Automatic and Controlled Processing: Implications for Eating Behavior.

ABSTRACT: It is a widely held view that humans have control over their food choices and consumption. However, research also suggests that eating behavior is often triggered by contextual cues and guided by automaticities and habits. Interestingly, the dichotomy between automatic and controlled processing has recently been challenged, suggesting that they may be intertwined. In a large female sample (n = 567), we investigated the hypothesis that task-based and self-reported measures of automatic and controlled processing would interact and impact self-reported eating behavior. Results analyzed via structural equation modeling suggest that automatic, but not controlled processing, during a modified flanker task, including a context-specific proportion congruent (CSPC) manipulation, was inversely assoc

SUBMITTER: Furtjes S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7230536 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature