Evaluating the effects of eating disorder memoirs on readers' eating attitudes and behaviors.

@article{Thomas2006EvaluatingTE,
  title={Evaluating the effects of eating disorder memoirs on readers' eating attitudes and behaviors.},
  author={Jennifer Joanne Thomas and Abigail M. Judge and Kelly D. Brownell and Lenny R. Vartanian},
  journal={The International journal of eating disorders},
  year={2006},
  volume={39 5},
  pages={
          418-25
        }
}
OBJECTIVE More than 50 individuals have published eating disorder (ED) memoirs. The current study was the first to test whether memoirs affect readers' eating attitudes and behaviors, and whether they normalize and/or glamorize EDs. METHOD Fifty female undergraduates read an ED or control memoir. Before and afterward, participants completed the 26-item Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26), the Eating Disorders Inventory (EDI) Drive for Thinness subscale, a measure of perceived ED symptom prevalence… 
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