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Framing and self-responsibility modulate brain activities in decision escalation

open access: yesBMC 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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Body image distortions following spinal cord injury [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Background: Following spinal cord injury (SCI) or anaesthesia, people may continue to experience feelings of the size, shape, and posture of their body, suggesting that the conscious body image is not fully determined by immediate sensory signals.
Fuentes, C.T.   +4 more
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Body image perception and body composition: assessment of perception inconsistency by a new index [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
BACKGROUND: A correct perception of the body image, as defined by comparison with actual anthropometric analyses, is crucial to ensure the best possible nutritional status of each individual.
Bramanti, B.   +4 more
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Body image dissatisfaction and body regulation practices

open access: yesEuropean 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
doaj   +1 more source

Healthy lifestyles and body mass index as correlates of body image in primary schoolchildren [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Background: Body image is a representation of the self that develops from an early age. Such representations are likely to be associated with lifestyle choices.Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between health ...
Calmeiro, Luis, Pereira, Carlos
core   +1 more source

Gender and the Body Size Aftereffect: Implications for Neural Processing

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

A meta-analytic review of stand-alone interventions to improve body image [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Objective Numerous stand-alone interventions to improve body image have been developed. The present review used meta-analysis to estimate the effectiveness of such interventions, and to identify the specific change techniques that lead to improvement ...
A Arroyo   +142 more
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Culture and body image [PDF]

open access: yesMotricidade, 2009
The present study aims to investigate the relationship between culture and body image. We intend to know how socio-cultural factors influence the levels of satisfaction with body image.
Dina Alves   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Disturbed body schema, perceptual body image, and attitudinal body image in patients with borderline personality disorder

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Body dissatisfaction revisited : on the importance of implicit beliefs about actual and ideal body image [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Body dissatisfaction (i.e., a negative attitude towards one’s own physical appearance) is assumed to originate from a perceived discrepancy between the actual physical appearance (i.e., actual body image) and the desired ideal state of the body (i.e ...
De Houwer, Jan   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

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