Pretty, meaningful lives: physical attractiveness and experienced and perceived meaning in life

Sanders, Christopher A.; Jenkins, Alexis T.; King, Laura A.

doi:10.1080/17439760.2022.2155222

The Journal of Positive Psychology

2022

DOI: 10.1080/17439760.2022.2155222

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Pretty, meaningful lives: physical attractiveness and experienced and perceived meaning in life

Christopher A. Sanders

Alexis T. Jenkins

Laura A. King

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“…Sanders et al. (2022) find a link between judgments about a person's attractiveness and judgments about their life's meaningfulness.…”

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“…For a slightly different construal of the beauty's role in exemplarism, see(Paris, 2022, p. 202).2Brogaard (2016) also argues that personality manifests in appearance, with support from empirical studies Doran (2021). finds that "moral beauty and ugliness exist partly because moral character tends to modify our perception of appearances" (1) Sanders et al (2022). find a link between judgments about a person's attractiveness and judgments about their life's meaningfulness.…”

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Personal Beauty and Personal Agency

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We make choices about our own appearance and evaluate others' choices – every day. These choices are meaningful for us as individuals and as members of communities. But many features of personal appearance are due to luck, and many cultural beauty standards make some groups and individuals worse off (this is called “lookism”). So, how are we to square these two facets of personal appearance? And how are we to evaluate agency in the context of personal beauty? I identify three ways of responding to these questions: beauty advocacy, beauty skepticism, and beauty revisionism. Advocates connect an honorific sense of beauty with personal character. Skeptics focus on beauty standards, and primarily offer a social critique of beauty standards. Some skeptics suggest embracing other aesthetic ideals – even ugliness. Revisionists critique beauty standards, but retain an honorific sense of beauty. Each position offers tools to evaluate personal agency as aesthetic agency, whether first‐personally or through our appreciation of others' appearance.

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Before/after Bayes: A comparison of frequentist and Bayesian mixed‐effects models in applied psychological research

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British J of Psychology

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Bayesian methods are becoming increasingly used in applied psychological research. Previous researchers have thoroughly written about much of the details already, including the philosophy underlying Bayesian methods, computational issues associated with Bayesian model estimation, Bayesian model development and summary, and the role of Bayesian methods in the so‐called replication crisis. In this paper, we seek to provide case studies comparing the use of frequentist methods to the use of Bayesian methods in applied psychological research. These case studies are intended to ‘illustrate by example’ the ways that Bayesian modelling differs from frequentist modelling and the differing conclusions that one may arrive at using the two methods. The intended audience is applied psychological researchers who have been trained in the traditional frequentist framework, who are familiar with mixed‐effects models and who are curious about how statistical results might look in a Bayesian context. Along with our case studies, we provide general opinions and guidance on the use of Bayesian methods in applied psychological research.

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Pretty, meaningful lives: physical attractiveness and experienced and perceived meaning in life

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