Clinical psychology is starting to explain eating disorders (ED) as the outcome of the
interaction among cognitive, socio-emotional and interpersonal elements. In particular two …

According to the objectification theory (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997) girls and women are
thought to adopt a self-objectified view of themselves as objects to be evaluated on the basis …

Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is an eating pathology characterized by restricted eating, body
image distortions and impaired socio-cognitive abilities. Altered responses to affective touch …

Oxytocin (OT) is thought to play an important role in human interpersonal information
processing and behavior. By inference, OT should facilitate empathic responding, ie, the …

Introduction Body image disturbance (BID) typically involves explicit negative attitudes
toward one's shape and weight and is associated with altered interoceptive sensibility (the …

In a previous study, we found that when required to imagine another person performing an
action, participants reported a higher correspondence between their own dominant hand …

The purpose of this study was to examine differences in performance and form scores
between left and right-handers who observed a demonstration with their non-dominant …

As outlined in Chapter 1, affective touch is a pleasant interoceptive stimulus facilitated by the
activation of a specialised system of mechanosensitive cutaneous afferents C-tactile …

funkčný a neoodeliteľný celok. Miesto potreby mentálnych reprezentácií ponúka dynamický
a interakčný model cirkulárnej výmeny s možné, aby interakcia a správanie organizmu …

Research in childhood and adolescence clinical population allows the analysis of the
phenomenon in the very beginning of the disturbance in a population in which the effects of …