title: Eyes on the bodies: an eye tracking study on deployment of visual attention among females with body dissatisfaction.
abstract: Visual attentional bias has important functions during the appearance social comparisons. However, for the limitations of experimental paradigms or analysis methods in previous studies, the time course of attentional bias to thin and fat body images among women with body dissatisfaction (BD) has still been unclear. In using free reviewing task combined with eye movement tracking, and based on event-related analyses of the critical first eye movement events, as well as epoch-related analyses of gaze durations, the current study investigated different attentional bias components to body shape/part images during 15s presentation time among 34 high BD and 34 non-BD young women. In comparison to the controls, women with BD showed sustained maintenance biases on thin and fat body images during both early automatic and late strategic processing stages. This study highlights a clear need for research on the dynamics of attentional biases related to body image and eating disturbances.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China; Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Southwest University, Chongqing, China. Electronic address: gaoxiaox@swu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Xiao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthodontics, The Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.
authors.forename: Xiao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
authors.forename: Jia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Educational Science and Management, Yunnan Normal University, Kunmin, China.
authors.forename: Shuang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China; Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D001828:Body Image / Q000523:psychology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005133:Eye Movements; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Attentional bias; Body dissatisfaction; Body image; Eye movements; Maintenance