The looking glass selfie: Instagram use frequency predicts visual attention to high-anxiety body regions in young women

@article{Bue2020TheLG,
  title={The looking glass selfie: Instagram use frequency predicts visual attention to high-anxiety body regions in young women},
  author={Amelia C. Couture Bue},
  journal={Comput. Hum. Behav.},
  year={2020},
  volume={108},
  pages={106329},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:216401270}
}
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