Patients with obesity show reduced memory for others' body shape

Appetite

Volumn 50, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 359-366

  Wegener, Ingo ^a   De Beer, Kathrin ^a   Schilling, Guntram ^b   Conrad, Rupert ^a   Imbierowicz, Katrin ^a   Geiser, Franziska ^a   Wermter, Florentine ^a   Rüddel, Heinz ^c   Liedtke, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Rehabilitationszentrum am Sprudelhof der Deutschen Rentenversicherung Hessen   (Germany)

^c Psychosomatische Fachklinik St Franziska Stift   (Germany)

Author keywords

"Who said what?" paradigm; Body shape; Categorization; Multinomial modeling; Obesity; Social comparison

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEMORY; MORBID OBESITY; OBESITY; PREDICTION; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL COMPARISON THEORY;

ADULT; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SIZE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEMORY; OBESITY, MORBID; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; THINNESS;

EID: 39749155248     PISSN: 01956663     EISSN: 10958304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2007.08.013     Document Type: Article

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