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A `Rubber-hand` illusion reveals a relationship between perceptual body image and unhealthy body change
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posted on 2006-01-01, 00:00 authored by Alexander MussapAlexander Mussap, N SaltonThe ‘rubber-hand’ illusion, in which individuals misattribute tactile sensations felt by their hand to a rubber prosthetic hand that they see being stimulated, was employed to examine the relationship between perceptual body image and unhealthy body change in 128 volunteers. Variance in unhealthy body development in males (22%) and in bulimic symptomatology in both females and males (10%), was explained by susceptibility to the illusion. The illusion, which is relatively free from cognitive and emotional ‘contamination’, could be used to identify individuals most responsive to therapies designed to correct inaccurate body perceptions–individuals whose perceptual body image is malleable.
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Journal of health psychologyVolume
11Issue
4Pagination
627 - 639Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd.Location
Thousand Oaks, Calif.Publisher DOI
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1359-1053eISSN
1461-7277Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2006, Sage PublicationsUsage metrics
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