Return of experimentally induced chocolate craving after extinction in a different context: Divergence between craving for and expecting to eat chocolate

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 375-391

  Van Gucht, Dinska ^a   Vansteenwegen, Debora ^a   Beckers, Tom ^a   Van den Bergh, Omer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Craving; Human appetitive conditioning; Renewal; Return of conditioned responses; US expectancy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPETITE; ARTICLE; CACAO; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CACAO; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 40149112274     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2008.01.003     Document Type: Article

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