Using those guiding principles, Helena then put out the specific guidelines.
Some great points made about the implicit biases in sampling strategies, measure choice, publishing outlets, even the order in which we list groups (or authors!) in our work.

and second, Helena Lewis-Smith puts forward guidelines for conducting inclusive body image research. Important reflections on how all in research - even 'objective' quantitative work - choices should be made reflexively, with user/participant input, and with end use in mind from the start.

Last but not least, Jessica Alleva presents her new scale and program development work on how people overcome negative body image via 'enough is enough' breakthroughs. Case-study data shows rapid change during program completion!

3rd up is Valentina Cazzato presnts data showing that in one study, high body dissatisfaction (via somatomap PCA) *and* reduced liking of gentle touch, increases risk for eating disoders. For others, affective benefits of touch may buffer against body dissatisfaction.

Next Martin Tovee shows that people often under (white pp) or over- (south/east asian pp) estimate BMI of bodies from other ethnicities - we need ethnically appropriate stimuli for own- and ideal-body perception tasks!

Lastly, Tejasvi Singh on beauty content engagement - objectification from beauty content impacts appearance concerns and cosmetic procedure interest in young women via appearance anxiety, appearance shame and fear of aging.

Veya Seekis next showing that viewing nature pictures is as good as 'body positive' content or a social media 'cleanse' to reduce social media pressure and self-objectification (but no effect on body satisfaction).

Next Shanta Ramdass shows data showing that problematic social media use is higher in Jamaica than it used to be (now similar to US and Europe) and correlates with higher depression and lower self esteem.

Followed by George Mycock talking about the need for more and better resources for appearance and eating concerns in men (check out myominds.co.uk) and Ruth Kaziga highlighting how Banyankore women experience conflict between traditional and Western beauty standards.

We then had reflections from Berenice Mahney on how appearance concerns have intensified/changed across the COVID years, Chesli Ricketts on drive for muscularity in weight lifters, and Christian Edwards on drive for muscularity as an existential issue in men more broadly.

Next Isabella Tremonte talks on her qualitative synthesis of research on body image in athletes.

Some very welcome closing questions for those in the field doing (cross-)cultural research on body image and eating disorders.

And a challenge: if we're missing data and context, we miss cases, and so we'll miss opportunities to intervene.

Striking slide here highlighting the massive data gaps in our understanding of eating disorder prevalence.

Lastly, Pranita Shrestha, discussed how 'one size (doesn't) fit all' in body image digital tool development for underrepresented populations - some really interesting different ideas about what can be done to tackle the different pressures that vary between cultures and families.