Subliminal activation of abandonment- and eating-related schemata: relationship with eating disordered attitudes in a nonclinical population

• Published in: The International journal of eating disorders Vol. 27; no. 3; pp. 328 - 334
• Main Authors: Meyer, Caroline, Waller, Glenn
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.04.2000; Wiley; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Adult; appetitive cues; Attitude; Attitudes; Biological and medical sciences; Cognition. Intelligence; Color Perception; Cues; Eating disorders; Feeding and Eating Disorders - diagnosis; Feeding and Eating Disorders - etiology; Feeding Behavior - psychology; Female; Food; food/shape cues; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Mental imagery. Mental representation; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Random Allocation; Somatoform Disorders - psychology; Sublimation, Psychological; subliminal abandonment cues; Vocabulary; Human; Appetite; Feeding behavior; Healthy subject; Mental representation; Activation; Cognition; Experimental study; Theoretical model; Subliminal stimulus; Stroop effect; Young adult; Information processing; Female; Comparative study; Avoidance

Objective Previous research has demonstrated that subliminal abandonment cues can facilitate eating behavior. It is believed that such eating is a response to the activation of specific core schemata. However, the precise nature of those schemata has not been established. This study examined whether...