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Blogs and Op-eds

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​Millian-Dollar Smiles - The Normalisation of Cosmetic Smiles - Psychology Today (April 2025)

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​Bustles and Butt Lifts: What Won’t We Do for Beauty? - Psychology Today (April 2024)

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Making Up to Make the Grade - Psychology Today (March 2024)

Social Media and Unrealistic Beauty Ideals - Psychology Today (January 2024)

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Will Weight-Loss Drugs Change Our Ideal Bodies? - Psychology Today (October 2023)

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AI confirms our unrealistic body ideals - Psychology Today (May 2023)

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To resist the rising demands of beauty, we should start by abstaining from body shame - ABC Australia (June 2022)

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#EverydayLookism – Body Image As A Public Health Issue – Beauty Demands (March 2021)

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​How the Global Beauty Ideal Pressures Women to Be "Perfect" – Psychology Today (February 2021)

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​Dad Bods and Six Packs: Are We All to be Looked at Now? – Psychology Today (February 2021)

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​Eat and Be Merry, for Tomorrow We Diet! – Psychology Today (January 2021)

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Beauty without the Beast: Can we learn from Lockdown? – Beauty Demands (August 2020)

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Body Image in Lockdown – Psychology Today (April 2020)

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Better Body, Better Self? Why so many people are likely to undergo plastic surgery in the new year – Beauty Demands (January 2020)

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​“Girls who wear make-up are fake”: #everydaylookism stories tell us that we may never get it right - Psychology Today (January 2020)

“I can’t believe you don’t have a thigh gap”: #everydaylookism and why we should be ashamed to body shame - Psychology Today (January 2020)

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“Ew, your legs are so hairy”: On #everydaylookism and the normalisation of the hairless body - Psychology Today (January 2020)

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​Be ashamed of body shaming - Psychology Today (January 2020)

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New Year, New You? Why We Think a Better Body Will Be a Better Self - The Conversation (January 2020)

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Join the #everydaylookism Campaign - Psychology Today (November 2019)

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​What's Wrong with Body Positivity? - Psychology Today (July 2019)

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​​​Plastic Perfection: Wanting the "Love Island" Body - Psychology Today (June 2019)

​​How Positive is Body Positivity? - Psychology Today (April 2019)

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​​Januhairy: Liberation within limits – Psychology Today (Jan 2019)

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My Body, My Self? - Psychology Today (January 2019)

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​Improve Your Body, Improve Yourself? – Psychology Today (January 2019)

Fantastic Beasts – experts explain the mysterious real life questions behind JK Rowling’s magic tales - The Conversation (November 2018)

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​Dying for the Perfect Butt - why is There a Rising Demand for the Deadliest Cosmetic Procedure? - Psychology Today (October 2018)

​Aspirational Bodies and the Pressures to be Perfect – Psychology Today (October 2018)

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A Duty to Be Beautiful? – Psychology Today (July 2018)

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​Body Hair is Natural - Society Thinking Otherwise is Dangerous - Time (June 2018)

If You Want to Lose Weight, Ask Yourself: is This Really Self-Improvement? - The Conversation (January 2018)

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​Beauty’s neglected harms – Beauty Demands (December 2017)

​Weinstein, philosophy and structures of abuse - iai News (November 2017)

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​How the Duty to be Beautiful is Making Young Girls Feel Like Failures - The Conversation (June 2017)

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​Pressures to be perfect! – Beauty Demands (October 2016)

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​Variations on a beauty theme: the uses of ‘normal’ – Beauty Demands (December 2015)

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​Beauty Ideals: An Emerging Global Norm? – Beauty Demands (October 2015)

​Advertisements for Cosmetic Surgery and Beauty Practices – Beauty Demands (June 2015)

​​Why Beauty Matters – Beauty Demands (May 2015)
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