Does hunger influence judgments of female physical attractiveness?Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University College of London, UK
Br J Psychol 97:353-63. 2006
..These findings corroborate those of Nelson and Morrison (2005) and are discussed in terms of how cultural contexts shape individual psychological experience as predicted by the theory of mutual constitution...
The influence of feminist ascription on judgements of women's physical attractivenessViren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW, United Kingdom
Body Image 5:224-9. 2008
..These results are discussed in relation to possible protective factors against the internalisation of the thin ideal and body objectification...
- German translation and psychometric evaluation of the Body Appreciation Scale
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW, UK
Body Image 5:122-7. 2008
..26). The German BAS, a useful indicator of positive body image among Austrian adults, should prove valuable for the assessment of body image in German-speaking countries...
- Predictors of sociocultural adjustment among sojourning Malaysian students in Britain
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Int J Psychol 44:266-73. 2009
..The results are further discussed in relation to practical steps that can be taken to improve the sociocultural adjustment of sojourning students in Britain...
- Personality and individual difference correlates of positive body image
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW, United Kingdom
Body Image 5:322-5. 2008
..In addition, higher media consumption and higher (male-stereotypic) instrumentality were associated with, but did not predict, higher body appreciation. These results are discussed in relation to the extant work on body image...
- Men's preferences for women's profile waist-to-hip ratio, breast size, and ethnic group in Britain and South Africa
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London, UK
Br J Psychol 100:313-25. 2009
..In addition, there was a strong positive correlation between ratings of attractiveness and health. These findings are discussed in relation to the interplay between culture and evolution in determining ideals of attractiveness...
- Factor structure of the Body Appreciation Scale among Malaysian women
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London, UK
Body Image 5:409-13. 2008
..Results also showed that General Body Appreciation was significant negatively correlated with participants' body mass index. These results are discussed in relation to possible cross-cultural differences in positive body image...
- Lay perceptions of current and future health, the causes of illness, and the nature of recovery: explaining health and illness in Malaysia
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London, UK
Br J Health Psychol 14:519-40. 2009
..The results are discussed in terms of the available cross-cultural literature on lay beliefs about health...
- Egoistic, altruistic, and biospheric environmental concerns: a path analytic investigation of their determinants
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW, UK
Scand J Psychol 51:139-45. 2010
..These results are discussed in relation to previous work on ECs and pro-environmental behavior...
- Big beautiful women: the body size preferences of male fat admirers
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London
J Sex Res 46:89-96. 2009
..Participant demographics did not predict ratings over and above affiliation with either the FA or control groups. These results are discussed in relation to the growing body of work examining fat admiration...
- An examination of the love-is-blind bias among gay men and lesbians
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW, UK
Body Image 6:149-51. 2009
..Overall, these results provide evidence for the existence of a robust positive illusion in self-partner perceptions...
- The truth is out there: the structure of beliefs about extraterrestrial life among Austrian and British respondents
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW, England
J Soc Psychol 149:29-43. 2009
..The authors found only political orientation and religiosity to be significantly correlated with factor scores. They discuss their results in relation to previous reports of extraterrestrial beliefs...
- An examination of the factor structure of the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-3 in Malaysia
Viren Swami
University of Westminster, London, UK
Body Image 6:129-32. 2009
..The results of this study stress the need for locally developed scales in the study of body image and a shift away from reliance on scales developed in the West...
- Sociocultural adjustment among sojourning Malaysian students in Britain: a replication and path analytic extension
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London, W1B 2UW, UK
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 45:57-65. 2010
..These results are discussed in terms of the role played by income in buffering against the negative aspects of sociocultural adjustment...
- Public knowledge and beliefs about depression among urban and rural Malays in Malaysia
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London, UK
Int J Soc Psychiatry 56:480-96. 2010
..This study examined knowledge and beliefs about depression among Malaysian Malays varying in socioeconomic status...
- A comparison of actual-ideal weight discrepancy, body appreciation, and media influence between street-dancers and non-dancers
Viren Swami
University of Westminster, London, UK
Body Image 6:304-7. 2009
..These results are discussed in relation to the extant research on body image among dancers...
- Beliefs about schizophrenia and its treatment in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London, UK
Int J Soc Psychiatry 54:164-79. 2008
..Lay beliefs about schizophrenia have been extensively studied in cross-cultural settings, but research on ethnic differences are currently lacking...
- The influence of skin tone, hair length, and hair colour on ratings of women's physical attractiveness, health and fertility
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, UK
Scand J Psychol 49:429-37. 2008
..Implications of these findings and the limitations of the use of line drawings are discussed in conclusion...
- Free the animals? Investigating attitudes toward animal testing in Britain and the United States
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, UK
Scand J Psychol 49:269-76. 2008
..Correlation and regression analyses showed that there were few significant individual difference predictors of both factors. These results are discussed in relation to past and future work on attitudes toward animal testing...
- Estimating self, parental, and partner multiple intelligences: a replication in Malaysia
Viren Swami
Division of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Whelan Building, Quadrangle, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L69 3GB, England
J Soc Psychol 146:645-55. 2006
..The authors discussed results in terms of the extant cross-cultural literature in the field...
- General health mediates the relationship between loneliness, life satisfaction and depression. A study with Malaysian medical students
Viren Swami
Division of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Whelan Building, Quadrangle Brownlow Hill, Liverpool, L69 3GB, UK
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 42:161-6. 2007
..To examine the associations between life satisfaction, loneliness, general health and depression among 172 medical students in Malaysia...
- Perceptions of female body weight and shape among indigenous and urban Europeans
Viren Swami
Division of Public Health, University of Liverpool, UK
Scand J Psychol 48:43-50. 2007
..The findings are discussed in terms of evolutionary psychological explanations of mate selection, and sociocultural theories which emphasizes the learning of preferences for body sizes in social and cultural contexts...
- Male physical attractiveness in Britain and Greece: a cross-cultural study
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University College London
J Soc Psychol 147:15-26. 2007
..However, there were also cross-cultural differences: The Greek women showed a stronger preference for a lower WCR and smaller overall body weight than did the British women. The authors considered possible explanations of these findings...
- Big and beautiful: attractiveness and health ratings of the female body by male "fat admirers"
Viren Swami
Division of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Whelan Building, Quadrangle, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool, L69 3GB, UK
Arch Sex Behav 38:201-8. 2009
..Limitations of the study and explanations for fat admiration are discussed...
- Evaluating self and partner physical attractiveness
Viren Swami
Division of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Whelan Building, Quadrangle, Liverpool L69 3GB, UK
Body Image 4:97-101. 2007
..In addition, the results showed that body weight and facial attractiveness were the best predictors of overall physical attractiveness. Implications of these results in terms of social biases are considered...
- Preferences for female body size in Britain and the South Pacific
Viren Swami
Division of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Whelan Building, Quadrangle, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L69 3GB, United Kingdom
Body Image 4:219-23. 2007
..Implications of this finding are discussed in conclusion...
- Unattractive, promiscuous and heavy drinkers: perceptions of women with tattoos
Viren Swami
Division of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Whelan Building, Quadrangle, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L69 3GB, United Kingdom
Body Image 4:343-52. 2007
..Results are discussed in terms of stereotypes about women who have tattoos and the effects of such stereotypes on well-being...
- Estimates of self, parental, and partner multiple intelligence and their relationship with personality, values, and demographic variables: a study in Britain and France
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW, UK
Span J Psychol 12:528-39. 2009
..Results were discussed in terms of the influence of gender-role stereotypes...
- The relative contribution of profile body shape and weight to judgements of women's physical attractiveness in Britain and Malaysia
Viren Swami
Division of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Whelan Building, Quadrangle, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L69 3GB, UK
Body Image 4:391-6. 2007
..The disparity with previous findings using line drawings of women in profile was discussed in terms of the weaknesses of line-drawn stimuli...
- Demographic correlates of just world and unjust beliefs in an Austrian sample
Adrian Furnham
Department of Psychology, University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AP, United Kingdom
Psychol Rep 105:989-94. 2009
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- Self- and other-estimates of multiple abilities in Britain and Turkey: a cross-cultural comparison of subjective ratings of intelligence
Adrian Furnham
Department of Psychology, University College London, London, UK
Int J Psychol 44:434-42. 2009
..Results are discussed in terms of the growing literature in the field...
- Personality differences between tattooed and non-tattooed individuals
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London, UK
Psychol Rep 111:97-106. 2012
..These results are considered in relation to the contemporary prevalence of tattoos in socioeconomically developed societies...
- Further investigation of the validity and reliability of the photographic figure rating scale for body image assessment
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom
J Pers Assess 94:404-9. 2012
..These results provide evidence for the convergent validity and good test-retest reliability of the PFRS...
- Conspiracist ideation in Britain and Austria: evidence of a monological belief system and associations between individual psychological differences and real-world and fictitious conspiracy theories
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London, UK
Br J Psychol 102:443-63. 2011
..These results are discussed in terms of the potential of identifying individual difference constellations among conspiracy theorists...
- More than just skin deep? Personality information influences men's ratings of the attractiveness of women's body sizes
Viren Swami
University of Westminster, Department of Psychology, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW, UK
J Soc Psychol 150:628-47. 2010
..Correlations showed that participants' own Extraversion was associated with their body size ratings. These results suggest that non-physical cues have an influence on the perception of physical beauty...
- Acceptance of cosmetic surgery: personality and individual difference predictors
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London, UK
Body Image 6:7-13. 2009
..These results allow for the presentation of a preliminary model integrating personality and individual differences in predicting acceptance of cosmetic surgery...
- Weight discrepancy and body appreciation of Zimbabwean women in Zimbabwe and Britain
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London, UK
Body Image 9:559-62. 2012
..These findings support the contention that transcultural migration may place individuals at risk for symptoms of negative body image...
- Factor structure and correlates of the acceptance of cosmetic surgery scale among South Korean university students
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London, United Kingdom
Aesthet Surg J 32:220-9. 2012
..While rates of cosmetic surgery in South Korea have risen sharply in the past decade, mirroring rates in other East Asian nations, little is known about attitudes toward cosmetic surgery in the Korean population...
- An investigation of weight bias against women and its associations with individual difference factors
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London, UK
Body Image 7:194-9. 2010
..These results suggest that weight bias may affect women at both ends of the weight continuum, which require measures to reduce discrimination...
- Men's ratings of physical attractiveness, health, and partner suitability simultaneously versus separately: Does it matter whether within- or between-subjects designs are used?
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London, UK
Body Image 6:330-3. 2009
..These results highlight the importance of considering halo and response bias effects when designing studies of interpersonal judgements and interpreting their results...
- Body appreciation, media influence, and weight status predict consideration of cosmetic surgery among female undergraduates
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, UK
Body Image 6:315-7. 2009
..These results are discussed in relation to the extant literature on attitudes towards cosmetic surgery...
- Body dissatisfaction assessed by the Photographic Figure Rating Scale is associated with sociocultural, personality, and media influences
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London, UK
Scand J Psychol 52:57-63. 2011
..Limitations of the current study are discussed in conclusion...
- Perceptions of the physical attractiveness of the self, current romantic partners, and former partners
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London, UK
Scand J Psychol 53:89-95. 2012
..These results are discussed in relation to the available literature on positive illusions in intimate relationships...
- British men's hair color preferences: an assessment of courtship solicitation and stimulus ratings
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London, UK
Scand J Psychol 52:595-600. 2011
..These results are discussed in relation to the literature on hair color and attractiveness, but also in terms of women's own perceptions of their hair color...
- Lonelier, lazier, and teased: the stigmatizing effect of body size
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London W1B 2UW, England
J Soc Psychol 148:577-93. 2008
..These findings suggest that body size is an important characteristic to consider when examining body stigmatization among men and women. These results also show support for the beautiful-is-good bias...
- Positive body image: inter-ethnic and rural-urban differences among an indigenous sample from Malaysian Borneo
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London, UK
Int J Soc Psychiatry 58:568-76. 2012
..To overcome this limitation, the present study examined positive body image among rural and urban women from three major indigenous ethnic groups in Sabah, Malaysia...
- Factor structure of the body appreciation scale among Indonesian women and men: further evidence of a two-factor solution in a non-Western population
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London, UK
Body Image 9:539-42. 2012
..Suggestions for future research, particularly in terms of uncovering culture-specific factors that contribute to positive body image, are discussed...
- Written on the body? Individual differences between British adults who do and do not obtain a first tattoo
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London, UK
Scand J Psychol 53:407-12. 2012
..The effect sizes of uncovered differences were small-to-moderate (η(p)(2) =.07-.14). These results are discussed in relation to the mainstreaming of tattoos in contemporary, post-industrialised societies...
- A fair day's wage? Perceptions of public sector pay
Adrian Furnham
Department of Psychology, University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AP, UK
Psychol Rep 105:957-69. 2009
..The implications of this research on public attitudes toward wage determination are discussed, and avenues for further research highlighted...
- The influence of the hijab (Islamic head-cover) on perceptions of women's attractiveness and intelligence
Yusr Mahmud
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London W1B 2UW, UK
Body Image 7:90-3. 2010
..These results are discussed in relation to religious stereotyping within increasingly multi-cultural societies...
- Translation and validation of the Malay Acceptance of Cosmetic Surgery Scale
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London, UK
Body Image 7:372-5. 2010
..Results also showed that this overall score had good discriminant and divergent validity. It is expected that the availability of a Malay version of the ACSS will stimulate cross-cultural research on the acceptance of cosmetic surgery...
The impact of psychological stress on men's judgements of female body sizeViren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 7:e42593. 2012
..The objective of this study was to experimentally investigate the impact of stress on men's judgements of female body size...
- Marked for life? A prospective study of tattoos on appearance anxiety and dissatisfaction, perceptions of uniqueness, and self-esteem
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, 300 Regent Street, London, UK
Body Image 8:237-44. 2011
..These results are discussed in relation to the positive impacts of obtaining body art and the mainstreaming of tattooing in Western societies...
- The recognition of mental health disorders and its association with psychiatric scepticism, knowledge of psychiatry, and the Big Five personality factors: an investigation using the overclaiming technique
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW, UK
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 46:181-9. 2011
..These results are discussed in relation to the overclaiming technique as a novel method to study mental health literacy...
- The Acceptance of Cosmetic Surgery Scale: initial examination of its factor structure and correlates among Brazilian adults
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London, UK
Body Image 8:179-85. 2011
..The availability of the Portuguese ACSS is expected to stimulate more in-depth, quantitative research on attitudes toward cosmetic surgery within the Brazilian context...
- The relationship between dimensions of love, personality, and relationship length
Gorkan Ahmetoglu
Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW, UK
Arch Sex Behav 39:1181-90. 2010
..The present results may have important implications for relationship and marital counseling. Limitations of this study and further implications are discussed...
- Preliminary examination of the psychometric properties of the Psychiatric Scepticism Scale
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, UK
Scand J Psychol 52:399-403. 2011
..These results confirm that the PSS has adequate psychometric properties for the measurement of psychiatric skepticism...
- The influence of practitioner nationality, experience, and sex in shaping patient preferences for dentists
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London, UK
Int Dent J 61:193-8. 2011
..Participant sex generally did not have an impact on preferences. These results are discussed in relation to the extant literature on patient preferences for different types of health care practitioners...
- Body image and personality: associations between the Big Five Personality Factors, actual-ideal weight discrepancy, and body appreciation
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London, UK
Scand J Psychol 54:146-51. 2013
..These results are consistent with the suggestion that Neuroticism is a trait of public health significance requiring attention by body image scholars...
- Examining mental health literacy and its correlates using the overclaiming technique
Viren Swami
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London, UK
Br J Psychol 102:662-75. 2011
..These results are discussed in terms of the benefits of using the overclaiming technique and signal detection analysis in the study of mental health literacy...
- The attractive female body weight and female body dissatisfaction in 26 countries across 10 world regions: results of the international body project I
Viren Swami
University of Westminster, UK
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 36:309-25. 2010
..Our results show that body dissatisfaction and desire for thinness is commonplace in high-SES settings across world regions, highlighting the need for international attention to this problem...
- "How to spot a psychopath". Lay theories of psychopathy
Adrian Furnham
Dept of Psychology, University College London, London, UK
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 44:464-72. 2009
..These results suggest that educational programmes are required to improve mental health literacy in relation to psychopathy among the general public...
- Patient preferences for dentists
Adrian Furnham
Department of Psychology, University College, London, UK
Psychol Health Med 14:143-9. 2009
..Limitations of the study design are discussed in conclusion...
- What men really want: a qualitative investigation of men's health needs from the Halton and St Helens Primary Care Trust men's health promotion project
Rebecca Coles
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London, UK
Br J Health Psychol 15:921-39. 2010
..The present study sought to overcome this limitation...
- A comparison of the trait emotional intelligence profiles of individuals with and without Asperger syndrome
Kv Petrides
London Psychometric Laboratory, University College London, UK
Autism 15:671-82. 2011
..Results are discussed from the perspective of trait EI theory, with emphasis on its implications for the socioemotional impairments associated with AS...
- Beliefs in genetic determinism and attitudes towards psychiatric genetic research: psychometric scale properties, construct associations, demographic correlates, and cross-cultural comparisons
Martin Voracek
Department of Basic Psychological Research, School of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria
Psychol Rep 101:979-86. 2007
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