ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019
Perceptual Not Attitudinal Factors Predict the Accuracy of Estimating Other Women's Bodies in Both Women With Anorexia Nervosa and Controls.
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- Neural correlates of body size estimation: A systematic review and narrative synthesis.Behavioural brain research · 2026Pooled it
- Body size estimation is influenced by actual-ideal body size discrepancy: a series of studies among Chinese adolescent girls.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
- Sizing up the crowd: Assessing spatial integration difficulties in body size judgements across eating disorder symptomatology.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Use of a real-life practical context changes the relationship between implicit body representations and real body measurements.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Misalignment between perceptual boundaries and weight categories reflects a new normal for body size perception.Scientific reports · 2021Observational
- The Development of a BMI-Guided Shape Morphing Technique and the Effects of an Individualized Figure Rating Scale on Self-Perception of Body Size.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2020Article
- The Representation of Body Size: Variations With Viewpoint and Sex.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- How Does Variation in the Body Composition of Both Stimuli and Participant Modulate Self-Estimates of Men's Body Size?Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
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Abstract
Disturbance in how one's body shape and size is experienced, usually including over-estimation of one's own body size, is a core feature of the diagnostic criteria of anorexia nervosa (AN). Is this over-estimation specific to women with AN's judgments of their own body? Or is it just a general feature of their judgments about all bodies? If the latter, it would be consistent with a general error in the perception of body size potentially linked to the use of a different set of visual cues for judging body size. If the former, then this suggests that the over-estimation of own body size has a strong attitudinal component and may be part of the psycho-pathology of their condition. To test this hypothesis, 20 women with AN and 80 control observers estimated the body size of 46 women. The results show a strong effect of perceptual factors in estimating body size for both controls and women with AN. This result is consistent with size over-estimation of own body in AN having a strong attitudinal basis and being a core feature of the psycho-pathology of the condition.
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