Beyond Unrealistic Standards: Regulating Social Media Ads for Body Image. The proposed project aims to develop legal/policy initiatives to reduce the harm of social media ads on users’ body image by m

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Beyond Unrealistic Standards: Regulating Social Media Ads for Body Image. The proposed project aims to develop legal/policy initiatives to reduce the harm of social media ads on users’ body image by making them more inclusive and attainable. This project will generate new knowledge on the acceptability of these initiatives among key stakeholders, including consumers, influencers, advertisers, and brands. It will also generate key psychological, economic, and legal evidence for the effectiveness of these initiatives using interdisciplinary approaches. Expected outcomes of this project include an evidence base with potential for rapid policy translation to improve social media. This should provide significant social and economic benefits by reducing the burden of body dissatisfaction in Australia and globally.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 5205 - Social and Personality Psychology. Lead: Dr Jasmine Fardouly