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Our aim was to study the gender differences in brain activation upon viewing visual stimuli of distorted images of one’s own body. We performed functional magnetic resonance imaging on 11 healthy young men and 11 healthy young women using the “body image tasks” which consisted of fat, real, and thin shapes of the subject’s own body. Comparison of the brain activation upon performing the fat-image...
The purpose of this study was to separate the effects of gender from those of desired weight loss on body satisfaction and eating disordered behavior. Therefore, we explored gender differences in a sample (N = 191) of men and women who wanted to lose weight. We expected that controlling for desire to lose weight would minimize gender differences; this was supported for (a) overall body dissatisfaction,...
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