Dietary restraint and addictive behaviors: The generalizability of Tiffany's Cue Reactivity Model
✍ Scribed by Green, Michael W. ;Rogers, Peter J. ;Elliman, Nicola A.
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 186 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0276-3478
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✦ Synopsis
Two studies are presented, which examine cue reactivity in dieting. Methods: Experiment 1 investigated whether the presence of a preferred food affected dieters' performance on measures of attention, reaction time, and motor speed. The manipulation did not affect the performance. Experiment 2 investigated the performance of dieters (N = 19), highly restrained non-dieters (N = 18) and low-to-medium restrained eaters (N = 34) on two simple reaction time tasks. Subjects were either required to imagine their favorite food or to imagine their favorite holiday while completing a reaction time task. Results: In the food condition, both dieters and restrained nondieters displayed significantly slower reaction times during the first three of five blocks of the task than the low-to-medium restrained eaters. Conclusions:
The results are discussed in terms of Tiffany's (Psychological Review 97:147-168, 1990) model of cue reactivity in that different abstinent states produce comparable effects upon performance.