Cognitive-motivational determinants of fat food consumption in overweight and obese youngsters: The implicit association between fat food and arousal

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 354-368

  Craeynest, Mietje ^a,b   Crombez, Geert ^a,b   Koster, Ernst H W ^a   Haerens, Leen ^a   De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse ^a,b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Research Institute for Psychology and Health   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Arousal; Cognition; Food; IAT; Implicit; Obesity; Overweight; Youngsters

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; OBESITY; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROL GROUPS; CUES; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIETARY FATS; EATING; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MOTIVATION; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 44449176635     PISSN: 00057916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2007.09.002     Document Type: Article

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