Category: Appearance Management

Our physical body is crucial…

Cash, T. F. (2005). The influence of sociocultural factors on body image: Searching for constructs, Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, Vol 12(4), 438-442. 

Cash, T. F. (Ed.)(2012). Encyclopedia of body image and human appearance (Vol. 1, A-F). Elsevier.

MacLachlan, M. (2004). Embodiment: clinical, critical and cultural perspective on health and illness. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

MacLachlan, M., Mháille, G.N., Gallagher, P., Desmond, D. (2012). Embodiment and appearance (chapter 3). In N. Rumsey, & D. Harcourt (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Psychology of Appearance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old people = reflection of future self

Chonody, J. M., & Teater, B. (2016). Why do I dread looking older?: a test of social identity theory, terror management, and the double standard of aging. Journal of Women & Aging, 28(2), 112-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/08952841.2014.950533

Greenberg, J., Schimel, J., & Martens, A. (2002). Ageism: denying the face of the future. In T. D. Nelson (Ed.), Ageism: stereotyping and prejudice against older persons (pp. 27-48). The MIT Press.

Martens, A., Greenberg, J., Schimel, J., & Landeau, M. J. (2004). Ageism and death: effects of mortality salience and perceived similarity to elders on reactions to elderly people. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30(12), 1524-1536. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0146167204271185.

Martens, A., Goldenberg, J. L., & Greenberg, J. (2005). A terror management perspective on ageism. Journal of Social Issues, 61(2), 223-239. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4560.2005.00403.x.

Wiseman, A., Heflick, N., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2015). The great escape: the role of self-esteem and self-regulation cognition in terror management. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 60, 121-132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2015.05.006.

To attain symbolic or literal immortality…

Chonody, J. M., & Teater, B. (2016). Why do I dread looking old?: A test of social identity theory, terror management theory, and the double standard of ageing. Journal of Women & Aging, 28(2). https://doi.org/10.1080/08952841.2014.950533

Goldenberg, J. L., Pyszcynski, T., Greenberg, J., & Sheldon, S. (2004). Fleeing the body: A terror management perspective on the problem of human corporeality. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 4(3), 200-218. https://doi.org/10.1207%2FS15327957PSPR0403_1

Muise, A., & Desmarais, S. (2010). Women’s Perceptions and Use of “Anti-Aging” Products. Sex Roles, 63, 126-137. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-010-9791-5

Pyszcynski, T., Solomon, S., & Greenberg, J. (2015). Chapter one – Thirty years of terror management theory: From genesis to revelation. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 52,1-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aesp.2015.03.001

As individuals grow up…

Donizzetti, A., R. (2019). Ageism in an ageing society: The role of knowledge, anxiety about aging, and stereotypes in young people and adults. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(8), 1329. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16081329.

Levy, B. R. (2003). Mind matters: Cognitive and physical effects of aging self-stereotypes, Journal of Gerontology, 58B(4). https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/58.4.P203.

Levy, B. R. (2009). Stereotype embodiment: A psychosocial approach to aging, Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18, 332-336. https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1467-8721.2009.01662.x.

Stereotype embodiment theory…

Donizzetti, A., R. (2019). Ageism in an ageing society: The role of knowledge, anxiety about aging, and stereotypes in young people and adults. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(8), 1329. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph1608132.

Krauss Whitborne, S., & Sneed, J. R. (2004). The paradox of well-being, identity processes, and stereotype threat: Ageism and its potential relationship to the self in later life (chapter 8). In T. D. Nelson (Ed), Ageism: Stereotyping and prejudice against older persons (pp. 247-273). MIT Press.

Levy, B. (2009). Stereotype Embodiment: A psychosocial approach to aging. Current Directions in Psychological Science., 18(6), 322-36. https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1467-8721.2009.01662.x

The normalised gaze…

Gendron, T. L., & Lydecker, J. (2016). The thin-youth ideal: Should we talk about aging anxiety in relation to body image? The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 82(4), 255-270. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0091415016641693.

MacLachlan, M., Mháille, G.N., Gallagher, P., Desmond, D. (2012). Embodiment and appearance (chapter 3). In N. Rumsey, & D. Harcourt (Eds.). The Oxford Handbook of the Psychology of Appearance (pp. 23-35). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Schaefer, L.M, Burke, N.L., Thompson, J.K., Dedrick, R.F., Heinberg, L.J., Calogero, R.M., Bardone-Cone, A.M., Higgins, M.K., Fredrick, D.A., Kelly, M., Anderson, D.A., Schaumberg, K., Nerini, A., Stefanile, C., Dittmar, H., Clark, E., Adams, Z., Macwana, S., Klump, K.L., Vercellone, C., Paxton, S.J., Swami, V. (2015). Development and validation of the sociocultural attitudes towards appearance questionnaire-4 (SATAQ-4). American Psychological Association, 27(1), 54-67. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/a0037917.

Aesthetic objectification = othering…

Frith, H. (2012). Appearance and Society (Chapter 2). In N. Rumsey and D. Harcourt (Eds.): The Oxford handbook of the psychology of appearance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Platt, L., F., & Lenzen, A., L. (2013). Sexual orientation microaggressions and the experience of sexual minorities. Journal of Homosexuality, 60(7), 1011-34. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2013.774878.

Skeggs, B. (2005). Exchange, value and affect: Bourdieu and ‘the self’. Sociological Review, 52(2), 75-95. https://doi-org.arts.idm.oclc.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2005.00525.x.

Skeggs, B. (2005). The Making of Class and Gender through Visualizing Moral Subject Formation. Sociology, 39(5), 965-82. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0038038505058381.

Raisborough, J., & Adams, M. (2008). Mockery and morality in popular cultural representations of the white, working class. Sociological Research Online, 13(6), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.5153%2Fsro.1814.

Valentine, J. (1998). Naming the other: power, politeness and the inflation of euphemisms. Sociological Research Online, 3(4). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.5153/sro.184.

Appearance comparisons…

Frith, H. (2012). Appearance and Society (Chapter 2). In N. Rumsey and D. Harcourt (Eds.): The Oxford handbook of the psychology of appearance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Goffman, E. (1990). Stigma: notes on the management of spoiled identity. Penguin Group. (Original work published 1963).

Thompson, A.R. (2012). Researching Appearance: Models, theories, and frameworks (chapter 9). In N. Rumsey, & D. Harcourt (Eds.). The Oxford Handbook of the Psychology of Appearance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Veale, D. (2004). Advances in a cognitive behavioural model of body dysmorphic disorder. Body Image, 1, 113-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1740-1445(03)00009-3.