Schneider, Karen S. and Shelley Levitt. "Mission Impossible: Deluged by Images from TV, Movies and Magazines, Teenage Girls Do Battle with an Increasingly Unrealistic Standard of Beauty—and Pay a Price." People 45.22 (1996). 29 Mar. 2005 In their comprehensive discussion about the impact of Hollywood's images of beauty on adolescents, Schneider and Levitt clearly identify the nonverbal messages of height and weight. More than just statistics to describe the physical body, one's height and weight lies at the heart of the self-image of many people, particularly adolescents, who evaluate their identities basdd on the relatinnship between their height and weight. Even more significantly, the height and weight of these adolescents are considered to be the source of their happiness. As a result, these adolescents are willing to undergo drastic measures including starvation and bulimia in order to achieve Hollywood's uniform and unrealistic standards of tallness and thinness. Utilizing surveys and polls of adolescents conducted by various organizations, interviews with professionals, academics and Hollywood actors, along with the popular media, Schneider and Levitt offer a powerful commentary of how the popular media's nonverbal messages of height and weight have exerted a negative impact on the lives of adolescents. Connolly, Jennifer M., Virginia Slaughter and Linda Mealey. "The Development of Preferences for Specific Body Shapes." The Journal of Sex Research 41.1 (2004): 5-15. In their study to determine the emergence of the body shape preferences, Connolly, Slaughter and Mealey compare the development of preferences for male and female body shapes between two groups – first-year psychology students (representing adults) and primary and secondary school children (representing children at different age groups). Based on the participants' assessments of the attractiveness...