An investigation of the effect of body dissatisfaction on selective attention toward negative shape and weight-related information

2009 ◽  
pp. NA-NA ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelyn Smith ◽  
Elizabeth Rieger
Keyword(s):  
Selective Attention ◽  
Body Dissatisfaction ◽  
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Improving Body Satisfaction

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolien Martijn ◽  
Jessica M. Alleva ◽  
Anita Jansen
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Body Dissatisfaction ◽  
Automatic System ◽  
Body Satisfaction ◽  
Western Society ◽  
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Feelings of body dissatisfaction are common in Western society, especially in women and girls. More than innocent discontent, body dissatisfaction can have serious consequences such as depression and eating disorders. The current article discusses the nature of body dissatisfaction, how it develops and how it is currently being treated. We also discuss novel strategies to increase body satisfaction that work on the automatic system (e.g., by retraining attentional and conditioning processes), since recent research suggests that appearance-related information is processed automatically. We suggest that extant methods should be combined with these novel strategies, in order to optimally improve body dissatisfaction and to prevent its detrimental consequences.

Selective attention biases of people with depression: Positive and negative priming of depression-related information

2009 ◽  
Vol 165 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwok-Keung Leung ◽  
Tatia M.C. Lee ◽  
Paul Yip ◽  
Leonard S.W. Li ◽  
Michael M.C. Wong
Keyword(s):  
Selective Attention ◽  
Negative Priming ◽  
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scholarly journals Greater body appreciation moderates the association between maladaptive attentional biases and body dissatisfaction in undergraduate women

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 204380871983893 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah N. Tobin ◽  
Amy H. Barron ◽  
Christopher R. Sears ◽  
Kristin M. von Ranson
Keyword(s):  
Body Dissatisfaction ◽  
The Body ◽  
Attentional Biases ◽  
Thin Ideal ◽  
Inverse Association ◽  
Body Appreciation ◽  
Gaze Tracking ◽  
Effective Prevention ◽  
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Undergraduate Women

Attentional biases for weight-related information are thought to contribute to maintenance of body dissatisfaction and eating disorders. Women with greater body appreciation may pay less attention to thin-ideal cues if body appreciation protects them from negative effects of thin-ideal media, and if so, they may be less susceptible to development of maladaptive attentional biases. The present study used eye-gaze tracking to measure attention to weight-related words/images in 167 body-dissatisfied undergraduate women (aged 17–39 years) to examine the associations among body dissatisfaction, body appreciation, and attentional biases. Participants viewed displays of thin-related, fat-related, and neutral words/images while their eye fixations were tracked over 8-s intervals. We hypothesized body appreciation (as measured by the Body Appreciation Scale) would moderate the documented association between body dissatisfaction and attentional biases for thin-related information only, such that as body appreciation increased, the strength of the relationship between body dissatisfaction and attentional biases would decrease. Results indicated that body appreciation moderated the association between body dissatisfaction and attentional biases for thin-related words only. With low body appreciation, body dissatisfaction was positively associated with attention to thin-related words. With high body appreciation, there was an inverse association between body dissatisfaction and attention to thin-related words. Results suggest that body appreciation may be an effective prevention target for reducing maladaptive attentional biases.

scholarly journals Selective attention and decision-making have separable neural bases in space and time

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Moerel ◽  
Anina N. Rich ◽  
Alexandra Woolgar
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Selective Attention ◽  
Information Coding ◽  
Stimulus Information ◽  
Functional Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Resonance Imaging ◽  
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Attention and decision-making processes are fundamental to cognition. However, they are usually experimentally confounded, making it impossible to link neural observations to specific processes. Here we separated the effects of selective attention from the effects of decision-making in human observers using a two-stage task where the attended stimulus and decision were orthogonal and separated in time. Multivariate pattern analyses of multimodal neuroimaging data revealed the dynamics of perceptual and decision-related information coding through time (magnetoencephalography (MEG)), space (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)), and their combination (MEG-fMRI fusion). Our MEG results showed an effect of attention before decision-making could begin, and fMRI results showed an attention effect in early visual and frontoparietal regions. Model-based MEG-fMRI fusion suggested that attention boosted stimulus information in frontoparietal and early visual regions before decision-making was possible. Together, our results suggest that attention affects neural stimulus representations in frontoparietal regions independent of decision-making.

Vision enhances selective attention to body-related information

2010 ◽  
Vol 483 (3) ◽  
pp. 184-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helge Gillmeister ◽  
Bettina Forster
Keyword(s):  
Selective Attention ◽  
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