Instagram: A ‘Landmine’ of Unrealistic Images, Says Psychologist

Instagram: A ‘Landmine’ of Unrealistic Images, Says Psychologist
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Young female Instagram users tend to focus on body images of their peers more than their faces, concentrating on those with thinner figures and physical features that don’t mirror their own anatomical areas of dissatisfaction.
That’s the main finding of a study entitled “Thinstagram,” published in August 2022 in the journal Computers in Human Behavior.
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