Attentional Bias in Anorexia Nervosa
A study that studies a more specific section of eating disorders is one performed by Veenstra and de Jong (2012.) The experimenters looked at restrictive type of anorexia nervosa and how attentional bias affects how they select what they eat. Anorexic participants are very good at restricting their food intake. The experimenters tested to determine if patients that were diagnosed with anorexia showed attentional biased against pictures of food. The researchers found that both the control and the eating disorder patients showed attentional bias against high fat foods and negative eating pictures. The eating disorder patients showed a larger attentional bias against the foods that are considered “bad.” They also found that this could facilitate the restricted food intake of the eating disorder patients.
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