title: An assessment of liking for sugars using the estimated daily intake scale.
abstract: Sugar is often used in learning and conditioning studies as an unconditioned stimulus (US) to enhance liking for a flavor mixed with it. To use sugar as a US, participants are selected only if they like the taste of sugar based on their ratings of a sweetened water US during a preexposure trial prior to experimental procedures. This US-only trail introduces a potential sensory bias and can lead to participant attrition when such a trial is conducted the day prior to experimental procedures. The aim of the present study was to construct a brief scale, called the Estimated Daily Intake Scale for Sugar (EDIS-S), to measure a participant's exposure to sugar in their diet. It was hypothesized that exposure to sugar would be positively correlated with liking for sugar. As expected, an 11-item EDIS-S was reliable and significantly correlated with ratings of liking for a sweetened taste solution. Implications for the use of the EDIS-S as an assessment in many areas of research, and as a participant selection tool for conditioning studies are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Saint Bonaventure University, 3261 West State Street, St. Bonaventure, NY 14778, USA. gprivite@sbu.edu
authors.forename: Gregory J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Privitera
authors.forename: Maxwell
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wallace
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004032:Diet / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D019422:Dietary Sucrose; D004435:Eating / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005518:Food Preferences / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013649:Taste / Q000502:physiology; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D019422:Dietary Sucrose