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Women's Intrasexual Competition Results in Beautification | |
Wang, Xijing1; Chen, Hao2; Chen, Zhansheng1; Yang, Ying3,4![]() | |
First Author | Wang, Xijing |
Correspondent Email | xijngw@hku.hk |
Contribution Rank | 3 |
Abstract | Psychology research focuses primarily on male competition. This research, however, investigates women's competition for love and the ideal partner in the mating market and reveals one psychological consequence for women, that is, beautification. This is demonstrated with ecologically valid, real-world archive and online search query data, a quasi-experiment, and a series of controlled experiments with random assignments. Intrasexual competition, indexed by the operational sex ratio (OSR) and income inequality (GINI), predicts women's beautification reflected by Google search queries for cosmetic surgery terms (Study 1) and the density of certificated plastic surgeons (Study 2). Female college students from faculties with female-biased OSRs exhibit greater appearance focus than women from male-biased faculties (Study 3). A causal relationship, between women's intrasexual competition and beautification (and even self-objectification), is subsequently demonstrated in experiments (Studies 4-6). Additionally, self-objectification due to intrasexual competition leads to women's preference for appearance-oriented products (Study 6). Implications are discussed. |
Keyword | women intrasexual competition sex ratio beautification self-objectification |
2020-07-22 | |
Language | 英语 |
DOI | 10.1177/1948550620933403 |
Source Publication | SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERSONALITY SCIENCE
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ISSN | 1948-5506 |
Pages | 10 |
Subtype | 实证研究 |
Indexed By | SCI |
Funding Project | Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China[71731004] ; Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China[71532005] |
Publisher | SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC |
WOS Keyword | SELF-OBJECTIFICATION ; SEX-RATIO ; MATE PREFERENCES ; MEN ; ATTRACTIVENESS ; PSYCHOLOGY ; SELECTION |
WOS Research Area | Psychology |
WOS Subject | Psychology, Social |
WOS ID | WOS:000551976800001 |
Quartile | Q1 |
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Document Type | 期刊论文 |
Identifier | http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/32297 |
Collection | 中国科学院行为科学重点实验室 |
Corresponding Author | Wang, Xijing |
Affiliation | 1.Univ Hong Kong, Dept Psychol, Pokfulam Rd, Hong Kong, Peoples R China 2.Nankai Univ, Dept Social Psychol, Tianjin, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, CAS Key Lab Behav Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China 4.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Dept Psychol, Beijing, Peoples R China |
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Wang, Xijing,Chen, Hao,Chen, Zhansheng,et al. Women's Intrasexual Competition Results in Beautification[J]. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERSONALITY SCIENCE,2020:10. |
APA | Wang, Xijing,Chen, Hao,Chen, Zhansheng,&Yang, Ying.(2020).Women's Intrasexual Competition Results in Beautification.SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERSONALITY SCIENCE,10. |
MLA | Wang, Xijing,et al."Women's Intrasexual Competition Results in Beautification".SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERSONALITY SCIENCE (2020):10. |
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