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，我完成了一个题为《睡眠不足、焦虑和抑郁及其对目击证人辨认任务表现的影响》的研究课题。我在马库斯·宾德曼的监督下承担了这个为期一年的项目。本课题从认知和法医心理学两个方面进行研究。在这个研究项目中，我使用了许多材料，以便在上述变量和它们对目击者辨认任务中个人执行能力的影响之间建立联系。在这项研究中，参与者在接触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犯罪方。在不久的将来，我将在马塞洛·康斯坦蒂尼的指导下，在埃塞克斯大学完成进一步的研究，这个项目将专注于用更生理学的方法来研究人类行为。我目前的研究项目仍处于计划的早期阶段；然而，我希望使用一些生理指标来确定抑郁和焦虑对个人自我意识的影响。为了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。我的兴趣主要集中在精神疾病的生理原因和影响上。对于我的博士研究，我希望通过完成一项研究来进一步加深这种理解，这项研究的临时标题是《社交媒体上的身体羞辱及其对大脑和行为中自我身体感知的影响》。在这项研究中，我的目标是监测一个人对身体羞愧刺激的行为反应，通过使用眼球跟踪和暴露后行为的视频记录来监测他们的视觉反应，最后通过使用脑电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上身体羞愧的增加有关。我对这一系列研究特别感兴趣，因为它将研究行为的神经学方法与临床心理学和健康心理学的研究结合在一起。这项拟议的研究表明，个人的自我认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11月以来，我一直在与一名由药物引起的精神病患者密切合作，并发现这种疾病，尽管通过应用心理治疗来控制住了生活的改变。我觉得健康心理学的研究与我对认知神经科学的兴趣很好地联系在一起，因为它使我能够充分了解疾病的起源，并使治疗方法的发展能够改善患有这种疾病的患者的生活。

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.