Measuring Implicit Approach-Avoidance Tendencies towards Food Using a Mobile Phone outside the Lab.

ABSTRACT: Implicit ('unconscious') approach-avoidance tendencies towards stimuli can be measured using the Approach Avoidance Task (AAT). We recently expanded a toolbox for analyzing the raw data of a novel, mobile version of the AAT (mAAT), that asks participants to move their phone towards their face (pull) or away (push) in response to images presented on the phone. We here tested the mAAT reaction time and the mAAT distance in a study with 71 Dutch participants that were recruited online and performed an experiment without coming to the laboratory. The participants used both the mAAT and (explicit) rating scales to respond to photographic images of food. As hypothesized, the rated wanting, rated valence and mAAT reaction time indicated a preference for palatable over unpalatable food, and for Du

SUBMITTER: Brouwer AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8305314 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature