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Women’s Body Images

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Handbook of Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health

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The psychology of physical appearance is organized around two perspectives—the “outside view” and the “inside view” (Cash, 1990). The first perspective considers how attributes of human appearance, such as physical attractiveness, height, weight, hair color, etc., influence social perceptions, cognitions, and behaviors. From this viewpoint, researchers study appearance stereotyping and seek to understand whether people who differ vis-à-vis certain physical characteristics receive different social treatments and outcomes (Bull & Rumsey, 1988; Cash, 1990; Jackson, 1992). The second perspective is the self-view of one’s appearance, which defines the construct of “body image” (Cash & Pruzinsky, 1990, in press; Thompson, Heinberg, Altabe, & Tantleff-Dunn, 1999).

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