Do Third-Person Perceptions of Media Influence Contribute to Pluralistic Ignorance on the Norm of Ideal Female Thinness?

Park, Sung‐Yeon; Yun, Gi Woong; McSweeney, Jacqueline Hitchon; Günther, Albert C. L. G.

doi:10.1007/s11199-007-9284-3

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“…Those who expressed more concern about their appearance and placed themselves in a passive role were more concerned about their weight than girls whose dating scripts were more activity-focused and less gender-typed. Both women and men also overestimated the thinness of the female body type preferred by others of the same-gender and the opposite-gender (Park et al 2007), demonstrating that the norm of female thinness was alive and well.…”

Section: Cultural Scriptsmentioning

confidence: 93%

Has Dating Become More Egalitarian? A 35 Year Review Using Sex Roles

2011

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In this selective review, we examined research on heterosexual dating published in Sex Roles since its inception to determine if dating practices have become more egalitarian over the past 35 years. An analysis of current best-selling dating advice books suggests that gender roles continue to be institutionalized in cultural scripts. A sexual scripts framework was used to categorize research findings to determine if the empirical evidence confirmed the durability of gender roles over time or revealed that dating has become less gendertyped. Research in Sex Roles suggests that heterosexual dating among young adults in the U. S. remains highly gender-typed in terms of cultural scripts (e.g., beliefs, ideals, and expectations), as well as interpersonal scripts (e.g., actual interpersonal emotions, interpersonal behaviors, or behaviors aimed at achieving or signaling a partner). Some variability was observed in interpersonal scripts in terms of occasional initiation of dates by women, for instance, but was not sufficiently widely used to challenge the dominant script. Functional reasons for the persistence of gender stereotypes in dating are presented. In addition, a friendship script is proposed as an alternative, egalitarian model of dating that might fulfill the same functions.

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Section: Cultural Scriptsmentioning

confidence: 93%

Has Dating Become More Egalitarian? A 35 Year Review Using Sex Roles

2011

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“…For example, for college women, male peers form a more dissimilar and socially distant comparison group than female peers. College women tended to report a greater third-person perception in relation to idealized body image when the comparison group was male peers than when the comparison group was female peers (Chia 2007 for college women in Singapore; Goodman and Walsh-Childers 2004;Park et al 2007 for college women in the United States). College women were also tempted to accommodate their male friends (Goodman and Walsh-Childers 2004).…”

Section: Social Distance and Perceived Media Effectsmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…In the context of media's idealized body images, college men are as capable as college women of realizing the socially undesirable outcomes of being affected by the images. When being asked to estimate the effects of idealized female body images in the media, college men in the United States reported that the media effect on peers was greater than the media effect on the self (Park et al 2007). In this study, we extend the examination to Chinese college men in Singapore.…”

Section: Third-person Perceptions About Body Imagementioning

confidence: 96%

College Men’s Third-Person Perceptions about Idealized Body Image and Consequent Behavior

Chia

Ning

2010

Sex Roles

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This study investigates college men's thirdperson perception in relation to body image factors using an experiment that involved a convenience sample of 148 male college students of Chinese descent in Singapore. The college men reported that the effects of media's idealized body images on female friends were greater than the effects on themselves. Their perception of media effects on the self was positively associated with their body dissatisfaction and intention to engage in body image behavior. Their perception of media effects on peers and the third-person differential between the self and friends were each negatively associated with their intention to adopt extreme body image behavior.Keywords Third-person effect . College men . Body image . Media effects . Influence of presumed influence

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“…A study by Park and Yun (2007) with academics showed that the media has a strong influence on this situation, and women overestimate the stereotype because of pluralistic ignorance.…”

Section: People's Attitudementioning

confidence: 99%

Pluralistic ignorance: Conceptual framework, antecedents and consequences

Mendes¹,

López-Valeiras

Lunkes³

2017

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Purpose: The aim of this paper is to present, in an integrated manner, the knowledge acquired about pluralistic ignorance in the fields of social psychology, sociology and business.Particularly, to identify the factors that work as antecedents of pluralistic ignorance, as well as its consequences, in various research contexts. Design/methodology:This integrative study on pluralistic ignorance was conducted with the Proknow-C method, which allows the construction of knowledge through a structured process of search and identification of a bibliographic portfolio. The systemic analysis resulted in a model with seven social comparison errors that can be seen as antecedents of ignorance and a framework with its consequences, divided into three categories: people's attitude, people's behavior and organizational capabilities.-781-Intangible Capital -https://doi.org/10.3926/ic.1063 Research limitations/implications:As with every research review, identification and review of the literature depend on the authors' world view. One of the difficulties in researching pluralistic ignorance is that it is studied in different areas of knowledge and from different perspectives.Originality/value: The knowledge acquired throughout more than eight decades of research on pluralistic ignorance is fragmented into different perspectives. However, what was shown by the systemic analysis of the literature is that studies are more often geared toward psychosocial issues and it is still not very well known how the causes and consequences of pluralistic ignorance interact with the management processes in the organizational environment. This review presents a model for guiding the process of formation of pluralistic ignorance and a guiding framework for future research, as far as its consequences are concerned.

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Do Third-Person Perceptions of Media Influence Contribute to Pluralistic Ignorance on the Norm of Ideal Female Thinness?

Cited by 20 publications

References 51 publications

Has Dating Become More Egalitarian? A 35 Year Review Using Sex Roles

Has Dating Become More Egalitarian? A 35 Year Review Using Sex Roles

College Men’s Third-Person Perceptions about Idealized Body Image and Consequent Behavior

Pluralistic ignorance: Conceptual framework, antecedents and consequences

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