Category: Appearance Management

Cacophobia: the fear of ugliness

Cavico, F. J., Muffler, S. C., & Mujtaba, B. G. (2012). Appearance Discrimination, Lookism And Lookphobia In The Workplace. Journal of Applied Business Research.

Martin‐Seaver, M. (2023). Personal beauty and personal agency. Philosophy Compass.

Mason, A. (2021). What’s wrong with everyday lookism? Politics, Philosophy & Economics.

Mason, A. (2023). What’s wrong with lookism? Personal appearance, discrimination, and disadvantage. Oxford University Press.

Minerva, F. (2017). The invisible discrimination before our eyes: A bioethical analysis. Bioethics.

Spiegel, T. J. (2023). Lookism as epistemic injustice. Social Epistemology.

Takáč, P. (2020). Current issues in aesthetics and beyond: revisiting lookism. Ethics & Bioethics.

Zylbersztejn, A., Babutsidze, Z., Hanaki, N., & Hopfensitz, A. (2024). How beautiful people see the world: Cooperativeness judgments of and by beautiful people. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

Body Prism

Brand, B. (2023). Body prism: An exploration of aesthetic embodied ageing [In preparation, doctoral dissertation]. University of Kent.

Jablonski N. (2021). The evolution of human skin pigmentation involved the interactions of genetic, environmental, and cultural variables. Pigment Cell Melanoma Research.

Jablonski, N. (2020). Skin color and race. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

Jablonski, N. (2017). The anthropology of skin colors: An examination of the evolution of skin pigmentation and the concepts of race and skin of color. In N. Vashi & H. Maibach (Eds.). Dermatoanthropology of ethnic skin and hair, (pp. 1-11).

Jablonski, N. and Chaplin, G. (2017). The colours of humanity: the evolution of pigmentation in the human lineage. Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Body memory constructed…

Bahrick, L. E. (2013). Body perception: Intersensory origins of self and other perception in newborns. Current Biology, 23(23), R1039-R1041.

Damasio, A. R. (1999). The feeling of what happens: Body and emotion in the making of consciousness.

Koch, S. C., Müller, C., Summa, M., & Fuchs, T. (2012). Body memory, metaphor and movement. Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement.

Merleau-Ponty, M. (1945/2012). Phenomenology of perception.

Riva, G. (2018). The neuroscience of body memory: From the self through the space to the others. Cortex, 104, 241-260.

Sexuality + physical attractiveness…

Avalos, L., Tylka, T. L., & Wood-Barcalow, N. (2005). The body appreciation scale: Development and psychometric evaluation. Body image, 2(3), 285-297.

Cash, T. F. (2012). Encyclopedia of body image and human appearance. Academic Press..

Grogan, S. (2021). Body image: Understanding body dissatisfaction in men, women and children. Routledge.

Quittkat, H. L., Hartmann, A. S., Düsing, R., Buhlmann, U., & Vocks, S. (2019). Body dissatisfaction, importance of appearance, and body appreciation in men and women over the lifespan. Frontiers in psychiatry, 10, 864.

Vossbeck-Elsebusch, A. N., Waldorf, M., Legenbauer, T., Bauer, A., Cordes, M., & Vocks, S. (2014). German version of the Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionnaire–Appearance Scales (MBSRQ-AS): confirmatory factor analysis and validation. Body image, 11(3), 191-200.

Views on Ageing…

Brothers, A. F., & Diehl, M. (2017). Feasibility and efficacy of the AgingPlus program: Changing views on aging to increase engagement in physical activity. Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, 25, 402-411.

Stephan, Y., Sutin, A. R., & Terracciano, A. (2018). Subjective Age and Mortality in Three Longitudinal Samples. Psychosomatic medicine, 80(7), 659–664. https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000000613.

Wurm, S., Diehl, M., Kornadt, A. E., Westerhof, G. J., & Wahl, H. W. (2017). How do views on aging affect health outcomes in adulthood and late life? Explanations for an established connection. Developmental Review, 46, 27-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2017.08.002.

Childhood Bullying…

Armitage, R. (2021). Bullying in children: Impact on child health. BMJ paediatrics open, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1136%2Fbmjpo-2020-000939.

Cash, T. F. (2012). Encyclopedia of body image and human appearance. Academic Press.

World Health Organization. Social determinants of health and well-being among young people, health behaviour in school-aged children (HBSC) study: international report from the 2009/2010 survey. health policy for children and adolescents, no. 6, 2012. Available: https://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/163857/Social-determinants-of-health-and-well-being-among-young-people.pdf

Embodiment is biocultural…

Atkinson, M. (2010). Norbert Elias and the body. In B. S. Turner (Ed.), The Routledge handbook  of body studies (pp. 49-61). Routledge.

Bonini, L., Rotunno, C., Acuri, E., & Gallese, V. (2022). Mirror neurons 30 years later: Implications & applications. Trends in Cognitive Science, 26(9), 767-781. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.06.003

Davis, L. J. & Morris, D. (2013). The biocultures manifesto. In L. J. Davis, The end of normal: Identity in a biocultural era (pp. 121-127). (Reprinted from “Biocultures manifesto”, 2007, New Literary History, 38(3), 411-418. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20058015

Pitt-Taylor, V. (2010). Social brains and embodiment. In B. S. Turner (Ed.), The Routledge handbook  of body studies (pp. 171-182). Routledge.