Feast Your Eyes: Hunger and Trait Reward Drive Predict Attentional Bias for Food Cues

Emotion

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 949-954

  Tapper, Katy ^a   Pothos, Emmanuel M ^a   Lawrence, Andrew D ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Appraisal theory of emotion; Attention; Biased competition; Reward; Value

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; EMOTION; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUNGER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REWARD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMANS; HUNGER; MALE; REWARD; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650710092     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020305     Document Type: Article

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