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Published online 18 October 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news001019-7
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Beauty is in the body of the beholder
It's official: thin is in when beauty is in question. Jessa Netting reports.
Healthywomen are almost as bad as anorexics and bulimics when it comes to having distorted perceptions of others' bodies, psychologists report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B1.
Martin Tovée, Joanne Emery and Esther Cohen-Tovée of the University of Newcastle and St.
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