Year: 2017
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Prior research has shown that people who hold negative beliefs about a group of people (e.g., that they’re untrustworthy) will tend to hold more negative mental images of members of that group (Dotsch et al., 2008; 2013). Additional research has extended this idea further, suggesting that beliefs about the self (self-esteem) relate to how attractive a person imagines their own face (a self-face representation; Epley & Whitchurch, 2008; Shorten et al., 2017). Within the current study, we sought to expand this research further by demonstrating a positive relationship between participants’ scores in self-esteem and the positivity of their self-face representations. Additionally, we attempted to replicate previous findings describing a positive relationship between participants’ self-esteem scores and their self-face representation’s attractiveness. However, observed relationships proved low in magnitude, providing little to no support for our hypotheses. Given the lack of support, we identify several alterations to the original method that may aid further research.
Author: Christopher A. Shorten
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2765493194