textiles and Clothing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
JEFF GALAK Marketing doctoral candidate at New York University's Stern School of Business, USA
TOM HILDEBRANDT Assistant Professor of Psychiatry of the Eating and Weight Disorders Program, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
KERRI L JOHNSON Social Psychologist in the Department of Psychology, New York University, USA
JANET D LATNER Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Hawaii, USA
KESSON MAGID Ph.D candidate at the Department of Anthroplogy, University College London, UK
DONALD H MCBURNEY Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, USA
SARAH K MURNEN Professor of Psychology, and Women and Gender Studies at Kenyon College
LEIF D NELSON Assistant Professor of Marketing, Stern School of Business, New York University, USA
TERRY F PETTIJOHN II Associate Professor of Psychology, Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
STEPHEN R PROULX Theoretical evolutionary biologist at Iowa State University, USA
ISABEL SCOTT Ph.D candidate in evolutionary psychology at Bristol University, UK
GLENN H SHEPARD Medical anthropologist, University of East Anglia, UK
LINDA SMOLAK Samuel B Cummings Jr. Professor of Psychology and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, USA
SYBIL A STREETER Graduate student in the Department of Psychology , University of Pittsburgh, USA
LOUIS G TASSINARY Professor of Architecture and an adjunct Professor of Psychology, as well as Associate Dean for Research and Director of Graduate Studies, College of Architecture, Texas A&M University, USA
J KEVIN THMPSON Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, USA
MARTIN J TOVEE Reader in visual cognition at the Psychology Department, Newcastle University, UK
DOUGLAS W YU Behavioural and spatial ecologist, University of East Anglia, UK
Content
Part I: INTRODUCTION Mutual and Partaken Bliss: Introducing the Science of Bodily Beauty; V.Swami & A.Furnham Part 2: METHODOLOGICAL CRITIQUES Waist-to-hip Ratios and Female Attractiveness; Comparing Apples, Oranges and Pears; D. McBurney & S.Streeter The Volume-height Index as a Body Attractiveness Index; J.Fan Methodological Issues in Studies in Female Attractiveness; M.Bateson , P.Cornelissen & M.Tovee Part 3: ATTRACTIVENESS RESEARCH ACROSS CULTURES An Evolutionary Perspective on Male Preferences for Female Body Shape; I.Scott , G.Bentley , M.Tovee , F. Uddin Ahamed & K.Magid Masculinity, Culture and the Paradox of the Lek; D.Yu , S.Proulx & G.Shepard Healthy Body Equals Beautiful Body? Changing Perceptions of Health and Attractiveness with Shifting Socioeconomic Status; M.Tovee , A.Furnham & V.Swami Part 4: THEORY DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES The Shaping of Women's Bodies: Men's Choice of Fertility or Heat Stress Avoidance? D.Einon Interpersonal Metaperception: The Importance of Compatibility in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Bodily Cues; K.Johnson & L.Tassinary Mate Preferences in Social Cognitive Context: When Environmental and Personal Change Leads to Predictable Cross-Cultural Variation; L.Nelson , T.Pettijohn & J.Galak Part 5: THEORY DEVELOPMENT: SOCIOCULTURAL PERSEPCTIVES The Roles of Stereotypes and Group Norms on Perceptions of Bodily Attractiveness; T.Hildebrandt & J.Latner Feminism and Body Image; L.Smolak & S.Murnen The Impact of Western Beauty Ideals on the Lives of Women: A Sociocultural Perspective; R.Calogero , M.Boroughs & J.Thompson