Die Auswirkungen sozialer Vergleiche mit Werbemodels auf Produktbewertungen

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Medienökonomie, -management, Note: 1,3, Hochschule Fresenius; Köln, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: We gain knowledge about our society and our world through mass media. In many re-spects, this also leads to illusions. Extreme beauty standards which, particularly in cosmetic and fashion advertisements, look down on us from billboards. Silk and smooth skin, 1.80 m, 50 kilo lightweight, healthy long hair - in short: out-and-out per-fect. However, even the topmodels' natural beauty seldom satisfies the ad industry. Recently it has become common practice to digitally retouch photos; increasingly skinny, with spotless white teeth and a skin that is not just smooth, but rather as smooth as glass. Thus, the average recipient will never conform to these ideals - es-pecially not by using all the advertised products. We are surrounded by these idealised images and, at the same time, we tend to compare ourselves socially. So it seems to be obvious that models are also drawn on for such comparisons. But which effects re-sult from social comparisons with unreachable beauty standards? Does it actually make any sense at all to use such highly attractive models, even though the recipients are often aware of this illusion?Processes which occur while regarding advertising models have already been ana-lysed very extensively and in diverse ways. However, in these cases, the effects on the recipients themselves were in the s...