Gayle R Bessenoff
Biographic Data
| ID | 4235666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gayle R Bessenoff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gayle R |
| FAMILY NAME | Bessenoff |
| SIGNATURE | BESSENOFF G R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Women, Weight, and Age
Can the Media Affect Us? Social Comparison, Self-Discrepancy, and the Thin Ideal
The current study explored body image self-discrepancy as moderator and social comparison as mediator in the effects on women from thin-ideal images in the media. Female undergraduates ( N = 112) with high and low body image self-discrepancy were exposed to advertisements either with thin women (thin ideal) or without thin women (neutral-advertisement control). Exposure to thin-ideal advertisements increased body dissatisfaction, negative mood, a…
Absorbing Society’s Influence
Stereotype efficiency reconsidered
According to the encoding flexibility model, stereotypes are efficient because they facilitate, in different ways, the encoding of both stereotype-consistent and stereotype-inconsistent information when capacity is low. Because stereotypical information is conceptually fluent, it may be easily understood, even when resources are scant. As a result, processing resources may shift from stereotypical toward counterstereotypical information, which is…
Stereotype efficiency reconsidered
According to the encoding flexibility model, stereotypes are efficient because they facilitate, in different ways, the encoding of both stereotype-consistent and stereotype-inconsistent information when capacity is low. Because stereotypical information is conceptually fluent, it may be easily understood, even when resources are scant. As a result, processing resources may shift from stereotypical toward counterstereotypical information, which is…
Can the Media Affect Us? Social Comparison, Self-Discrepancy, and the Thin Ideal
The current study explored body image self-discrepancy as moderator and social comparison as mediator in the effects on women from thin-ideal images in the media. Female undergraduates ( N = 112) with high and low body image self-discrepancy were exposed to advertisements either with thin women (thin ideal) or without thin women (neutral-advertisement control). Exposure to thin-ideal advertisements increased body dissatisfaction, negative mood, a…
Absorbing Society’s Influence
Women, Weight, and Age
Stereotype efficiency reconsidered
According to the encoding flexibility model, stereotypes are efficient because they facilitate, in different ways, the encoding of both stereotype-consistent and stereotype-inconsistent information when capacity is low. Because stereotypical information is conceptually fluent, it may be easily understood, even when resources are scant. As a result, processing resources may shift from stereotypical toward counterstereotypical information, which is…
Can the Media Affect Us? Social Comparison, Self-Discrepancy, and the Thin Ideal
The current study explored body image self-discrepancy as moderator and social comparison as mediator in the effects on women from thin-ideal images in the media. Female undergraduates ( N = 112) with high and low body image self-discrepancy were exposed to advertisements either with thin women (thin ideal) or without thin women (neutral-advertisement control). Exposure to thin-ideal advertisements increased body dissatisfaction, negative mood, a…
Absorbing Society’s Influence
Women, Weight, and Age
Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Eating Disorders and Behaviors (3 works) · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies (2 works) · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification (2 works) · Ideal (ethics (2 works) · Perception (2 works) · Social comparison theory (2 works)