title: Assessment of facial self-image by means of a distorting mirror and its relationship to personality.
abstract: A flexible distorting mirror was used to give a distorted image of volunteers, who then attempted to alter the mirror to give a true reflection of their faces. Their accuracy in performing this task was correlated with age, sex, extroversion, neuroticism and also with total body and facial self-image as obtained from questionnaires. On average, subjects could not accurately define the size of their faces to within 5 cm, and the higher the body image score on the questionnaire, the less well subjects performed on the flexible mirror.
authors.affiliation: Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0440.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Pogrel
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Scott
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001828:Body Image; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010469:Perceptual Distortion; D010556:Personality Tests; D012649:Self Concept