Biases in orienting and maintenance of attention among weight dissatisfied women: An eye-movement study

Gao, Xiao; Quan-Chuan, Wang; Jackson, Todd; Zhao, Guang; Liang, Yi; Chen, Hong

doi:10.1016/j.brat.2011.01.009

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“…The participant sample was quite small, particularly for the group analysis. Nevertheless, it is comparable with sample sizes reported in three eye-tracking studies involving participants with clinical (Giel et al, 2011) and non-clinical disordered eating (Gao et al, 2011;Hewig et al, 2008).…”

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“…Eye-tracking has been used successfully to investigate the processing of salient cues in different participant groups (Caivo et al, 2007;Mogg et al, 2003;Nummenmaa et al, 2006). Notably, it has been used successfully to investigate attentional biases to food-and bodyrelated cues in participants with eating disorders (Giel et al, 2011) and nonclinical participants with relatively high scores on measures of disordered eating (Gao et al, 2011;Hewig et al, 2008). With this in mind, the current study utilised eye-tracking in order to establish if healthy participants who could be considered 'at risk' of developing an eating disorder would exhibit biased attention towards angry faces.…”

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The influence of variations in eating disorder-related symptoms on processing of emotional faces in a non-clinical female sample: An eye-tracking study

Sharpe

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2016

Psychiatry Research

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The influence of variations in eating disorder-related symptoms on processing of emotional faces in a non-clinical female sample: an eye-tracking study 1 1FACE PROCESSING AND DISORDERED EATING , Psychiatry Research, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016Research, http://dx.doi.org/10. /j.psychres.2016 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting galley proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. non-clinical samples. They also displayed biased attention away from emotional faces during later strategic processing, which is consistent with previously observed impairments in clinical samples. These differences were related to drive-for-thinness.Although we found no evidence of a bias towards angry faces, it is plausible that the observed impairments in emotion recognition and avoidance of emotional faces could disrupt social functioning and act as a risk factor for the development of eating disorders.

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The influence of variations in eating disorder-related symptoms on processing of emotional faces in a non-clinical female sample: An eye-tracking study

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2016

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“…Therefore, all T2 were presented about 600 ms after T1 presentation. Data from the dot-probe and eye movements studies showed that spatial visual attention was either drawn to or captured by fatness-related information among extremely weight-concerned women (Gao et al, 2011), which would indicate that this facilitating effect of negative body image schemata would enable WD women response more accurate to fatness-related T2 in the current RSVP paradigm.…”

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“…Recently, using the dot-probe paradigm and eye movements (EM) tracking, Gao et al (2011) assessed biases in specific component processes of visual attention in relation to body-related stimuli among weight-dissatisfied (WD) young women. Results indicated that WD women showed initial orienting, speeded detection, and initial maintenance biases toward fat body words in addition to a speeded detection-avoidance pattern of biases in relation to thin body words.…”

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“…During the early stages of cognitive processing, women with extreme weight dissatisfaction may have an attentional vigilance that they were more easily captured by fat body words, which might have been a function of amygdala activation in the emotional processing of comparatively threatening stimuli that reflected personal concerns with overweight and fatness (Gao et al, 2011;Miyake et al, 2010). However, during the late stages of processing, women with weight concerns have different attentional bias patterns toward different body-related words with a maintenance bias toward fat body words and an avoidance bias toward thin body words, which might involve the mPFC activation (Gao et al, 2011;Miyake et al, 2010;Rieger et al, 1998).…”

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Attentional biases among body-dissatisfied young women: An ERP study with rapid serial visual presentation

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Deng

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International Journal of Psychophysiology

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The effects of priming in a cued dot‐probe task on appearance‐related attentional biases in women

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Intl J Eating Disorders

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The dot-probe task (DPT) is a reaction time measure of attentional bias. Research using this task has found inconsistent patterns of appearance-related attentional biases in women. This study examined the effects of a novel priming variation of the DPT, which incorporated additional cues into each trial of the task, on measurement of such biases. The study also examined associations between these biases and body image, a component of eating disorder symptomatology. A convenience sample of women from the general community (N = 103) completed body image measures online and attended a laboratory session to complete one of four DPTs: (1) an appearance-cued DPT containing images of thin-ideal models between each trial; (2) neutral-cued DPT containing images of forests; (3) time-delayed DPT controlling for time in place of an image; or (4) typical DPT containing only word stimuli. Women who completed the appearance-cued DPT demonstrated a stronger attentional bias for positive, but not negative, appearance words than women who completed the other DPT versions. Furthermore, for the appearance-cued and time-delayed DPTs, this bias correlated with poorer body image across several indicators (appearance evaluation, body dissatisfaction, self-evaluative salience of appearance, and state body satisfaction). Although it was unexpected that no attentional bias for negative-appearance words was found, the attentional bias for positive-appearance words may suggest that effects were driven by the ego-threat of positive-appearance words. Further research is warranted to determine whether such biases contribute to and maintain body image disturbance and disordered eating.

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Biases in orienting and maintenance of attention among weight dissatisfied women: An eye-movement study

Cited by 63 publications

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The influence of variations in eating disorder-related symptoms on processing of emotional faces in a non-clinical female sample: An eye-tracking study

The influence of variations in eating disorder-related symptoms on processing of emotional faces in a non-clinical female sample: An eye-tracking study

Attentional biases among body-dissatisfied young women: An ERP study with rapid serial visual presentation

The effects of priming in a cued dot‐probe task on appearance‐related attentional biases in women

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