title: At first sight: how do restrained eaters evaluate high-fat palatable foods?
abstract: Two experiments tested the hypothesis that restrained eaters display a greater liking for high-fat palatable foods, than do unrestrained eaters. This hypothesis was tested in the affective priming paradigm and in the extrinsic affective Simon task . Both paradigms were successful in uncovering food likes and dislikes, and both showed that participants were able to evaluate the palatability of foods relatively automatically. However, contrary to the hypothesis, food likes were not substantially affected by fat content, nor were they affected by restraint-status. Restrained and unrestrained eaters may like high-fat palatable foods to the same extent, but may differ in their craving for these foods.
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology (UNS 40), Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands. a.roefs@psychology.unimaas.nl
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Roefs
authors.forename: C P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Herman
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Macleod
authors.forename: F T Y
authors.initials: FT
authors.lastname: Smulders
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jansen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001066:Appetite / Q000502:physiology; D015992:Body Mass Index; D003463:Cues; D004041:Dietary Fats / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D004435:Eating / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology*; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D013649:Taste / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D004041:Dietary Fats