Gender Differences in Body Evaluation: Do Men Show More Self-Serving Double Standards Than Women?

ABSTRACT: Generally speaking, compared to women, men are less dissatisfied with their own body and consider themselves to be better-looking and less overweight. So far, however, it is unclear whether these divergent body ratings arise from the application of double standards. With the present study, we examined whether men apply different standards to their own body than to other men's bodies and whether they differ from women in this regard. To this aim, we presented n = 104 women and n = 93 men with pictures of thin, average-weight, overweight, athletic and hypermuscular male and female bodies on a computer screen. To manipulate identification, we showed the bodies of the respective participant's gender once with the participant's own face and once with the face of another person. Identity cues, s

SUBMITTER: Voges MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6428027 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature