Body shaming on social media and its consequences for own-body perception in brain and behaviour

在肯特大学读本科期间，我完成了一项题为“睡眠剥夺、焦虑和抑郁及其对目击者辨认任务表现的影响”的研究课题。我在Marcus Bindemann的监督下进行了这个为期一年的项目。该项目侧重于认知和法庭心理学。在这个研究项目中，我使用了一些材料，以建立所提到的变量之间的联系，以及它们对个人在目击者身份识别任务中执行能力的影响。在这项研究中，参与者在暴露于犯罪的视觉刺激之前完成了焦虑，抑郁和睡眠质量的测量，参与者被要求识别犯罪中的有罪方。在不久的将来，我将在埃塞克斯大学完成进一步的研究，在马塞洛·康斯坦丁尼的监督下，这个项目将集中在一个更生理的方法来研究人类行为。我目前的研究项目仍处于规划的早期阶段;然而，我希望使用一些生理措施来确定抑郁和焦虑对个人自我意识的影响。我决定完成博士学位，以进一步了解人类行为的生理基础，我在很小的时候就对心理学产生了浓厚的兴趣，对认知神经科学和临床心理学都特别感兴趣。我特别关注精神疾病的生理原因和影响。对于我的博士研究，我希望通过完成一项临时标题为“社交媒体上的身体羞辱及其对大脑和行为中自身身体感知的后果”的研究来进一步理解这一点。在这项研究中，我的目标是监测个人的行为反应身体羞辱刺激，他们的视觉反应，通过使用眼动跟踪以及视频记录的行为后，曝光，并最终通过使用脑电图监测他们的大脑活动。该项目旨在将人性的行为方面与生理方面联系起来，以确定身体羞辱媒体对个人自我感知的影响。这项研究旨在确定饮食失调的增加是否与社交媒体中身体羞辱的增加有关。这一系列的研究是特别感兴趣的我，因为它结合了神经学的方法来研究行为与临床心理学的研究，以及健康心理学。这项拟议的研究表明，个人的自我感知受到其他人收到的负面反馈的影响，可能会改变社交媒体的运作方式，提高人们对其负面影响的认识，并可能改变饮食失调及其治疗的管理方式。在我对心理学各个领域的研究中，我对健康心理学和精神疾病的研究产生了特别的兴趣，自去年11月以来，我一直与一名药物引起的精神病患者密切合作，发现这种疾病虽然改变了生活，但通过心理治疗的应用已经得到了控制。我觉得健康心理学的研究与我对认知神经科学的兴趣联系得很好，因为它能够充分了解疾病的起源，并能够开发治疗方法来改善患有这种疾病的人的生活。

During my undergraduate degree at the University of Kent, I completed a research topic entitled "Sleep deprivation, anxiety and depression and their effects on performance in eyewitness identification tasks". I undertook this one-year project under the Supervision of Marcus Bindemann. This project focused on the both cognition and forensic psychology. Within this research project, I used a number of materials in order to establish a link between the variables mentioned and the impact they have on an individual's ability to perform in an eyewitness identification task. In this research participants completed measures of anxiety, depression and sleep quality prior to exposure to a visual stimulus of a crime, participants were required to identify the guilty party in the crime. In the near future, I will be completing further research at the University of Essex under the supervision of Marcello Constantini, this project will focus on a more physiological approach to the study of human behaviour. My current research project is still in its early stages of planning; however, I hope to use a number of physiological measures in order to establish the impact of depression and anxiety on the sense of self an individual has. I have decided to complete a PhD to further my understanding of the physiological basis of human behaviour I developed a keen interest in Psychology at an early age, with a particular interest in both cognitive neuroscience and clinical psychology. I have focused my interest particularly on the physiological causes and effects of mental illness. For my PhD research, I hope to further this understanding by completing a research study with the provisional title of "Body shaming on social media and its consequences for own-body perception in brain and behaviour". Within this study, I aim to monitor an individual's behavioural response to body shaming stimuli, their visual response through the use of eye tracking as well video recordings of the behaviour after exposure and finally monitoring their brain activity through the use of electroencephalogram. This project aims to link both behavioural aspects of human nature with the physiological in order to establish the impact of body shaming media on an individuals' self-perception. This research aims to determine whether the increase in eating disorders is linked to the increase in body shaming in social media. This line of research is of particular interest to me as it combines both a neurological approach to studying behaviour with the study of clinical psychology as well as health psychology. This proposed research suggesting that individuals' self-perception's impacted by the negative feedback other people receive could change the way in which social media operates, increasing awareness of the negative impacts it is having and potentially change the way in which eating disorders and their treatment are managed. During my study of various areas within psychology I have developed a particular interest in health psychology and the study of mental illnesses, I have been working closely with an individual with drug-induced psychosis since November and have found that this illness, although life-changing has been controlled through application of psychological treatments. I feel the study of health psychology links well with my interest in cognitive neuroscience, as in enables a full understanding of the origins of the disorder and enables the development of treatments to improve the life of the suffering with the condition.