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View article: Pilot trial assessing acceptability, feasibility, and preliminary effects of a body image intervention for adolescents in rural Nicaragua
Pilot trial assessing acceptability, feasibility, and preliminary effects of a body image intervention for adolescents in rural Nicaragua Open
School-based interventions to promote body esteem and media literacy are a cost-effective way to improve body image and foster resilience against appearance pressures across diverse socio-economic contexts. We developed a culturally adapte…
View article: The Impact of Maternal Experience of Gender Roles on Children's Socio‐Emotional Development in Uganda: A Qualitative Study
The Impact of Maternal Experience of Gender Roles on Children's Socio‐Emotional Development in Uganda: A Qualitative Study Open
Cultural learning environments and gender roles play a key role in shaping children's development, particularly regarding their social and emotional skills. However, most work on this topic relies on methods that overlook lived experiences…
View article: Risk factors for eating disorder symptoms at 15 years of age: a 9-year longitudinal cohort study
Risk factors for eating disorder symptoms at 15 years of age: a 9-year longitudinal cohort study Open
Eating disorders (EDs) are typically diagnosed in the later stages of puberty, but risk factors for EDs are present in pre-pubertal children. This longitudinal, population-based birth cohort study aimed to examine prospective predictors of…
View article: Body size aftereffects are adult-like from 7 years onward
Body size aftereffects are adult-like from 7 years onward Open
There is considerable evidence that adults' perception of body weight in others can be manipulated via visual exposure to multiple bodies at one or another weight extreme. No study has yet examined how early in childhood such visual adapta…
View article: A systematic review of the association between women’s morphological traits and fertility
A systematic review of the association between women’s morphological traits and fertility Open
Typically feminine morphological traits in women include a neotenous facial structure with large eyes, full lips, and an oval face shape, and a curvaceous body with large breasts, a narrow waist, and full hips and buttocks. Compared to men…
View article: ‘’Thank God we are like this here’’: A qualitative investigation of televisual media influence on women’s body image in an ethnically diverse rural Nicaraguan population
‘’Thank God we are like this here’’: A qualitative investigation of televisual media influence on women’s body image in an ethnically diverse rural Nicaraguan population Open
Abundant published literature evidences the harmful effects of appearance-idealized media imagery on women's body image in predominantly Western populations. Most countries in Latin America (LA) have received little empirical attention. Th…
View article: Relationships between media influence, body image and sociocultural appearance ideals in Latin America: A systematic literature review
Relationships between media influence, body image and sociocultural appearance ideals in Latin America: A systematic literature review Open
The rapidly growing body of research investigating media influence on body image in Latin America has not been previously comprehensively synthesised. We systematically reviewed studies of the relationships between media use/influence, bod…
View article: Examining body appreciation in six countries: The impact of age and sociocultural pressure
Examining body appreciation in six countries: The impact of age and sociocultural pressure Open
Previous research on body appreciation across the lifespan has produced conflicting results that it increases with age, decreases with age, or is generally stable with an increase in women over 50-years-old. Furthermore, most of the resear…
View article: Cultural Predictors of Facial Ethnicity Preference in the Miskitu and Mestizos of Rural Nicaragua
Cultural Predictors of Facial Ethnicity Preference in the Miskitu and Mestizos of Rural Nicaragua Open
Both basic visual experience and cultural associations with race and ethnicity may contribute to the extent observers do or do not favor some facial ethnicity cues over others. Given that visual media contain a highly biased selection of f…
View article: Validation of a Latin-American Spanish version of the Body Esteem Scale for Adolescents and Adults (BESAA-LA) in Colombian and Nicaraguan adults
Validation of a Latin-American Spanish version of the Body Esteem Scale for Adolescents and Adults (BESAA-LA) in Colombian and Nicaraguan adults Open
Background Body dissatisfaction (BD) is a growing concern in Latin America; reliable and culturally appropriate scales are necessary to support body image research in Spanish speaking Latin American countries. We sought to validate a Latin…
View article: Validation of a Latin American Spanish version of the Body Esteem Scale for Adolescents and Adults (BESAA-LA) in Colombian and Nicaraguan adults
Validation of a Latin American Spanish version of the Body Esteem Scale for Adolescents and Adults (BESAA-LA) in Colombian and Nicaraguan adults Open
Background Body dissatisfaction (BD) is a growing concern in Latin America; reliable and culturally appropriate scales are vital to promote body image research in Spanish speaking Latin American countries. We validated a Latin American Spa…
View article: Agent-based models of the cultural evolution of occupational gender roles
Agent-based models of the cultural evolution of occupational gender roles Open
The causes of sex differences in human behaviour are contested, with ‘evolutionary’ and ‘social’ explanations often being pitted against each other in the literature. Recent work showing positive correlations between indices of gender equa…
View article: Model output visualisation from Agent-based models of the cultural evolution of occupational gender roles
Model output visualisation from Agent-based models of the cultural evolution of occupational gender roles Open
Output of visualisation and analysis code
View article: Model output visualisation code from Agent-based models of the cultural evolution of occupational gender roles
Model output visualisation code from Agent-based models of the cultural evolution of occupational gender roles Open
The causes of sex differences in human behaviour are contested, with ‘evolutionary’ and ‘social’ explanations often being pitted against each other in the literature. Recent work showing positive correlations between indices of gender equa…
View article: Model segregation output from Agent-based models of the cultural evolution of occupational gender roles
Model segregation output from Agent-based models of the cultural evolution of occupational gender roles Open
The causes of sex differences in human behaviour are contested, with ‘evolutionary’ and ‘social’ explanations often being pitted against each other in the literature. Recent work showing positive correlations between indices of gender equa…
View article: Sociocultural drivers of body image and eating disorder risk in rural Nicaraguan women
Sociocultural drivers of body image and eating disorder risk in rural Nicaraguan women Open
Objective Technological and economic globalisation has been suggested as a cause of increasing rates of body dissatisfaction and eating disorders globally, especially as regards the impact of mass media on internalised body ideals. This pr…
View article: Do women’s morphological traits predict reproductive outcomes? A systematic review
Do women’s morphological traits predict reproductive outcomes? A systematic review Open
Sexually dimorphic – or feminine – traits in women include a neotenous facial structure with large eyes, full lips, and an oval face shape, and a curvaceous body with relatively large breasts, a narrow waist, and full hips and buttocks. Co…
View article: (Super-)cultural clustering explains gender differences too.
(Super-)cultural clustering explains gender differences too. Open
The target paper shows how cultural adaptations to ecological problems can underpin ‘paradoxical’ patterns of phenotypic variation. We argue: 1) Gendered social learning is a cultural adaptation to an ecological problem. 2) In evolutionari…
View article: (Super-)cultural clustering explains gender differences too
(Super-)cultural clustering explains gender differences too Open
The target paper shows how cultural adaptations to ecological problems can underpin “paradoxical” patterns of phenotypic variation. We argue: (1) Gendered social learning is a cultural adaptation to an ecological problem. (2) In evolutiona…
View article: Additional file 1 of Sociocultural drivers of body image and eating disorder risk in rural Nicaraguan women
Additional file 1 of Sociocultural drivers of body image and eating disorder risk in rural Nicaraguan women Open
Additional file 1: Full analysis output.
View article: Editorial: Experimental Approaches to Body Image, Representation and Perception
Editorial: Experimental Approaches to Body Image, Representation and Perception Open
EDITORIAL article Front. Psychol., 07 December 2021Sec. Eating Behavior https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.809385
View article: Callous-Unemotional Traits are Associated With Child-to-Parent Aggression
Callous-Unemotional Traits are Associated With Child-to-Parent Aggression Open
This study examined the relations between callous-unemotional traits and perpetration of aggression toward parents in two separate studies, while also considering motivation for aggression and parenting styles experienced among young peopl…
View article: Testing Mate Choice Hypotheses in a Transitional Small Scale Population
Testing Mate Choice Hypotheses in a Transitional Small Scale Population Open
View article: Experimental manipulation of muscularity preferences through visual diet and associative learning
Experimental manipulation of muscularity preferences through visual diet and associative learning Open
Body preferences are somewhat flexible and this variability may be the result of one’s visual diet (whereby mere exposure to certain bodies shifts preferences), associative learning mechanisms (whereby cues to health and status within the …
View article: Author response: A meta-analysis of the association between male dimorphism and fitness outcomes in humans
Author response: A meta-analysis of the association between male dimorphism and fitness outcomes in humans Open
Article Figures and data Abstract Editor's evaluation eLife digest Introduction Materials and methods Results Discussion Data availability References Decision letter Author response Article and author information Metrics Abstract Humans ar…
View article: Can realistic dolls protect body satisfaction in young girls?
Can realistic dolls protect body satisfaction in young girls? Open
Ultra-thin fashion dolls may represent a risk factor for thin-ideal internalisation and body dissatisfaction amongst young girls. We asked thirty one 5- to 9-year-old girls to engage in interactive play with commercially available dolls wh…
View article: Testing Mate Choice Hypotheses in a Transitional Small Scale Population
Testing Mate Choice Hypotheses in a Transitional Small Scale Population Open
Objective: Tests of theories of mate choice often rely on data gathered in White, industrialised samples and this is especially the case for studies of facial attraction. Our understanding of preferences for sexual dimorphism is currently …
View article: Influence of exposure to high muscularity bodies on muscularity preferences and body satisfaction in young men.
Influence of exposure to high muscularity bodies on muscularity preferences and body satisfaction in young men. Open
The visual diet hypothesis suggests that exposure to a certain body type increases our preference for that type of body, and exposure to ideal bodies is proposed to lead to body dissatisfaction. Here we examined the effect of exposure to h…
View article: Corrigendum: The Impact of a Dissonance-Based Eating Disorders Intervention on Implicit Attitudes to Thinness in Women of Diverse Sexual Orientations
Corrigendum: The Impact of a Dissonance-Based Eating Disorders Intervention on Implicit Attitudes to Thinness in Women of Diverse Sexual Orientations Open
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02611.].
View article: Experimental Manipulation of Muscularity Preferences Through Visual Diet and Associative Learning
Experimental Manipulation of Muscularity Preferences Through Visual Diet and Associative Learning Open
Body preferences are somewhat flexible and this variability may be the result of one’s visual diet (whereby mere exposure to certain bodies shifts preferences), associative learning mechanisms (whereby cues to health and status within the …