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A systematic and methodological review of attentional biases in eating disorders: Food, body, and perfectionism.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Associations of Problematic Smartphone Use and Smartphone Screen Time With Eating Disorder Psychopathology in Non-Clinical Samples: A Systematic Review.JMIR mental health · 2026Pooled it
- Implicit bias to food and body cues in eating disorders: a systematic review.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2021Pooled it
- A systematic and methodological review of attentional biases in eating disorders: Food, body, and perfectionism.Brain and behavior · 2019Pooled it
- Oxytocin Effects on Food Stimulus Processing and Food Intake in Females With or Without Binge Eating Disorder.The International journal of eating disorders · 2026Trial
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- A comparison of body image components, including attentional bias and body appraisal, in adolescents with anorexia nervosa or depression, and non-clinical controls.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2026Article
- Shaping attitudes toward body-related cues via evaluative conditioning: investigating the roles of social comparison and self-esteem.Cognitive processing · 2026Article
- Altered late semantic processing of food stimuli in female anorexia nervosa and atypical anorexia nervosa patients.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- When tasty becomes threatening: a neurobehavioral perspective on subjective food preferences in eating disorders.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- Attentional bias toward food in binge eating disorder: baseline differences and the limits of attention modification training.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Visual Attention Patterns Toward Female Bodies in Anorexia Nervosa-An Eye-Tracking Study with Adolescents and Adults.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Childhood Trauma, Cognition, and Eating Psychopathology: A Network Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The Influence of Negative Affect on Working Memory Updating of Food Stimuli Among Adolescents With Anorexia Nervosa.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Attentional Processing Biases in Young People With Binging and Purging Behavior.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Mothers' eating disorder history and mother and infant attention to food during infant meal times: a candidate for intergenerational transmission of eating disorder behaviours.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
- Intimate partner violence against women and the adoption of unhealthy weight control practices.Revista brasileira de epidemiologia = Brazilian journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Reduced body-image disturbance by body-image interventions is associated with neural-response changes in visual and social processing regions: a preliminary study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Young Adults with Negative Body Image at Fatness Subscale Are More Restrained Than Normal Adults during a Chocolate Discounting Task.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Attention Biases for Eating Disorder-Related Stimuli Versus Social Stimuli in Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa - An Eye-Tracking Study.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
- Attentional vigilance of food information in disordered eating behaviors.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe current systematic and methodological review aimed to critically review existing literature utilizing implicit processing, or automatic approach- and/or avoidance-related attentional biases between eating disorder (ED) and nonclinical samples, which (a) highlights how psychophysiological methods advance knowledge of ED implicit bias; (b) explains how findings fit into transdiagnostic versus disorder-specific ED frameworks; and (c) suggests how research can address perfectionism-related ED biases.
methodThree databases were systematically searched to identify studies: PubMed, Scopus, and PsychInfo electronic databases. Peer-reviewed studies of 18- to 39-year-olds with both clinical ED and healthy samples assessing visual attentional biases using pictorial and/or linguistic stimuli related to food, body, and/or perfectionism were included.
resultsForty-six studies were included. While behavioral results were often similar across ED diagnoses, studies incorporating psychophysiological measures often revealed disease-specific attentional biases. Specifically, women with bulimia nervosa (BN) tend to approach food and other body types, whereas women with anorexia nervosa (AN) tend to avoid food as well as overweight bodies.
conclusionsFurther integration of psychophysiological and behavioral methods may identify subtle processing variations in ED, which may guide prevention strategies and interventions, and provide important clinical implications. Few implicit bias studies include male participants, investigate binge-eating disorder, or evaluate perfectionism-relevant stimuli, despite the fact that perfectionism is implicated in models of ED.
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