Although overweight and obesity are widespread across most of the developed world, a
considerable body of research has now accumulated, which suggests that adiposity often …

An increasing number of studies are evidencing relationships between the drive for
muscularity and potentially harmful behavioral strategies, such as unhealthy dieting and …

Previous literature suggests that a disturbed ability to accurately identify own body size may
contribute to overweight. Here, we investigated the influence of personal body size, indexed …

The recent rise in body dissatisfaction and weight bias has led to a call to the media to
increase the diversity of their imagery, in efforts to challenge the thin-ideal. Therefore, this …

Portion sizes of many foods have increased in recent times. In three studies we examined
the effect that repeated visual exposure to larger versus smaller food portion sizes has on …

Objective: In the past decade, South Africa's obesity epidemic has increased in both children
and adults, and being overweight is becoming the norm. Several contributing factors lead to …

Many individuals experience body-size and-shape misperception (BSSM). Body-size
overestimation is associated with body dissatisfaction, anxiety, depression, and the …

Background The attitudes towards obesity may have an important role on healthier behavior.
The goal of the present study was to explore the attitudes towards obesity and to investigate …

Background Whilst the consequences of weight bias and weight bias internalisation (WBI)
have been explored, less is known about the factors contributing to their development. Some …

Prolonged visual exposure, or 'adaptation', to thin (wide) bodies causes a perceptual
aftereffect such that subsequently seen bodies appear wider (thinner) than they actually are …