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It's tempting to think of Facebook as a place you go to feel good about yourself. After all, you're surrounded by friends, people "like" what you say, and it makes you feel like you're socializing, even though you're alone in your apartment not wearing any pants. But a new study has found that actually Facebook brings out the worst in people with low self-esteem. More »
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The good news is that at some point in your life, you will feel awesome about yourself. The bad news is that the point at which you feel totally hot may be a few decades away. More »
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One of the least fun parts of being a lady is the constant barrage of media that insists that there are products to be purchased that might help you overcome your crushing lack of Pretty. A new survey reveals that while some women are internalizing this message, one group is rejecting en masse it and declaring themselves awesome: black women. Come on, the rest of you jerks! Get higher self-esteem! More »
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The results of our Millennial Survey are in, and it appears millennial folks did get a bit more praise growing up than crotchety Olds. Also, everyone thinks kids today suck — including kids. More »
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Trend pieces on the troubles and triumphs of millennials are a dime a dozen these days, and they've started to sound kind of similar — the participation awards, the feelings of entitlement, the special-snowflake-ness. To shake things up a bit, we've decided to ask you what it was like to grow up millennial — or not. More »
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New research challenges the logic of clothing retailers hiring store clerks based on attractiveness — and not just because it's sketchy and possibly even illegal. Insecure customers are actually less likely to buy an item if they see a good-looking employee or fellow shopper wearing it. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5829831&view=rss&microfeed=true USA Today reports, "Although Hispanics tend to have lower self-esteem than blacks or whites in the teen years, by age 30 their self-esteem has increased to the point that they have higher self-esteem than whites, a new study suggests." More »
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Offering a free class to help teen girls with their body image sounds like a great idea. Not so great: advertising the class with a flier depicting only thin white girls. More »
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It's not news that girls are feeling more pressure than ever to be perfect. As I've written before in my posts on the Martha Complex, this generation of teen girls is more stressed about, well, everything, than any generation of women before them.* The pressure to do well in school, the pressure to please parents and peers, and the pressure to live up to an impossible ideal of physical perfection is crushing. More »
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An academic study of 311 college students has found that on social networks like Facebook, "females who base their self-worth on their appearance tend to share more photos online and maintain larger networks on online social networking sites." More »
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A study supposedly shows that college students would rather have a self-esteem boost than sex or a slice of pizza. If that's true, would it be such a bad thing? More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5731750&view=rss&microfeed=true A recent study found students who seemed less confident were better at flirting: "They seem to be acutely attentive to the other person's needs. They share of themselves; they appear interesting, because they want desperately to seem that way." More »
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Sady Doyle, on on what feminism taught her about fucking. [Tiger Beatdown, image via notsogoodphotography on Flickr] More »
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Spend ten minutes on Facebook and this seems obvious, but now a study finds that the two groups who spend the most time on Facebook are raging narcissists and people who hate themselves. More »
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"I don't try to please ­everyone. What matters is what my ­family and friends think." -Perez Hilton. [The Mirror] More »
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Perhaps unsurprisingly for anyone who's ever tried to pull herself out of a funk by chanting affirmations at her mirror, such positive self-talk might actually lower some people's self-esteem. More »
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Swapping glasses for contacts — or a more extreme step, plastic surgery — can make kids more confident. But is changing appearance really a lasting answer to confidence problems? We take a trip into our own childhoods to find out. More »
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Katie Drummond at True/Slant has an interview with Caitlin, the brains behind Operation Beautiful, which encourages women to leave encouraging notes for other women in public areas as a way to boost our collective self esteem. More »
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On last night's episode of Real Housewives, the charitable Countess attended an after-school program to talk to preteen girls about the importance of confidence and self-esteem. Then she told one of them to lose weight. More »
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Today in the NYT's American-youth-are-spineless-pampered-losers — uh, we mean Education — section, we find that many college students expect good grades just for showing up. More »
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More teenagers are getting plastic surgery in the hope that it will make them look "normal," but can you get self-esteem from a scalpel? More »
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Uh-oh, this may sound familiar: University of Houston researcher Chip Knee has discovered that sometimes people place too much emotional weight on their relationships, which is unhealthy. Psychologists call it relationship-contingent self-esteem (RCSE). Knee says: "An overwhelming amount of the wrong kind of commitment can actually undermine a relationship. When something happens in a relationship, these individuals don't separate themselves from it. They immediately feel personally connected to any negative circumstance in a relationship and become anxious, more depressed and hostile." Sigh. Raise your hand if you've been there. [Science Daily, EurekAlert] More »
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We all know that being bombarded with skeletal children 24/7 does a number on the female psyche, but now it turns out that they're not doing much for men's self-esteem, either. Researchers report that all these images of unrealistic women make guys feel bad about themselves — because they think they're not attractive enough to appeal to them. More »
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