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Body Image

Known as: Images, Body, Image, Body, bodies image 
The way a person thinks about his or her body and how it looks to others.
National Institutes of Health

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PerceptionSelf awareness
Physical Appearance, BodySelf ConceptSelf Esteemaltered body image

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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
The role of the media in body image concerns among women: a meta-analysis of experimental and correlational studies.
Research suggests that exposure to mass media depicting the thin-ideal body may be linked to body image disturbance in women… 
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Body image and sexual problems in young women with breast cancer
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of body image and sexual problems in the first months after… 
Review
2005
Review
2005
Looking and listening to light: the evolution of whole-body photonic imaging
Optical imaging of live animals has grown into an important tool in biomedical research as advances in photonic technology and… 
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Body Image - A Handbook of Theory, Research and Clinical Practice Thomas F Cash Body Image - A Handbook of Theory, Research and Clinical Practice and Thomas Pruzinsky Guilford Press 380pp £22…
The authors believe body image to be a body image to be a multidimensional phenomenon with perceptual, attitudinal and affective… 
Review
2004
Review
2004
Body image across the adult life span: stability and change.
By far, the majority of studies investigating body image in adults have drawn samples from college populations within a very… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Body image: past, present, and future.
This brief editorial article introduces the new scientific journal, Body Image: An International Journal of Research, and… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Diffusion weighted whole body imaging with background body signal suppression (DWIBS): technical improvement using free breathing, STIR and high resolution 3D display.
PURPOSE To examine a new way of body diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) using the short TI inversion recovery-echo planar imaging… 
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Obesity and body image.
Modern western culture emphasizes thinness, denigrates excess weight, and stigmatizes obese individuals, making it likely that… 
Review
2000
Review
2000
Exacting Beauty: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment of Body Image Disturbance
J. KEVIN THOMPSON, LESLIE J. HEINBERG, MADELINE ALTABE, AND STACEY TANTELEFF-DUNN: Exacting Beauty: Theory, Assessment, and… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
The nature and extent of body-image disturbances in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa: a meta-analysis.
OBJECTIVE Although body-image disturbance is among the diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, the nature… 
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