Different Colour Predictions of Facial Preference by Caucasian and Chinese Observers

Facial colour characteristics convey vital personal information and influence social interactions and mate choices as contributing factors to perceived beauty, health, and age. How various colour characteristics would affect facial preference and whether there is a cultural difference are not fully understood. Here, we provide a useful and repeatable methodology for skin colour research based on a realistic skin model to investigate the effect of various facial colour characteristics on facial preference and compare the role of colour predictors in Caucasian (CA) and Chinese (CN) populations. Our results show that, although the averaged skin colour of facial areas plays a limited role, together with colour variation and contrast, there are stronger links between colour and facial preference than previously revealed. We also find large cultural differences in facial colour perceptions. Interestingly, Chinese observers tend to rely more heavily on colour cues to judge facial preference than Caucasian observers.

Discrimination as a Mobbing Behavior

Discrimination is one of the oldest human topics because of human characteristics. From the perspective of last two centuries, it can be supposed that discrimination history is mostly about gender, nationality, race, or skin colour. The topic interested in here is not purely about discrimination in all aspects, but especially about discrimination in the workplace, discriminatory actions, or behaviours in the work-related environment. Discrimination can be considered as a harmful behaviour psychologically in terms of people who are subjected to it. If it occurs in the workplace or in work-related environments, the people who become victim cannot prevent it. At that time, discrimination can be discussed as a mobbing behaviour. Accordingly, the main issue of this chapter is discrimination as a mobbing behaviour.

Autonomic Dysfunction Post-Inoculation with ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 Vaccine

This report describes persistent paresthesia, haemodynamic changes including orthostatic tachycardia, and skin colour changes due to autonomic dysfunction after a single dose of the ChAdOx1-nCoV-19 vaccine (AstraZeneca) in a healthy 29-year-old male.

Skin Colour in India vis-à-vis Bleaching Syndrome Pathology: Augmenting Social Work Curriculum Content

The issue of skin colour has eluded the Indian social work curriculum as an insignificant matter of trivia. However, despite the fact skin colour remains of Indian cultural and social significance. Subsequently, the skin colour issue is then manifested by the bleaching syndrome in stealth inclusive of gender, health and economics. The dynamics of this manifestation are commensurate with dark-skinned Indians in the Indian society at-large. However, reference to the bleaching syndrome is iconoclastic in the Indian scenario and public acknowledgement of it per skin colour is a cultural taboo. While assessing social work curriculum content in an alien Western context, native Indian criteria such as skin colour are rendered vague. Skin colour variables extending from the various sectors of Indian society are then dismissed from curriculum study as insignificant curriculum content. A viable solution might consider inclusion of the bleaching syndrome per skin colour as required curriculum content in Indian social work education to resolve the problem.

Exposing racial bias in midwifery education: a content analysis of images and text in Myles Textbook for Midwives

Objective To determine how people of different races and skin colours are represented within Myles Textbook for Midwives and whether the identified content is clinically relevant to people of all skin colours. Design Content analysis of text and images in Myles Textbook for Midwives 17th Edition, 2020 Findings The images overwhelmingly depict light skinned people of White European appearance. When people of colour are shown they are more likely to be positioned in prominent imagery without specific link to the chapter topic. Descriptions of skin colour in the context of clinical assessment and/or treatment often applied mostly or solely to people with light colour skin. This included text referring to serious conditions or situations associated with severe morbidity or mortality. Key conclusions Myles Textbook for Midwives presents a light skinned White European norm and often fails to include information that is clinically relevant to the assessment and treatment of people with darker skin colours. This may lead to disparity in midwifery education and contribute to poorer outcomes for women and babies. Implications for practice Concrete efforts are required to identify and root out racial bias at all levels of midwifery education. This needs to happen alongside addressing current lack of good quality evidence required to support practice.