Visual attention mediates the relationship between body satisfaction and susceptibility to the body size adaptation effect.

ABSTRACT: Body size misperception-the belief that one is larger or smaller than reality-affects a large and growing segment of the population. Recently, studies have shown that exposure to extreme body stimuli results in a shift in the point of subjective normality, suggesting that visual adaptation may be a mechanism by which body size misperception occurs. Yet, despite being exposed to a similar set of bodies, some individuals within a given geographical area will develop body size misperception and others will not. The reason for these individual difference is currently unknown. One possible explanation stems from the observation that women with lower levels of body satisfaction have been found to pay more attention to images of thin bodies. However, while attention has been shown to enhance visu

SUBMITTER: Stephen ID 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5791942 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature