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This study investigated emotional recognition and self-referent anger emotion bias in female college students with body dysmorphic symptoms(BDS). The emotional discrimination task with self-referent and other-referent conditions was used to explore the relationship between self-referent recognition bias for anger emotion and ideas of reference in individuals with BDS. Participants were divided into high (n = 30) and low (n = 30) BDS groups based on BICI(The Body Image Concern Inventory) and DCQ (Dysmorphic Concern Questionnaire). The findings indicated that the high BDS group exhibited significantly lower overall accuracy and accuracy in the self-referent condition compared to the low BDS group. The high BDS group also misinterpreted neutral facial expressions as anger in self-referent situations. Additionally, a correlation was found between self-referent anger bias and ideas of reference in high BDS individuals. Overall, the results suggest that emotional recognition deficits, a bias toward anger emotion in self-referent situations, and ideas of reference are characteristic features associated with the development of body dysmorphic disorder in female college students.