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SUBMITTER: Bocage-Barthelemy Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5873941 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20180328 3
Women are routinely exposed to images of extremely slim female bodies (the thin ideal) in advertisements, even if they do not necessarily pay much attention to these images. We hypothesized that paradoxically, it is precisely in such conditions of low attention that the impact of the social comparison with the thin ideal might be the most pronounced. To test this prediction, one hundred and seventy-three young female participants were exposed to images of the thin ideal or of women's fashion acc ...[more]