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My research proposal: Altered body images in college students
I want to photograph about 100 college students' picture individually. Then, I will take each picture of the student, and edit them in 2 ways to make the person look slightly larger and slightly skinnier. I will go back to my 100 participants with the orginal photograph and the 2 altered photos of themselves and ask them to pick the photo that had not been tampered with. I hypothesize that my peers pick the image which has made them larger instead of over their actual picture that I took.
Text book source:
Sarason, I. G., Sarason, B. R. (2005). Abnormal Psychology (11th ed.).
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education Company.