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- Title
Effects of High Calorie Preloads on Selective Processing of Food and Body Shape Stimuli Among Dieters and Nondieters.
- Authors
Mahamedi, Fary; Heatherton, Todd F.
- Abstract
Preloaded and nonpreloaded dieters (restrained eaters) and nondieters (unrestrained eaters) completed a modified version of the Stroop task to measure selective biases in cognitive processing. In two separate studies, a milkshake preload led to increased cognitive interference for body shape words, especially for restrained eaters. There were no differences between restrained and unrestrained eaters in Stroop interference for either common or forbidden food words, whether subjects were preloaded or not. Taken together, these results indicate that chronic dieting is associated with selective processing of body shape words.
- Subjects
CALORIC content of foods; DIET; DIETERS; MILKSHAKES; COGNITION; REDUCING diets; BODY weight; EATING disorders; COMPULSIVE eating; PATHOLOGICAL psychology; RESEARCH; WEIGHT loss
- Publication
International Journal of Eating Disorders, 1993, Vol 13, Issue 3, p305
- ISSN
0276-3478
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/1098-108X(199304)13:3<305::AID-EAT2260130309>3.0.CO;2-H