It's narcissists who are perfectionists.
Call it their own Snopes.com sleuthing. But hearing again and again that narcissistic self-absorption and perfectionistic striving fuel the current boom in cosmetic surgery, researchers at Canada's Dalhousie University decided to poke around a bit in the assumptions. To do so, they recruited 305 undergraduate women, and had each one complete tried-and-true diagnostic questionnaires returning measures of narcissism and perfectionism, along with one measuring interest in cosmetic surgery.
The researchers discovered that neither narcissism nor perfectionism predicted interest in cosmetic surgery. However, women scoring high on measures for both diagnoses showed the strongest interest in cosmetic surgery of any women in the study.
The implications of this study may be profound--for plastic surgeons. In the June 2011 issuse of Plastic and Reconstruction Surgery: The Journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the authors speculate that cosmetic surgeons' patients may be grandiose and demanding to a fault--and, by diagnosis, "nearly impossible to satisfy," no matter how objectively successful their cosmetic surgery was.
Next up: How would 305 cosmetic surgeons perform on measures of depression, anger, and desire for a new career?
Sunday, October 09, 2011
Saturday, October 01, 2011
Because Mom Likes Valentine's Day and Hates Halloween
A hugely pregnant woman and her OBGYN walk into a bar. The woman says, "When will this baby ever come?" And the OBGYN says, ....
It's a joke waiting for a punchline--that's been delivered (ba-da-bum) in the October 2011 issue of Social Science and Medicine. And here's the punchline: The baby's arrival may be either delayed or hurried along by Mom's emotions.
Researchers at the Yale University School of Medicine's School of Public Health analyzed birth certificate information for all births in the United States for the weeks before and after Valentine's Day and Halloween across 11 years. They determined that on Valentine's Day there was a 3.6% increase in spontaneous births and a 12.1% increase in cesarean births. On Halloween, however, there was a 5.3% decrease in spontaneous births and a 16.9% decrease in cesarean births.
It's a joke waiting for a punchline--that's been delivered (ba-da-bum) in the October 2011 issue of Social Science and Medicine. And here's the punchline: The baby's arrival may be either delayed or hurried along by Mom's emotions.
Researchers at the Yale University School of Medicine's School of Public Health analyzed birth certificate information for all births in the United States for the weeks before and after Valentine's Day and Halloween across 11 years. They determined that on Valentine's Day there was a 3.6% increase in spontaneous births and a 12.1% increase in cesarean births. On Halloween, however, there was a 5.3% decrease in spontaneous births and a 16.9% decrease in cesarean births.
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