Evidence of The Effect of Attentional Bias On Eating Disorders
In each of these three studies the experimenters found that attentional bias is present in eating disorders. Each study is explained in one of the following sections. The Shafran (2009) experiment is explained in the subsection Attentional Bias Compared to Control Groups. The Veenstra (2012) experiment is explained in the Attention Bias in Anorexia Nervosa subsection and the Jansen (2005) experiment is explained in the subsection Attentional Bias in body dissastifaction section. Finally all of these experiments’ relevance is explained in the Relevance of Studies on Attentional Biases on the Treatment of Eating Disorders subsection.
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