Measuring Implicit Approach‐Avoidance Tendencies Using Self‐Depicting Body Pictures in Female Adults With Bulimia Nervosa, High Body Dissatisfaction and Healthy Controls

In sum, the AAT did not yield evidence of body-related avoidance behavior. Future studies should control for the occurrence of body checking (i.e., increased focus on disliked body parts which could activate approach-biases) during AAT, manipulate the strength of self-reference, e.g., by presenting/omitting facial cues in self-depicting body pictures, and consider the task relevance of (and thus overt attention to) the body pictures.