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Record W4409779566 · doi:10.1177/20570473251334841

Real versus ideal: How selfies drive young women’s endorsement of beauty ideals to enhance cosmetic surgery intentions

2025· article· en· W4409779566 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueCommunication and the Public · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicEating Disorders and Behaviors
Canadian institutionsConcordia University
FundersCity University of Hong Kong
KeywordsBeautyIdeal (ethics)AestheticsPsychologyAdvertisingArtSocial psychologyMedicineBusinessPolitical scienceLaw

Abstract

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With the prevalence of photo-editing apps, young women nowadays often present ideal but unnatural beauty images in their selfies posted on social networking sites. In view of the possible impact that exposure to the enhanced selfies might have on women’s beauty image concerns, there are campaigns like #Filterdrop and #Nomakeup advocating presenting natural appearance in selfies and promoting acceptance of natural beauty. This study aims to investigate the impact of viewing enhanced (i.e. idealized) selfies, natural (i.e. unaltered, makeup-free, and enhancement-free) selfies, and a mixed set of both (i.e. idealized selfies and natural selfies appear alternately) on young women’s beauty standards and their intentions to alter their appearance. The research involved a between-subjects experiment conducted among 428 young women in the United States. The findings indicate that the more enhanced selfies young women saw, the more they believed others endorsed the cultural beauty ideals. The perceived beauty standards were associated with the young women’s personal beauty standards and their intention to take cosmetic surgery in real life.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.784
Threshold uncertainty score0.297

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.345
Teacher spread0.313 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it