Television Viewers' Ideal Body Proportions: The Case of the Curvaceously Thin Woman

By Kristen Harrison. 2003

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health

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Sex, Lies, and Video Games: The Portrayal of Male and Female Characters on Video Game Covers (2007, background): “Harrison (2003) found that exposure, from simply watching television, to what she called the “curvaceously thin woman” was associated with both men and women endorsing women’s use of extreme body-altering techniques such as liposuction and surgical breast augmentation.”
Inspired by Hope, Motivated by Envy: Comparing the Effects of Discrete Emotions in the Process of Social Comparison to Media Figures (2014, methodology): “Using a technique modified from Harrison (2003), all respondents were asked, ‘‘If cost were not an issue, how likely would you be to do each of the following to improve your appearance?’’”
Body Dissatisfaction and Disordered Eating among College Women in China, South Korea, and the United States: Contrasting Predictions from Sociocultural and Feminist Theories (2007, result): “…seems plausible, it appears to be inconsistent with a large body of evidence demonstrating a robust relationship between media exposure and body dissatisfaction in Western populations (e.g., Harrison, 2003; Harrison & Cantor, 1997; Silverstein, Peterson, & Perdue, 1986; Thompson et al., 1999).”
Video Game Characters and the Socialization of Gender Roles: Young People’s Perceptions Mirror Sexist Media Depictions (2007, methodology): “Recently, Harrison (2003) demonstrated that the modern media ideal for feminine beauty is what she calls “curvaceously thin.””
Erratum to: Beyond Thinness: The Influence of a Curvaceous Body Ideal on Body Dissatisfaction in Black and White Women (2010, background): “This body figure is defined by wider variations in upper (breast) and lower (buttock) body proportions paired with a thin waist ( Harrison 2003 ).”
A Content Analysis of Female Body Imagery in Video Games (2009, result): “Harrison (2003) found that heavier-television watching American college women reported the same thinner ideals as found in previous studies.”
Absorbing Society’s Influence: Body Image Self-Discrepancy and Internalized Shame (2006, methodology): “This scale has been widely used in body image research (e.g., Tiggemann & Lynch, 2001), to measure both body ideals (e.g., Harrison, 2003 ) and body image discrepancies (e.g., Bessenoff, 2006; Fitzgibbon, Blackman, & Avellone, 2000).”
Can the Media Affect Us? Social Comparison, Self-Discrepancy, and the Thin Ideal (2006, methodology): “This scale is widely used in body image research (e.g., Fallon & Rozin, 1985; Harrison, 1993; Tiggemann & Lynch, 2001).”
No harm in looking, right? Men’s pornography consumption, body image, and well-being. (2015, background): “Although the mediaprojected cultural appearance ideal is thin for women (i.e., ultrathin, athletic-thin, or curvaceously thin; Harrison, 2003; Tiggemann, 2011), it is characterized by lean muscularity or being mesomorphic for men (i.e., a “large but not too large” muscular build coupled with low…”
Being Fit and Looking Healthy: Young Women’s and Men’s Constructions of Health and Fitness (2006, background): “... on the ways particular truths about health, the body, and society have been constituted (e.g., Fullagar, 2001; Lupton, 1995; Nettleton, 1997), there has been far less examination of how these discourses and practices have been “variously taken up, negotiated or transformed” (Lupton, 1997, p.94) ”
Cosmetic Surgery Makeover Programs and Intentions to Undergo Cosmetic Enhancements: A Consideration of Three Models of Media Effects. (2009, methodology): “Still, Harrison (2003) found that frequency of exposure to the thin body ideal in the media associated with young people’s approval of both surgical and nonsurgical methods to alter proportions, correlations ranging from .21 to .28.”
Body Size Stereotyping and Internalization of the Thin Ideal in Preschool Girls (2010, background): “2002), feminine beauty ideals also include having particular body proportions to portray the right amount of curvaceousness in conjunction with low body fat (Calogero et al. 2007; Harrison 2003; Overstreet et al. 2010).”
Materialism, Sociocultural Appearance Messages, and Paternal Attitudes Predict College Women's Attitudes About Cosmetic Surgery (2009, background): “Previous research also indicates that women who have been exposed to televised ideal-body images are more likely to say they would engage in a variety of methods to alter their body shape and size, including wearing either a padded or minimizing bra to create the illusion of having an ideal breast s”
Sexism, Hostility toward Women, and Endorsement of Beauty Ideals and Practices: Are Beauty Ideals Associated with Oppressive Beliefs? (2007, background): “Over the last century, Western standards of female beauty have included the slender and flat-chested flappers of the 1920s, the voluptuous “sweater girls” of the 1940s, the nearly emaciated supermodels of the 1970s, and the curvaceously thin beauty icons of the 1990s (Banner, 1983; Harrison, 2003 )”