Measuring implicit associations between food and body stimuli in anorexia nervosa: a Go/No-Go Association Task.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The present study aimed to explore the implicit associations between food and bodily stimuli in patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) and control subjects (HC).

Methods

A Go/No-Go Association Task was administrated to 55 participants (28 AN and 27 HC), using food stimuli (low-calorie food vs. high-calorie food) and body stimuli (underweight vs. overweight bodies).

Results

We evidenced an implicit association between food and body stimuli in the AN group, whereas the HC group only showed a tendency. AN and HC groups also exhibited different categorization strategies: the AN group tended to categorize stimuli as low-calorie foods and underweight bodies less than the HC group, and they tended to categorize stimuli as high-calorie foods and overweight bodies more th

SUBMITTER: Lakritz C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10622378 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature