Use of a clay modeling task to reduce chocolate craving

Appetite

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 955-963

  Andrade, Jackie ^a   Pears, Sally ^a   May, Jon ^a   Kavanagh, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chocolate; Craving; Elaborated Intrusion theory; Imagery; Visuospatial interference; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC COMPOUND; PLASTICINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CACAO; CHOCOLATE CRAVING; CLAY; CLAY MODELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALUMINUM SILICATES; APPETITE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CACAO; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); IMAGINATION; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; THINKING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858962941     PISSN: 01956663     EISSN: 10958304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2012.02.044     Document Type: Article

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