Are attitudinal and perceptual body image the same or different? Evidence from high-level adaptation

KK Cornelissen, H Widdrington, K McCarty, TV Pollet… - Body image, 2019 - Elsevier
We used a high-level adaptation paradigm to distinguish between two hypotheses:(1)
perceptual and attitudinal body image measurements reflect conceptually different …

Altered visual adaptation to body shape in eating disorders: implications for body image distortion

HM Mohr, C Rickmeyer, D Hummel, M Ernst… - …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Previous research has shown that after adapting to a thin body, healthy participants (HP)
perceive pictures of their own bodies as being fatter and vice versa. This aftereffect might …

Visual attention mediates the relationship between body satisfaction and susceptibility to the body size adaptation effect

ID Stephen, D Sturman, RJ Stevenson, J Mond… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Body size misperception–the belief that one is larger or smaller than reality–affects a large
and growing segment of the population. Recently, studies have shown that exposure to …

Body image distortion and exposure to extreme body types: contingent adaptation and cross adaptation for self and other

KR Brooks, JM Mond, RJ Stevenson… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Body size misperception is common amongst the general public and is a core component of
eating disorders and related conditions. While perennial media exposure to the “thin ideal” …

Body image

N Burke, L Schaefer, JK Thompson - 2012 - digitalcommons.usf.edu
Body image is a psychological construct that focuses on how an individual subjectively
views some aspect of his or her appearance, in contrast to how another person might …

Body size adaptation alters perception of test stimuli, not internal body image

KB Ambroziak, E Azañón, MR Longo - Frontiers in psychology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Recent studies have reported that adaptation to extreme body types produces aftereffects on
judgments of body normality and attractiveness, and also judgments of the size and shape of …

Visual adaptation to thin and fat bodies transfers across identity

D Hummel, AK Rudolf, KH Untch, R Grabhorn… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Visual perception is highly variable and can be influenced by the surrounding world.
Previous research has revealed that body perception can be biased due to adaptation to …

Attitudinal and perceptual factors in body image distortion: an exploratory study in patients with anorexia nervosa

A Waldman, R Loomes, VA Mountford… - Journal of eating …, 2013 - Springer
Background Body image disturbance is a core feature of anorexia nervosa (AN). Attitudinal
and cognitive biases as well as fundamental perceptual differences have been …

When do anorexic patients perceive their body as too fat? Aggravating and ameliorating factors

M Kazén, N Baumann, JF Twenhöfel, J Kuhl - Plos one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Objective Our study investigated body image representations in female patients with
anorexia nervosa and healthy controls using a size estimation with pictures of their own …

Thinner than yourself: self-serving bias in body size estimation

M Mazzurega, J Marisa, M Zampini, F Pavani - Psychological Research, 2020 - Springer
The self-serving bias is the tendency to consider oneself in unrealistically positive terms.
This phenomenon has been documented for body attractiveness, but it remains unclear to …