“Selfies” (self-taken photos) are a common self-presentation strategy on social media. This study experimentally tested whether taking and posting sel…
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“Social media present innumerable idealized images of thin, lean/tone, beautiful, photo-shopped women, and the “thin ideal” and “athletic ideal” are displayed as a normal, desirable, and attainable body type for every woman”
“Furthermore, the Internet and social media have been found to promote thinness, dieting behavior, and weight loss through idealized images of “perfect” women”
“Women who use social media often internalize the “thin ideal,” causing them to strive for an unrealistic, unnatural standard of beauty and to feel ashamed when they are unable to achieve it”