Data cleaning
Ten participants failed the attention check included in the BISS; their data were excluded. We excluded data from 13 participants from the male gaze condition because their response to the hypothesis guessing question indicated either that they did not believe the follow-up dating study was real or that they correctly guessed the true purpose of the study. Data from seven participants were excluded due to experimenter error or failure of the participant to follow directions (e.g., the participant used the whiteboard for calculations instead of just for recording answers; the participant missed a page of the pre-test or post-test). One participant asked to leave the study after reading the instructions. This left 376 participants for analyses; 121 in the control, 136 in the self-objectification, and 119 in the male gaze condition. Of this sample, 51 participants had some degree of missing data for the working memory task. Twenty-four were missing timing data for the working memory task due to a corrupted SD memory card. We retained all other data, including response accuracy, for these participants. Additionally, response accuracy and latency data were excluded for 27 participants due to a technical error on the laptop in which one or more of the audio files that dictated the arithmetic problems were inadvertently skipped; all other data from these participants were preserved.For all other variables (i.e., pre- and post-test scores), analysis of patterns of missing data revealed that less than .16% of all items for all cases were missing; ninety-four percent of participants had no missing data. Finally, no item had 1% or more missing values. Given the low levels of missing data and consistent with recommendations by Parent [