Measuring positive and negative body talk in men and women: The development and validation of the Body Talk Scale

AbstractWhile flirting is a relatively underresearched area within psychology, even less is known about how people cyber-flirt. This paper explores how often individuals flirt offline compared to online. Moreover, it attempts to examine how men and women flirt within these different spaces. Five thousand, six hundred and ninety-seven individuals, of which 3554 (62%) were women and 2143 (38%) were men, completed a survey about their flirting behaviour both in face-to-face interactions and in chatrooms. The first hypothesis, which stated that the body would be used to flirt with as frequently online as offline, was partly supported. However, it was found that individuals downplayed the importance of physical attractiveness online. Women flirted by displaying nonverbal signals (offline) or substitutes for nonverbal cues (online), to a greater extent than men. In chatrooms men were more likely than women to initiate contact. It is concluded that cyber-flirting is more than simply a meeting of minds and that future research needs to consider the role of the body in online interactions.

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Effect of shodhana and shamana chikitsa in mandala kustha (psoriasis): A case study

National Journal of Research in Ayurved Science ◽

10.52482/ayurlog.v7i03.364 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (03) ◽

Author(s):

Jyoti Bala Sahu

Keyword(s):

Body Temperature ◽

The Body ◽

Entire Body ◽

Men And Women ◽

Remarkable Improvement ◽

Males And Females ◽

Regulate Body Temperature ◽

Old Men

Skin is the largest organ of the body both by surface area and weight. This covers the entire body. The thickness of skin varies considerably over all parts of the body and between young and old, men and women. It helps to regulate body temperature, stores water fat and permit sensation of touch. Psoriasis is a chronic dermatosis characterized by covered by silvery loose scales. Treatment available on contemporary system is not curative but suppressive only. The prevalence of psoriasis is 8%. Prevalence equal in males and females. A case of Mandala Kustha discussed here. Patient successfully treated with Shodhana (Virechana karma) & Shamana Chikitsa. After course of 2 months treatment provides significant relief in Sign and Symptoms. In our classics mentioned Shodhana Chikitsa for Kustha Roga. Considering the sign and symptoms of patient was treated with classical Virechana karma (therapeutic purgation) and Shamana Chikitsa according to line of treatment of Kustha (Psoriasis). Assessment was done on before treatment, after treatment and after follow up of 2 months; pictures were taken before treatment and after treatment. Remarkable improvement was noticed, induration and itching after Virechana treatment.

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Images of the body and the reproductive system among men and women living in shantytowns in Porto Alegre, Brazil

Reproductive Health Matters ◽

10.1016/s0968-8080(01)90086-2 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 9 (18) ◽

pp. 22-33 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Ceres G. Victora ◽

Daniela R. Knauth

Keyword(s):

Reproductive System ◽

The Body ◽

Porto Alegre ◽

Men And Women

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Weavers & Warriors? Gender and Online Identity in 1997 and 2007 V1.0

Transforming Cultures eJournal ◽

10.5130/tfc.v2i2.637 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Deirdre Ruane

Keyword(s):

Preliminary Investigation ◽

The Body ◽

Internet Technology ◽

Online Identity ◽

Men And Women ◽

Online Interactions ◽

And Performance ◽

And Gender ◽

Set Up ◽

Active Exploration

In 1997 the Internet was seen by many as a tool for radical reinterpretation of physicality and gender. Cybertheorists predicted we would leave our bodies behind and interact online as disembodied minds, and that the technology would reshape the way we saw ourselves. However, physicality has proved to be an inextricable part of all our interactions. Changing Internet technology has allowed Net users to find a myriad ways to perform and express their gender online. In this paper I consider attitudes to gender on the Net in 1997, when the main concerns were the imbalance between men and women online and whether it was possible or desirable to bring the body into online interactions. In much of the discourse surrounding gender online, a simple binary was assumed to exist. I go on to consider the extent to which those attitudes have changed today. Through my own experience of setting up a women’s community on Livejournal, and my observations of a men’s community set up in response, I conclude that though traditional attitudes to gender have largely translated to the Net and the binary is still the default view, some shifts have occurred. For example, between 1997 and today there seems to have been a fundamental change in perceptions of women’s attitudes to adversarial debate, and an increase in awareness of genders beyond the binary. In addition, experience and preliminary investigation lead me toward a hypothesis that today’s female-identified Net users are engaged in more conscious and active exploration and performance of their gender online than male-identified users are.

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TALKING PARTS, TALKING BACK: FLESHING OUT LINGUISTIC CITIZENSHIP

Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada ◽

10.1590/010318138877711120201211 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 59 (3) ◽

pp. 1636-1658

Author(s):

Christopher Stroud ◽

Quentin Williams ◽

Ndimphiwe Bontiya ◽

Janine Harry ◽

Koki Kapa ◽

...

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

The Body ◽

Men And Women ◽

Linguistic Citizenship ◽

Insight Into

ABSTRACT One of the greatest challenges of our times is that of lack of voice for abused bodies. These are the bodies of children and men and women who have inherited the brutalities of colonialism, plantation servitude and slavery and now re-live these miseries in the belly of a rampant global neoliberal and patriarchal capitalism. They are the racialized, sexualized, genderized and godless bodies that first took form in coloniality-modernity in conjunction with the emergence of MAN, the White, rational, disembodied male as HUMAN. They retain their shape today through technologies of vulnerability, with which the manufactured lack of voice works in dynamic synergy. This is particularly the case for South Africa, with its tender histories and distraught presents, raw emotion and sore vulnerabilities of racialized and neoliberal patriarchy. In this paper, we suggest that vulnerability, beyond its potentially devastating effect on souls and livelihoods, may also be a productive site for the articulation of alternative, and habitually silenced voices. In this regard, we explore how a focus on acts of Linguistic Citizenship may orientate thinking on voice and agency to different sites of the body, as well as allow insight into the complex technologies and practices of vulnerability.

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Men and women do not have the same relation between body composition and postural sway

Journal of Morphological Sciences ◽

10.4322/jms.092715 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 32 (02) ◽

pp. 093-097 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

A. Alonso ◽

L. Mochizuki ◽

N. Luna ◽

A. Canonica ◽

R. Souza ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Body Composition ◽

Body Mass ◽

Bone Mineral ◽

Postural Sway ◽

Multiple Linear Regression Model ◽

The Body ◽

Lower Limbs ◽

Quiet Standing ◽

Mineral Density ◽

Men And Women

Abstract Introduction: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the influence of body composition on the postural sway during quiet standing. Our hypothesis is that men and women do not have the same relation between body composition and postural sway during quiet standing. Materials and Methods: Participated in the study 50 men and 50 women; age range: 20-40 years old. The main outcome measures were: Body composition (bone densitometry), percentage of fat (% fat) tissue (g), fat (g), lean mass (g), bone mineral content (g) and bone mineral density (g/cm2); Anthropometry: body mass (kg), height (cm), length of the trunk-head (cm), length of lower limbs (cm). The following indices were calculated: body mass index (BMI) (kg/m2) and Postural balance test - center ofpressure displacement. Results: The correlation analysis showed low correlations between postural sway and anthropometric variables. The multiple linear regression model showed that the body composition and the anthropometry were able to explain only men's postural sway. Conclusion: The postural sway is sex type dependent. Men and women have different relations between body composition and postural sway. Only male's body composition affected the body sway.

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