Drive for thinness and attention toward specific body parts in a nonclinical sample

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 729-736

  Hewig, Johannes ^a   Cooper, Spring ^b   Trippe, Ralf H ^a   Hecht, Holger ^a   Straube, Thomas ^a   Miltner, Wolfgang H R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentional bias; Eating disorders; Eye tracking; Gaze; Thinness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRIVE; EATING DISORDER; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; ADOLESCENT; ART; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENT; LIMB; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STUDENT; VISION; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; DRIVE; EXTREMITIES; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; MALE; SEX FACTORS; STUDENTS; THINNESS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 52049124273     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e31817e41d3     Document Type: Article

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