Can the Media Affect Us? Social Comparison, Self-Discrepancy, and the Thin Ideal
- G. Bessenoff
- Psychology
- 1 September 2006
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…
Automatic and Controlled Components of Prejudice Toward Fat People: Evaluation Versus Stereotype Activation
- G. Bessenoff, J. Sherman
- Psychology
- 1 December 2000
This study investigated automatic and controlled components of anti-fat attitudes, the relationship between these components, and the extent to which each component predicts prejudicial behavior.…
Stereotypes as Source-Monitoring Cues: On the Interaction Between Episodic and Semantic Memory
- J. Sherman, G. Bessenoff
- Psychology
- 1 March 1999
This research examined the use of stereotypic expectancies as source cues for biographical memories. Participants were more likely to misattribute stereotypical than counterstereotypical behaviors to…
Stereotype efficiency reconsidered: encoding flexibility under cognitive load?
- J. Sherman, A. Y. Lee, G. Bessenoff, L. A. Frost
- PsychologyJournal of Personality and Social Psychology
- 1998
According to the encoding flexibility model, stereotypes are efficient because they facilitate the encoding of both stereotype-consistent and stereotype-inconsistent information when capacity is low, while inconsistent information receives greater attention and perceptual encoding when resources are depleted.
Absorbing Society’s Influence: Body Image Self-Discrepancy and Internalized Shame
- G. Bessenoff, Danielle Snow
- Psychology
- 17 October 2006
In this study, we examined how injunctive cultural norms concerning body image are perceived by women, assessed the degree of body shame that occurs when an individual sees herself as differing from…
Stereotype efficiency reconsidered: Encoding flexibility under cognitive load.
- J. Sherman, Angela Y. Lee, G. Bessenoff, L. A. Frost
- Psychology
- 1 September 1998
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…
Visual specificity effects on word stem completion: beyond transfer appropriate processing?
- T. Curran, D. Schacter, G. Bessenoff
- Psychology, BiologyCanadian journal of experimental psychology…
- 1 March 1996
It is found that perceptual specificity effects can be obtained after semantic encoding--especially when the study-test retention interval is short, and may reflect a form of involuntary explicit memory.
Women, Weight, and Age: Social Comparison to Magazine Images Across the Lifespan
- G. Bessenoff, Regan E. Del Priore
- Sociology
- 2 February 2007
The finding that rates of body dissatisfaction in women remain relatively stable across the adult lifespan may be due to older women having fewer but heavier age-relevant comparisons in the media. To…
Influence of Feminist Identity on Body Dissatisfaction and Thin-Ideal Internalization in Women
- G. Portnoy, G. Bessenoff
- Art
- 12 March 2009
Automatic and controlled components of prejudice toward fat people: Automatic evaluation and stereotyping
- G. Bessenoff, J. Sherman
- Psychology
- 1 June 2016
Social Cognition, Vol. 18, No. 4, 2000, pp. 329-353 AUTOMATIC AND CONTROLLED COMPONENTS OF PREJUDICE TOWARD FAT PEOPLE: EVALUATION VERSUS STEREOTYPE ACTIVATION Gayle R. Bessenoff and Northwestern…
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