ArticlePsychological research2019
Chubby hands or little fingers: sex differences in hand representation.
Article in Psychological research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- The role of visual experience in haptic spatial perception: evidence from early blind, late blind, and sighted individuals.Biology of sex differences · 2025Article
- Unlocking the potential of 'passive' modulation: How sensory stimulation shapes hand and face size.Journal of neuropsychology · 2025Article
- No evidence for sex differences in tactile distance anisotropy.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
- Growing into your hand: the developmental trajectory of the body model.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
- Differential effects of minified and magnified mirror visual feedback on the underlying misperception of hand size.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2021Article
- Proprioceptive errors in the localization of hand landmarks: What can be learnt about the hand metric representation?PloS one · 2020Article
- The perceived size of the implicit representation of the dorsum and palm of the hand.PloS one · 2020Article
- Long- but not short-term tool-use changes hand representation.Experimental brain research · 2019Article
- The Representation of Body Size: Variations With Viewpoint and Sex.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Disturbed body representation is a condition defined by the perception that one's body size is different from their anatomical size. While equal amounts of males and females suffer from disturbed body representation, there appear to be differences in the direction of this distortion. Females will typically overestimate, whereas males will typically underestimate body size. One part of the body that has been consistently misperceived is the hands. This misrepresentation consists of two distinct characteristics: an overestimation of hand width, and an underestimation of finger length. Many of these studies, however, have used predominately female participants, allowing for the possibility that women are driving this distortion. The aim of the present study was to examine possible sex differences in hand perception. To this end, participants estimated the location of ten landmarks on their hands when their hands were hidden from view. Our results indicate that females follow the characteristic distortion, whereas males only underestimate finger length (albeit more than females). These findings are surprising, because the hands are not an area of concern for weight gain/loss. We discuss these findings in relation to body dysmorphia literature.
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