Ali Pakizeh

Background: Cognitive bias has been introduced as a term for all distortions in the human mind that can hardly be prevented. These biases are "intersubjective" or "rules of thumb" that transform complex tasks into simpler judgmental operations and enable people to make decisions based on sparse and unreliable data in the absence of complete, reliable predictive information. Make predictions and conclusions. Aim: Investigating the effectiveness of correcting cognitive bias towards physical appearance on body image satisfaction, cognitive flexibility, social body anxiety and physical activity in obese women visiting sports clubs Methodology: In order to achieve this goal, the statistical population is all obese women referring to 6 sports clubs in Shiraz city in the first 6 months of 2011, out of which 40 people were randomly selected and placed in two groups of 20 people using the random assignment method.. One of these groups, under the title of experimental group, correction of cognitive bias towards physical appearance is applied to this group, and another group of 20 people is analyzed under the title of control group without receiving any training or correction. Conclusions: The findings obtained from data analysis show that correcting cognitive bias towards physical appearance increases satisfaction with body image, cognitive flexibility and physical activity, and reduces social anxiety of obese women visiting the gym.