The BEC lab examines risk and protective factors for body image disturbance and disordered eating behaviors among undergraduate students and other adult samples. We are currently conducting the following projects:
This project will gather student opinions about the Nike "So Win" Super Bowl ad and examine how viewing this ad may influence how participants feel about themselves.
We are in the planning process for a study examining how picturing themselves in particular clothes in social situations influences participants' views of themselves.
We are coding studies examining the relationships between social comparison, body dissatisfaction, and thin-ideal internalization as an updated to Myers and Crowther's (2009) meta-analysis.