The Body Project is a cognitive-dissonance-based body acceptance intervention that was designed to help adolescent girls and young women resist sociocultural pressures to conform to the thin-ideal and reduce their pursuit of thinness. A reduction in thin-ideal internalization should result in improved body satisfaction and improved mood, reduced use of unhealthy weight-control behaviors, and decreased binge eating and other eating disorder symptoms.

Welcome to the Developing Mind Lab. Our lab examines how children develop an appreciation of mental states like belief, desire, and intention, i. Particularly, we are interested in the role executive functioning, e. For information about our lab. College of Arts and Sciences.

Check if part of the ORI Research Program. The eBody Project is an online program designed to help adolescent girls and young women feel better about their bodies by giving them a forum to think about the costs of trying to look like the unrealistic images of women that are shown in the mass media. Young women do a series of exercises that help them understand the costs of this unrealistic thin-ideal and learn to recognize things they like about themselves and their body. Can males do the eBody Project? .

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