Category: Embodiment

Attractiveness research + white gaze

De La Garza, H., & Vashi, N. A. (2024). The Concept of Beauty and Its Evolutionary Basis. In Critical Thinking in Contemporary Dermatology: Cognitive Essays.

Feingold, A. (1992). Good-looking people are not what we think. Psychological bulletin.

Kang, J. M. (1996). Deconstructing the ideology of white aesthetics. Michigan Journal of Race and Law.

Langlois, J. H., Kalakanis, L., Rubenstein, A. J., Larson, A., Hallam, M., & Smoot, M. (2000). Maxims or myths of beauty? A meta-analytic and theoretical review. Psychological bulletin.

Maddox, K. B. (2004). Perspectives on racial phenotypicality bias. Personality and Social Psychology Review.

Saad, A., Hewett, S., Nolte, M., Delaunay, F., Saad, M., & Cohen, S. R. (2018). Ethnic rhinoplasty in female patients: the neoclassical canons revisited. Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.

Donyale Luna

Cazzangia, D. (2023). Donyale Luna changed the face of fashion in the ’60s. Now, the revolutionary Black model is finally getting her due. British Vogue online.

Jefferson, N. (Director). (2023). Donyale Luna: Supermodel [documentary]. HBO.

Collins, C. (2023). Donyale Luna, the trailblazing Black supermodel gets her due. W magazine online.

Wikipedia contributors. (2024, October 13). Donyale Luna. Wikipedia.

Hypodescent

Dovidio, J. F., Gaertner, S. L., & Pearson, A. R. (2017). Aversive Racism and Contemporary Bias.

Ho, A. K., Sidanius, J., Levin, D. T., & Banaji, M. R. (2011). Evidence for hypodescent and racial hierarchy in the categorization and perception of biracial individuals. Journal of personality and social psychology, 100(3), 492.

Pauker, K., Meyers, C., Sanchez, D. T., Gaither, S. E., & Young, D. M. (2018). A review of multiracial malleability: Identity, categorization, and shifting racial attitudes. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 12(6), e12392.

Rajan-Rankin, S. (2018). Race, embodiment, and later life: Re-animating aging bodies of color. Journal of Aging Studies, 45, 32–38.

Veenstra, G. (2011). Mismatched racial identities, colourism, and health in Toronto and Vancouver. Social Science & Medicine, 73(8), 1152–1162.

Vince, R. (2024). After Objectification: Locating Harm. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 41(3), 442-462.

Young, D. M., Sanchez, D. T., Pauker, K., & Gaither, S. E. (2021). A meta-analytic review of hypodescent patterns in categorizing multiracial and racially ambiguous targets. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47(5), 705–727.

Facial features + trait stereotyping

Blair, I. V., Judd, C. M., Sadler, M. S., & Jenkins, C. (2002). The role of Afrocentric features in person perception: judging by features and categories. Journal of personality and social psychology, 83(1), 5

Dion, K., Berscheid, E., & Walster, E. (1972). What is beautiful is good. Journal of personality and social psychology, 24(3), 285.

Jablonski, N. G. (2021). Skin color and race. American journal of physical anthropology, 175(2), 437-447.

Maddox, K. B., & Gray, S. A. (2002). Cognitive representations of Black Americans: Reexploring the role of skin tone. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28(2), 250-259.

Zebrowitz, L. A., & Collins, M. A. (1997). Accurate social perception at zero acquaintance: The affordances of a Gibsonian approach. Personality and social psychology review, 1(3), 204-223.

Beauty Mystique

Langlois, J. H. (1986; 2022). From the eye of the beholder to behavioral reality: Development of social behaviors and social relations as a function of physical attractiveness.

Langlois, J. H., Kalakanis, L., Rubenstein, A. J., Larson, A., Hallam, M., & Smoot, M. (2000). Maxims or myths of beauty? A meta-analytic and theoretical review. 

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

Snyder, M., Berscheid, E., & Glick, P. (1985). Focusing on the exterior and the interior: Two investigations of the initiation of personal relationships.

Snyder, M., Tanke, E. D., & Berscheid, E. (1977). Social perception and interpersonal behavior: On the self-fulfilling nature of social stereotypes. 

Violi, P. (2003). Embodiment at the crossroads between cognition and semiosis.

Socialisation + social expectancy

Cash, T. F. (1990). Losing hair, losing points?: The effects of male pattern baldness on social impression formation.

Herman, C. P., Zanna, M. P. & Higgins, E. T. (Eds.) (2022). Physical appearance, stigma, and social behavior. Psychology Press.

St. Bernard, J. and Gallagher, S. (2023). Race and the implicit aspects of embodied social interaction. In J. R. Thompson, The Routledge handbook of philosophy and implicit cognition (pp. 313-323). Routledge.

Synder, M. (2015). On the perpetuating nature of social stereotypes. In D. L. Hamilton (Ed.) Cognitive processes in stereotyping and intergroup behavior (pp. 183-212). Psychology Press.

Snyder, M., Tanke, E. D., & Berscheid, E. (1977). Social perception and interpersonal behavior: On the self-fulfilling nature of social stereotypes.

Ideal White aesthetic as…

Bowen, T. M. (2021). Toward a new classics: A de-and reconstruction of the Classics in the classroom and beyond.

Guédron, M. (2009). Nature, ideal and caricature. The perception of physical types among the first anthropologists. 

Hodne, L. (2020). Winckelmann’s Apollo and the physionomy of race.

Jones, J. (2019). Roman Statues Weren’t White; They Were Once Painted in Vivid, Bright Colors. Open Culture.

Painter, N. I. (2010). The history of White people. WW Norton & Company.

Pharos: Doing justice to the Classics.

Potts, A. (1994). Flesh and the ideal: Winckelmann and the origins of art history. Yale University Press.

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.

The philosophy of Aesthetics…

Berleant, A. (2015). Aesthetic sensibility. Ambiance: International journal of sensory environment, architecture and urban space.

Eco, U. (2007). On ugliness.

Leddy, T. (2012). The extraordinary in the ordinary: The aesthetics of everyday life. Broadview Press.

Light, A., & Smith, J. (Eds.). (2005). The aesthetics of everyday life. Columbia University Press.

Mandoki, K. (2007). Everyday aesthetics: Prosaics, the play of culture and social identities. Aldershot and Burlington.

Mandoki, K. (2015). The indispensable excess of the aesthetic: Evolution of sensibility in nature. Lexington Books.

Shusterman, R. (2012). Thinking through the body: Essays in somaesthetics. Cambridge University Press.