Cognitive Dissonance and Attentional Biases Related to Body Dissatisfaction

The Body Project is a dissonance-based body-acceptance program designed to help high school girls and college-age women resist cultural pressures to conform to the appearance ideal standard of female beauty and reduce their pursuit of unrealistic bodies. The Body Project is supported by more research than any other body image program and has been found to reduce onset of eating disorders.

Mediapsychoeducation is used to educate individuals on psychological issues through the use of various medias, in this study mediapsychoeducation is being used to educate individuals on eating disorders and the thin ideal.