title: Selective attention to food and body shape words in dieters and restrained nondieters.
abstract: The current study investigated the presence of an attentional bias towards the processing of body shape and food-related material amongst noneating disordered women. Subjects carried out a computer-based Stroop color-naming task in which they had to name the colors of food-related words, body shape-related words, and two sets of matched neutral words. Significant color-naming disruptions of both food and body shape-related material were found for highly restrained eaters, irrespective of whether they were currently dieting. There were no reliable differences in color-naming times found for low to medium restrained eaters. Procedural differences probably account for the failure of previous studies to reveal such effects in nonclinical groups.
authors.affiliation: AFRC Institute of Food Research, Reading, U.K.
authors.forename: M W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Green
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Rogers
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D001828:Body Image; D003118:Color Perception; D004038:Diet, Reducing / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005502:Food; D006801:Humans; D010153:Paired-Associate Learning; D011930:Reaction Time; D012660:Semantics