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Effects of high calorie preloads on selective processing of food and body shape stimuli among dieters and nondieters
Author(s) -
Mahamedi Fary,
Heatherton Todd F.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
international journal of eating disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.785
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1098-108X
pISSN - 0276-3478
DOI - 10.1002/1098-108x(199304)13:3<305::aid-eat2260130309>3.0.co;2-h
Subject(s) - stroop effect , dieting , psychology , cognition , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , obesity , neuroscience , medicine , weight loss
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. © 1993 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.