Eating behaviour associated with differences in conflict adaptation for food pictures

Husted, Margaret; Banks, Adrian P.; Seiss, Ellen

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2016.07.003

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“…This measure has been extensively validated and demonstrated both reliability and consistency within general and clinical populations (Caccialanza et al, 2004;Wardle, 1987). Further, it has previously been used in research examining restraint and cognitive performance (Husted, Banks & Seiss, 2016;Shaw & Tiggemann, 2004).…”

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The relationship between dietary restraint and deficits in reasoning about causes of obesity

Husted

Seiss

Banks

2019

Psychology & Health

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Objective: Increased levels of dietary restraint are associated with deficits on many cognitive tasks. Less is known about how individual differences in restraint influences complex cognition such as reasoning which is the focus of this research. Design: Two experimental studies are reported. In study 1, participants (n = 158) completed a causal conditional reasoning task with statements about weight-related and general causal relationships. Study 2 replicated and extended Study 1. Participants (n = 108) completed a causal conditional reasoning task focusing on behavioural causes of weight change or general statements.Main outcome measure: Causal conditional reasoning task performance.Results: In study 1, levels of dietary restraint were negatively associated with reasoning abilities for weight-related statements only. Study 2 replicated the negative association between dietary restraint and reasoning finding the effect in both weight-related, and general, causal judgements. Conclusion:The novel findings show that individual differences in dietary restraint have a wider relationship with cognition than previously demonstrated. Results tentatively support theoretical explanations of a reduction in cognitive capacity, rather than differences in belief, explaining reasoning deficits. These findings open an interesting avenue for research and might have implications for effective decision making about personal health behaviours, such as food choice.

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The relationship between dietary restraint and deficits in reasoning about causes of obesity

Husted

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Banks

2019

Psychology & Health

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“…The flanker task procedures were programmed using E-Prime 2.0. The flanker task comes from prior food flanker studies (Forestell et al, 2012; Meule et al, 2012; Husted et al, 2016). In the food flanker task, the central targets were pictures of either high-calorie foods or low-calorie foods images, which were flanked by pictures either from the same category (congruent condition) or distractors from the other category (incongruent condition).…”

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“…This “flanker effect” phenomenon, that is, slower responses to incongruent trials, provides an index of the conflict monitoring. Due to the lower levels of cognitive control being successfully applied, the flanker effect will be larger, which indicates a greater conflict monitoring deficit (Husted et al, 2016).…”

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“…Conflict monitoring to food-related stimuli has been examined using flanker task in previous research (Forestell et al, 2012; Meule et al, 2012; Husted et al, 2016). For example, using a flanker task involved high caloric food-cues and neutral pictures, Meule et al (2012) found restrained eaters responded faster to high-calorie food targets as compared to neutral targets than unrestrained eaters, suggesting a low self-regulatory ability in restrained eaters (Meule et al, 2012).…”

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Impaired Conflict Monitoring to Food Cues in Women Who Binge Eat

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Zheng

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Front. Psychol.

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Previous research demonstrated the associations between cognitive biases toward food cues and binge eating (BE) behavior. To determine the characteristics of conflict monitoring to food cues in women who binge eat and non-eating disordered controls, a flanker task featured high-caloric food and low-caloric food images was used to examine conflict monitoring with measures of accuracy and reaction time. Women who binge eat displayed longer reaction times (RTs) to incongruent trials (i.e., flanked by pictures from the different category) than to congruent trials (i.e., flanked by pictures from the same category), while controls showed no such difference. This finding demonstrated women who binge eat displayed a general flanker effect toward food-related stimuli compared to controls. Faster reaction times in response to high-caloric food images disturbed by low-caloric food images predicted lower self-reported motor impulsiveness in the women who binge eat, but not in controls. These data suggest a relative conflict monitoring deficit in women with BE pathology.

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“…While some studies demonstrated an attentional bias to food among those who are high on EE, others showed attentional avoidance or did not show any difference in attention to food among individuals who are high versus low on EE [12]. For example, Husted et al [16] reported that higher levels of EE were related to slower responses to food pictures, indicating a food-target avoidance according to the authors. In contrast, another study showed increased attentional capture by food cues among women with high versus low levels of EE, as measured using eye-tracking [17].…”

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The effect of mood on food versus non-food interference among females who are high and low on emotional eating

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Background Emotional eating refers to overeating triggered by emotional experiences and may cause significant psychological distress and health problems. Thus, it is important to better understand its underlying mechanisms. The study examined if the ability to ignore task-irrelevant information, namely, interference control, is modulated by mood and exposure to food stimuli among females who are high and low on emotional eating. Method The study’s sample included 80 women who were high (N = 40) or low (N = 40) on an emotional eating scale. Participants were divided to a negative or neutral mood induction group. Following the mood induction, they completed a food-flanker task that allowed assessing attentional interference caused by food and non-food stimuli separately. Results The low emotional eating group had significantly greater food compared to non-food interference, suggesting difficulty at ignoring food stimuli while attending a neutral target. In the high emotional eating group, there was no difference between food and non-food interference. However, higher levels of emotional eating predicted lower levels of food interference. Conclusion The pattern of results suggests a food-avoidance attentional tendency among those with higher levels of emotional eating. The mood manipulation did not influence food-related interference in either group. The lack of an effect of mood on food-related interference questions the impact of negative emotions on basic attentional processes among individuals with emotional eating.

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Eating behaviour associated with differences in conflict adaptation for food pictures

Cited by 10 publications

References 59 publications

The relationship between dietary restraint and deficits in reasoning about causes of obesity

The relationship between dietary restraint and deficits in reasoning about causes of obesity

Impaired Conflict Monitoring to Food Cues in Women Who Binge Eat

The effect of mood on food versus non-food interference among females who are high and low on emotional eating

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