Evaluating implicit attractiveness beliefs in body dysmorphic disorder using the Go/No-go Association Task

► BDD participants had significantly stronger implicit associations between attractive and important, relative to the other groups, whereas there was no difference between the dermatology and control groups. ► The GNAT was effective at classifying individuals with BDD above and beyond the prediction offered by an explicit measure of attractiveness beliefs. ► The GNAT may be a useful tool for assessing implicit associations in clinical populations because it does not require an explicit comparison target category, which is a restriction of many implicit measures.