How social media could be damaging healthy body image
Could the reports of airbrushed models in advertising and their effects on body image be overblown? Recent research found women rarely compare their appearance to others’ in magazines or on billboards, and only sometimes compare their appearance to others’ on TV. We were joined by psychology researcher Jasmine Fardouly from Macquarie University, to find out why women are more likely to compare themselves to the images of friends and acquaintances on social media instead of models in advertising or magazine.
