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Martin J. Tovée is affiliated with Northumbria University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the field of psychology, with a strong focus on clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, gender studies, and marketing.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics including eating disorders and behaviors, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, obesity, physical activity and diet, body image and dysmorphia studies, obesity and health practices, consumer behavior in brand consumption and identification, and behavioral health and interventions.

Frequent publication venues for Martin J. Tovée include Clinical Psychology Forum, Body Image, Frontiers in Psychology, Children, and British Journal of Health Psychology.

Among recent papers are the following:

  • Muscles and the Media: A Natural Experiment Across Cultures in Men's Body Image (2020) published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • Using immersive virtual reality to modify body image (2020) published in Body Image
  • Targeting body image in eating disorders (2021) published in Current Opinion in Psychology
  • Beyond BMI for self-estimates of body size and shape: A new method for developing stimuli correctly calibrated for body composition (2020) published in Behavior Research Methods
  • Sociocultural drivers of body image and eating disorder risk in rural Nicaraguan women (2022) published in Journal of Eating Disorders

Martin J. Tovée has collaborated frequently with a number of researchers, including Piers L. Cornelissen, Kristofor McCarty, Robin S. S. Kramer, Elizabeth H. Evans, and Bethany J. Ridley.

Best Publications

  • Processing speed in the cerebral cortex and the neurophysiology of visual masking.

    Edmund T. rolls;Martin J. tovee

  • Male physical attractiveness in Britain and Malaysia: A cross-cultural study

    Viren Swami;Martin J. Tovée

  • Fluctuations in attention PD dementia vs DLB with parkinsonism

    C.G. Ballard;D. Aarsland;I. McKeith;J. O’Brien

  • Visual cues to female physical attractiveness.

    M. J. Tovée;D. S. Maisey;J. L. Emery;P. L. Cornelissen

  • Information encoding and the responses of single neurons in the primate temporal visual cortex

    Martin J. Tovee;Edmund T. Rolls;Alessandro Treves;Raymond P. Bellis

  • Female and male perceptions of female physical attractiveness in front-view and profile

    Martin J. Tovée;Piers L. Cornelissen

  • An introduction to the visual system

    Martin J. Tovée

  • Optimum body-mass index and maximum sexual attractiveness

    MJ Tovée;S Reinhardt;JL Emery;PL Cornelissen

  • The Neurophysiology of Backward Visual Masking: Information Analysis

    Edmund T. Rolls;Martin J. Tovée;Stefano Panzeri

  • Changing perceptions of attractiveness as observers are exposed to a different culture

    Martin J. Tovée;Viren Swami;Adrian Furnham;Roshila Mangalparsad

  • Characteristics of male attractiveness for women

    D. S. Maisey;E. L. E. Vale;P. L. Cornelissen;M. J. Tovee

  • Attention and fluctuating attention in patients with dementia with lewy bodies and alzheimer disease

    Clive Ballard;John O'Brien;Alistair Gray;Franchesca Cormack

  • Initial examination of the validity and reliability of the female photographic figure rating scale for body image assessment

    Viren Swami;Natalie Salem;Adrian Furnham;Martin J. Tovée

  • Female physical attractiveness in Britain and Malaysia: A cross-cultural study

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  • Oscillatory activity is not evident in the primate temporal visual cortex with static stimuli.

    Martin J. Tovee;Edmund T. Rolls

  • Human female attractiveness: waveform analysis of body shape.

    Martin J Tovee;Peter J B Hancock;Sasan Mahmoodi;Ben R R Singleton

  • The relationship between cone pigments and behavioural sensitivity in a new world monkey (Callithrix jacchus jacchus)

    M.J. Tovée;J.K. Bowmaker;J.D. Mollon

  • Pentagon drawing and neuropsychological performance in Dementia with Lewy Bodies, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and Parkinson's disease with dementia

    Francesca Cormack;Dag Aarsland;Clive Ballard;Martin J. Tovée

  • The responses of single neurons in the temporal visual cortical areas of the macaque when more than one stimulus is present in the receptive field

    Edmund T. Rolls;Martin J. Tovee

  • The Eating Disorder Belief Questionnaire: Preliminary development

    Myra Cooper;Esther Cohen-Tovée;Gillian Todd;Adrian Wells

  • Measurement of body size and shape perception in eating-disordered and control observers using body-shape software.

    Martin J. Tovée;Philip J. Benson;Joanne L. Emery;Suzanne M. Mason

Frequent Co-Authors

Viren Swami
Viren Swami Anglia Ruskin University
Piers L. Cornelissen
Piers L. Cornelissen Northumbria University
Adrian Furnham
Adrian Furnham BI Norwegian Business School
Peter J. B. Hancock
Peter J. B. Hancock University of Stirling
Philip J. Benson
Philip J. Benson University of Aberdeen
Melissa Bateson
Melissa Bateson Newcastle University
Falko F. Sniehotta
Falko F. Sniehotta Newcastle University
Martin Voracek
Martin Voracek University of Vienna
Stefan Stieger
Stefan Stieger Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences
James W. Pennebaker
James W. Pennebaker The University of Texas at Austin

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