Attentional bias modification encourages healthy eating

Eating Behaviors

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 120-124

  Kakoschke, Naomi ^a   Kemps, Eva ^a   Tiggemann, Marika ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attentional bias modification; Consumption; Food cues; Modified visual probe task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT; VISUAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTENTIONAL BIAS MODIFICATION; CONSUMPTION; FOOD CUES; MODIFIED VISUAL PROBE TASK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; EATING; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD HABITS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890330829     PISSN: 14710153     EISSN: 18737358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2013.11.001     Document Type: Article

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