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Girls as young as 8 show cognitive sensitivity to their own body weight, new study finds

Summary by PsyPost
A new study has found that girls as young as eight or nine years old already have a tendency to notice and respond to numbers representing their own body weight, in ways that are different from boys. When these girls were shown a number referring to their weight, their attention was drawn to it and it distracted them from other visual information. This was not the case for boys, suggesting that an awareness of one’s body weight develops differen…

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PsyPost broke the news in on Wednesday, June 25, 2025.
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