Visual Self-Misperception in Eating Disorders

Many who suffer from eating disorders claim that they see themselves as “fat”. Despite decades of research into the phenomenon, behavioural evidence has failed to confirm that eating disorders involve visual misperception of own-body size. I illustrate the importance of this phenomenon for our under...

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Published inPerception (London) Vol. 50; no. 11; pp. 933 - 949
Main Author Gadsby, Stephen
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.11.2021
Subjects
body size perception
bulimia nervosa
body size estimation
cognitive penetrability
self-misperception
el greco fallacy
eating disorders
anorexia nervosa
body representation
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Summary:Many who suffer from eating disorders claim that they see themselves as “fat”. Despite decades of research into the phenomenon, behavioural evidence has failed to confirm that eating disorders involve visual misperception of own-body size. I illustrate the importance of this phenomenon for our understanding of perceptual processing, outline the challenges involved in experimentally confirming it, and provide solutions to those challenges.
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ISSN:0301-0066
1468-4233
DOI:10.1177/03010066211056808