The Response of Obese Patients to Weight Reduction

Glucksman, Myron L.; Hirsch, Jules; McCully, Robert S.; Barron, Bruce; Knittle, Jerome L.

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“…Studies of body image commonly employ tasks in which participants compare their own body to a template body picture (for reviews see Cash & Deagle, 1997;Smeets, Smit, Panhuysen, & Ingelby, 1997). Examples of such methods include the 'distorting mirror' (Traub & Orbach, 1964), 'distorted photograph' (Glucksman & Hirsch, 1969), 'silhouette' (Furnham & Alibhai, 1983), and 'template matching' (Gandevia & Phegan, 1999) methods. In this study, I investigated this question using a task similar to the one I used in a recent study (Longo & Haggard, 2012b), modelled on the 'template matching' method of Gandevia and Phegan (1999).…”

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Three-dimensional coherence of the conscious body image

Longo

2015

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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We experience our body as a coherent object in the three-dimensional (3-D) world. In contrast, the body is represented in somatosensory cortex as a fragmented collection of two-dimensional (2-D) maps. Recent results have suggested that some forms of higher level body representations maintain this fragmentation, for example by showing different patterns of distortion for two surfaces of a single body part, such as the palmar and dorsal hand surfaces. This study investigated the 3-D coherence of the conscious body image of the hand by comparing perceptual biases of perceived hand shape on the dorsal and palmar surfaces. Participants made forced-choice judgements of whether observed hand images were thinner or wider than their own left or right hand, and perceptual distortions of the hand image were assessed by fitting psychometric functions. The results suggested that the hand is consciously represented as a fully coherent, 3-D object. Specifically: (a) Similar overall levels of distortion were found on the palmar and dorsal hand surfaces, (b) comparable laterality effects were found on both surfaces (left hand represented as wider than right hand), and (c) the magnitude of distortions were strongly correlated across the two surfaces. Whereas other recent results have suggested that perceptual abilities such as position sense, tactile size perception, and tactile localization may rely on fragmented, 2-D representations of individual skin surfaces, the present results suggest that, in striking contrast, the conscious body image represents the body (or, at least the hand) as a coherent, 3-D object.

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Three-dimensional coherence of the conscious body image

Longo

2015

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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“…There are also other techniques: e.g. the body-distorting mirror (Traub, Orbach 1964), distorting photography (Gluckman, Hirsch 1969) and video image distortion (Alleback, Hallberg, Espmark 1976).…”

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Body Dissatisfaction

Sejčová

2008

Human Affairs

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Abstract. The author concentrates on the preference of the values of "the cult of the body" increasingly affecting the behaviour of young people and their position in the value system relating to generally recognized values. Too much emphasis on physical beauty and outward appearance significantly determines behaviour and can lead to a reduction in values relating to the body and body shape but also to unhealthy eating disorders such as bulimia or anorexia nervosa. The focus is on the pathological perception of the body, on how culture and cultural norms affect body dissatisfaction. A research questionnaire on universal values and the cult of the body (2006) was used. The research sample consisted of 508 respondents aged between 18 and 26 (292 women and 216 men).Keywords: cult of the body; body image; ideal of slimness; anorexia; bulimia."Attitudes to the body are not free. The body is exposed to the power of the model or norm… The tyranny of the ideal of the slim body has begun" Gilles Lipovetsky

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“…A variety of procedures including the moving caliper technique (Slade & Russell, 1973), the image marking method (Askevold, 1975), the distorting photograph technique (Glucksman & Hirsch, 1969), and paper-and-pencil body ratings (Home, Van Vactor, & Emerson, 1991) have been to used to compare the person's subjective estimations of the size of various body parts with objective measurements of the body.…”

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The self-schema model: A theoretical approach to the self-concept in eating disorders

Stein

1996

Archives of Psychiatric Nursing

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Over the last several decades, the self-concept has been implicated as a important determinant of eating disorders (ED). Although considerable progress has been made, questions remain unanswered about the properties of self-concept that distinguish women with an ED from other populations, and mechanisms that link the self-concept to the disordered behaviors. Markus's self-schema model is presented as a theoretical approach to explore the role of the self-concept in ED. To show how the schema model can be integrated with existing work on the self-concept in ED, a framework is proposed that addresses the number, content, and accessibility of the self-schemas. More specifically, it is posited that a limited collection of positive self-schemas available in memory, in combination with a chronically and inflexibly accessible body-weight self-schema, lead to the disordered behaviors associated with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.

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The Response of Obese Patients to Weight Reduction

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Three-dimensional coherence of the conscious body image

Three-dimensional coherence of the conscious body image

Body Dissatisfaction

The self-schema model: A theoretical approach to the self-concept in eating disorders

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