Understanding desire for food and drink: A grounded cognition approach

Papies, Esther K.; Barsalou, Lawrence W.; Rusz, Dorottya

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“…Feige (1976) suggests that motivation for physical activity is a 5-level hierarchy, with drives to be active forming the foundation and goals and values in the highest level. These interactions have already been briefly detailed by theories, such as ART and AHBF, but also by: (a) the Model of Goal Directed Behavior, in which desires interact with intentions to pursue a goal ( Dholakia, 2015 ), (b) the Grounded Theory of Desire and Motivated Behavior, in which environmental cues can spark memories, cognitions and mental re-enactments, which generate desires ( Papies et al, 2020 ), and (c) the Elaborated Intrusion Theory, in which suppression of desire-related thoughts can lead to stronger desires ( Andrade et al, 2015 ). Interactions between desires/urges and deliberative processes are also prominent in research on clashes between these constructs, as in work on: (a) want-“should” conflicts ( Bitterly et al, 2015 ), (b) goal-desire conflicts ( Hofmann et al, 2015 ), and (c) desires, reasoning and self-regulatory failure ( deRidder et al, 2015 ).…”

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Motivation States for Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior: Desire, Urge, Wanting, and Craving

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To better explain daily fluctuations in physical activity and sedentary behavior, investigations of motivation are turning from social cognitive frameworks to those centered on affect, emotion and automaticity, such as the Affect and Health Behavior Framework (AHBF), Integrated Framework and Affective-Reflective Theory (ART). This shift has necessitated: (a) re-examination of older theories and their constructs, such as drives, needs and tensions and (b) an inspection of competing theories from other fields that also attempt to explain dynamic changes in health behaviors. The Dynamical Model of Desire, Elaborated Intrusion Theory and others commonly share with AHBF the idea that human behavior is driven strongly by desires and/or the similar concepts of wants, urges, and cravings. These affectively-charged motivation states (ACMS) change quickly and may better explain physical activity behavior from one moment to the next. Desires for movement predominantly derive from negative but also positive reinforcement. Data from clinical populations with movement dysfunction or psychiatric disorders provides further evidence of these drivers of movement. Those with Restless Legs Syndrome, akathisia, tic disorders and exercise dependence all report strong urges to move and relief when it is accomplished. Motor control research has identified centers of the brain responsible for wants and urges for muscular movement. Models elaborated herein differentiate between wants, desires, urges and cravings. The WANT model (Wants and Aversions for Neuromuscular Tasks) conceptualizes desires for movement and rest as varying by magnitude, approach or avoidance-orientation (wants versus aversions) and as occupying independent dimensions instead of opposite ends of the same axis. For instance, one hypothetically might be in a state of both high desire for movement and rest simultaneously. Variations in motivation states to move and rest may also be associated with various stress states, like freezing or fight and flight. The first validated instrument to measure feelings of desire/want for movement and rest, the CRAVE

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“… 3 Similar potential applications where multimodal mental imagery would provide a more efficient way of interfering than traditional conscious and voluntary mental imagery include treating addiction (see Papies and Barsalou, 2015 ), eating disorders ( Cornil & Chandon, in press ) and pain treatment ( Berna et al., 2012 , Winterowd et al., 2003 , pp. 183–207, see also Nanay, 2017b for a summary).…”

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When I am looking at my coffee machine that makes funny noises, this is an instance of multisensory perception – I perceive this event by means of both vision and audition. But very often we only receive sensory stimulation from a multisensory event by means of one sense modality, for example, when I hear the noisy coffee machine in the next room, that is, without seeing it. The aim of this paper is to bring together empirical findings about multimodal perception and empirical findings about (visual, auditory, tactile) mental imagery and argue that on occasions like this, we have multimodal mental imagery: perceptual processing in one sense modality (here: vision) that is triggered by sensory stimulation in another sense modality (here: audition). Multimodal mental imagery is not a rare and obscure phenomenon. The vast majority of what we perceive are multisensory events: events that can be perceived in more than one sense modality – like the noisy coffee machine. And most of the time we are only acquainted with these multisensory events via a subset of the sense modalities involved – all the other aspects of these multisensory events are represented by means of multisensory mental imagery. This means that multisensory mental imagery is a crucial element of almost all instances of everyday perception.

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“…Feige (70) suggests that motivation for physical activity is a 5-level hierarchy, with drives to be active forming the foundation and goals and values in the highest level. These interactions have already been briefly detailed by theories, such as ART and AHBF, but also by: a) the Model of Goal Directed Behavior, in which desires interact with intentions to pursue a goal (136), b) the Grounded Theory of Desire and Motivated Behavior, in which environmental cues can spark memories, cognitions and mental reenactments, which generate desires (137), and c) the Elaborated Intrusion Theory, in which suppression of desire-related thoughts can lead to stronger desires (138). Interactions between desires/urges and deliberative processes are also prominent in research on clashes between these constructs, as in work on: a) want-"should" conflicts (139), b) goal-desire conflicts (134), and c) desires, reasoning and self-regulatory failure (140).…”

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“…Perhaps simply asking someone about their desires/wants to move can instigate motivation states for movement. In populations suffering from addiction or stress, mindfulness meditation has been used to help individuals sense desires and then "ride the wave", interpreting appetitive stimuli as "mere mental events" as a method to cope with dysfunctional urges (137,(163)(164)(165). In line with these advances, perhaps a method, such as mindfulness and/or vivid imagery, could be developed or modified to promote greater movement (18).…”

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“…In line with these advances, perhaps a method, such as mindfulness and/or vivid imagery, could be developed or modified to promote greater movement (18). This might involve generating desires/urges to move or simply paying attention and "listening" to them, thus bringing them fully into conscious awareness, gauging them, and consequently acting or consciously not acting on them (137,(166)(167)(168)(169)(170). This approach seems promising but is still theoretical, and its efficacy is unknown.…”

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Motivation States for Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior: Desire, Urge, Wanting and Craving

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To better explain daily fluctuations in physical activity and sedentary behavior, investigations of motivation are turning from cognitive-based theories, such as Self-Determination Theory, to those centered on affect and emotion, such as the Affect and Health Behavior Framework (AHBF) and Affective-Reflective Theory (ART). This shift necessitates: a) a re-examination of older frameworks to understand ill-defined concepts, such as the action impulse and tensions and b) an inspection of competing theories from other fields that also attempt to explain dynamic changes in other health behaviors. The Dynamical Model of Desire and Elaborated Intrusion Theory commonly share with AHBF the idea that human behavior is driven strongly by desires and/or the similar concepts of wants, urges and cravings. These affectively charged motivational states change quickly and may better explain physical activity behavior from one moment to the next. Data from clinical populations with movement dysfunction or psychiatric disorders provides further evidence of these drivers of movement. Those with Restless Legs Syndrome, Akathisia, tic disorders and exercise dependence all report strong urges to move and relief when it is accomplished. Motor control research has identified centers of the brain responsible for wants and urges, mainly it seems that the inferior parietal lobule is mainly responsible for “wanting to move” while the “mesial precentral area” is responsible for the “urge to move”. Models elaborated herein differentiate between wants, desires and urges. They also conceptualize desires for movement and rest as varying by intensity, approach-orientation and as occupying independent dimensions as opposed to opposite ends of the same axis. For instance, one hypothetically might be in a state of both high desire for move and rest simultaneously. Variations in move and rest may also be associated with various stress states, like freezing or fight and flight. The first validated instrument to measure feelings of desire/want for movement and rest, the CRAVE Scale (Cravings for Rest and Volitional Energy Expenditure) is in the current section of this special issue. With these advances in theory, conceptual modelling and instrumentation, future investigations may explore the effects of desires and urges for movement and sedentary behavior in earnest.

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Understanding desire for food and drink: A grounded cognition approach

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