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- Social media platforms like Instagram allow users to share images, and a study examined how young women react to photos of their peers.
- In a controlled experiment, U.S. women (N = 256, average age ~20) viewed sexualized, non-sexualized, or landscape images and gave feedback either with hashtags or without.
- Results showed that viewing sexualized images increased self-objectification and dehumanization of others, with those using body-part hashtags feeling even more self-objectified.
- The study highlights the complicated effects social media has on young women's perceptions of themselves and each other.
Article Abstract
Social media platforms like Instagram enable users to share, view, and provide feedback on images, including photographs of oneself (e.g., selfies). In a 3 × 2 between-subjects online experiment, we investigated how women evaluate and react to photographs of their peers on social media and the role that feedback might play in both objectification of others and oneself. U.S. adult young women (N = 256; M = 20.06, SD = 1.57) viewed social media images of sexualized peers, non-sexualized peers, or landscapes (control). Then, they provided feedback on the images via social media hashtags (#) or not (tagging vs. no tagging). Results revealed that participants who viewed sexualized peers demonstrated the highest levels of state self-objectification and were more likely to dehumanize the women in the photos. Hashtags generated by participants indicated that those who viewed sexualized peers engaged in greater appearance-related objectification, specifically related to body parts, and sexual objectification than those who viewed non-sexualized peers. In addition, generating hashtags that specifically focused on body parts heightened viewers' state self-objectification. These findings illustrate the complexities of social media content production and consumption, particularly for young women.
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