Daniel Talbot

The University of Sydney

Many roads to psychological health and ruin exist, yet most are likely to conform to systematic patterns, despite any apparent differences. In a representative (on age and sex) sample of Australians (N = 1,232) and a Mechanical Turk sample from the USA (N = 602), secondary principle components analyses were conducted on two related measures of copi...

Objective: Height is a significant, yet under-studied dimension of body dissatisfaction in men. The present study examined the relationship between height dissatisfaction, height, muscle and fat dissatisfaction, body ideals, and eating disorder symptoms in men. Participants and methods: Participants were a sample of male undergraduate Australian st...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a debilitating psychological condition that impacts millions of people globally. The front-line psychological intervention for OCD is exposure/response prevention (ERP), however, many individuals do not respond to this treatment approach. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a new therapeuti...

Objective: The present study sought to examine self-ratings of actual and ideal bodies, as well as attractiveness ratings of other bodies in an Australian undergraduate sample. Additionally, associations between body preferences and self-body ratings in men and women were explored. Method: Five-hundred-and-seventy heterosexual men and women selecte...

In this study (N = 367; 62.53 % men) we reconsidered the Napoleon complex that suggests shorter people—men in particular—may compensate for their shortness with antagonistic behaviors. We conceptualized antagonism as individual differences in the Dark Triad traits (i.e., psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism) and found they were associated...

Objective: Our study examined the characteristics of individuals who survived attempted hanging and compared this group to a randomly selected comparison group of patients with non-fatal self-poisoning. Method: Non-fatal hanging cases were identified from case files from an Australian public hospital. They were matched by age, sex, and month of...

Our study aimed to develop and provide a preliminary psychometric validation of the Somatomorphic Matrix-Female (SM-F), a new bidimensional female figural rating scale which can be used to gauge actual and desired levels of both body fat and muscularity in a consolidated measure, as well as providing an index of actual-desired body discrepancy base...

Over the past 30 years, attentional bias for body shape and weight content has been implicated in the precipitation and maintenance of body dissatisfaction and eating disorders. Although the existence of this bias toward body stimuli is well-established in female populations, it is comparatively understudied in men. This review aimed to examine the...

Background: Due to the prevalence of body dissatisfaction, and given that it is a significant risk factor for eating disorders and obesity, understanding the mechanisms of change, and finding new ways on how to reduce body dissatisfaction are important avenues of research. The current study aimed to investigate whether a brief online intervention o...

Height dissatisfaction has recently been found to be an important contributor to body dissatisfaction in males, however, there is currently limited research examining this relationship in women. The present cross-sectional study aimed to examine the link between height and height dissatisfaction in Australian women, and the extent to which height a...

Our study aimed to develop and provide a preliminary psychometric validation of theSomatomorphic Matrix-Female (SM-F), a new bidimensional female figural rating scale which can be used to gauge actual and desired levels of both body fat and muscularity in a consolidated measure, as well as providing an index of actual–desired body discrepancy based...

Objectives: The present study investigated the exposure effect of plus-size models on body dissatisfaction and mood, and the nature of participants' commenting behaviour towards images of plus-size models. Method: The study was comprised of 92 female university students who were exposed to Facebook photos of plus-size models. Participants were rand...

Folk wisdom and research on personality inferences suggest one should be able to judge a person's personality based on their behaviour related to alcohol consumption. In a sample of Australians (N = 1,232), we compared the utility of knowing where and what people prefer to consume alcohol to understand people's personality (broadly construed). Wher...

Figural rating scales are tools used to measure male body dissatisfaction. The present review aimed to examine the design and psychometric properties of male figural rating scales and make recommendations based on findings. Relevant databases were systematically searched for studies that had developed and validated male figural rating scales. Twent...

One factor believed to predict body dissatisfaction is an individual's propensity to attend to certain classes of human body image stimuli relative to other classes. These attentional biases have been evaluated using a range of paradigms, including dot-probe, eye-tracking and free view visual search, which have yielded a range of-often contradictor...

Body dissatisfaction can be defined as negative subjective evaluation of one’s own body as a whole, or specific aspects, such as body shape, size, muscle tone, or weight. A large proportion of past research has neglected the notion of body dissatisfaction in males, and predominantly focused on these constructs in female populations. As a result, an...

This study investigated the relationship between body dissatisfaction, eating disorder symptoms, and attentional bias to images of male bodies using a compound visual search task. Sixty-three male participants searched for a horizontal or vertical target line among tilted lines. A separate male body image was presented within proximity to each line...

High resolution image of the Visual Body Scale for Men

The present study compared the predictive relationship between various psychophysical indices of body categorization performance (Point of Subjective Equivalence (PSE), Just Noticeable Difference (JND) and Reaction Time (RT)) and male body dissatisfaction (Male Body Attitudes Scale (MBAS)) and eating disorder symptoms (Eating disorders examination...

Objectives This study examined the psychometric properties of the Visual Body Scale for Men (VBSM), a new figural rating scale designed as a measure of male perceived‐ideal body discrepancy. Methods In Study 1, participants were 133 males who selected their perceived and desired bodies from the VBSM. Body composition, body dissatisfaction, eating...

This study aimed to develop and examine the validity evidence of the New Somatomorphic Matrix–Male (NSM-M) as a measure of actual–ideal body discrepancy. The NSM-M is a visual matrix of 34 male bodies that vary along two dimensions: body fat percentage (range = 4 – 40%) and muscularity (fat-free mass index; range = 16.5–30 kg/m2; 36.4–66.1 lbs/m2)....

This study aimed to develop and examine the validity evidence of the New Somatomorphic Matrix–Male (NSM-M) as a measure of actual–ideal body discrepancy. The NSM-M is a visual matrix of 34 male bodies that vary along two dimensions: body fat percentage (range = 4–40%) and muscularity (fat-free mass index; range = 16.5–30 kg/m2; 36.4–66.1 lbs/m2). I...

This study aimed to (1) determine the perceptual categorization point of subjective equivalence (PSE) for skinny/fat, and scrawny/muscular male bodies and whether individual psychological and biophysical factors influence perceptual categorization of these body types. Further, this study aimed to (2) examine serial dependencies on perceptual body c...

This study aimed to (1) determine the perceptual categorization point of subjective equivalence (PSE) for skinny/fat, and scrawny/muscular male bodies and whether individual psychological and biophysical factors influence perceptual categorization of these body types. Further, this study aimed to (2) examine serial dependencies on perceptual body c...