Beauty Contest Research Articles

How cognitive skills affect strategic behavior: Cognitive ability, fluid intelligence and judgment

We explore the influence of cognitive ability and judgment on strategic behavior in the beauty contest game (where the Nash equilibrium action is zero). Using the level-k model of bounded rationality, cognitive ability and judgment both predict higher level strategic thinking. However, individuals with better judgment choose zero less frequently, and we uncover a novel dynamic mechanism that sheds light on this pattern. Taken together, our results indicate that fluid (i.e., analytical) intelligence is a primary driver of strategic level-k thinking, while facets of judgment that are distinct from fluid intelligence drive the lower inclination of high judgment individuals to choose zero.

“But on Sunday, They Are Free”

This article examines the site of the home in Baby Ruth Villarama's 2016 documentary Sunday Beauty Queen to better understand how tomboy migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong mess up and queer domesticity. By focusing on the appearances in the film of the home of Leo Selomenio, a tomboy Filipino migrant domestic helper and organizer of Sunday beauty pageants, the author explores alternative modes of care performed by tomboys that refuse respectability politics as they operate within transnational migrant labor structures. Despite the regulatory and confining modes of racialized and gendered care that structure global care work, Selomenio reconfigures and reshapes his home to operate as a site of refuge, an archive, a gathering space, and a site of resistance. Engaging in what the author terms “tomboy domesticity,” Selomenio utilizes his control over home space and time as a result of his exemption from the live-in requirement of his work to ensure collective survival in the face of labor precarity. Selomenio's performance of care ethics that refuse the state's neglect of domestic helpers articulates tomboy and diasporic Filipino life as valuable outside of its capacity to labor.

‘This modern Cinderella’: Railway Queens, mass media, and British civic culture, 1925–75

Abstract Between 1925 and 1975, the British railway industry elected beauty queens from the daughters of employees. Focusing upon the Railway Queens, this article will reveal the importance of beauty queens as ‘civic celebrities’, a novel role for public figures that emerged between the wars and helped to sustain a vibrant civic culture across the early to mid-twentieth century. It combined the traditional ceremonial function of ‘civic’ representative with the modern consumerist ethos of media ‘celebrity’. Despite the gendered constraints of such competitions, this article posits that serving as a beauty queen enabled young working-class women to become legitimate representatives of various civic communities for the first time, whilst also enabling participation in the media’s image-making of glamorous, consumerist femininities. As such, the role rendered civic and consumer cultures more inclusive and increasingly inextricable. This article further suggests that civic celebrities altered how communities were represented to themselves within British civic culture. If elites continued to represent hierarchical communities of authority and deference, then from the 1920s onwards, civic celebrities such as beauty queens began to represent relatively democratic communities of non-partisan inclusivity and consumer aspiration.

Informed traders, beauty contest and stock price volatility: Evidence from laboratory markets

AbstractWhether informed investors (e.g., professionals) trade stocks based on the fundamentals or ride on market sentiment is an empirical question, but few attempts have been made due to the lack of field data. We, therefore, conduct a laboratory experiment and examine if informed investors trade stocks based on their anticipation of less‐informed investors' valuation. In our experimental market, informed traders know the fundamental value of the stock; less‐informed traders do not know the accurate value and their valuation may be biased upwards or downwards. We find that informed traders ride on the (mis)valuations of less‐informed traders, and the speculative trades of the informed traders significantly affect stock prices. Our experimental result explains why stock prices are subject to the mass psychology sentiment even in markets with informed investors.

Beauty Pageants in the Japanese Colonial Era of Korea (1931 and 1940).

The aim of this study was to analyze the beauty pageants that were held in Korea during the Japanese colonial era (1931, 1940). Through searches of www.google.com and www.naver.com , 3 pageants were found: (1) 1931, Miss Korea, organized by Samchunli (a magazine): Any Korean woman, with the exception of Korean geishas, could apply by submitting her photographs. The number of candidates was 326. Nine Korean judges evaluated the photos of the candidates. Among them, the victor was an 18-year-old Korean woman. (2) 1931 (Oct), Miss Joseon, organized by Osaka Mainichi Shimbun: The candidates were categorized into 2 groups: 10 "internals" (Japanese) and 10 Koreans. Their heights and weights, along with their photographs, were provided for the readers' reference. The winners were determined based on the readers' votes. The Japanese victor was a 21-year-old student with a height of 150cm and a weight of 52kg (body mass index [BMI] 23.11kg/m 2 ). The Korean winner was a 19-year-old student standing at 157cm and weighing 53kg (BMI 21.50kg/m 2 ). (3) 1940, Venus of the Peninsula, organized by Modern Japan (a magazine): The candidates were Korean women residing in Japan or Korea. The panel of judges evaluated the photographs of the candidates. The victor was a 20-year-old Korean geisha. Her winning photograph was featured in the Korean edition of the magazine Modern Japan. She stood at 157cm in height and weighed 45kg (BMI 18.25kg/m 2 ). As beauty standards evolved over time, the beauty standards of the 1930s were markedly different from those of today.

Acceptability of AutoBeaut: An Automated Judging System for Beauty Pageants Throughout the Five Years Operation

The Philippines is a home of hospitable, peace-loving, beautiful, handsome, and intelligent people. Beauty contests are always part of traditions and in celebrating festivals, fiestas, and other social activities. When the beauty contests are done, people often feel disappointed in the results because errors usually occur in the manual computation of the scores. As a result, the judges are oftentimes commented as biased, that judges have their proteges, and favoritism prevails. Thus, with the advent of technology, AutoBeaut was developed, intended for barangays, municipalities, organizations, and institutions. The contests consist of different categories to be competed in by the candidates, and every category has its own criteria. The application runs on desktop computers and mobile phones. The pageant's results will be sent to the server, and the tabulated results will be printed. The Prototyping Model was used in the development of the system. The system was used in the different beauty pageants, especially for organizations or agencies requesting the Pageant Computerized Tabulation System. This is one of the extension activities of the College of Computer Studies, particularly the Bachelor of Science in Information Technology. The system is important in computing, tabulating, and monitoring the scores given by the judges to every candidate. Results would be readily accessible once the judges entered the points garnered by candidates. It will lessen and hasten the work of the judges and statisticians and provide fast, accurate, valid, and reliable results that can be retrieved anytime if somebody needs the computation for reference. The system was tested and evaluated by the respondents based on ISO 25010 and rated as “Very Acceptable” among the different criteria set.

Stduy on Recognition of Problems and Improvement Method in Beauty Contest: Targeting Judge and Organizing Committee Members

The study was conducted on judges and organizers of beauty contests in South Gyeongsang Province. According to a survey of 203 people, most were women in their 20s, who were highly educated (four-year college graduation or enrollment), and there were many people who were not married. There were many people who were active in the beauty field. According to the research results, caring for participants in the operation and service sectors of the competition was recognized as the biggest problem, and it was difficult to connect with various competition events in terms of education. In terms of cultural value, there was a perception that it did not meet the international level. The opinion that the focus should be on competition events and education as an improvement measure prevailed. In particular, there was a strong opinion that the promotion of competition regulations and screening regulations was necessary in advance. In addition, it was suggested that the development of competition events to improve participants' practical skills and the establishment of networks to attract foreign participants are important. Lastly, people with a lot of experience in beauty contests showed high awareness of the competition events and plans to improve education. The results of this study can be used as important information for the development of beauty contests in Korea.

THE PROBLEM OF NATIONAL IDENTITY IN MARTIN MCDONAGH’S THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE

The end of the nineteenth century was a turning point for Irish theatre with the establishment of the Irish Literary Theatre as playwrights attempted to write national plays disengaging from the British theatre. This period is known as the Celtic Revival, a period of building a national identity both by political and cultural action, during which the playwrights contributed to the rejuvenation of the old Irish myths and traditions. However, at the end of the twentieth century when Ireland became a multicultural country with multiple identities, and opened to the outer world politically and economically, the Irish theatre, too, started to change its outlook by problematizing the nationalistic elements of Irishness instead of glorifying the national and cultural values. The Irish playwright, Martin McDonagh has also maintained a pluralist approach challenging the traditional and national elements in his plays. Instead of adhering to a national identity, McDonagh believes in cultural pluralism to adapt to the new century. McDonagh’s pluralist approach will be discussed with Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of ‘nomadic identity’ and ‘rhizome’. Thus, this paper aims to analyze how McDonagh problematizes the national identity in The Beauty Queen of Leenane by portraying characters, who are incarcerated by meaningless national values and norms.

Monsieur Mosse

Raimo Jääskeläinen, better known as Monsieur Mosse (1932–1992), was a hairdresser, makeup artist, gossip columnist, convicted blackmailer, and Finland’s first out gay male celebrity. The topic of endless articles, befriending and falling out with beauty queens and fashion models, publishing a tell-all memoir elaborating on his taste for luxury, working for straight porn magazines and briefly editing one, Mosse was both the subject and object of popular media and, in his flamboyance, a key domestic celebrity figure of the 1970s and 1980s. Meanwhile, his relationship with the gay rights movement was frictional at best in that his brand was considered “dishonorable” vis-à-vis liberatory politics. Building on media historical inquiry and taking cue from Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller’s (2022) popular argument for studying “bad gays” – historical figures not fitting aspirational and inspirational narratives of queer activism and agency – this article examines Mosse’s trajectory as a celebrity, focusing especially on his 1980s collaborations with the sex press. We argue that Mosse’s particular brand of shameless extravagance and candid gossiping knowingly operationalized “badness” as a vehicle of distinction and visibility in a largely homophobic national context.

Ideologi dalam Bahasa Perempuan terhadap Dugaan Pelecehan Seksual di Ajang Kontes Kecantikan: Analisis Wacana Kritis

The case of sexual harassment involving women as victims can be seen from the news in the news media lately is quite shocking, a number of female finalists of Miss Universe Indonesia 2023 came to Polda Metro Jaya to file a report about the alleged harassment of her without clothes. The purpose of this research is to uncover ideology in women's language towards alleged sexual harassment in beauty pageants. In accordance with these objectives, qualitative descriptive is used as an approach to this research. The data of this research is in the form of lingual features obtained during online netnographic observation of participants on Instagram belonging to the finalists of Miss Universe Indonesia (MUID) 2023, peagent portal, and Yayasan Puteri Indonesia. The data were collected using Kozinets' (2010) netnography procedure, which is a form of adoption of ethnographic techniques in the realm of cyberspace. Online netnography observations in this study were conducted through device screens and laptops observing the status uploaded on instgram accounts. To analyze the data, Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis model is used, namely description, interpretation, and explanation. The findings of this research are the existence of ideological manifestations, namely (1) ideology 1: "fighting for women's rights in beauty contests", (2) ideology II: "feeling what harassed women feel", (3) ideology III: "trusting the law in upholding justice for victims", and (4) ideology IV: "erasing the negative stigma of society towards beauty pageants". The conclusion of this study is that women choose and utilize certain lingual forms and ignore other forms, namely institutional processes and sociocultural processes.

Practice and Summary of Skills Competition in Higher Vocational Colleges

To realize the integration of higher vocational skills competition and the world Traditional Chinese Medicine Beauty Competition, so that the vocational skills competition leads the professional construction and curriculum system reform of higher vocational colleges. To carry out international academic exchanges and promote the construction of teaching materials in our college has made outstanding achievements. Participate in skills competition to improve students learning ability. Promote the construction of practical teaching and training bases inside and outside the school.

Discussing crucial race issues by examining beauty pageants

Earlier this year, Brittany Lee Lewis, an adjunct professor at George Washington University in D.C. and Wilmington University in Delaware, appeared on the A&E docuseries “Secrets of Miss America,” discussing issues that African American women have faced in the beauty pageant world. While Lewis teaches courses about African American, urban and U.S. 20th‐century history, there's another reason the TV show sought her expertise. Nine years ago, Lewis was crowned Miss Delaware 2014 and she competed in the Miss America contest.

Discussing crucial race issues by examining beauty pageants

Earlier this year, Brittany Lee Lewis, an adjunct professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and Wilmington University in Wilmington, Delaware, appeared on the A&E docuseries Secrets of Miss America discussing issues that African American women have faced in the beauty pageant world. While Lewis teaches courses about African American, urban, and 20th‐century U.S. history, there's another reason the TV show sought her expertise. Nine years ago, Lewis was crowned Miss Delaware 2014, and she competed in the Miss America contest.

Anthropometric analysis of the faces of Chinese beauty pageant winners, from the early 20th century to the present.

The aim of this study was to investigate the aesthetic characteristics of Chinese beauty through an anthropometric analysis of beauty pageant winners from 1952 to 2021. Photographs from 5 renowned Chinese beauty pageants (Miss World Pageant, Miss Earth Pageant, Miss Universe Pageant, Miss International Pageant, and Miss Chinese Cosmos Pageant) were gathered and a total of 294 frontal and 31 lateral photographs were collected. The photos were divided into 3 time phases: phase I (1952-1977): from the first time when Chinese girls participated in beauty pageants, up until the time of reform and opening; phase II (1978-2002): from reform and opening to the re-opening of the Miss Chinese Cosmos Pageant; phase III (2003-2021): to the present. The horizontal corneal diameter (11.52mm) was set as the reference value for the frontal face. Among the 35 anthropometric items of frontal faces (26 distances and 9 angles) and 41 anthropometric items of lateral faces (33 distances and 8 angles), 21 anthropometric items (16 distances and 5 angles) and 8 proportional indices of frontal faces showed significant differences. On lateral pictures, 2 angles showed significant differences among the 3 phases. Regarding the anthropometric measurements that decreased across the 3 phases, the width of the face, midface, and lower face exhibited the greatest changes. The lower face width showed the most striking changes, with a decrease from 128.5 to 112.0mm. The quadratic regression revealed a significant turning point after 1978, coinciding with the period of Chinese reform and opening, which had a profound impact on aesthetics.

‘Con poporos y guacamayas’: Representaciones indígenas y el traje típico colombiano en el Miss Universo

This article addresses in five examples, the participation of Miss Colombia and her Indigenous-themed costumes at the Miss Universe pageant. First, the methodology used for this research is approached, from the use of images as a historical document and visual culture. Then, we approach a definition of the typical or national costume and its different denominations, to finally analyse a set of costumes representing Colombia and alluding to the Indigenous at the Miss Universe pageant. It is concluded that the typical Indigenous costumes presented in this international beauty contest are invented costumes that recreate stereotypes and establish identities that can be related to the idea of creating imaginaries that can present a good image of Colombia both nationally and internationally. The research was also based on a dialogue with authors who have addressed issues related to the creation of national identities and their construction from the history, culture, and heritage of a country, related to popular contemporary culture and media.

The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem. (2021). Screenwriter Shlomo Mashiach, executive story line Esther Namdar Taman and creator Oded Davidoff; director Oded Lotan, presented by yes and Artza Production, Israel. Netflix.

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Individual evolutionary learning in repeated beauty contest games

The Individual Evolutionary Learning (IEL) algorithm was proposed as a portable learning model for games with large strategy spaces. In principle, IEL benchmark simulations could substitute or supplement expensive experiments with human subjects. We evaluate the ability of the IEL model to replicate experimental findings observed in repeated Keynesian Beauty Contest (KBC) games, which have a large strategy space. The IEL specification with standard parameter values is able to capture major dynamical features and differences between treatments in both one-dimensional (Nagel, 1995; Duffy and Nagel, 1997) and two-dimensional (Anufriev et al., 2022b) versions of KBC games. We compare IEL with some other simple learning models and find that it performs relatively better across multiple treatments. We also use IEL to predict behavior in repeated KBC games that have not yet been conducted experimentally.

Body Narratives from Posters and Popular Culture Article Sidebar

The dichotomy of physically fit to fit in physical standards has emerged as a new question. Does the bikini industry promote the idea of appealing sizes or competitions that show beauty pageants and bodybuilders on popular media? The body has always been the contested site of people as whenever we meet someone after the first acquaintance, they ask why you are so thin. Or why do you look so fat? This narration is now changing into the new mold of being fit into that new dress. What if it doesn’t, the detrimental effect of not losing or not fitting into the set criteria has emerged in new disorders. The most recurring is the body dysmorphia which evolves due to the rule created by these competitions. Double XL movie produced in 2022, showcases a narrative about the body and for the body. Fashion movie produced in (2008), on models and beauty pageants that tries to cover the deformity of being the best yet ruins the foundation of being human. Bodybuilders and beauty pageants either create history and fame through steroids, unnecessary medication, and surgeries or just distort themselves physically as well as mentally. Physical attractiveness, prowess, and aesthetic appeal are just words that would wipe but talent, capability, and personality would stay forever. Thus, the body is nude yet crude, and therefore, the paper attempts to unwrap the problems staying in the heads of pageants and bodybuilders.

Beauty Contests and Higher Order Beliefs: Evidence from News Releases

Beauty Contests and Higher Order Beliefs: Evidence from News Releases

Corpos transmasculinos negros em intersecções estéticas: entrevista com Leonardo Peçanha

Abstract This opinion article consists of an interview with Leonardo Peçanha, a Black trans man, a human rights and trans people rights activist and a researcher in Collective Health. In this interview, he reflects intersectionally on the place of beauty, body changes, and physical activity in the gender transition process of trans and transmasculine men. He discusses the (im)possibilities of trans people in high-performance sports and tells us about the Mister Trans Brazil beauty pageant contest.