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Perceptive evaluation of body image: history, reconceptualization and perspectives for Brazil

The research in Body image has been growing in number in Brazil. However, the evaluation of the perceptual dimension of Body Image is little explored area. The aim of this article is to critically review the history, the characteristics, the intervening factors of perceptual evaluation and to present perspectives for Brazil.

Perceptual evaluation; body image; Brazil


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