The Stroop task has been adapted from cognitive psychology to be able to examine attentional biases in various forms of psychopathology, including the eating disorders. This paper reviews the research on the Stroop task in the eating disorders research area in both descriptive and meta-analytic fashions. Twenty-eight empirical studies are identified, which predominantly examine food and body/weight stimuli in bulimic, anorexic, or dieting/food-restricted samples. It is concluded that there is evidence of an attentional bias in bulimia for a range of stimuli but that the effect seems to be limited to body/weight stimuli in anorexia. The evidence to date is that there is no attentional bias in dieting samples. Limitations of the methodology employed in the extant literature include small sample sizes, unstandardized Stroop methodology, restricted gender, and a general lack of consideration of individual differences variables. Recommendations for future research are provided.

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饮食失调中的注意偏见：Stroop表现的荟萃分析。

Stroop任务已从认知心理学进行了改编，以能够检查各种形式的心理病理学（包括饮食失调）中的注意偏见。本文以描述性和荟萃分析的方式回顾了饮食失调研究领域对Stroop任务的研究。确定了28项实证研究，主要研究了暴食，厌食或节食/食物受限的样本中的食物和体重/体重刺激。结论是，有证据表明在贪食症中对一系列刺激存在注意偏见，但这种作用似乎仅限于厌食症中的身体/体重刺激。迄今为止的证据是节食样本中没有注意偏见。现有文献中使用的方法的局限性包括样本量小，非标准化的Stroop方法，受限制的性别，以及普遍缺乏对个体差异变量的考虑。提供了未来研究的建议。