Biases in attention and memory for body shape images in eating disorders

Autor: Tracy L. Masterson, Angela C. Jones, Ashleigh A Pona, Denise D. Ben-Porath
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Eating and weight disorders : EWD. 24(6)
ISSN: 1590-1262
Popis: To investigate attentional and memorial biases towards body shape pictures among female patients with clinical eating disorders and healthy female controls. A visual dot-probe task was used to assess attention towards pictures reflecting either a thin, normal, or obese female body shape. Pictures were presented in pairs; each pair depicted two different body shapes and were presented twice. Participant responses were compared across time and population. Overall, the eating disorder patients responded more slowly than controls, F(1,63) = 20.32, p
Databáze: OpenAIRE