Female plastic surgery patients prefer mirror-reversed photographs of themselves: A prospective study.
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Date publication
janvier 2016
Journal
Journal of plastic, reconstructive & aesthetic surgery : JPRAS
Auteurs
Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Dr CLAUDOT Frédérique
Tous les auteurs :
de Runz A, Boccara D, Chaouat M, Locatelli K, Bertheuil N, Claudot F, Bekara F, Mimoun M
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Résumé
The use of a patient's image in plastic surgery is common today. Thus, plastic surgeons should master the use of the image and be aware of the implications of the patients' perception of themselves. The mere-exposure effect is a psychological phenomenon in which a person tends to rate things more positively merely because (s)he is familiar with them. Faces are asymmetric, so faces in photos are different from those observed in mirrors. The main objective of this study was to assess whether patients within a plastic surgery population, particularly those undergoing facial aesthetic surgery, preferred standard photographs or mirror-reversed photographs of themselves.
Mots clés
Adult, Emotions, Facial Expression, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Middle Aged, Photography, Prospective Studies, Recognition (Psychology), physiology, Rhytidoplasty, methods
Référence
J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2016 Jan;69(1):122-7