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PSY-101 WEEK 4 DISCUSSION 1 Explain how stereotypes, prejudice, and/or discrimination are impacted by media portrayals of women or men. Interpret the implications: How might the portrayal of gender impact behavior and/or mental processes? For example, does seeing scantily clad women or "macho" men have positive or negative effects on men? How does it affect women? Support your points with examples and/or credible evidence. Relate additional phenomena in American culture that that may be especially relevant to a discussion of social attitudes regarding gender. Give an example of an advertisement or media program (other than one presented in the required videos) that you believe might impact attitudes. Explain the relevance and point out specific elements that illustrate. The portrayal of gender is quite evident in twenty-first-century mainstream media, whether it’s the perfect body type, weight, overall looks, financial standing or even social standing as in celebrities. However, with the rising addiction to social media outlets like Facebook and Twitch, the targets are lowering to a younger generation. It seems eerily creepy in comparison to the targeted sale of tobacco products toward the youth of society in the 1970s and 1980s, all aimed at introducing a harmful product to children. In a 2013 article from a Springer Science and Business publication, Iris Vermeir and Dieneke Van de Sompel collectively identify a similar trend in a targeted campaign to introduce children to a social concept like idealization and perfection. The article entitled Assessing the What Is Beautiful Is Good Stereotype and the Influence of Moderately Attractive and Less Attractive Advertising Models on Self-Perception, Ad Attitudes, and Purchase Intentions of 8–13-Year-Old Children confirms the intention’s validity through several in-depth studies. Being exposed to a social trend such as a specific clothing brand worn by an idealized actor or performer creates an opportunity for social divide and often ridicule for those children who do not have the means to conform. Prominent sports figures in a certain sport is a good example of this concept in adolescent males. Furthermore, the negative social exposure and inability to conform Is a telltale situation f