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Attentional bias in restrictive eating disorders. Stronger attentional avoidance of high-fat food compared to healthy controls?Esther M Veenstra
Department of Eating Disorders, University of Groningen, Centre of Eating Disorders, Accare, The Netherlands
Appetite 58:133-40. 2012..The pattern of findings indicate that attentional avoidance of high-fat food is a common phenomenon that may become counterproductive in restricting AN-like patients, as it could facilitate their restricted food intake...
Attentional avoidance of high-fat food in unsuccessful dietersEsther M Veenstra
Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, Grote Kruisstraat 2 1, 9712 TS Groningen, The Netherlands
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 41:282-8. 2010..Although in the short term this seems an adaptive strategy, it may eventually become counterproductive, as it could hinder habituation and learning to cope with seductive characteristics of high-fat food...
Restrained eaters show enhanced automatic approach tendencies towards foodEsther M Veenstra
University of Groningen, Department of Clinical and Developmental Psychology, The Netherlands
Appetite 55:30-6. 2010....
Reduced automatic motivational orientation towards food in restricting anorexia nervosaEsther M Veenstra
Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Groningen, Centre for Eating Disorders, Accare
J Abnorm Psychol 120:708-18. 2011..The loss of an automatic motivational orientation toward food together with the deliberate strategy to avoid food might help explain the ability of restricting AN-like patients to regulate their food intake...
