No evidence for a food-related attention bias after thought suppression.
- Author
- Barbara Soetens, Caroline Braet (UGent) and Guy Bosmans (UGent)
- Organization
- Abstract
- The aim of this study was to investigate whether food-related thought suppression results in an attention bias for food cues. Fifty-nine female students took part in the experiment. All completed a modified exogenous cueing task containing pictures of foods and toys with a similar valence (presentation duration: 250 ms and 1050 ms). Half of the participants were instructed to suppress thoughts about food and the other half was given control instructions, prior to completing the exogenous cueing task. No evidence was found for an enhanced cue validity effect for food cues after food-related thought suppression. Hence, the preliminary results do not provide support for the hypothesis that thought suppression is sufficient to yield an attention bias. Since the study was the first to employ an exogenous cueing task to study the attentional processing of food cues, replication is warranted.
- Keywords
- MENTAL CONTROL, COGNITIVE AVOIDANCE, IMPAIRED DISENGAGEMENT, VISUAL-ATTENTION, EATING-DISORDERS, DIETARY RESTRAINT, TRAIT ANXIETY, BODY WORDS, BEHAVIOR, INFORMATION
Citation
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-537359
- MLA
- Soetens, Barbara, et al. “No Evidence for a Food-Related Attention Bias after Thought Suppression.” PSYCHOLOGICA BELGICA, vol. 48, no. 1, 2008, pp. 37–61.
- APA
- Soetens, B., Braet, C., & Bosmans, G. (2008). No evidence for a food-related attention bias after thought suppression. PSYCHOLOGICA BELGICA, 48(1), 37–61.
- Chicago author-date
- Soetens, Barbara, Caroline Braet, and Guy Bosmans. 2008. “No Evidence for a Food-Related Attention Bias after Thought Suppression.” PSYCHOLOGICA BELGICA 48 (1): 37–61.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Soetens, Barbara, Caroline Braet, and Guy Bosmans. 2008. “No Evidence for a Food-Related Attention Bias after Thought Suppression.” PSYCHOLOGICA BELGICA 48 (1): 37–61.
- Vancouver
- 1.Soetens B, Braet C, Bosmans G. No evidence for a food-related attention bias after thought suppression. PSYCHOLOGICA BELGICA. 2008;48(1):37–61.
- IEEE
- [1]B. Soetens, C. Braet, and G. Bosmans, “No evidence for a food-related attention bias after thought suppression.,” PSYCHOLOGICA BELGICA, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 37–61, 2008.
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abstract = {{The aim of this study was to investigate whether food-related thought suppression results in an attention bias for food cues. Fifty-nine female students took part in the experiment. All completed a modified exogenous cueing task containing pictures of foods and toys with a similar valence (presentation duration: 250 ms and 1050 ms). Half of the participants were instructed to suppress thoughts about food and the other half was given control instructions, prior to completing the exogenous cueing task. No evidence was found for an enhanced cue validity effect for food cues after food-related thought suppression. Hence, the preliminary results do not provide support for the hypothesis that thought suppression is sufficient to yield an attention bias. Since the study was the first to employ an exogenous cueing task to study the attentional processing of food cues, replication is warranted.}},
author = {{Soetens, Barbara and Braet, Caroline and Bosmans, Guy}},
issn = {{0033-2879}},
journal = {{PSYCHOLOGICA BELGICA}},
keywords = {{MENTAL CONTROL,COGNITIVE AVOIDANCE,IMPAIRED DISENGAGEMENT,VISUAL-ATTENTION,EATING-DISORDERS,DIETARY RESTRAINT,TRAIT ANXIETY,BODY WORDS,BEHAVIOR,INFORMATION}},
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title = {{No evidence for a food-related attention bias after thought suppression.}},
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