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Venus with a Mirror (1555) by Titian. Body image is a person's thoughts, feelings and perception of the aesthetics or sexual attractiveness of their own body. [1] [2] The concept of body image is used in several disciplines, including neuroscience, psychology, medicine, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, philosophy, cultural and feminist studies; the media also often uses the term.
An implicit bias or implicit stereotype is the pre-reflective attribution of particular qualities by an individual to a member of some social out group. [1]Implicit stereotypes are thought to be shaped by experience and based on learned associations between particular qualities and social categories, including race and/or gender. [2]
Or other uses of "defect" [10] Deformed [6] Delusional [25] Demented People with dementia [10] Deranged or mentally deranged [6] Derp: Considered by some sites to refer to people with intellectual disabilities [23] Differently abled [7] [23] Dim or dim-witted [25] DALYs/DFLYs/QALYs: Disability or Quality Adjusted (or Free) Life Years
Egocentric bias is the tendency to rely too heavily on one's own perspective and/or have a different perception of oneself relative to others. [35] The following are forms of egocentric bias: Bias blind spot, the tendency to see oneself as less biased than other people, or to be able to identify more cognitive biases in others than in oneself. [36]
Body image disturbance (BID) is a common symptom in patients with eating disorders and is characterized by an altered perception of one's own body.. The onset is mainly attributed to patients with anorexia nervosa who persistently tend to subjectively discern themselves as average or overweight despite adequate, clinical grounds for a classification of being considerably or severely ...
Body schema is a general term that has multiple definitions in various disciplines. Generally, it refers to a person's concept of his or her own body, where it is in space, what it looks like, how it is functioning, etc. Our body image is part of our self-schema. The body image includes the following: [9] The perceptual experience of the body
Cultural bias is the related phenomenon of interpreting and judging phenomena by standards inherent to one's own culture. Numerous such biases exist, concerning cultural norms for color, location of body parts, mate selection, concepts of justice, linguistic and logical validity, acceptability of evidence, and taboos. Ordinary people may tend ...
Fear of perceived body image flaws, misconceptions about one’s own physical appearance, body-checking behavior Body dysmorphic disorder ( BDD ), also known in some contexts as dysmorphophobia , is a mental disorder defined by an overwhelming preoccupation with a perceived flaw in one's physical appearance. [ 1 ]