Cognitive Bias in Eating Disorders
Attentional bias is the inclination to believe that an emotionally dominant stimuli attracts and controls the attention of a person. This person will neglect information that does not comply with the emotionally dominant stimuli and it will affect them when making judgments in relation to the stimuli It is believed that attentional bias has an effect on eating disorders. Many studies have been performed to test this theory such as studies by Shafran, Lee, Cooper, Palmer & Fairburn (2007), Veenstra and de Jong (2012) and Smeets, Jansen, & Roefs (2005).
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