Positive and Negative Media Image Effects on the Self

By D. Smeesters, N. Mandel. 2006

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Might an overweight waitress make you eat more? How the body type of others is sufficient to alter our food consumption (2010, background): “Females have been shown to be more sensitive to social comparisons regarding body type (Trampe, Stapel, & Siero, 2007), and following previous research in this domain (Smeesters & Mandel, 2006), we focused only on women.”
Materialism: the good, the bad, and the ugly (2014, background): “For example, exposure to idealised images of female models in ads lowers girls’ and women’s self-esteem (Clay, Vignoles, & Dittmar, 2005; Smeesters & Mandel, 2006) and satisfaction with their physical appearance (Hawkins, Richards, MacGranley, & Stein, 2004; Richins, 1991).”
Positive Consumer Contagion: Responses to Attractive Others in a Retail Context (2008, background): “…research has focused on the use of attractive models or endorsers in advertising and persuasion (Henderson-King and Henderson-King 1997; Martin and Gentry 1997; Richins 1991; Smeesters and Mandel 2006) but has not focused on the role of attractiveness in the retail consumption experience itself.”