The warning of a message influences the priming conditions, upward and downward. This study displays how feelings of one's self-concept can change when being exposed to people doing better or worse off than yourself. According to Brown and Tiggeman (2016), they concluded that people being exposed to good-looking celebrities had a negative feeling about themselves, along with having a negative view of their bodies (Brown & Tiggemen, 2016). This showed that being exposed to people who are prettier than you can damage your self-esteem. This study compared to ours due to the fact that participants had the same feelings if the person SOCIAL COMPARISON, WARNING ON SOCIAL MEDIA in the Facebook profile was doing better than themselves or worse off than themselves they would feel inferior or confident when comparing themselves with the Facebook profile. 16 The results in our study may have contained multiple limitations and factors. In future studies there should be a wider range of the sample population. The sample population consisted of mostly Hispanics, many of them did not speak English as their first language. This factor could cause a language barrier with the study because they may have not fully understood what was being explained in English. Furthermore, the sample population was mostly made up of young college students, which does not expand our research to older adults. Our study did have strong main effects on independent and dependent variables that were being tested throughout the study. However, we should create a larger sample size with more diversity to look at the between interaction effects on the variables. Another variable that should be further looked at in future studies is a person's self-esteem. If this person has high or low self-esteem the results could be different. Researchers should take into consideration the emotional state of the individual since forewarning and priming could influence this behavior. The implications of human behavior on this study display that individuals should be cautious when using social media; not everything you see on the computer is how you must look or act as a person. Social media could be harmful to one's self-concept and could cause you to feel worse about yourself when you start comparing to other individuals. There's a lot of internal and external factors that play an effect in this study. For example, social media by itself can have harmful effects on one's self-concept. Individuals should be aware of the effects that social media plays on our everyday lives because social media impacts our behaviors and self-esteem when users use it daily.

The warning of a message influences the priming conditions, upward and downward. This study displays how feelings of one's self-concept can change when being exposed to people doing better or worse off than yourself. According to Brown and Tiggeman (2016), they concluded that people being exposed to good-looking celebrities had a negative feeling about themselves, along with having a negative view of their bodies (Brown & Tiggemen, 2016). This showed that being exposed to people who are prettier than you can damage your self-esteem. This study compared to ours due to the fact that participants had the same feelings if the person SOCIAL COMPARISON, WARNING ON SOCIAL MEDIA in the Facebook profile was doing better than themselves or worse off than themselves they would feel inferior or confident when comparing themselves with the Facebook profile. 16 The results in our study may have contained multiple limitations and factors. In future studies there should be a wider range of the sample population. The sample population consisted of mostly Hispanics, many of them did not speak English as their first language. This factor could cause a language barrier with the study because they may have not fully understood what was being explained in English. Furthermore, the sample population was mostly made up of young college students, which does not expand our research to older adults. Our study did have strong main effects on independent and dependent variables that were being tested throughout the study. However, we should create a larger sample size with more diversity to look at the between interaction effects on the variables. Another variable that should be further looked at in future studies is a person's self-esteem. If this person has high or low self-esteem the results could be different. Researchers should take into consideration the emotional state of the individual since forewarning and priming could influence this behavior. The implications of human behavior on this study display that individuals should be cautious when using social media; not everything you see on the computer is how you must look or act as a person. Social media could be harmful to one's self-concept and could cause you to feel worse about yourself when you start comparing to other individuals. There's a lot of internal and external factors that play an effect in this study. For example, social media by itself can have harmful effects on one's self-concept. Individuals should be aware of the effects that social media plays on our everyday lives because social media impacts our behaviors and self-esteem when users use it daily.

Ciccarelli: Psychology_5 (5th Edition)

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Author:Saundra K. Ciccarelli, J. Noland White

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Transcribed Image Text:Discussion Study Two In study two we analyzed two main effects and one interaction effect for the dependent variables ("I feel inferior to others at the time" and "I feel confident about my abilities"). We predicted that the participants would feel negatively about themselves after seeing a successful profile compared to an unsuccessful profile. Also, we predicted that the participants who received forewarning would rate themselves as feeling worse. For the first dependent variable "I feel inferior to others at this time", the results did support our predictions. Participants who were in the upward condition felt significant worse about themselves then those in downward condition. The results also displayed that the participants who received a warning did feel significantly worse about themselves than the participants that did not get a warning. Furthermore, we predicted a main effect interaction between prime and forewarning for both dependent variables. However, the results did not support these predictions. General Discussion SOCIAL COMPARISON, WARNING ON SOCIAL MEDIA 15 Throughout both studies, the results displayed that priming and warning messages played a role in the way people rated themselves either confident or inferior. The participants in the upward condition will more strongly agree with statements that are negative, "I feel inferior to others" and participants in the downward will more strongly agree with statements, "I feel confident about my abilities." The results did support these predictions. Furthermore, our results did display that participants who received a warning message would rate themselves more negatively compared to the group that got no warning message. Furthermore, the results displayed on the interaction effect between priming and forewarning did not support our predictions. Since the upward and downward priming and warning of the message showed no support further research will have to be done to find out the relationship between these variables. Overall, both studies displayed an effect on priming upward and downward, this supports previous findings, where participants would display inferior feelings to their body image, with people that are more beautiful on social media, than the person would have negative feelings. The researchers result coincided with the author's hypothesis that the par ipants who used Facebook and look at good-looking users, have negative emotion afterwards and do not feel good with their body appearance (Haferkamp & Kramer, 2011). The warning of a message influences the priming conditions, upward and downward. This study displays how feelings of one's self concent can change when being exposed to people

Transcribed Image Text:The warning of a message influences the priming conditions, upward and downward. This study displays how feelings of one's self-concept can change when being exposed to people doing better or worse off than yourself. According to Brown and Tiggeman (2016), they concluded that people being exposed to good-looking celebrities had a negative feeling about themselves, along with having a negative view of their bodies (Brown & Tiggemen, 2016). This showed that being exposed to people who are prettier than you can damage your self-esteem. This study compared to ours due to the fact that participants had the same feelings if the person SOCIAL COMPARISON, WARNING ON SOCIAL MEDIA in the Facebook profile was doing better than themselves or worse off than themselves they would feel inferior or confident when comparing themselves with the Facebook profile. 16 The results in our study may have contained multiple limitations and factors. In future studies there should be a wider range of the sample population. The sample population consisted of mostly Hispanics, many of them did not speak English as their first language. This factor could cause a language barrier with the study because they may have not fully understood what was being explained in English. Furthermore, the sample population was mostly made up of young college students, which does not expand our research to older adults. Our study did have strong main effects on independent and dependent variables that were being tested throughout the study. However, we should create a larger sample size with more diversity to look at the between interaction effects on the variables. Another variable that should be further looked at in future studies is a person's self-esteem. If this person has high or low self-esteem the results could be different. Researchers should take into consideration the emotional state of the individual since forewarning and priming could influence this behavior. The implications of human behavior on this study display that individuals should be cautious when using social media; not everything you see on the computer is how you must look or act as a person. Social media could be harmful to one's self-concept and could cause you to feel worse about yourself when you start comparing to other individuals. There's a lot of internal and external factors that play an effect in this study. For example, social media by itself can have harmful effects on one's self-concept. Individuals should be aware of the effects that social media plays on our everyday lives because social media impacts our behaviors and self-esteem when users use it daily.

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