Hypotheses
guilt, anxiety
H1: As a manipulation check, we predicted that body surveillance would be significantly higher in the experimental conditions (self-objectification and male gaze) compared to the control and significantly higher in the male gaze condition compared to the self-objectification condition.H2: We predicted response latency (i.e., time taken to answer the questions) would be slower in the experimental conditions compared to the control and slower in the male gaze condition compared to the self-objectification condition. Likewise, we expected that response accuracy (total questions answered correctly) would be lower in the experimental conditions compared to the control and lower in the male gaze condition compared to the self-objectification condition.H3: We hypothesized an association between body surveillance and performance on the working memory task (both latency and accuracy), such that higher body surveillance during the task would be associated with lower performance across conditions.H4: We expected that both state anxiety and state guilt scores would increase from pre-test to post-test across conditions (i.e., a main effect of time point). We predicted there would be a significant interaction between time point and condition, whereby the increase in state anxiety and state guilt scores would be greater in the experimental conditions compared to the control.H5: We predicted that body satisfaction would be significantly lower in the experimental conditions compared to the control and significantly lower in the male gaze condition compared to the self-objectification condition.