Do disinhibited eaters pay increased attention to food cues?

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Author
Seage, Heidi
Lee, M
Date
2016-09-28Acceptance date
2016-09-27
Type
Article
Publisher
Elsevier
ISSN
0195-6663
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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.
Journal/conference proceeding
Appetite;
Citation
Seage, C.H. and Lee, M. (2017) 'Do disinhibited eaters pay increased attention to food cues?', Appetite, 108, pp.151-155
Description
This article was published in Appetite on 28 September 2016 (online), available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2016.09.031
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Cardiff Metropolitan University (Grant ID: Cardiff Metropolian (Internal))
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