Modern women feel compelled to meet near-impossible standards of beauty. For many, this
pursuit ultimately culminates in cosmetic surgery–a radical form of beautification that is …

The presence of aesthetically based cultural goods and their ever‐increasing influence in
modern society may pose a new conceptual opportunity to sociology. Specifically, how can …

This is a book I secretly wanted to write. I have long believed that what is wrong with all
psychology textbooks (including those I have written) is their overlong chapters. Few can …

This third edition of Family Communication carefully examines state-of-the art research and
theories of family communication and family relationships. In addition to presenting …

Although mate preference research has firmly established that men value physical
attractiveness more than women do and women value social status more than men do …

Matchmaking companies and theoretical perspectives on close relationships suggest that
initial attraction is, to some extent, a product of two people's self-reported traits and …

On the basis of a theologically grounded understanding of the nature of persons and the
self, Jack O. Balswick, Pamela Ebstyne King and Kevin S. Reimer present a model of human …

Measures of self-esteem frequently conflate two independent constructs: high self-esteem (a
normative positive sense of self) and narcissistic grandiosity (a nonnormative sense of …

We describe a model for understanding interpersonal attraction in which attraction can be
understood as a product of the initial evaluations we make about others. The model posits …

This article explores gendered patterns of online dating and their implications for
heterosexual union formation. Using 6 months of online dating data from a midsized …