Discussion
guilt, anxiety
Overall, our results suggest that although videoing women from the neck-down effectively increased state self-objectification relative to an audio-only control (a moderate effect), there was no evidence that this heightened appearance monitoring reduced women’s ability to perform a cognitively-taxing working memory task. Moreover, we did not find evidence consistent with previous work demonstrating decreased body satisfaction or increased negative mood (guilt or anxiety) as a result of objectification [