Experts explain how your body image impacts your sexual health. It can be challenging to get out of your head during a hookup if you don't feel 100% comfortable in your own skin... 

One study, conducted by an MU professor, suggests racism is extended to skin tone. Antionette Landor, assistant professor of human development and family science, recently published a study called “Skin-tone trauma: historical and contemporary influences on the health...

As the country continues to grapple with racism, one University of Missouri professor suggests that bias related to skin tone can lead to negative health and relationships for African Americans. Antoinette Landor, assistant professor of human development and family...

Antoinette Landor offers the following advice to help people heal from skin-tone trauma: Acknowledge that colorism exists through individual, institutional, and cultural encounters and that it occurs across races. Have difficult conversations about the implications of...

CBIRP Associate Directory Antoniette Landor discusses Colorism's Significance in the Identify a biannual publication from MU Inclusion, Diversity & Equity (Fall 2019, Issue 5)

CBIRP's Directors Antoniette Landor and Virginia Ramseyer Winter contribute to the conversation in this article that takes an in-depth look at relationships and communication about sexual intimacy.

Virginia Ramseyer Winter Director of CBIRP is interviewed on Top of Mind with Julie Rose.  The interview starts 1:23:50. The interview takes on how to help young girls improve their body image.

A good breakfast routine like this may actually be even more beneficial. A recent study from the University of Missouri found that family breakfasts can boost the way teens see themselves. After reviewing survey data from over 12,000 adolescents, researchers found...

The interview starts at 40:40.  Virginia Ramseyer Winter, director, the University of Missouri CBIRP is interviewed. What if instead of looking at our bodies through a lens of appearance, we focused more of our attention on what our bodies do for us on a functional...

The research shows that images from 3D scanners can help young women focus on body appreciation, which might in turn improve mental health.  Virginia Ramseyer Winter, Director of the CBIRP  states “We wanted to see if it could provide a way to help young women shift...

There’s new research that suggests teenagers who eat breakfast with their parents have a better chance of developing a positive body image. Parents who want to raise children who are secure about their bodies and their appearance simply have to eat breakfast with...

Parents hoping to raise teenagers with positive body image might just find helpful tools in the kitchen every morning. A new study from the University of Missouri says consistently eating breakfast as a family might promote positive body image for children and...

Eating breakfast as a family can help promote a positive body image for children and adolescents, a new study suggests. “We know that developing healthy behaviors in adolescence such as eating breakfast every day and eating family meals can have long-term effects into...

We don't often think of body image as being directly related to our sex lives, much less our sexual health, but a growing body of research shows the two are actually intimately related. Led by Virginia Ramseyer Winter, Ph.D., MSW, Director of the University of...

Center for Body Image Research and Policy was created in October of 2018. Dr. Ginny Ramseyer Winter the Director of the new research collaborative is working to help people improve issues related to physical appearance.

Improved body image for improved well-being is the purpose of the new University of Missouri Center for Body Image Research and Policy. Ginny Ramseyer Winter is the director of the center, in the MU College of Human Environmental Sciences. Ramseyer Winter said it’s...

CBIRP students Michaella Ward (left) and Mackenzie Cook (right) present on body image and sexual behaviors at the Council on Social Work Education Annual Program Meeting in November, 2018.

Dr. Landor’s Research Featured in Stephens Life Magazine Dr. Landor and her research on colorism was featured in the Fall 2018 Issue of Stephens Life, an award-winning magazine by Stephens College. She was invited to the Issue Release Party last week.

But for the women of Generation X — those of us born between millennials and baby boomers, now in our late 30s to early 50s — the loud roar of body positivity is more like a whisper. It’s like we don’t exist.

Teenagers who have a negative body image are more likely to smoke and drink alcohol, according to a study published in the Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse.