1. Do disinhibited eaters pay increased attention to food cues?
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Seage CH and Lee M
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- Adult, Body Mass Index, Diet psychology, Humans, Hunger, Hyperphagia physiopathology, Hyperphagia psychology, Inhibition, Psychological, Orientation, Overweight epidemiology, Overweight etiology, Overweight psychology, Photic Stimulation, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Risk, Self Report, United Kingdom epidemiology, Young Adult, Appetite Regulation, Attention, Cues, Diet adverse effects, Energy Intake, Food Preferences psychology, Hyperphagia etiology
- Abstract
The Three Factors Eating Questionnaire's measure of disinhibited eating is a robust predictor of long-term weight gain. This experiment explored if disinhibited eaters display attentional bias to food cues. Participants (N = 45) completed a visual dot probe task which measured responses to food (energy dense and low energy foods) and neutral cues. Picture pairs were displayed either for a 100 ms or 2000 ms duration. All participants displayed attentional bias for energy dense food items. Indices of attentional bias were largest in disinhibited eaters. Attentional bias in disinhibited eaters appeared to be underpinned by facilitated attention., (Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)
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- 2017
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