The Thin White Line: Adaptation Suggests a Common Neural Mechanism for Judgments of Asian and Caucasian Body Size

The Thin White Line: Adaptation Suggests a Common Neural Mechanism for Judgments of Asian and Caucasian Body Size

Visual adaptation has been proposed as a mechanism linking viewing images of thin women’s bodies with body size and shape misperception (BSSM). Non-Caucasian populations appear less susceptible to BSSM, possibly because adaptation to thin Caucasian bodies in Western media may not fully transfer to o...

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Main Authors: Lewis Gould-Fensom, Chrystalle B. Y. Tan, Kevin R. Brooks, Jonathan Mond, Richard J. Stevenson, Ian D. Stephen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
body perception
visual adaptation
visual aftereffects
cross-cultural
body image
body size
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02532/full

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