A key symptom of eating disorders is feeling dissatisfied with one’s body size and shape. We combined the results of 34 studies to find out if women who are dissatisfied with their own body direct more attention to low weight body sizes. Eye-tracking studies provided evidence showing that women who were dissatisfied with their body spent more time looking at low weight women. Other measures of attentional bias did not provide compelling evidence for this relationship. These findings can inform the way we treat eating disorder symptoms and  measure attentional bias. 

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