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

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...

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Main Authors: Ian D Stephen, Daniel Sturman, Richard J Stevenson, Jonathan Mond, Kevin R Brooks
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5791942?pdf=render