#Loveyourbody: The effect of body positive Instagram captions on women's body image.One increasing trend on social media is the posting of body positive content that aims to challenge narrow beauty ideals and instead promote acceptance and appreciation of all bodies.  The aim of the present study was to experimentally investigate the effect of body positive captions attached to Instagram images on young women's body image.  Participants were 384 women aged 18-30 years randomly assigned to view Instagram images of thin or average-sized women containing either body positive captions or no captions.  The results suggest that the visual imagery of an Instagram post is a more potent contributor to body image than any accompanying text. 
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#Loveyourbody: The effect of body positive Instagram captions on women's body image.One increasing trend on social media is the posting of body positive content that aims to challenge narrow beauty ideals and instead promote acceptance and appreciation of all bodies.  The aim of the present study was to experimentally investigate the effect of body positive captions attached to Instagram images on young women's body image.  Participants were 384 women aged 18-30 years randomly assigned to view Instagram images of thin or average-sized women containing either body positive captions or no captions.  The results suggest that the visual imagery of an Instagram post is a more potent contributor to body image than any accompanying text. 
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