objective: this study aimed to examine factors influencing attitudes toward cosmetic surgery among university students. sociocultural attitudes toward appearance, physical appearance perfectionism, and appearance investment were considered as predictors of tendency toward cosmetic surgery. methods: this study was a descriptive-correlative research. one stage cluster sampling was utilized to col...

OVERVIEW 376 THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON MEDIA USE AND EFFECTS 377 Social Cognitive Theory 377 Parasocial Relationships and Parasocial Interactions 377 Cognitive Approaches 378 The Cultivation Hypothesis 378 Uses and Gratification Theory 379 Arousal Theory 379 Psychoanalytic Theory 379 Behaviorism and Classical Conditioning 379 Summary 380 THE HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF MEDIA PLATFORMS 380 THE EC...

PURPOSE This study compared influences from the mass media (television, music, movies, magazines) on adolescents' sexual intentions and behaviors to other socialization contexts, including family, religion, school, and peers. METHODS A sample of 1011 Black and White adolescents from 14 middle schools in the Southeastern United States completed linked mail surveys about their media use and in-...

Previous investigations reported that some traits of parental relationships, including pair-bond duration or mate behavioural compatibility, influence subsequent offspring fitness by acting on their behaviour and growth and thus their early survival. We hypothesized that the development of a pair bond between sexual partners would have a prenatal influence. This study investigated the impact of...

somatic embryogenesis is a new approache to plant mass in vitro propagation. this method influences by elements and their components in medium. in order to investigate the effects of different media and it,s role on somatic embryogenesis of carrot, a cbd experiment with four replications (including 12 treatments) was conducted. to do this, carrot petioles (with 1 cm dimension) in induction phas...

The degree to which media contributes to body dissatisfaction, life satisfaction and eating disorder symptoms in teenage girls continues to be debated. The current study examines television, social media and peer competition influences on body dissatisfaction, eating disorder symptoms and life satisfaction in a sample of 237 mostly Hispanic girls. 101 of these girls were reassessed in a later 6...

Colour vision models require measurement of receptor noise and the absorbance of visual pigments, oil droplets, and ocular media. We have studied how variation in these parameters influences colour matching, spectral sensitivity, and colour discrimination predictions in four bird species. While colour match predictions are sensitive to variation in visual pigment and oil droplet absorbance data...