@article{tremblay_predictive_2022,

title = {The predictive role of body image and anti-fat attitudes on attentional bias toward body area in haptic virtual reality environment},

author = {L. Tremblay and B. Chebbi and S. Bouchard},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85113139887&doi=10.1007%2fs10055-021-00569-4&partnerID=40&md5=3b77f665011b82e40c9ce8d5f438146a},

doi = {10.1007/s10055-021-00569-4},

issn = {13594338},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Virtual Reality},

volume = {26},

number = {1},

pages = {333–342},

abstract = {Evidence suggests that dissatisfaction with body image in women can be enhanced by exposure to media’s idealized images. The theory of social comparison and the avoidance hypothesis offer contradictory explanations of this relationship. We compare these two theories using a haptic virtual reality environment. We ask 42 female participants to interact with one of four types of virtual humans (VH) randomly assigned to them. The interaction task involves giving a virtual hug to a normal weight or overweight male or female VH. We verify the hypothesis that participants’ satisfaction with particular body parts and their anti-fat attitudes will determine the choice of the body area of the VH they will virtually touch. Our results show that: (1) touching VH lower torso is predicted by less anti-fat attitude, and avoidance of the upper torso and upper limb areas, and (2) touching VH shoulder and upper limbs areas is predicted by concerns with own stomach area and avoidance of VH lower torso and stomach waist areas. Our results tend to support the avoidance hypothesis as well as other research findings on anti-fat attitudes. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature.},

note = {Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH},

keywords = {body image, Body parts, Image Enhancement, Upper limbs, Virtual humans, virtual reality, Virtual-reality environment},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}