network with new contacts but with the right itself is another term described

as taking a self picture view usually with your cell phone and then

posting it online it can lead to devastating results

doctor susan was born as an author in psychology professor at you math

Amherst and she recently wrote a great article about this called your body on

display social media and yourself image

and now she's here to explain what she means by all that

doctor with brenneke so much for talking to us about this so

start-up where did the idea for this article come about

I actually read are article in NYTimes last Sunday

that talked about women in porn and how women

unkind expose being exposed to suggestive movies

are not affected in their self-concept

by seeing women objectified and I thought there was something

may be more to it than that and so I did a little digging and I found

an article about how women do self objectify more

when they're exposed to images have women looking

the city s and provocative tested matter or does it differ

according to their age is just a defect one age demographic more than another or

is it just kinda all across the board

the study that you're referring to that I wrote about was on women who were 18

to 25 who

I think are most vulnerable to this effective

self objectification which is defining yourself

as an object usually a sexual object

not as a person with emotions and feelings and thoughts

so I think that age group when you're developing your identity week on

emerging adulthood is particularly vulnerable

but I think it can affect older women perhaps even more

because their past their quote-unquote sell by date

and thought it was less attractive because they're older talk about the

impact that this is having on social media especially with the rise upsell

peace where you take a picture of yourself and you put it online

sometimes that's okay sometimes maybe

a little provocative and especially the younger girls are doing this more often

how does that play a role in all this

I think it plays a huge role we call that Facebook exhibitionism

where women parties for and it typically is women more than men

put its provocative images of that cells on Facebook in you wonder

how what are they thinking when they do that don't they realize he come back to

haunt them

but what happens is I think in the culture that we live in

it's not seen is bad and and young women especially

can't really play out all the consequences up their behavior on their

future opportunities

songs like they're trying to gain acceptance from their friends or from

maybe the people they don't even know if they're putting it on a public social

networking site

they feel that need for acceptance and that no plays a role

or could play a detrimental role in their mental health especially at such a

young

H yes that's right and I'm we can go onto the

kinda crazy pictures people post up themselves in

and the kinda peer pressure and I think it's cool but then

if you get back down to your question how does it make you feel about yourself

understudy that I i had looked at had women

talk about themselves and it was really fairly open ended

describe yourself I am in his statement 20 statements

I am playing or Who Am I and then the answer that question so if they'd been

in a condition

where they thought they were describing themselves

to and online audience and

they had just been and shown more provocative pictures a women

though self statements worth a emphasize beauty

use in cosmetics and and tryna look attractive

and that's that self object objectification

which we know is detrimental to mental health because

you're looking at yourself now as an object to be consumed by Others

rather than somebody who satisfied with yourself in your own mind

and that we were talking off-camera and now we're gonna talk about it now

at study just came out in with the new york yet the New York Film Academy

did a study gender equality and film and you're talking almost 30 percent

winning worse actually revealing attire on film or

partial or partially naked oppose to seven or nine percent

other mad and there is such a discrepancy

in Mac do you think that plays a part in

the female generation our population looking at that same a live feed on film

it must be okay I need a

be as cool as these film actor says that I see on TV

taking a place apart in it absolutely does it creates art

a kind of mindset that this isn't not only how I

could look but how I ought to look and and then there's a kind of a loss a

reality out the world out there where if you dress like one of these hola

Hollywood stars and start showing cleavage in

other other bodily parts you are not going to be taken as seriously by the

man

or women in your environment politically your work environment

so there's a kind ever its it's just ironic that women get driven to

look at to show themselves in these ways that that and up

hurting them in terms of ratings have their competence

as workers as as people in general

and it the study also showed that annie is almost twenty

32 percent I'll on teenage

female nudity has increased over thirty-two percent

from 2007 to 2012 so this is even just

female actors are characters in general this is

teenagers themselves it's almost like it's reaching eighty

a.m. a different demographic even beyond even below

18-year-old a younger generation agrawal's are growing up feeling at that

that they need to

show off their body instead of their brain and that of course like you

mentioned earlier faxer

mental health talk about were summitted

deep probing questions that need to be asked

when people read this article what is some what are questions I need to ask

themselves

I think you could ask yourself this very thing questions that they asked the

participants in the study

Who Am I and start to describe yourself

and see what bubbles up to the top omitting really great

you know we call projective test were you kind of take a very

they hours sentenced to start with and see where that leads you as you start to

see how many have your statements reef referred to

not your your competence or your

emotional qualities but your parents your outward appearance especially in

and then even further here trying to look sexually appealing

you started than see where in your own set of priorities

you fall it's definitely a

topic that needs to be discussed especially the writers social

networking in the past couple years kinda pinga focus on

how we lookin how we portray ourselves to the outside world

now sometimes even on social networking sites he also mentioned eighteen website

as well where

the focus is more on how you look as opposed to what qualities

you bring to the table do you think that

they will ever come a time where this work I write itself out or do you feel

she's the progression is going to get worse and worse well that's an

interesting question it's almost like

are what's driving the bus the bus it's not that people want to portray

themselves more provocatively so hollywood

and our culture large response it's what's driving

things is hollywood's depiction optically a women in movies and on

television

but about the online dating sites it's true I mean you when you have a picture

you have something to judge somebody by and a visual image

is extremely impactful on on the

out you as much as you try to read it you've already formed an impression the

second you look at an image

and that's what raises people's self-consciousness about and then it

eventually theirself objectification definitely a very

top broker article and I encourage everybody to read it thank you so much

her

telling us that more about it thank you Lisa it's a pleasure to be here