What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Social psychology
- Social science
- Statistics
Viren Swami focuses on Social psychology, Developmental psychology, Body mass index, Physical attractiveness and Personality.
His study in Social psychology is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both The Thin Ideal, Body dissatisfaction and Interpersonal attraction.
His work on Psychometrics as part of general Developmental psychology research is often related to Ideation, thus linking different fields of science.
His studies deal with areas such as Sociocultural evolution, Clinical psychology and Set as well as Body mass index.
In Physical attractiveness, Viren Swami works on issues like Cross-cultural, which are connected to Overweight and Obesity.
His Personality course of study focuses on Cynicism and Agreeableness.
His most cited work include:
- The Attractive Female Body Weight and Female Body Dissatisfaction in 26 Countries Across 10 World Regions: Results of the International Body Project I (428 citations)
- Male physical attractiveness in Britain and Malaysia: A cross-cultural study (263 citations)
- Conspiracist ideation in Britain and Austria: Evidence of a monological belief system and associations between individual psychological differences and real‐world and fictitious conspiracy theories (195 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
His primary scientific interests are in Social psychology, Developmental psychology, Clinical psychology, Personality and Body mass index.
His Social psychology research focuses on subjects like Physical attractiveness, which are linked to Demography and Positive illusions.
His studies in Developmental psychology integrate themes in fields like Figure rating scale and Social perception.
His Clinical psychology research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Life satisfaction, Factor structure, Scale and Young adult.
His Personality study frequently intersects with other fields, such as Openness to experience.
His studies in Big Five personality traits integrate themes in fields like Structural equation modeling, Cynicism and Sensation seeking.
He most often published in these fields:
- Social psychology (57.89%)
- Developmental psychology (45.83%)
- Clinical psychology (26.32%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2018-2021)?
- Clinical psychology (26.32%)
- Positive body image (11.62%)
- Confirmatory factor analysis (10.53%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
Clinical psychology, Positive body image, Confirmatory factor analysis, Developmental psychology and Scale are his primary areas of study.
Viren Swami combines subjects such as Body mass index, Factor structure, Brazilian Portuguese and Life satisfaction with his study of Clinical psychology.
His Overweight study in the realm of Body mass index connects with subjects such as Cross national.
His work on Negative body image as part of general Developmental psychology study is frequently linked to Peer review, bridging the gap between disciplines.
His work deals with themes such as Construct and Psychometrics, which intersect with Scale.
His Malay research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Social psychology and Mindfulness.
Between 2018 and 2021, his most popular works were:
- Translation and validation of body image instruments: Challenges, good practice guidelines, and reporting recommendations for test adaptation. (59 citations)
- Factor structure and psychometric properties of a Bahasa Malaysia (Malay) translation of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2). (21 citations)
- Multiple dimensions of interoceptive awareness are associated with facets of body image in British adults (17 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Social psychology
- Social science
- Statistics
Confirmatory factor analysis, Clinical psychology, Construct, Scale and Positive body image are his primary areas of study.
Viren Swami has researched Clinical psychology in several fields, including Body mass index, Facet and Brazilian Portuguese.
Viren Swami works mostly in the field of Scale, limiting it down to topics relating to Psychometrics and, in certain cases, Life satisfaction and Disordered eating, as a part of the same area of interest.
The various areas that Viren Swami examines in his Construct validity study include Social psychology and Personality.
He is interested in Religiosity, which is a branch of Social psychology.
His Malay study incorporates themes from Developmental psychology and Incremental validity.
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