Professor Lynda Boothroyd, from our Department of Psychology, discusses the flexibility of body weight perceptions in children and young adults, as part of a first-of-its-kind study. What we think of ...

Among adults, we can see the same effects with body weight that we see with face shape in adults and children. If we are shown a lot of heavy bodies, the bodies we rate as attractive get heavier ...

What we think of as "normal" body shape is affected by what we're accustomed to—the range of body shapes we see. My new research with colleagues shows that this is true for young children as ...

Children, free from judgment and full of hope, remind us of the world’s beauty. Isn’t it both an opportunity and our duty to help them shape a better future? So why wouldn’t we─individuals ...

“Stamps can be in different shapes and sizes ... a stamp from the postman one day,” says Wong Jie Ern, seven. ITEM: Kids love pasta, be it spaghetti, bow tie, angel hair or penne.