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The effect of fasting on attentional biases for food and body shape/weight words in high and low Eating Disorder Inventory scorers

Authors :
Placanica, Jennifer L.
Faunce, Gavin J.
Job, R.F. Soames
Source :
The International Journal of Eating Disorders. July, 2002, Vol. 32 Issue 1, p79, 12 p.
Publication Year :
2002

Abstract

Research indicates that fasting drives the attentional bias of study subjects toward high-calorie food words in alternative modified dot probe tasks containing food words. This finding was true for all study subjects whether they scored low or high on the Eating Disorder Inventory.

Details

ISSN :
02763478
Volume :
32
Issue :
1
Database :
Gale General OneFile
Journal :
The International Journal of Eating Disorders
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsgcl.90627676