Spacing of cue-approach training leads to better maintenance of behavioral change.

ABSTRACT: The maintenance of behavioral change over the long term is essential to achieve public health goals such as combatting obesity and drug use. Previous work by our group has demonstrated a reliable shift in preferences for appetitive foods following a novel non-reinforced training paradigm. In the current studies, we tested whether distributing training trials over two consecutive days would affect preferences immediately after training as well as over time at a one-month follow-up. In four studies, three different designs and an additional pre-registered replication of one sample, we found that spacing of cue-approach training induced a shift in food choice preferences over one month. The spacing and massing schedule employed governed the long-term changes in choice behavior. Applying spaci

SUBMITTER: Bakkour A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6066248 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature