So interesting! One of my students is conducting similar research based on Instagram and we had not heard of the “Motivation to Use Social Media for Body Comparison” scale – I just sent that to her! Thank you!

As a young woman, I greatly enjoyed the insight into this study. Body dysmorphia and body dissatisfaction are such relevant issues and are vastly affected by social media and other such platforms.

I am impressed that you did something experimental, even with the online restrictions! You didn’t mention anything about a manipulation check – I’m wondering if that could help you to understand the lack of effect. Maybe the participants weren’t paying attention to the videos since they were online or didn’t view the women as “thin” or “plus size” in the way that you did when you categorized the videos?

I reviewed the IRB for this one and thought your manipulation was really clever. I am sorry you didn’t find anything but one minute of watching a video where we can’t even know if they paid attention I guess was not enough. I really liked the design of this study. You all did a great job!

I really enjoyed listening to this study. Body dysmorphia and body dissatisfaction are more relevant now that social media has taken over our lives. I wonder how many people really paid attention to the videos.

I’m also impressed that you pulled off an experiment. Great job!

I am a little jealous that you were able to do an experiment! Wonderful job! I really enjoyed watching each person’s video and hearing about prior research on social media and body dissatisfaction. I would be very interested in furthering this research. Part of me wonders if there would be similar findings in men? I know this study looked strictly at body dissatisfaction in women, but I know there are some findings in men as well. I’ve seen many videos (on TikTok especially) of men at the gym and their routines and whatnot, and I wonder if you think there would be any sort of significant finding based on gender?

Due to the pandemic I may have a slight TikTok addiction so I can see how this app can affect someone’s image of themself.

This is such a great idea for a study! I wonder how the results of the study would change if there were men also in the study, and if you had more people of color. Were the videos you showed to the participants all of white women, and if so, would videos of women of different ethnicities have brought different results?

This was a really interesting study and I love the idea! As soon as I saw it I knew I had to click on it! I was very surprised by the results so that was interesting. I was expecting the results to show increased body dissatisfaction after watching videos of skinny girls in revealing clothing, or possibly non-revealing clothing. Maybe it’s just my personal opinion but I think many girls are affected by how it seems like a lot of attention and fame goes to girls who are super skinny and what society considers to be perfect. Very surprising results but very interesting!