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How emotions affect eating: a five-way modelMichael Macht
Department of Psychology, University of Wurzburg, Marcusstr 9 11, 97070 Wurzburg, Germany
Appetite 50:1-11. 2008..Thus, emotion-induced changes of eating can be a result of interference of eating by emotions, a by-product of emotions, and a consequence of regulatory processes (i.e., emotions may regulate eating, and eating may regulate emotions)...
Everyday mood and emotions after eating a chocolate bar or an appleMichael Macht
Department of Psychology, University of Wurzburg, Marcusstr 9 11, 97070 Wurzburg, Germany
Appetite 46:332-6. 2006..Whereas positive emotional responses appear to be due to sensory pleasure and it's anticipation and may also be related to reduced hunger, guilt responses are probably induced by negative food-related cognitions...
Immediate effects of chocolate on experimentally induced mood statesMichael Macht
Department of Psychology Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Wurzburg, Marcusstr 9 11, 97070 Wurzburg, Germany
Appetite 49:667-74. 2007..It is hypothesized that immediate mood effects of palatable food contribute to the habit of eating to cope with stress...
Interactive effects of emotional and restrained eating on responses to chocolate and affectMichael Macht
Department of Psychology, University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany
J Nerv Ment Dis 195:1024-6. 2007..However, restrained eaters rated plain chocolate (70% and 85% cocoa) as more pleasant than other groups. Persons scoring high on both dimensions showed heightened negative affect and may be prone to disturbances of eating and affect...
Behavioral analysis of the freezing phenomenon in Parkinson's disease: a case studyM Macht
Institute for Psychology, University of Wurzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 30:241-7. 1999..It is suggested that relaxation training and cognitive techniques should be used to reduce tension, negative thoughts and negative emotions contributing to freezing and to improve the ability to cope with freezing...
Predictors of freezing in Parkinson's disease: a survey of 6,620 patientsMichael Macht
Department of Psychology, University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany
Mov Disord 22:953-6. 2007....
Increased negative emotional responses in PROP supertastersMichael Macht
Department of Psychology, University of Wurzburg, Marcusstr 9 11, D 97070 Wurzburg, Germany
Physiol Behav 90:466-72. 2007..PROP sensitivity appears to be related to arousability of emotions, in particular those emotions that are associated with an increased readiness to respond actively to stimuli from the environment, e.g. anger, disgust and fear...
Stress affects hedonic responses but not reaching-grasping in Parkinson's diseaseMichael Macht
University of Wurzburg, Department of Psychology Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Marcusstrasse 9 11, 97070 Wurzburg, Germany
Behav Brain Res 177:171-4. 2007..However, patients showed a stress-induced reduction of hedonic responses. Stress may amplify those impairments in PD that are not accessible to cognitive control...
Patient education in Parkinson's disease: Formative evaluation of a standardized programme in seven European countriesMichael Macht
Department of Psychology, University of Wurzburg, Marcusstrasse 9 11, 97070 Wurzburg, Germany
Patient Educ Couns 65:245-52. 2007..To evaluate a newly developed education programme for Parkinson's disease (PD) patients...
Patterns of psychological problems in Parkinson's diseaseM Macht
Department of Psychology, University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany
Acta Neurol Scand 111:95-101. 2005..To identify patterns of psychological problems in Parkinson's disease (PD)...
The perceived function of eating is changed during examination stress: a field studyMichael Macht
Department of Psychology, University of Wurzburg, Marcusstrasse 9 11, D 97070, Wurzburg, Germany
Eat Behav 6:109-12. 2005..Results indicate that emotion regulation through eating is experienced in a student population during stress under real life conditions with distraction as a possible mediating mechanism...
Emotions in overweight and normal-weight women immediately after eating foods differing in energyMichael Macht
Institute for Psychology I, University of Wurzburg, Marcusstrasse 9 11, D 97070 Wurzburg, Germany
Physiol Behav 80:367-74. 2003..quot; It is suggested that immediate food-induced changes of emotions can be explained by activation of associative emotion networks...
Chocolate eating in healthy men during experimentally induced sadness and joyM Macht
Institute for Psychology I, University of Wurzburg, Germany
Appetite 39:147-58. 2002....
Emotion processing in Parkinson's disease: dissociation between early neuronal processing and explicit ratingsMatthias J Wieser
Department of Psychology, Biological Pyschology, Clinical Psychology, and Psychotherapy, University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany
Clin Neurophysiol 117:94-102. 2006..Patients suffering from Parkinson's disease (PD) have a diminished ability to discriminate facial expressions of emotion. We investigated early emotion discrimination deficits in PD by means of event-related potentials (ERPs)...
The Attitudes to Chocolate Questionnaire: psychometric properties and relationship to dimensions of eatingJochen Müller
Department of Psychology, University of Wurzburg, Marcusstr 9 11, 97070 Wurzburg, Germany
Appetite 50:499-505. 2008..In conclusion, results support the validity of the German version of the ACQ and showed a stable factor structure and a good internal consistency...
Emotions and eating in everyday lifeM Macht
Institute for Psychology I, University of Wurzburg, Germany
Appetite 35:65-71. 2000..Physiological correlates of negative emotional states may be involved in emotionally instrumental eating...
Facial and affective reactions to tastes and their modulation by sadness and joyEllen Greimel
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital Aachen, Neuenhofer Weg 21, 52074 Aachen, Germany
Physiol Behav 89:261-9. 2006..No emotion-congruent modulation was found for the pleasantness and intensity ratings of the bitter or the bitter-sweet stimulus. This 'robustness' of bitter taste ratings may reflect a biologically meaningful mechanism...
