Welcome back to the summer shorts series! Over the summer, we’re bringing you short episodes focusing on a recently published paper by researchers at the team at the Centre for Appearance Research.

Today, Maia speaks to Ellie Cowles (MSc student) and Ella Guest (Senior Research Fellow) about their paper titled: Imagery versus captions: The effect of body positive Instagram content on young women's mood and body image.

You can read the paper here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1740144522002078?casa_token=ajyxJLT4sAgAAAAA:9TfsZp4Ro4O0C4EBkSOo9ZtvNj__so8VuDnFeRr9ShjUm_p7735vfn2dT_bpRWOsow5JTwKxGA

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Episode produced by Maia Thornton

Summer shorts series developed by Nadia Craddock