A Review of Attention Bias and Eating Disorder

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211020.266How to use a DOI?

Keywords

eating disorder, attentional bias, experiments evidence, future treatment

Abstract

Eating disorder (ED) is a mental disorder defined by abnormal eating habits that negatively affect a person’s physical and psychological health. Attentional bias (AB) is a kind of cognitive bias, refers to the differential assignment of attention to special stimuli and involves the method of selective attention. It is essential to investigate cognitive explanations like the AB of EDs, as this can allow us to know how people think and how their thoughts have linked to food choices and eating habits, thereby reducing the number of people being eating disordered by changing their ways of thinking via appropriate treatments. In this paper the AB as a possible cognitive explanation of EDs has been discussed. We found that Individuals with EDs are more sensitive to food cues, especially those high-calories, which is supported by results of using eye tracking and electroencephalo-graph. Disadvantageous social comparisons and impaired social functions might contribute to ED. In terms of EDs treatment, cognitive behavioral therapy, like Attention bias modification has been utilized and become an efficacious intervention.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TI  - A Review of Attention Bias and Eating Disorder
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