Download or read book The Effects of Positive and Negative Personality Characteristics on Perceptions of Physical Attractiveness written by Daniel A. Newman and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Physical Attractiveness Phenomena written by Gordon L. Patzer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physical attractiveness phenomena permeate society with somber ramifica tions. Correspondingly, practical applications of physical attractiveness phenomena are extensive. The consequence is that almost every person can benefit from knowledge about research on physical attractiveness. Such research material provides valuable information for persons established in their careers, as well as those preparing for a career. Similarly, parents at all stages of their life cycle should be cognizant of how physical attractiveness impacts the psychological and physiological development of children. Because no one is isolated from physical attractiveness phenomena, knowledge of this material should be imperative for everyone. This book consolidates research that specifically addresses physical attractiveness. The first summary was a classic review presented over 10 years ago (Berscheid & Walster, 1974). Since then the research literature has continued to grow, but no comprehensive review has again been published. Even though research summaries have been presented in a compilation of psychological abstracts (Cash, 1980), and in a discussion of stereotyping literature (Adams, 1982), the study of physical attractiveness phenomena is due for a comprehensive account and an analysis of the extensive, divergent research.

Download or read book The Social Psychology of Attraction and Romantic Relationships written by Madeleine A. Fugère and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are we attracted to some people and not to others? Are first impressions accurate? Why do some romantic relationships succeed while others fail? Are our romantic choices influenced by evolution? In tackling questions like these, The Social Psychology of Attraction and Romantic Relationships reviews the theory and research behind this fascinating area. It combines real-life anecdotes and popular media examples with the latest psychological studies, making it a lively and engaging read. Ideal for students of social psychology and intimate relationships courses, this is a comprehensive introduction to an everyday subject that, on closer investigation, proves to be a dynamic, intriguing, and sometimes surprising area.

Download or read book Effect of Similarity of Positive and Negative Personality Characteristics on Interpersonal Attraction written by Susan Warshaw-Lerner and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Communication Age written by Autumn Edwards and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 943 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are in “the communication age.” No matter who you are or how you communicate, we are all members of a society who connect through the internet, not just to it. From face-to-face interactions to all forms of social media, The Communication Age, Second Edition invites you to join the conversation about today’s issues and make your voice heard. This contemporary and engaging text introduces students to the essentials of interpersonal, small group, and public communication while incorporating technology, media, and speech communication to foster civic engagement for a better future.

Download or read book The Psychology of Attitudes and Attitude Change written by Greg Maio and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009-12-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An outstanding new text. Written in an engaging style it provides an impressive review of both basic and applied work. Classic studies are interwoven with important recent findings to provide a scholarly overview of this exciting area of social psychology' - Professor Mark Conner, University of Leeds 'Maio and Haddock provide an excellent up-to-date summary of the key findings in the field in their very readable new text' - Richard E. Petty, Ohio State University People spontaneously evaluate things. We form opinions on topics such as war and climate change, on other people such as our work colleagues and celebrities, and on behaviours such as sexual activity and waste recycling. At times, these attitudes can be the focus of bitter debate, and as humans we naturally crave to understand attitudes and how to change them. In four sections and 11 chapters, Greg Maio and Geoffrey Haddock describe how scientific methods have been used to better understand attitudes and how they change. The first section looks at what attitudes are and why they are important. The second section examines the ability of attitudes to predict behaviour. From there, the authors consider how attitudes are formed and changed. Finally, they present a variety of major issues for understanding internal (such as, neurological) and external (such as, culture) influences on attitude, along with unresolved questions. With the aid of a few helpful metaphors, the text provides readers with a grasp of the fundamental concepts for understanding attitudes and an appreciation of the scientific challenges that lie ahead. The Psychology of Attitudes and Attitude Change is for students in psychology, health psychology, communication, business and political science. It is a core text for courses in the psychology of attitudes, persuasion, and social influence and a key resource for modules in social cognition and introductory social psychology

Download or read book The Psychology of Attitudes and Attitude Change written by Gregory R. Maio and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2018-10-27 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition explores the scientific methods that are used to better understand attitudes and how they change, updated to reflect the flurry of research activity in this dynamic subject over the past few years. Providing the fundamental concepts for understanding attitudes, with a balanced consideration of all approaches, the book pulls together many diverse threads from research across the world. Key features: Research highlights illustrate interesting and important case studies and their findings Recap ′What we have learned′ and ′What do you think?′ questions at the end of chapters get students thinking Key terms and a glossary help students get up to speed with terminology Even more international in scope – with research drawn from many countries and a stronger European perspective New research in areas such as hypocrisy, persuasion, matching and evaluative conditioning has been considered and included, showing the flourishing nature of this subject area Online resources including multiple choice questions, journal articles and flashcards for students, and PowerPoint slides and essay questions for lecturers to use for teaching ideas, available at study.sagepub.com/psychofattitudes3e

Download or read book Physical Appearance Stigma and Social Behavior written by C. Peter Herman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1986, this book grew out of a symposium held in 1981 at the University of Toronto on physical appearance as a determinant of personality and social behavior. There is little doubt that one’s appearance has some impact on the way one is perceived and treated; and presumably, owing to the socially reflected nature of the self, one’s personality likewise will be affected by one’s appearance. The questions arising from these basic observations and assumptions are many, and the expert contributors were invited to discuss their research on some of the implications of individual differences in appearance as they ramify into personality and social interaction. The chapters in this volume are the outcome of those discussions and cover the areas of facial attractiveness; physique; impact on social behavior, and deviance. Still a topic of interest to this day, this book can now be read and enjoyed in its historical context.

Download or read book Physical Attributes Personality Characteristics and Social Behavior written by Gerald R. Adams and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Body Image written by Sarah Grogan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Body Image provides a comprehensive summary of research on body image in men, women, and children drawing together research findings from the fields of psychology, sociology, clothing, and gender studies. This third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the significant increase in research on body image since the previous edition, as well as the significant cultural changes in how men’s and women’s bodies are viewed. Data are also included from interviews and focus groups with men, women, and children who have spoken about their experiences of body image and body dissatisfaction, producing a comprehensive understanding of how men and women construct and understand their bodies in the twenty-first century. The only sole-authored text to provide a comprehensive view of body image research, focusing on men, women, and children, Body Image will be invaluable to students and researchers, as well as practitioners with an interest in body image and how to reduce body dissatisfaction.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Body Image and Human Appearance written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2012-04-11 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scholarly work is the most comprehensive existing resource on human physical appearance—how people’s outer physical characteristics and their inner perceptions and attitudes about their own appearance (body image) affect their lives. The encyclopedia’s 117 full-length chapters are composed and edited by the world’s experts from a range of disciplines—social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences. The extensive topical coverage in this valuable reference work includes: (1) Important theories, perspectives, and concepts for understanding body image and appearance; (2) Scientific measurement of body image and physical attributes (anthropometry); (3) The development and determinants of human appearance and body image over the lifespan: (4) How culture and society influences the meanings of human appearance; (5) The psychosocial effects of appearance-altering disease, damage, and visible differences; (6) Appearance self-change and self-management; (7) The prevention and treatment of body image problems, including psychosocial and medical interventions. Chapters are written in a manner that is accessible and informative to a wide audience, including the educated public, college and graduate students, and scientists and clinical practitioners. Each well-organized chapter provides a glossary of definitions of any technical terms and a Further Reading section of recommended sources for continued learning about the topic. Available online via ScienceDirect or in a limited-release print version. The Encyclopedia of Body Image and Human Appearance is a unique reference for a growing area of scientific inquiry It brings together in one source the research from experts in a variety of fields examining this psychological and sociological phenomenon The breadth of topics covered, and the current fascination with this subject area ensure this reference will be of interest to researchers and a lay audience alike

Download or read book Interpersonal Encounters written by Laura K. Guerrero and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2022-02-18 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a practical and innovative approach, Interpersonal Encounters: Connecting through Communication shows students how interpersonal communication skills can be best used to accomplish everyday relationship goals. Guided by current interpersonal research from diverse authors and study participants, Laura K. Guerrero and Bree McEwan focus on the functions of interpersonal communication in our everyday lives and demonstrate how concepts, theories, and contemporary research apply to building, maintaining, and ending relationships. The book’s unique structure prepares students to become better communicators in their personal and professional lives. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package. Digital Option / Courseware SAGE Vantage is an intuitive digital platform that delivers this text’s content and course materials in a learning experience that offers auto-graded assignments and interactive multimedia tools, all carefully designed to ignite student engagement and drive critical thinking. Built with you and your students in mind, it offers simple course set-up and enables students to better prepare for class. Assignable Video with Assessment Assignable video (available with SAGE Vantage) is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life. LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site.

Download or read book The Effect of Personality Physical Attractiveness and Intelligence on Important Life course Outcomes written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation explores the effect of personality traits, intelligence, and physical attractiveness, as well as socioeconomic indicators, on several important life-course outcomes, including timing of childbearing, completed fertility, marital dissolution, and all-cause mortality. The central proposition guiding my dissertation is that an individual's life-course outcome is a holistic process involving the psychological, biological, and socioeconomic influences accumulated over one's life. I have used three large longitudinal data sets - the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS), Americans' Changing Lives (ACL), and the Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS) - which contain reliable measures of these individual characteristics. The contribution of this research is that it goes beyond the prevailing paradigm of proximate determinants for social behaviors by examining more fundamental causes and their functional relationships with other features and with the whole individual. My analysis indicates that, among the Big Five personality traits, extraversion significantly accelerates timing of childbearing and increases number of children. Similar positive and significant effect of extraversion on tempo and quantum of fertility was found among both sexes in the MIDUS and ACL. Openness was found to significantly reduce the odds of transitioning to parenthood and size of completed fertility among women. The present study also provides support for the strong and positive correlation between physical attractiveness and reproductive success even among contemporary populations. The effect of intelligence on fertility outcomes was inconsistent across data sets and genders. Also, the results for marital outcomes suggest that openness to experience was significantly and positively associated with the risk of marital dissolution among both sexes in the WLS. On the other hand, men's conscientiousness and women's agreeableness showed protective effects on the odds of marital disruption. Finally, I find that neuroticism and openness reduce the odds of men's survival while physical attractiveness increases women's longevity. The results from the ACL suggested that physical attractiveness is strongly and inversely associated with mortality risk for men and women. Furthermore, neuroticism is significantly and positively associated with poor self-rated health and depression while extraversion and conscientiousness have opposite effect. However, the effect of intelligence on mortality appears to be mediated by socioeconomic factors.

Download or read book Psychology for VCE Units 1 and 2 9e learnON and Print written by John Grivas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Routledge International Handbook of Consumer Psychology written by Cathrine V. Jansson-Boyd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique handbook maps the growing field of consumer psychology in its increasingly global context. With contributions from over 70 scholars across four continents, the book reflects the cross-cultural and multidisciplinary character of the field. Chapters relate the key consumer concepts to the progressive globalization of markets in which consumers act and consumption takes place. The book is divided into seven sections, offering a truly comprehensive reference work that covers: The historical foundations of the discipline and the rise of globalization The role of cognition and multisensory perception in consumers’ judgements The social self, identity and well-being, including their relation to advertising Social and cultural influences on consumption, including politics and religion Decision making, attitudes and behaviorally based research Sustainable consumption and the role of branding The particularities of online settings in framing and affecting behavior The Routledge International Handbook of Consumer Psychology will be essential reading for anyone interested in how the perceptions, feelings and values of consumers interact with the decisions they make in relation to products and services in a global context. It will also be key reading for students and researchers across psychology and marketing, as well as professionals interested in a deeper understanding of the field.

Download or read book Foundations of Interpersonal Attraction written by Ted L. Huston and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundations of Interpersonal Attraction is intended to provide students of interpersonal relationships with a source book that reviews, integrates, and elaborates basic material concerned with interpersonal attraction—the affectional component of social relationships. All interpersonal relationships can be characterized, in part, by the strength and nature of the affectional tie between the persons involved. The ubiquity of attraction phenomena, and the extensive data that have begun to emerge concerning its nature, antecedents, and interpersonal correlates, provided the original rationale and impetus behind the development of the book. The book contains 16 chapters organized into five parts. Part I briefly highlights the history of attraction research and lays out some central themes related to conceptualizing and researching attraction. All persons develop attachments through social interaction, but the nature and antecedents of such feelings differ depending on the age and cognitive-developmental level of the persons involved as well as on the sociocultural context in which the interaction takes place. Part II is devoted to detailing these issues. Parts III and IV consist of a series of contributions that provide conceptual frameworks for studying attraction. Part V is devoted to romantic attraction.

Download or read book The Art and Science of Attraction written by GPTApplied Humanities Writing Group and published by GPTApplied Press. This book was released on 2024-07-10 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unravel the mysteries of human attraction in this groundbreaking exploration by the GPTApplied Humanities Writing Group. "The Art and Science of Attraction" offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to understanding one of humanity's most fascinating phenomena. Key features of this insightful guide: * Delve into the evolutionary origins of attraction and its role in human development * Explore the latest neuroscientific research on love, desire, and bonding * Examine cultural variations in attraction across different societies and historical periods * Investigate the psychology behind romantic and platonic attractions * Understand the impact of technology on modern dating and relationships * Analyze the ethical considerations in attraction research and its applications From the biological underpinnings of attraction to its cultural expressions, this book leaves no stone unturned. Readers will gain insights into: * The role of pheromones and body language in non-verbal attraction * How personality traits influence long-term compatibility * The neurobiology of love and its effects on decision-making * Strategies for maintaining attraction in long-term relationships * The dark side of attraction, including obsession and manipulation * Future perspectives on attraction research, including its implications for space exploration Whether you're a student of human behavior, a relationship professional, or simply curious about the forces that draw people together, "The Art and Science of Attraction" provides a fascinating journey through the complexities of human connection. This meticulously researched work combines academic rigor with accessible prose, making it an invaluable resource for both scholars and general readers. By bridging the gap between scientific inquiry and everyday experience, the book offers practical insights that can be applied to personal relationships and professional endeavors alike. Embark on a voyage of discovery that will transform your understanding of attraction and its profound impact on human life. "The Art and Science of Attraction" is not just a book—it's a key to unlocking the secrets of the heart and mind.