| Title: |
Looking good. BMI, attractiveness bias and visual attention |
| Authors: |
Roefs, A.J.; Jansen, A.T.M.; Moresi, S.M.J.; Willems, P.J.B.; van Grootel, S.; van der Borgh, A. |
| Source: |
Roefs, A J, Jansen, A T M, Moresi, S M J, Willems, P J B, van Grootel, S & van der Borgh, A 2008, 'Looking good. BMI, attractiveness bias and visual attention', Appetite, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 552-555. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2008.04.008 |
| Publication Year: |
2008 |
| Collection: |
Maastricht University Research Publications |
| Description: |
The aim of this study was to study attentional bias when viewing one's own and a control body, and to relate this bias to body-weight and attractiveness ratings. Participants were 51 normal-weight female students with an unrestrained eating style. They were successively shown pictures of their own and a control body for 30 s each, while their eye movements (overt attention) were being measured. Afterwards, participants were asked to identify the most attractive and most unattractive body part of both their own and a control body. The results show that with increasing BMI and where an individual has given a relatively low rating of attractiveness to their own body, participants attended relatively more to their self-identified most unattractive body part and the control body's most attractive body part. This increasingly negative bias in visual attention for bodies may maintain and/or exacerbate body dissatisfaction. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
0195-6663; 1095-8304 |
| Relation: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pmid/18495295; info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/000259930900021; info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pissn/0195-6663; info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/eissn/1095-8304 |
| DOI: |
10.1016/j.appet.2008.04.008 |
| Availability: |
https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/en/publications/11c5ff29-0f83-4a9a-b9de-07c7dc54116b; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2008.04.008; https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ws/files/73243490/Jansen_2008_Looking_good_BMI_attractiveness.pdf |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; https://umlib.nl/taverne-license |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.46292435 |
| Database: |
BASE |