{"id":219508,"date":"2025-08-06T04:17:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T09:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/posting-digitally-enhanced-photos-of-yourself-could-have-a-social-cost-researchers-find"},"modified":"2025-08-06T04:17:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T09:17:30","slug":"posting-digitally-enhanced-photos-of-yourself-could-have-a-social-cost-researchers-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/posting-digitally-enhanced-photos-of-yourself-could-have-a-social-cost-researchers-find","title":{"rendered":"Posting digitally enhanced photos of yourself could have a social cost, researchers find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/posting-digitally-enhanced-photos-of-yourself-could-have-a-social-cost-researchers-find2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The use of disclaimer labels on digitally enhanced portraits could have unintended social consequences for their subjects, according to a study by a team of McGill researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Laboratory for Attention and Social Cognition used beauty filters on a common social media application to gradually edit a total of 300 images of 60 women (from 0% to 100%, 25% at a time). They randomly labeled half of the images as \u201cedited\u201d and the other half as \u201cunedited,\u201d regardless of their level of editing.<\/p>\n<p>A sample of 76 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/undergraduate+students\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">undergraduate students<\/a> then reviewed the images. The participants were asked to rate the individual\u2019s attractiveness, but also to imagine the person\u2019s social life and some of their social qualities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of disclaimer labels on digitally enhanced portraits could have unintended social consequences for their subjects, according to a study by a team of McGill researchers. Researchers at the Laboratory for Attention and Social Cognition used beauty filters on a common social media application to gradually edit a total of 300 images of 60 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}