Your relationship with your body is shaped by small, everyday actions you might not even notice. These tiny habits can either ...

But as the country's population grows more overweight and obese, it's becoming more normal to have a negative body image, says Tiffany Stewart, a professor at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center ...

Our Western society highly values beauty, which it tends to define as being young and skinny. Definitions and ideals of beauty—communicated through, for instance, TV, movies, Instagram, and ...

A new study looked at how body-related emotions and recalling embarrassing or proud memories of participants’ bodies would affect task performance. Participants who recalled embarrassing stories ...

Body image refers to how a person thinks and feels about themselves physically. From childhood to adulthood, a person’s family can influence how they feel about their bodies through various ...

Most of the time, our brains are very good at blending together input from all our senses into a seamless, unified conscious experience of “my body.” When this process of integrating different sensory ...

If you are overweight or have obesity, a healthy body image is important. Here’s how body image affects weight loss, plus ways to get a more positive body image. By: Hallie Levine Destiny Murtaugh ...

Reverse body dysmorphia is not a clinical diagnosis but a term that originated from TikTok. People use it colloquially to describe having a perception of their own appearance as “better” than it is.