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February 19, 2020

Can new Snapchat features help troubled teens?

Matthew Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, Deakin University; Siân McLean, La Trobe University; Suku Sukunesan, Swinburne University of Technology, and Zali Yager, Victoria University

Social media platforms are increasingly offering mental health support tools to users. The jury is still out on whether it will do any good

Labor MP Mark Butler, speaking on Q&A. Q&A

February 27, 2019

FactCheck Q&A: do eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of all mental illnesses?

Zali Yager, Victoria University

Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy Mark Butler told Q&A that eating disorders “are the mental illness type which has the highest mortality rate”. We check the research.

Facebook use increases young women’s concerns about their face, hair and skin. Thiago Marques/Flickr

January 30, 2015

Facebook shapes women’s body image – just not as you’d expect

Jasmine Fardouly, UNSW and Zali Yager, Victoria University

If you’re one of the world’s 1.3 billion regular Facebook users, you’ll know the feeling of being consumed by your news feed. If you don’t use Facebook, you need only get on a busy train or bus to see…

Just because Barbie has impossible proportions, does that mean playing with her will distort young girls’ body image? Flickr/Freddycat1

December 22, 2014

Is Barbie bad for body image?

Zali Yager, Victoria University

Launched in 1959, named after the inventor’s daughter Barbara, and owned by 99% of 3-10 year old girls in the USA, Barbie has been a popular request on young girls’ Christmas wish lists for 55 years. So…

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