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These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. DISAGREE The Beauty Myth Is No Myth Authors: Jonathan Gottschall Washington & Jefferson College Abstract The phenomenon of apparently greater emphasis on human female physical attractiveness. (Grant Delin/For The Washington Post) By Naomi Wolf Recently, I was at a. Establishing a sampling pool with closer shores and deeper depths would have mitigated the problem of cultural “lumping.” Keywords The Beauty Myth, by Naomi Wolf, became an international bestseller when it was released 20 years ago. Second, we should have focused on a smaller number of distinct culture areas-but in more depth. For instance, assigning overlapping samples of folktales, so that perhaps 10–15 percent of the entire sample would have been coded by all participants, would have provided a more confident indicator of the reliability of the findings as a whole. First, a different method of intercoder reliability testing should have been used. Looking back on this work with the benefit of hindsight, there are at least two main things (along with several smaller things) that should have been done differently. Moreover, this research, along with the study of romantic love presented in the next chapter, was designed to shore up some of the earlier study’s specific methodological limitations. The follow-up study sought to determine if similar patterns would emerge in a content analysis of a different folktale sample using new coders and coding protocol. The study described in this chapter follows up on two of the more dramatic findings from the previously described study: (1) the finding that across regions there are far fewer main female characters, and (2) that sharply more emphasis is placed upon their physical attractiveness.

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