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Viren Swami is affiliated with Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom. Their research is primarily situated within the field of psychology, with a concentration in clinical psychology. Their scholarly work further extends into subfields including social psychology, applied psychology, sociology and political science, as well as health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

Their publications reflect a focus on topics such as eating disorders and behaviors, body image and dysmorphia studies, behavioral health and interventions, urban green space and health, obesity and health practices, media influence and health, and maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Viren Swami include Jennifer Todd, David Barron, Adrian Furnham, Stefan Stieger, and Christophe Maïano. These collaborations span multiple research projects and contribute to the multidisciplinary nature of their work.

Viren Swami often publishes in journals such as Body Image, PsycTESTS Dataset, PLoS ONE, Appetite, and Personality and Individual Differences. Among these, Body Image is a prominent venue where they have contributed extensively.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Viren Swami include:

  • COVID-19-related stress and anxiety are associated with negative body image in adults from the United Kingdom, 2020, Personality and Individual Differences
  • Translation and validation of body image instruments: An addendum to Swami and Barron (2019) in the form of frequently asked questions, 2021, Body Image

Additional notable recent papers relevant to their research interests include:

  • Conspiracy mentality and political orientation across 26 countries, 2022, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Emotional Well-Being Under Conditions of Lockdown: An Experience Sampling Study in Austria During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2021, Journal of Happiness Studies
  • Investigating the Links Between Cultural Values and Belief in Conspiracy Theories: The Key Roles of Collectivism and Masculinity, 2020, Political Psychology

Best Publications

  • The Attractive Female Body Weight and Female Body Dissatisfaction in 26 Countries Across 10 World Regions: Results of the International Body Project I

    Viren Swami;David A Frederick;Toivo Aavik;Lidia Alcalay

  • Analytic thinking reduces belief in conspiracy theories

    Viren Swami;Martin Voracek;Stefan Stieger;Ulrich S. Tran

  • Development and validation of the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-4 (SATAQ-4).

    Lauren M. Schaefer;Natasha L. Burke;J. Kevin Thompson;Robert F. Dedrick

  • Unanswered questions: A preliminary investigation of personality and individual difference predictors of 9/11 conspiracist beliefs

    Viren Swami;Viren Swami;Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic;Adrian Furnham

  • 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

    Viren Swami;Viren Swami;Rebecca Coles;Stefan Stieger;Jakob Pietschnig

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

    Viren Swami;Martin J. Tovée

  • Translation and validation of body image instruments: Challenges, good practice guidelines, and reporting recommendations for test adaptation.

    Viren Swami;David Barron

  • Social psychological origins of conspiracy theories: the case of the jewish conspiracy theory in malaysia.

    Viren Swami;Viren Swami

  • Cultural Influences on Body Size Ideals

    Viren Swami

  • Acceptance of cosmetic surgery: personality and individual difference predictors.

    Viren Swami;Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic;Stacey Bridges;Adrian Furnham

  • Gender, health inequalities and welfare state regimes: a cross-national study of 13 European countries

    Clare Bambra;Daniel P Pope;Viren Swami;Debbi L Stanistreet

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

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

  • The psychology of physical attraction

    Viren Swami;Adrian Furnham

  • Personality, individual differences, and demographic antecedents of self-reported household waste management behaviours

    Viren Swami;Viren Swami;Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic;Rosemary S. Snelgar;Adrian Furnham

  • The social construction of gender and its influence on suicide: a review of the literature

    Sarah Payne;Viren Swami;Debbi L. Stanistreet

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  • Systematic review of approaches to using patient experience data for quality improvement in healthcare settings

    Helen Gleeson;Ana Calderon;Viren Swami;Jessica Deighton

  • Human preferences for sexually dimorphic faces may be evolutionarily novel

    Isabel M. Scott;Andrew P. Clark;Steven C. Josephson;Adam H. Boyette

  • Mental Health Literacy: A Review of What It Is and Why It Matters

    Adrian Furnham;Viren Swami

  • Factors that affect the likelihood of undergoing cosmetic surgery.

    Amy Brown;Adrian Furnham;Louise Glanville;Viren Swami

  • 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

  • Personality and individual difference correlates of positive body image

    Viren Swami;Maria Hadji-Michael;Adrian Furnham

Frequent Co-Authors

Adrian Furnham
Adrian Furnham BI Norwegian Business School
Stefan Stieger
Stefan Stieger Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences
Martin Voracek
Martin Voracek University of Vienna
Martin J. Tovée
Martin J. Tovée Northumbria University
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic University College London
Ulrich S. Tran
Ulrich S. Tran University of Vienna
David A. Frederick
David A. Frederick Chapman University
Tracy L. Tylka
Tracy L. Tylka The Ohio State University
Rachel M. Calogero
Rachel M. Calogero University of Western Ontario
Félix Neto
Félix Neto University of Porto

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