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Background. One of the prominent tasks of the psychology of physical appearance is to investigate the factors influencing the growth of lookism accessibility during communication. The researchers stress various cultural, social-psychological, and personality factors that impact lookism [4]. In spite of the central role of physical appearance in lookism development little research was conducted scrutinizing the interplay of appearance perfectionism, satisfaction and concern with own appearance in these processes. N...

The article analyzes the use of photos in social psychology as a visual technology. The work emphasizes that this type of visual technology is used in studies aimed at studying communication, interpersonal cognition, impression management, interethnic relations. Within the framework of these areas of research, photographs of the person's external appearance are suggested, which are proposed to be evaluated, categorized as belonging to certain groups (ethnic, religious, social). The article underline that up to the...

The concept of the dynamic nature of the system of a person's relations (Myasishchev, 1995) [1] and the social-psychological approach to appearance, its assessments and self-assessments (Labunskaya, Drozdova, 2017) [2] served as the methodological preconditions of the study. The goal of the study was studying the age-related dynamics of a person's assessment of the components of his/her appearance and its integral characteristics. Methods of the study: 1) V. Schutz Interpersonal Relations Questionnaire [3]; 2) met...

“Perceived age” is the result of perception of a person's appearance representing the age of a perception object ascribed by a perception subject. Explosion of interest to the analysis of the factors of a person's perceived age is observed in the modern science, because the perceived age of a person is directly related to the biological age of such a person and is an indicator of mortality risk [1, 2]. Researchers studied genetic, ecological, and medical-and-esthetic factors effecting the perceived age of a person...

Background. This study is aimed to scrutinize the interrelation between satisfaction and concern with own appearance and subjective estimation of economic status that is considered as one of main predictors of life satisfaction. Resent research analyzes predominantly the role of real economic status on different aspects of human life including satisfaction and concern with own appearance [1], [3], [4], [6]. In contrast to mentioned studies our investigation is focused on subjective-comparative approach to economic...