An evolutionary perspective on appearance enhancement behavior

AC Davis, S Arnocky - Archives of sexual behavior, 2022 - Springer
Researchers have highlighted numerous sociocultural factors that have been shown to
underpin human appearance enhancement practices, including the influence of peers …

Deviance as an historical artefact: a sco** review of psychological studies of body modification

R Owens, SJ Filoromo, LA Landgraf, CD Lynn… - Humanities and Social …, 2023 - nature.com
Body modification is a blanket term for tattooing, piercing, scarring, cutting, and other forms
of bodily alteration generally associated with fashion, identity, or cultural markings. Body …

How criminal offenders perceive police officers' appearance: Effects of uniforms and tattoos on inmates' attitudes

MM Thielgen, S Schade, J Rohr - Journal of forensic psychology …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Both, the number of people wearing visible body modifications, eg, tattoos, and their
acceptance in society have been significantly increased. Thus, rules and regulations of …

Effects of gender, self-rated attractiveness, and mate value on perceptions tattoos

K Molloy, D Wagstaff - Personality and Individual Differences, 2021 - Elsevier
Previous research has demonstrated that men's tattoos have an effect on viewer's
perceptions, with tattooed men perceived as more attractive, masculine, aggressive …

[HTML][HTML] Birth order, personality, and tattoos: A pre-registered empirical test of the 'born to rebel'hypothesis

G Richards, M Newman, A Butler… - Personality and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sulloway's 'born to rebel'hypothesis posits that later-borns develop personality
characteristics which diverge from the status quo. Considering inconsistencies in the birth …

Effects of tattoos on the aesthetic appreciation of human stimuli as influenced by expertise, tattoo status, and age reflecting internalized social norms

SM Weiler, C Duer, D Krämer, T Jacobsen - PloS one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Scientific interest in body modifications continues to grow, and tattoos have recently become
a subject of empirical aesthetics. While conceptual structures of tattoo aesthetics have been …

[HTML][HTML] Unconscious drivers of consumer behavior: An examination of the effect of nature–nurture interactions on product desire

JB Swaffield, J Sierra Jimenez - Behavioral Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Both biological and environmental factors can affect consumer behavior. Consumer
behavior can also be a product of an interaction between one's evolved biology and …

Dressing up social psychology: Empirically investigating the psychological functions of clothing using the example of symbolic protection

R Gruber, M Häfner, S Kachel - British Journal of Social …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Clothing behaviour remains an understudied research area within social psychology.
Through the present research, we aim to anchor attire as an empirical research subject by …

[BOOK][B] Exploring the Cultural Phenomenon of the Dick Pic

A Waling - 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
This book explores the dick pic in popular culture. Drawing from a range of disciplines,
cultural analyses, lived experiences and theoretical approaches, this book explores the …

Body alteration: On the mental function of body modification and body decoration

SM Weiler, C Mühlenbeck… - Culture & …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Decorating the body as well as (semi-) permanent bodily modifications are a longstanding
human practice, together with spending a great amount of time and effort on such body …