1、Unit 5 Personal Care and Appearance 东北大学大学英语Personal Care and Appearance UNIT 5 Reading Topic Preview Text C 3 3 Personal Care and Appearance UNIT 5 Topic Preview What do you do to improve your appearance?Here is some good advice.6 Habits That Help Improve Your Appearance 1.See a barber regularly Ke
2、eping your hair trimmed and smooth is an easier way to look polished.2.Change your bed sheets Changing your bed sheet once every 10 days will reduce your skins contact with grime and dirt on your sheet and pillow cases.3.Get 8 hours of sleep Your body repairs itself when it is unconscious during sle
3、ep.4.Cleanse and moisturize your body This routine can help improve your complexion,reducing acne and the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.5.Drink enough water every day Drinking water on a regular basis gets nearly close to fountain of youth!6.Exercise regularly Regular exercise slows down the
4、 aging process,and makes one look more attractive.Personal Care and Appearance UNIT 5 Text C Pre-reading Questions Text Understanding the Organization of the Text Comprehension Questions 3 3 3 3 Personal Care and Appearance UNIT 5 Pre-reading Questions 1.Do you feel confident in your appearance?2.Wh
5、at do most people do to their appearance,and how is appearance related to an improvement in self-esteem?Personal Care and Appearance UNIT 5 Text C How We Really Rate Our Looks One of skincare brand Doves latest strategies for its international“Real Women”marketing campaign is a short film called Dov
6、e Real Beauty Sketches.This film begins with a woman telling a hidden FBI forensic artist what she looks like,while he is in the process of drawing her.Then she is described by a stranger,which leads to this same artist drawing a picture that is more attractive than the one that is described by her.
7、This process is repeated with another woman and when the subjects finally view their pairs of portraits,they are amazed at the differences between them.Cue the feel-good tagline:you are more beautiful than you think.Personal Care and Appearance UNIT 5 We have a deep-seated need to feel good about ou
8、rselves and we naturally employ a number of self-enhancing(to use the psychological terminology)strategies to improve our sense of self-worth.Social psychologists have amassed oceans of research into what they call the“above average effect”,or“illusory superiority,”and have shown that,for example,70
9、%of us rate ourselves as above average in leadership,93%in driving(across the ages and genders)and 85%at getting on well with others all obviously statistical impossibilities.Personal Care and Appearance UNIT 5 We rose-tint our memories and put ourselves into self-affirming situations.We become defe
10、nsive when criticized,and apply negative stereotypes to others to boost our own esteem.We strut around thinking were hot stuff.Psychologist and behavioral scientist Nicholas Epley oversaw a key study on self-enhancement and attractiveness.Rather than have people simply rate their beauty compared wit
11、h others,he asked them to identify an original photograph of themselves from a lineup including versions that had been morphed to appear more and less attractive.Visual recognition,reads the study,is“an automatic psychological process,occurring rapidly and intuitively with little or no apparent cons
12、cious deliberation”.If subjects quickly chose a falsely flattering image which most did they genuinely believed that was really how they looked.Personal Care and Appearance UNIT 5 Epley found no significant gender difference in responses.Nor was there any evidence that those who self-enhanced the mo
13、st(that is,the participants who thought the most positively doctored pictures were real)were doing so to make up for profound insecurities.In fact,those who thought that the images higher up the attractiveness scale were real directly corresponded with those who showed other markers for having highe
14、r self-esteem.“I dont think the findings that we have are any evidence of personal delusion,”says Epley.“Its a reflection simply of people generally thinking well of themselves.”Given the results of Epleys study,it makes sense that many people hate photographs of themselves;indeed,some dont even rec
15、ognize the persons in the picture as themselves.However,with social media like Facebook,all people can share only the flattering photos,the cream of their wit,style,beauty,intellect and lifestyle.Its not that peoples profiles are dishonest,says Catalina Toma of the Univeristy of Wisconsin,“but they
16、portray idealized versions of themselves.”Personal Care and Appearance UNIT 5 A study Toma conducted this year found that admiring ones own Facebook profile has obvious self-affirming effects,and that people are naturally attracted to Facebook for a boost when their ego has been knocked.Her unwitting participants were asked to carry out a public speaking task,only to receive crushingly negative feedback.Half of the subjects were allowed to read their own Facebook profiles before receiving the fe
