Features of automaticity in eating behavior

Moldovan, Adela R.; David, Daniel

doi:10.1016/j.eatbeh.2011.09.006

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“…The impact of some types of cues can be explained by normative influence. Eating behaviors are typically the result of automatic, low-involvement thinking [29]. People make quick judgements about the appropriateness of choices and portion sizes based on elements such as package design [2].…”

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That’s My Cue to Eat: A Systematic Review of the Persuasiveness of Front-of-Pack Cues on Food Packages for Children vs. Adults

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Packaging is increasingly recognized as an essential component of any marketing strategy. Visual and informational front-of-pack cues constitute salient elements of the environment that may influence what and how much someone eats. Considering their overwhelming presence on packaging of non-core foods, front-of-pack cues may contribute to the growing rates of overweight and obesity in children and adults. We conducted a systematic review to summarize the evidence concerning the impact of front-of-pack cues on choices and eating behaviors. Four electronic databases were searched for experimental studies (2009–present). This resulted in the inclusion of 57 studies (in 43 articles). We identified studies on children (3–12 years) and adults (≥ 18 years), but no studies on adolescents (12–18 years). The results suggest that children and adults are susceptible to packaging cues, with most evidence supporting the impact of visual cues. More specifically, children more often choose products with a licensed endorser and eat more from packages portraying the product with an exaggerated portion size. Adults’ eating behaviors are influenced by a range of other visual cues, mainly, package size and shape, and less so by informational cues such as labels.

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That’s My Cue to Eat: A Systematic Review of the Persuasiveness of Front-of-Pack Cues on Food Packages for Children vs. Adults

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“…These findings support the theory that habitual behaviour can be triggered independent of an individual's intentions (19) . Consequently, this automatic eating behaviour has been described as the most plausible factor explaining the lack of weight loss maintenance success (39) .…”

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“…Advice on how to change at the same time as engaging automatic behaviours (including efficiency, lack of awareness, unintentionality and uncontrollability (40) may offer a valuable alternative with potential for long-term impact (23) . A focused search in PubMed for its generality and Psy-chInfo for its focus on psychological interventions found three habit-based weight loss interventions: '10 Top Tips' (43,46) , 'Do Something Different' (39,46) and 'Transforming Your Life' (53,54) . A comparison of intervention methods is provided in Table 1.…”

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Could habits hold the key to weight loss maintenance? A narrative review

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Thomas

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J Human Nutrition Diet

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Despite the significance placed on lifestyle interventions for obesity management, most weight loss is followed by weight regain. Psychological concepts of habitual behaviour and automaticity have been suggested as plausible explanations for this overwhelming lack of long-term weight loss success. Interventions that focus on changing an individual's behaviour are not usually successful at changing an individual's habits because they do not incorporate the strategies required to break unhealthy habits and/or form new healthy habits. A narrative review was conducted and describes the theory behind habit formation in relation to weight regain. The review evaluated the effectiveness of using habits as tools to maintain weight loss. Three specific habit-based weight loss programmes are described: '10 Top Tips', 'Do Something Different' and 'Transforming Your Life'. Participants in these interventions achieved significant weight loss compared to a control group or other conventional interventions. Habit-based interventions show promising results in sustaining behaviour change. Weight loss maintenance may benefit from incorporating habit-focused strategies and should be investigated further.

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“…For disordered eating, disinhibited eating behaviors often involve losing control over consumption during a binge eating episode, whereas restrictive eating behaviors include deliberately and successfully restricting food intake even to the point of starvation. Importantly, addressing methodological problems can inf luence what kinds of interventions are used (e.g., Rothman, Sheeran, & Wood, 2009), as therapeutic approaches targeting automatic behaviors differ from those targeting controlled behaviors (Friese, Hofmann, & Wiers, 2011;Moldovan & David, 2012). For instance, attention-based interventions may reduce impulsive eating (e.g., Kemps, Tiggemann, Orr, & Grear, 2014) through retraining of automatic processes, whereas mindfulness interventions may reduce impulsive eating (e.g., Katterman, Kleinman, Hood, Nackers, & Corsica, 2014) by enhancing executive control.…”

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Enhancing the Conceptualization and Measurement of Implicit and Explicit Affective Evaluations: A Case Study in Disordered Eating

Woodward

Cameron

Treat

2016

Social & Personality Psych

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Affective evaluations (i.e., evaluations of affectively evocative stimuli) play important roles in many behaviors, including clinically relevant behaviors like disordered eating. Understanding automatic and controlled affective evaluations can enhance prediction and treatment of more deliberate versus more impulsive clinical behaviors, respectively. However, methodological and theoretical shortcomings cloud the implicit affective evaluation literature, particularly as applied in clinical psychology. This article aims to improve the clinical science of implicit and explicit affective evaluation by capitalizing on theoretical and methodological advancements drawn from implicit social cognition. We recommend three key enhancements to the affective evaluation literature: improve the structural comparability between indirect and direct measures, assess evaluations on both valence and arousal dimensions of affect, and carefully characterize and select stimuli. Additional improvements to analytic approaches (e.g., mixed effects modeling and process dissociation) are also recommended. Such efforts will advance our theoretical understanding of the relative contributions of automatic and controlled processes to clinically relevant affective evaluation, thereby informing assessment and improving intervention. Applying advanced methodologies of implicit cognition to clinical phenomena will also reiterate and reinforce the use of these advances in social psychology.Most of us have eaten mindlessly -when an engrossing movie grabs our attention, we may be surprised to find we have emptied the popcorn bucket accidentally. Most of us have also eaten mindfully -when savoring a glass of wine, we might consciously appreciate its nuances and f lavors. These are but two examples of how affective evaluations of food can determine eating behavior. Indeed, research finds that we are more likely to approach (Chen & Bargh, 1999) and consume (e.g., Drewnowski, Henderson, Levine, & Hann, 1999) foods that we evaluate positively. In the current review, we examine how methodological insights from implicit social cognition can inform the study of affective evaluations of food in clinical populations, and in turn, how applications in clinical psychology can inform theory and measurement in social psychology.The processes underlying affective evaluations (i.e., evaluations of affectively evocative stimuli) fall along a spectrum from purely automatic to purely controlled, and a number of dual process models have been proposed to explain the interactive inf luences of these processes (e.g., Jacoby,

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Features of automaticity in eating behavior

Cited by 19 publications

References 10 publications

That’s My Cue to Eat: A Systematic Review of the Persuasiveness of Front-of-Pack Cues on Food Packages for Children vs. Adults

That’s My Cue to Eat: A Systematic Review of the Persuasiveness of Front-of-Pack Cues on Food Packages for Children vs. Adults

Could habits hold the key to weight loss maintenance? A narrative review

Enhancing the Conceptualization and Measurement of Implicit and Explicit Affective Evaluations: A Case Study in Disordered Eating

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