Success and Failure of Dieting
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- Success and failure of dieting
- Restraint theory
- Herman and Mack 1975
- (Herman and Polivy 1984) Boundary Model
- (Ogden 2007) - Cannot explain anorexics as they can continue to starve.
- Dietary restraint leading to overeating (Wardle and Beales 1988)
- Support: Wardle and Beales (1988)- obese women assigend to groups, diet, excercise and non-treatment. Women in diet condition ate more than excercise and non-treatment.
- Denial
- Wegner et al (1987) - White Bear task
- Denial leads to over-thinking and making the thought more prominent.
- Theory of ironic processes of mental control: As soon as a food is denied, it simultaneously becomes more attractive.
- Support: Sotens et al 2006; those that were restrained on eating used more thought suppresion and thought more about food afterwards, whereas the unrestrained did not.
- Detail
- Redden (2008) - the attention we put into the detail of food. Think of details of food instead of "not another salad", such as the tomatoes and the lettuce etc.
- Thejelly beans experiment: Bean number 7 - bored participants, cherry flavor number 7, more enjoyment.
- IDA
- Culture bias: Asian adults more prone to obesity than Europeans. Asian children have a greater central fat mass when compared to Europeans.
- Free will or determinism? We may be hard-wired genetically to become obese.
- A03
- Limitations of anecdotal evidence: Not 100% accurate due to retrospective recall.
- Restraint theory
- Redden (2008) - the attention we put into the detail of food. Think of details of food instead of "not another salad", such as the tomatoes and the lettuce etc.
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