Based on theory and findings from qualitative and quantitative research, we developed and investigated a model of positive body image. This model placed body appreciation in a mediating role, linking interpersonal (caregiver eating messages, adult attachment) and intrapersonal (perfectionism) variables to intuitive eating and depressive symptoms. Path analysis supported our model for 249 colleg...

Artworks with sad and affectively negative content have repeatedly been reported to elicit positive aesthetic appreciation. This topic has received much attention both in the history of poetics and aesthetics as well as in recent studies on sad films and sad music. However, poetry and aesthetic evaluations of joyful and sad poetry have received only little attention in empirical studies to date...

The impacts of the real exchange rate on employment and its channels are investigated. A real appreciation, 1) by decreasing the cost of imported inputs and increasing real wages expressed in tradable goods (technological channel), 2) by decreasing exports (export volume channel), 3) by exerting pressure on efficiency improvement (efficiency channel), exerts a negative effect on employment. Usi...

AIM The purpose was to evaluate the relationship between negative body-related attitudes and self-representation among patients with anorexia and bulimia nervosa. METHOD A sample of 33 female anorexic, 38 female bulimic and 40 female students without eating disorders participated in present study. We used The Figure Rating Scale (Stunkard et al., 1983) and the Body Attitude Test (Probst et al...

I'm worried about my paper. " I had a 25-page seminar paper due in less than two weeks. I'd turned in an eight-page proposal, with an outline and an annotated bibliography, and it had been severely and accurately critiqued by the class the day before. It's spring semester, my first year in graduate school at Indiana University. I'd considered myself a poet—I was getting a Masters in Fine Arts—b...

Qing Zou asked me to contribute some remarks introductory to the book that follows. I have not read it. I have indeed only seen a relatively small number of pages. Moreover, although in the course of my career as a mathematician and, in general, in the course of my life, I have acquired a working knowledge of several languages, Chinese in any of its forms is not one of them. Consequently I have...

For [contemporary] social anthropologists, the important conclusion, always worth repeating, is that the observation and the labelling of 'behaviour' are inseparable from the importation of socially derived meanings even when observing monkeys. How much more so when the process is reflexive, when the observers and the observed are both 'meaning-makers' ... Edwin Ardener, 1977: Comprehending Oth...