No Evidence for a Food-Related Attention Bias after Thought Suppression

Soetens, Barbara; Braet, Caroline; Bosmans, Guy

doi:10.5334/pb-48-1-37

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“…These results are not in line with some previous research, in which all participants generally displayed an AB for food, thus all participants paid more attention to food than to neutral stimuli (e.g., Werthmann, Jansen, & Roefs, 2016;Werthmann et al, 2013). However, also some other studies did not detect an AB for food in participants in general (Liu, Roefs, & Nederkoorn, 2021;Pimpini, Kochs, van Zoest, Jansen, & Roefs, 2022;Soetens, Braet, & Bosmans, 2008). This suggests that AB for food might not be always present.…”

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Section: Ab For Foodcontrasting

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“…The nascent research investigating the relationship between thought suppression and eating behaviors have reported mixed findings. Some studies [3,4,5,6,7] found that the outcomes of thought suppression, such as hyperaccessibility and rebound, do result from attempting to suppress food-related thoughts, whereas one study did not [8,9,10]. The latter study, however, [8] did not examine if the outcomes of thought suppression differed between participants who were currently dieting versus not or healthy weight versus overweight/obese, both of which appear to affect the outcomes of thought suppression [11–13].…”

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Examining the relationship between food thought suppression and binge eating disorder

Barnes¹,

Masheb²,

White³

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Comprehensive Psychiatry

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Food thought suppression, or purposely attempting to avoid thoughts of food, is related to a number of unwanted eating- and weight-related consequences, particularly in dieting and obese individuals. Little is known about the possible significance of food thought suppression in clinical samples, particularly obese patients who binge eat. This study examined food thought suppression in 150 obese patients seeking treatment for binge eating disorder (BED). Food thought suppression was not associated with binge eating frequency or body mass index but was significantly associated with higher current levels of eating disorder psychopathology and variables pertaining to obesity, dieting, and binge eating.

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“…Other studies have similarly reported lack of evidence for AB for food. For example, in a Posner cueing task, no AB for food was found ( Soetens, Braet, & Bosmans, 2008 ). Also, when investigating AB for food in overweight vs. lean individuals with a modified additional singleton task, no AB for food was observed on eye-tracking measures ( Pimpini, Kochs, van Zoest, Jansen, & Roefs, 2022 ).…”

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Effects of Mindset and Dietary Restraint on Attention Bias for Food and Food Intake

Kochs¹,

Pimpini²,

Zoest

et al. 2022

Journal of Cognition

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Evidence for attention bias (AB) for food in restrained eaters is inconsistent. A person's mindset related to food -that is, whether someone focuses on the hedonic or health aspects of food -might be an overlooked influence on AB for food, possibly explaining the inconsistency in the literature. Fluctuations between a hedonic versus a health mindset might be strongest in restrained eaters, who have a conflicted relationship with food. We investigated the effect of mindset and dietary restraint on AB for food and food intake. We hypothesized that AB for food, as reflected in eye-movement measures and manual response latencies, as well as food intake, would be larger in the hedonic than in the health mindset, most strongly in participants scoring high on dietary restraint. Moreover, we expected a positive correlation between AB for food and food intake, especially in the hedonic mindset. We used short video clips to induce either a health or hedonic mindset. Subsequently, participants (n = 122) performed a modified additional singleton task with pictures of high-caloric food vs neutral pictures as irrelevant distractors. Next, food intake was measured in a bogus taste test. We found no evidence for an AB towards food, nor any moderation by either mindset or dietary restraint. Food intake tended to be higher for participants scoring higher on dietary restraint, but effects were not moderated by mindset. Response-latency based AB for food tended to correlate positively with food intake in the hedonic mindset. Taken together, our hypotheses regarding AB for food were largely not confirmed. We provide suggestions on how to improve upon the specific implementations of our AB task and mindset manipulation, to strengthen future research in this field.

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No Evidence for a Food-Related Attention Bias after Thought Suppression

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References 71 publications

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Examining the relationship between food thought suppression and binge eating disorder

Effects of Mindset and Dietary Restraint on Attention Bias for Food and Food Intake

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