Do disinhibited eaters pay increased attention to food cues?
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.
Department of Psychology, Swansea University, Department of Applied Psychology, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, CF5 2YB, United Kingdom. Electronic address: hseage@cardiffmet.ac.uk.
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Department of Psychology, Swansea University, Swansea SA2 8PP, United Kingdom.
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D000328:Adult; D001069:Appetite Regulation; D001288:Attention; D015992:Body Mass Index; D003463:Cues; D004032:Diet / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000523:psychology; D002149:Energy Intake; D005518:Food Preferences / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D006815:Hunger; D006963:Hyperphagia / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D009949:Orientation; D050177:Overweight / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012306:Risk; D057566:Self Report; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult
Attentional bias; Disinhibition; Food; Orientation; Visual dot probe