The emergence of positive body image research during the last 10 years represents an
important shift in the body image literature. The existing evidence provides a strong …

Emerging literature has documented the presence of cognitive biases toward body image
related stimuli among individuals with high levels of body image concerns compared to …

Existing research links social media use with body dissatisfaction and increased
appearance comparison, demonstrating that photo-based behaviors such as taking and …

Background: In spite of many similarities in the psychopathology of anorexia nervosa (AN)
and bulimia nervosa (BN), the 2 groups seem to differ in terms of body image disturbances …

Objective Cognitive theories suggest that body dissatisfaction results from the activation of
maladaptive appearance schemata, which guide mental processes such as selective …

Cognitive theories emphasise the important role of attentional biases in the development
and maintenance of body image issues and eating pathology. A wealth of research has …

Objective In the attentional bias (AB) phenomenon, eating disorder (ED) patients show a
tendency to pay more attention to self‐attributed unattractive body parts than to other body …

Although muscle dysmorphia (MD) has been added as a specifier for body dysmorphic
disorder in the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders …

Whereas for women, body image disturbances have been shown to be associated with a
biased, self-deprecating pattern of body-directed visual attention, it has never been directly …

Objective Cognitive behavioral models postulate that selective attention plays an important
role in the maintenance of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). It is suggested that individuals …