Extant research on body image supports sociocultural theories emphasizing the
internalization of societal pressures to attain the thin-ideal, as well as other White or …

Sexual objectification (treating a person as a body or collection of body parts) involves a
cultural prioritizing of women's sexual appearance and appeal over other attributes. Sexual …

We examined how gender, body mass, race, age, and sexual orientation were linked to
appearance evaluation, overweight preoccupation, and body image-related quality of life …

We examined how demographic factors (gender, sexual orientation, racial group, age, body
mass) were linked to measures of sociocultural appearance concerns derived from …

Purity culture is a phenomenon promulgated by evangelical Christianity that teaches strict
adherence to sexual abstinence prior to heterosexual marriage. Extant research illuminated …

White supremacy and racial inequities have long pervaded psychological research,
including body image scholarship and practice. The experiences of white, heterosexual …

Colorism is a social construct privileging lighter-skinned people of color with proximity to
European features over their darker-skinned counterparts. Despite the significant role in the …

Despite substantial literature surrounding how people process and perceive faces, there is
very little research investigating how people evaluate their own faces. We examined how …

This study examined the moderating effects of skin tone and skin tone satisfaction on the
relations between gendered racial microaggressions and traumatic stress symptoms among …

The first national study of body image was reported four decades ago in the article The
Happy American Body (Berscheid et al., 1973). To provide a modern follow-up to this study …