Do selfies make women look slimmer? The effect of viewing angle on aesthetic and weight judgments of women's bodies.
Taking and posting selfies is a popular activity, with some individuals taking and sharing multiple selfies each day. The influence of the selfie angle, as opposed to more traditional photo angles such as the allocentric images we see in print media, on our aesthetic judgements of images of bodies h...
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| description | Taking and posting selfies is a popular activity, with some individuals taking and sharing multiple selfies each day. The influence of the selfie angle, as opposed to more traditional photo angles such as the allocentric images we see in print media, on our aesthetic judgements of images of bodies has not been explored. This study compared the attractiveness and weight judgements that participants made of images of the same bodies taken from different visual angles over a series of four experiments (total N = 272). We considered how these judgements may relate to disordered eating thoughts and behaviours. Selfies were judged to be slimmer than images from other perspectives, and egocentric images were judged to be the least attractive. The way participants rated bodies seen from different perspectives was related to their own disordered eating thoughts and behaviours. These results contribute to our understanding of how we perceive the images we see on social media and how these might be related to how we feel about our own and other people's bodies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1a82315719104ae482f66ed2968a5adb2023-11-07T05:34:21ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032023-01-011810e029198710.1371/journal.pone.0291987Do selfies make women look slimmer? The effect of viewing angle on aesthetic and weight judgments of women's bodies.Ruth KnightCatherine PrestonTaking and posting selfies is a popular activity, with some individuals taking and sharing multiple selfies each day. The influence of the selfie angle, as opposed to more traditional photo angles such as the allocentric images we see in print media, on our aesthetic judgements of images of bodies has not been explored. This study compared the attractiveness and weight judgements that participants made of images of the same bodies taken from different visual angles over a series of four experiments (total N = 272). We considered how these judgements may relate to disordered eating thoughts and behaviours. Selfies were judged to be slimmer than images from other perspectives, and egocentric images were judged to be the least attractive. The way participants rated bodies seen from different perspectives was related to their own disordered eating thoughts and behaviours. These results contribute to our understanding of how we perceive the images we see on social media and how these might be related to how we feel about our own and other people's bodies.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291987 |
| spellingShingle | Ruth Knight Catherine Preston Do selfies make women look slimmer? The effect of viewing angle on aesthetic and weight judgments of women's bodies. PLoS ONE |
| title | Do selfies make women look slimmer? The effect of viewing angle on aesthetic and weight judgments of women's bodies. |
| title_full | Do selfies make women look slimmer? The effect of viewing angle on aesthetic and weight judgments of women's bodies. |
| title_fullStr | Do selfies make women look slimmer? The effect of viewing angle on aesthetic and weight judgments of women's bodies. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Do selfies make women look slimmer? The effect of viewing angle on aesthetic and weight judgments of women's bodies. |
| title_short | Do selfies make women look slimmer? The effect of viewing angle on aesthetic and weight judgments of women's bodies. |
| title_sort | do selfies make women look slimmer the effect of viewing angle on aesthetic and weight judgments of women s bodies |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291987 |
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