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Study: Women are attention whores


justin0469

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As if we didn't already know that, but now this study confirms it:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20040699-71.html?tag=cnetRiver

I want you to focus on Kim Kardashian. Do you think she uses her looks to compete for attention?

OK. Now I want you to focus on Facebook. Do you think that women post lots of pictures of themselves to compete for the attention of others--men, for example?

I worry that your answer to both these questions will be "yes." I worry even more, because your views might be confirmed by research from a couple of academics at universities in New York, Texas, and Hawaii.

For their work, published in a journal called "Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking," makes for troubling reading.

Apparently, women who tend to judge their own self-worth more on appearance tend to post more pictures of themselves on Facebook. The study's results suggest they do this to compete for, as they say in marketing, eyeballs.

University of Buffalo researcher Michael A. Stefanone, Ph.D., on his university's own site, put it like this: "It is disappointing to me that in the year 2011 so many young women continue to assert their self worth via their physical appearance--in this case, by posting photos of themselves on Facebook as a form of advertisement."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1GQHoLyS5Q

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