Celebrities are well-known individuals who receive extensive public and media attention. There is an increasing body of research on the effect of celebrities on body dissatisfaction and disordered ...eating. Yet, there has been no synthesis of the research findings. A systematic search for research articles on celebrities and body image or eating disorders resulted in 36 studies meeting inclusion criteria. Overall, the qualitative, correlational, big data, and experimental methodologies used in these studies demonstrated that exposure to celebrity images, appearance comparison, and celebrity worship are associated with maladaptive consequences for individuals’ body image.
In September 1957, Francis Crick gave a lecture in which he outlined key ideas about gene function, in particular what he called the central dogma. These ideas still frame how we understand life. ...This essay explores the concepts he developed in this influential lecture, including his prediction that we would study evolution by comparing sequences.
Two paintings by the Dutch-born painter Vincent van Gogh of his own and his friend Paul Gauguin's chair in Arles have had a major impact on twentieth and twenty-first century art, in the visual and ...photographic arts, literature and film. The literature interpreting the paintings, particularly art history, art psychology and psychiatry, agrees that the two paintings, painted in a psychotic state, can be seen as a coping response to van Gogh's fear of death, a kind of mourning. There is, however, another interpretation of the paintings, which emerges when the two paintings are seen as a unified whole. In this case, the picture refers to the relationship between artistic and emotional commitment, and conveys the message that the painter's artistic mission does not tolerate a partner, and that he must sacrifice his private life for his art. This concept is in line with the basic idea of the poem "Choice" by the Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet Samuel Butler Yeats. In some examples from the history of art, such as Csontváry, Gulácsy and Cézanne, creative and private life are indeed mutually exclusive, but in others, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Bach, Woolf and Joyce, artistic and emotional commitment have proved compatible.
This historical retrospective examines the famous portrait of John Hunter by Sir Joshua Reynolds, focusing on the man and the objects that were chosen to represent his legacy in anatomy and surgery.
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