Selective processing of food and body size words: Application of the stroop test with obese restrained eaters, anorexics, and normals

Abstract

The specificity of the retardation effect on the Stroop Naming task with eating disorder clients was examined by comparing anorexic patients and normal weight controls with obese restrained eaters. Although the expected differences between normal weight controls and anorexics were found for color naming of food and body size words, obese restrained eaters were not differentiated from the clinical sample. It is suggested, therefore, that the Stroop phenomena do not have a precise relationship to the extent of psychopathology and that factors such as the ability to “fake” the test and poor concentration leading to general slowing, may explain the results. © 1994 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Clinical utility of the modified Stroop task as a treatment outcome measure: Questions raised

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Clinical utility of the modified Stroop task as a treatment outcome measure: Questions raised

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Biased attentional processing of food cues and modification in obese individuals.

“…The obese participants showed an attentional bias for food. This finding is consistent with previous reports of biased attentional processing of food stimuli in obese individuals (Braet & Crombez, 2003; Castellanos et al, 2009; Graham et al, 2011; Nijs et al, 2010a,b; Long et al, 1994; Werthmann et al, 2011). In contrast, the normal weight controls did not show a food-relevant attentional bias.…”

Cognitive Interference From Food Cues in Weight Loss Maintainers, Normal Weight, and Obese Individuals

“…By contrast, studies of eating disordered and NW participants have generally found positive associations between restraint and latencies for recognizing food words (7,12,35). Similarly, in one of the few studies to compare OB and NW individuals, OB restrained dieters had longer latencies than NW controls in naming food words (13), but no differences in these groups were observed in the present study. The mixed findings may be due to differences in Stroop methodologies used (e.g., card.…”

Clinical utility of the modified Stroop task as a treatment outcome measure: Questions raised

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Biased attentional processing of food cues and modification in obese individuals.

“…The obese participants showed an attentional bias for food. This finding is consistent with previous reports of biased attentional processing of food stimuli in obese individuals (Braet & Crombez, 2003; Castellanos et al, 2009; Graham et al, 2011; Nijs et al, 2010a,b; Long et al, 1994; Werthmann et al, 2011). In contrast, the normal weight controls did not show a food-relevant attentional bias.…”

Cognitive Interference From Food Cues in Weight Loss Maintainers, Normal Weight, and Obese Individuals

“…By contrast, studies of eating disordered and NW participants have generally found positive associations between restraint and latencies for recognizing food words (7,12,35). Similarly, in one of the few studies to compare OB and NW individuals, OB restrained dieters had longer latencies than NW controls in naming food words (13), but no differences in these groups were observed in the present study. The mixed findings may be due to differences in Stroop methodologies used (e.g., card.…”

Clinical utility of the modified Stroop task as a treatment outcome measure: Questions raised

“……”

Biased attentional processing of food cues and modification in obese individuals.

“…The obese participants showed an attentional bias for food. This finding is consistent with previous reports of biased attentional processing of food stimuli in obese individuals (Braet & Crombez, 2003; Castellanos et al, 2009; Graham et al, 2011; Nijs et al, 2010a,b; Long et al, 1994; Werthmann et al, 2011). In contrast, the normal weight controls did not show a food-relevant attentional bias.…”

Cognitive Interference From Food Cues in Weight Loss Maintainers, Normal Weight, and Obese Individuals

“…By contrast, studies of eating disordered and NW participants have generally found positive associations between restraint and latencies for recognizing food words (7,12,35). Similarly, in one of the few studies to compare OB and NW individuals, OB restrained dieters had longer latencies than NW controls in naming food words (13), but no differences in these groups were observed in the present study. The mixed findings may be due to differences in Stroop methodologies used (e.g., card.…”