Exposing digital posing: The effect of social media self-disclaimer captions on women’s body dissatisfaction, mood, and impressions of the user

This experimental study examined the impact of attaching self-disclaimer captions (i.e., account holder’s captions about the inauthenticity of their appearance) to idealized and edited social media images on 18- to 25-year-old Australian women’s (N = 201) body dissatisfaction, mood, perceived realism of social media images, appearance comparisons, and impressions of the user. Participants were shown images of either: (1) an attractive woman, (2)...