Gayle R. Bessenoff

Psychology · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Eating Disorders and Behaviors(6), Social and Intergroup Psychology(4), Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification(3), Consumer Perception and Purchasing Behavior(3), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies(2)

Publications19 total

View from the Pulpit: Clergywomen’s Perspectives of Feminism
2011
Less is More: Social Comparison, Thin-Ideal Internalization, and Self-Esteem.
2009
Influence of Feminist Identity on Body Dissatisfaction and Thin-Ideal Internalization in Women
2009
Women, Weight, and Age: Social Comparison to Magazine Images Across the Lifespan
Sex Roles·2007· 64 cited
The potential benefits of affirming the self for body image self-discrepant women
PsycEXTRA Dataset·2007
Positive effects from thin-ideal media exposure: The dual roles of contingencies of self-worth & attention to personal/situational cues
PsycEXTRA Dataset·2007
Absorbing Society’s Influence: Body Image Self-Discrepancy and Internalized Shame
Sex Roles·2006· 117 cited
Can the Media Affect Us? Social Comparison, Self-Discrepancy, and the Thin Ideal
Psychology of Women Quarterly·2006· 406 cited
Consequences of comparison to thin-ideal media: Self-discrepancy as risk factor?
PsycEXTRA Dataset·2006
Assigning controllability: Attribution of personal responsibility and weight evaluation
PsycEXTRA Dataset·2006
Absorbing society's influence: The effects of body-image discrepancy on internalized shame
PsycEXTRA Dataset·2003· 1 cited
Weight-Norm Internalization: The Role of the Self-Concept in Norm-Related Self-Evaluation
PsycEXTRA Dataset·2001· 1 cited
Automatic and Controlled Components of Prejudice Toward Fat People: Evaluation Versus Stereotype Activation
Social Cognition·2000· 282 cited
When Do We Evaluate? The Automaticity vs. Spontaneity of Evaluation
PsycEXTRA Dataset·2000
Effects of Self-Construal on Self-Guide Focus
PsycEXTRA Dataset·2000
Stereotypes as Source-Monitoring Cues: On the Interaction Between Episodic and Semantic Memory
Psychological Science·1999· 118 cited
Stereotype efficiency reconsidered: Encoding flexibility under cognitive load.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology·1998· 280 cited
Stereotype efficiency reconsidered: Encoding flexibility under cognitive load.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology·1998· 28 cited
Visual specificity effects on word stem completion: Beyond transfer appropriate processing?
Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale·1996· 20 cited

Frequent Co-authors

Jeffrey W. Sherman(4), Wendi L. Gardner(3), Leigh A. Frost(2), Gregory Kerwin(2), Alan Yiu Wah Lee(1), Daniel Snow(1), Regan E. Del Priore(1), Angela Y. Lee(1), Tim Curran(1), Daniel L. Schacter(1), Daniel D. Snow(1), Jessica A. Suckle-Nelson(1), Ashley Tine(1), Angela De Luca(1), Greg Scott Kerwin(1), Giorgio Di Berto(1), Anat Chavkin(1), Ginger L. Pennington(1), Galina A. Portnoy(1)