Brett Silverstein and Colleagues (1986)conducted an Archival Analysis of Photographs

question 83

Multiple Choice

Brett Silverstein and colleagues (1986) conducted an archival analysis of photographs of women appearing in Vogue and Ladies Home Journal from 1901 to 1981.These researchers found that

• A) there were remarkable changes in standards of beauty in North America during the twentieth century.
• B) there have never been greater pressures for women to be thin than during the 1970s.
• C) there have never been greater pressures for women to be thin than during the 1960s.
• D) in contrast to women in other countries, women in North America have consistently aspired to "lean" and "thin."
• E) foreign issues of these magazines contained photos of more buxom (i.e., voluptuous and heavy) women.

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