ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019
Female Body Dissatisfaction and Attentional Bias to Body Images Evaluated Using Visual Search.
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- Effects of group counseling on height dissatisfaction and attentional bias in adolescence.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Body weight and attentional capture in children.Experimental brain research · 2025Article
- The effect of an odd-one-out visual search task on attentional bias, body size adaptation, and body dissatisfaction.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Attentional Bias Modification Training Based on Virtual Reality and Eye Tracking in Anorexia Nervosa Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Altered processing of conflicting body representations in women with restrictive anorexia nervosa.Psychological research · 2023Article
- Evidence of attentional bias toward body stimuli in men.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2022Review
- Preference for ugly faces? -A cognitive study of attentional and memorial biases toward facial information among young females with facial dissatisfaction.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
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Abstract
One factor, believed to predict body dissatisfaction is an individual's propensity to attend to certain classes of human body image stimuli relative to other classes. These attentional biases have been evaluated using a range of paradigms, including dot-probe, eye-tracking and free view visual search, which have yielded a range of - often contradictory - findings. This study is the first to employ a classic compound visual search task to investigate the relationship between body dissatisfaction and attentional biases to images of underweight and with-overweight female bodies. Seventy-one undergraduate females, varying their degree of body dissatisfaction and Body Mass Index (BMI), searched for a horizontal or vertical target line among tilted lines. A separate female body image was presented within close proximity to each line. On average, faster search times were obtained when the target line was paired with a uniquely underweight or with-overweight body relative to neutral (average weight only) trials indicating that body weight-related images can effectively guide search. This
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