Telling the difference between which bodies are thin and which bodies are overweight may be harder than you think. Here's why.
The authors of this new research ask an important question: Why does the ultra-thin body ideal continue to stick around when it makes so many women feel so awful? Their findings suggest an intriguing possibility. This flood of thin-ideal images may be systematically shifting what women perceive to be an “average-sized” body.
Now imagine the DJ plays a song that’s difficult to dance to, causing most of the bad dancers to leave the dance floor. Only the more serious dancers are willing to stick it out. Now take another look. You might notice that people you’d previously considered to be average dancers now start to look like bad dancers. The boundaries of your “good dancer” concept have shifted.
To test this possibility, the researchers included over 400 young women in a study that involved determining whether a body presented on a computer screen was overweight or not. The women were presented with hundreds of images across several trials. That sounds like a lot, but the task was quick. Each image only appeared for half a second.
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