Unrealistic Images

In their comprehensive discussion about the impact of Hollywood's images of beauty on adolescents, Schneider and Levitt clearly identify the nonverbal messages of height and weight. More than just statistics to describe the physical body, one's height and weight lies at the heart of the self-image of many people, particularly adolescents, who evaluate their identities basdd on the relatinnship between their height and weight. Even more significantly, the height and weight of these adolescents are considered to be the source of their happiness. As a result, these adolescents are willing to undergo drastic measures including starvation and bulimia in order to achieve Hollywood's uniform and unrealistic standards of tallness and thinness. Utilizing surveys and polls of adolescents conducted by various organizations, interviews with professionals, academics and Hollywood actors, along with the popular media, Schneider and Levitt offer a powerful commentary of how the popular media's nonverbal messages of height and weight have exerted a negative impact on the lives of adolescents.

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izing female participants who were asked to put on a swimsuit (experimental condition) or a sweater (control condition) and exposing them to "fat talk" (experimental condition) or talk about computers (control condition), the authors found that female participants who possess high levels of trait self-objectification (TSO) were negatively affected by the fat talk, in terms of their level of anxiety and motivation. TSO refers to the degree to which individuals internalize others' perceptions of their bodies on a daily basis. This research study thus indicates that physical attractiveness (one's height and weight) can exert a power effect on other aspects of an individual's being when it becomes a dominant obsession. Nonetheless, this study does not identify the source of the TSO of female adolescents. Hargreaves, Duane A. and Marika Tiggeman. "The Effect of "Thin Ideal" Television Commercials on Body Dissatisfaction and Schema Activation during Early Adolescence." Journal of Youth and Adolescence 32.5 (2003): 367-373. In a bid to determine whether early adolescents are susceptible to media images of the "thin ideal," the authors exposed adolescent school students aged between 13 and 15 to two types of commercials – appear
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