Barbie Affect Young Girls

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This source is about a study involving Barbie dolls and how it affects young girls. 162 girls where involved in the experiment, where they choose to play with a Barbie, a Emme doll, or no doll at all. The Emme doll had a more realistic body image then a Barbie. The researches hypothesis that these dolls can functions as aspirational role models for young girls, and they wanted to see how the Barbie doll affected the girls. This source helps my argument that the very popular Barbie dolls help internalize the thin ideal into young girls. The researchers concluded that Barbie is a powerful socialization agent of an unhealthy, ultrathin, and unachievable body ideal. The Barbie dolls represent a distorted, and unhealthy thin ideal. This study is

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