The role of the media in body image concerns among women: A meta-analysis of experimental and correlational studies.

Fashion industry and eating disorders. 

Thin-Ideal Media and Women’s Body Dissatisfaction: Prevention using Downward Social Comparisons on Non-Appearance Dimensions

Ann-Marie Lew, Traci Mann, Hector Myers, Shelley Taylor, Julienne Bower (2007)

Sex Roles, Published online: 17 August 2007

I'm not as slim as that girl: neural bases of body shape self-comparision to media images

Hans-Christoph Friederich, Rudolf Uher, Samantha Brooks, Vincent Giampietro, Mick Brammer, Steve C.R. Williams, Wolfgang Herzog, Janet Treasure and Iain C. Campbell (2007)

Aspects of the media and their relevance to bulimic attitudes and tendencies among female college students

Siobhan S. O'Riordan and Byron L. Zamboanga (2007)

Predictors of Media Effects on Body Dissatisfaction in European American Women

Is dieting advice from magazines helpful or harmful? Five-year associations with weight-control behaviors and psychological outcomes in adolescents.

Happiness and despair on the catwalk: need satisfaction, well-being and personality adjustment among fashion models.

How do body-dissatisfied and body-satisfied males and females judge the size of thin female celebrities?

Body image, media, and eating disorders.

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Does Barbie make girls want to be thin? The effect of experimental exposure to images of dolls on the body image of 5- to 8-year-old girls.

Dittmar, H., Halliwell, H., & Ive, S. (2006)

Magere Seiten - Wie Frauenfotos in den Magazinen Woman, Wienerin und Maxima das Selbstbild junger Frauen beeinflussen

The mass marketing of disordered eating and Eating Disorders: The social psychology of women, thinness and culture

Media Influence: Pre- and Postexposure of College Women to Media Images and the Effect of Mood and Body Image

Media Exposure and the Subsequent Effects on Body Dissatisfaction, Disordered Eating, and Drive for Thinness: A Review of the Current Research.

Media-portrayed idealized images, self-objectification, and eating behavior.

Frauen und Schönheit

Media images of the “ideal” female body: Can acute exercise moderate their psychological impact?

The impact of appearance-related teasing by family members.

Television, disordered eating, and young women in Fiji: negotiating body image and identity during rapid social change.

The effect of “thin ideal” television commercials on body dissatisfaction and schema activation during early adolescence.

Reading magazine articles about dieting and associated weight control behaviors among adolescents

The mass media and American adolescents’ health

The relationship between reading beauty and fashion magazines and the use of pathogenic dieting methods among adolescent females

Shapely centrefolds? Temporal change in body measures: trend analysis

Are fashion models a group at risk for eating disorders and substance abuse?

Thinness and body shape of Playboy centerfolds from 1978 to 1998

The Pursuit of Perfection: A Narrative Analysis of How Women's Magazines Cover Eating Disorders

Anorexia Nervosa and Related Eating Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence.

The effect of body dissatisfaction on male’s and female’s perception of female celebrities and their attitudes towards ideal females bodies

The effect of body dissatisfaction on women’s perceptions of female celebrities

 The Media's Influence on Body Image Disturbance and Eating Disorders: We've Reviled Them, Now Can We Rehabilitate Them?

 Dieting, Weight, and Health: Reconceptualizing Research and Policy

 The effects of the ideal of female beauty on mood and body dissatisfaction.

Gender differences in body image are increasing.

 Message from the media

 The role of the mass media in promoting a thin standard of bodily attractiveness for women.