Social media platforms like Instagram enable users to share, view, and provide feedback on images, including photographs of oneself (e.g., selfies). In a 3 × 2 between-subjects online experiment, we investigated how women evaluate and react to photographs of their peers on social media and the role that feedback might play in both objectification of others and oneself. U.S. adult young women ( = 256; = 20.06, = 1.57) viewed social media images of sexualized peers, non-sexualized peers, or landscapes (control). Then, they provided feedback on the images via social media hashtags (#) or not (tagging vs. no tagging). Results revealed that participants who viewed sexualized peers demonstrated the highest levels of state self-objectification and were more likely to dehumanize the women in the photos. Hashtags generated by participants indicated that those who viewed sexualized peers engaged in greater appearance-related objectification, specifically related to body parts, and sexual objectification than those who viewed non-sexualized peers. In addition, generating hashtags that specifically focused on body parts heightened viewers’ state self-objectification. These findings illustrate the complexities of social media content production and consumption, particularly for young women.

中文翻译：

---

社交媒体上性感年轻女性的形象如何引起同龄人的外表评论并强化客观化

Instagram 等社交媒体平台使用户能够分享、查看图像并提供图像反馈，包括自己的照片（例如自拍照）。在一项 3 × 2 受试者间在线实验中，我们调查了女性如何评价社交媒体上同龄人的照片并做出反应，以及反馈在他人和自己的客观化中可能发挥的作用。美国成年年轻女性（= 256；= 20.06，= 1.57）查看社交媒体上性化同龄人、非性化同龄人或风景（对照）的图片。然后，他们通过社交媒体标签 (#) 或不通过社交媒体标签（标记与不标记）提供有关图像的反馈。结果显示，观看过性化同龄人的参与者表现出最高程度的国家自我物化，并且更有可能使照片中的女性失去人性。参与者生成的标签表明，那些观看性化同龄人的人比那些观看非性化同龄人的人更倾向于与外表相关的客体化，特别是与身体部位和性客体化相关的对象化。此外，生成专门关注身体部位的主题标签可以增强观看者的状态自我客观化。这些发现说明了社交媒体内容制作和消费的复杂性，特别是对于年轻女性而言。