Plus-size models appeared in only 18% of all global beauty campaigns in 2025, despite representing the majority of potential customers. This stark disconnection reveals something profound about how ...

Total social media time does not significantly affect adolescents' weight concerns or dieting frequency, according to the study's findings. Exploratory analyses suggest potential associations between ...

Being bombarded with messages and images focusing on appearance and status is not new to this generation of young people. Indeed, decades of research demonstrate that exposure to narrow beauty ...

Serious concerns about how social media shapes adolescents’ eating habits, body image, and relationship with food are being ...

While it's a bit of fun for some, the social media trend known as looksmaxxing can have major impacts on young men's physical ...

Reverse body dysmorphia is not a clinical diagnosis but a term that originated from TikTok. People use it colloquially to describe having a perception of their own appearance as “better” than it is.

The recent court decision that ruled against Meta and YouTube, on the grounds that they caused mental harm to a young woman’s perceptions of her body, suggests that social media has addictive ...

The young woman described to a jury what it was like to lose control of her life to social media. She began as a child, she said, and over time the habit expanded to fill nearly every available hour — ...