Annotated Bibliography Of The Ugly Duckling Effect: Annotated Bibliography

Annotated bibliography

Abdelhalim, M. A., Chatterjee, S. (2012). The operative trauma workload in a plastic surgery tertiary referral centre in Scotland. Eur J Plast Surg, 35, 683-688.

Abdelhalim and Chatterjee, in a study conduct in 2012 collect data from a tertiary referral plastic surgery unit center. They examine operative trauma cases to determine procedures, mechanisms and sites of injury, as well as demographic of patients. The study has a comprehensive database that includes weekly logs all about trauma operations that are performed over the span of 7 years at 33 hospitals to be processed in a plastic surgery unit in Scotland. The article assess that the number of procedures depends on the complexity of the injuries. 66% of the injuries are located in the hand and forearm, and 17 % of these incidents resulted from fights and assault. Moreover, the patients are predominantly young males.

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Burkley, M., Burkley, E., Stermer, S.P., Andrade, A., Bell C.A., & Curtis, J. (2014). The ugly duckling effect: Examining fiex versus malleable beliefs about beauty. Social Cognition. ,(32), 466-483.

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The research conduct between July-August 2008 in South Australia. A hundred and eight women between 35-55 years complete a survey to measure the influence of body dissatisfaction, appearance investment, aging anxiety, and media exposure. They ask the participants to report their age, education level, weight and height, and about prior and future interest in cosmetic procedures, and they make a subscale for each factor to see how these factors influence the participants' attitudes. Researchers conclude that aging anxiety and body dissatisfaction are the most significant and positive predictors of cosmetic surgery. They assess also that media exposure provides a powerful acceptance of surgery to enhance