The Furman Psychology Department is pleased to bring an exciting new program to campus called “The Body Project.”
The Body Project helps to foster healthy body images by exploring how society affects our ideals of beauty.
Want to learn more? Check out this info:
The Body Project is an evidence-based body image improvement program originally designed to help young women resist cultural pressures to conform to the thin-ideal standard of female beauty and reduce their pursuit of thinness.
The purpose of this study (led by Dr. Kerstin Blomquist in the Psychology Department) is to evaluate the dissemination of this body image improvement program to male and female students.
Students over 18 years of age and either a freshman, sophomore, or junior may be eligible to participate.
Interested students will be randomly assigned (like flipping a coin) to participate in: 1) a female-only group intervention (if you are female), 2) a mixed male and female group intervention, or 3) an assessment-only waitlist. If participants are assigned to the waitlist, they will have the opportunity to participate in the program after 6 months (fall 2014). If they are in either of the intervention groups, they will participate in the body image improvement program, which consists of two, 2-hour sessions approximately one week apart. Each session is conducted in a small group format, led by supervised, trained peer-leaders.
In all conditions, participants are asked to fill out questionnaires that take about 20 minutes to complete. Participants will complete the questionnaire packet before they start the study and after one week (or after the program). They will receive a $20 Amazon gift card (or 2 research credits if PSY111 participant) after completing both questionnaire packets. After that, they will fill out a third questionnaire packet in 2 months, and a fourth in 6 months. Participants will receive a $15 Amazon gift card (or 1.5 research credits if PSY111 participant) for each of the follow-up packets that they complete.
If interested, please contact Team Dissonance at habitus.lab@gmail.com.