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Looking age-appropriate while growing old gracefully: A qualitative study of ageing and body image among older adults [PDF]
, 2014 Body dissatisfaction can be significantly detrimental to wellbeing. Little is known about older adults’ body image, despite the fact that ageing causes unique bodily changes and that sociocultural pressures to resist these changes abound.
Williamson, Heidi +9 more
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Implicit body representations and the conscious body image [PDF]
, 2012 Recent studies have revealed that somatosensory processing relies on a class of implicit body representations showing large distortions of size and shape.
Longo, Matthew R. +3 more
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Framing and self-responsibility modulate brain activities in decision escalation
BMC Neuroscience, 2021 Background Escalation of commitment is a common bias in human decision making. The present study examined (1) differences in neural recruitment for escalation and de-escalation decisions of prior investments, and (2) how the activations of these brain ...
Ting-Peng Liang +4 more
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, 2022 Body image disturbance is core to the psychopathology of eating disorders (EDs), and related disorders such as muscle dysmorphia (MD). Global measures of body image fail to quantify specific aspects of body image disturbance that characterizes EDs, and ...
Jukic, I +9 more
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Body Image and Transsexualism [PDF]
Psychopathology, 2007 <i>Background:</i> To achieve a detailed view of the body image of transsexual patients, an assessment of perception, attitudes and experiences about one’s own body is necessary. To date, research on the body image of transsexual patients has mostly covered body dissatisfaction with respect to body perception. <i>Sampling and Methods:&
Kraemer, B +3 more
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Gender and the Body Size Aftereffect: Implications for Neural Processing
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2019 Prolonged exposure to wide (thin) bodies causes a perceptual aftereffect such that subsequently viewed bodies appear thinner (wider) than they actually are. This phenomenon is known as visual adaptation.
Kevin R. Brooks +9 more
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Body image dissatisfaction and body regulation practices
European Psychiatry, 2022 Introduction Body image dissatisfaction as negative evaluation of personal physical characteristics is often associated with low self-esteem, eating and affective disorders.
E. Nikolaev
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Self awareness and the body image [PDF]
, 2009 What mental representations give us the sense of our body as a unique object in the world? We investigated this issue in the context of the rubber hand illusion (RHI), an illusion of body image in which a prosthetic hand brushed synchronously, but not ...
Longo, Matthew R. +9 more
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Military Medicine, 2002 This study examined the feasibility of performing radiographic studies on patients wearing standard-issue body armor. The Kevlar helmet, fragmentation vest, demining suit sleeve, and armor plate were studied with plain film and computed tomography in a simulated casualty situation. We found that the military helmet contains metal screws and metal clips
H Theodore, Harcke +4 more
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 BackgroundBorderline personality disorder (BPD) is a severe mental disorder that affects attitudes toward the body. However, whether this condition also affects body schema and perceptual body image remains unclear.
Dorottya Szily +4 more
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