A personal appearance program for displaced homemakers

1990 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Marie Fiore ◽  
Marilyn Revell DeLong
Keyword(s):  
Personal Appearance ◽  
Displaced Homemakers

A Personal Appearance Program for Displaced Homemakers

1990 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Marie Fiore ◽  
Marilyn Revell DeLong
Keyword(s):  
Personal Appearance ◽  
Displaced Homemakers

Disability and the Urban Environment: A Perspective on Los Angeles

1986 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Hahn
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
Geographic Dispersion ◽  
Personal Appearance ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

Increasingly, research on disability has been guided by a definition that focuses on the interaction between the individual and the environment and by a minority-group perspective based on the propositions that discriminatory attitudes are the primary source of the problems of disabled citizens, that the environment is shaped by public policy, and that policies reflect prevalent social attitudes and values. The implications of this approach for an analysis of the experience of disabled persons in Los Angeles are examined by assessing major characteristics of this urban area such as geographic dispersion, the absence of a sense of community, and the impact of pervasive standards of personal appearance. The investigation indicates a pressing need to provide increased accessibility for disabled residents to fulfill constitutional principles of freedom and equality.

scholarly journals The Speech Act of Complimenting as Part of the Ukrainian, Russian and English-Speaking Communities: Ukraine and the USA

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anzhelika Solodka ◽  
Luis Perea
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personal Appearance ◽  
The Usa ◽  
On Line ◽  
Native Speakers Of English ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Language Context

Compliments as speech acts have the reflection and expression of cultural values. Many of the values reflected through compliments are personal appearance, new acquisitions, possessions, talents and skills. It is especially important in linguistic interaction between people. This research aims to analyze the speech acts of complimenting in Ukrainian and American cultures in order to use them for teaching pragmatics second language (L2) students. Defining the ways of complimenting in Ukrainian, Russian and American English help to avoid misunderstandings and pragmatic failures. This study uses a method of ethnomethodology. Speach acts are studied in their natural contexts. To carry out this research native speakers of English in the United States and native speakers of Russian and Ukrainian from all over Ukraine were interviewed on-line. The analysis was made on the data that included: 445 Russian, 231 Ukrainian and 245 English compliments. Results of this study show how native speakers tend to compliment people: syntactical structure of expressions, cultural lexicon, attributes praised and language context. It has implications for teaching English to Ukrainians and for teaching Russian and Ukrainian to speakers of English. Knowing how to use speech acts allows the speaker to have pragmatic competence. Upon completion of the data analysis on the current study, further information on deeper analysis in terms of semantics and metaphorical language can be provided.

Factors Limiting Face Matching at Passport Control and in Police Investigations

2021 ◽  
pp. 15-37
Author(s):  
Matthew C. Fysh
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
Laboratory Research ◽  
Police Investigations ◽  
Face Matching ◽  
Visual Correspondence ◽  
Personal Appearance ◽  
Visual Characteristics ◽  
Face Stimuli ◽  
Passport Control ◽  
Insight Into

Face matching entails a comparison between two faces that are unfamiliar to an observer, who must then decide whether these depict the same person or different people. Despite the ubiquity of face matching in practical settings, such as passport control and police investigations, laboratory research has established that this task is highly error-prone, and that many of these errors derive from visual characteristics of to-be-compared face stimuli. Such characteristics include factors such as image quality, lighting, and natural changes in personal appearance, which influence the visual correspondence between face stimuli. In this chapter, factors that are likely to limit face-matching accuracy in real-world settings are reviewed, with the aim of providing insight into how these influence the accuracy of this process and how subsequent errors may be mitigated.

Physical Attractiveness, Body Image, and Women's Sexual Self-Schema

1997 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 567-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. Wiederman ◽  
Shannon R. Hurst
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Body Size ◽  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
Facial Attractiveness ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Social Avoidance ◽  
Personal Appearance ◽  
Self Schema

Recently, Andersen and Cyranowski (1994) presented a self-report measure of women's sexual self-schema, or cognitive view of the self regarding sexuality. In the current study, we investigated potential relationships between women's sexual self-schema and physical attractiveness, body size and shape, and body image. Young adult women ( N = 199) completed questionnaires and were weighed, measured, and rated for facial attractiveness. Results revealed that sexual self-schema was unrelated to body size or shape, general body dissatisfaction, history of teasing about weight, and degree of investment in personal appearance. Sexual self-schema scores significantly correlated with experimenter-rated facial attractiveness, self-rated facial and bodily attractiveness, and degree of social avoidance due to concerns over personal appearance, however. In a multiple regression analysis, only self-rated facial attractiveness and social avoidance were unique predictors. Results are discussed with regard to implications for the development of women's sexual self-schema and directions for future research.

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