The role of face typicality in face recognition is well established, but it is unclear whether
face typicality is important for face evaluation. Prior studies have focused mainly on …

This engaging introduction to Japan's burgeoning beauty culture investigates a wide range
of phenomenon--aesthetic salons, dieting products, male beauty activities, and beauty …

Purpose–This study seeks to investigate the relationship among attractiveness of female
athlete endorsers, product/service match‐up, and consumers' purchase intention within the …

Attractiveness and beauty have been found to be the most important factors in prompting
relationships and interactions, and for making social judgments. Standards of beauty in …

We examined the individual and combined effects of contrast, sharpness, and grain
degradations on the aesthetic judgments of photographs depicting natural and human-made …

Three studies investigated the effects of extreme context stimuli and categorization on
hedonic contrast by having subjects judge the attractiveness of faces. Experiment 1 …

Culture appears to affect body image in general and body esteem in particular, yet do
cultural differences in these constructs concern with factorial structure or merely the …

Self-evaluation is affected by facial attractiveness, particularly in females, and may be
related to self-esteem. Self-face evaluation is relative to the attractiveness of others …

Body dissatisfaction was studied in college men from a central university in Hong Kong (n=
109) and a mid-Atlantic university in the US (n= 114). Hong Kong men had lower global …

This study examined the relationship of body esteem, weight satisfaction, self esteem, and
depression among 309 (186 females and 123 males) Chinese university students in Hong …