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Cognitive aspects of dietary restraint: Effects on person memory

Abstract

Memory for weight‐, food‐, and appearance‐related information was examined in female restrained and unrestrained college students and in female obese and eating‐disordered patients. Subjects read an essay about another person and were later asked to recall the essay as completely as possible. As predicted, restrained students remembered more weight‐ and food‐related items than appearance‐related items in comparison to the unrestrained students. …

Authors

King GA; Polivy J; Herman CP

Journal

International Journal of Eating Disorders, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 313–321

Publisher

Wiley

Publication Date

5 1991

DOI

10.1002/1098-108x(199105)10:3<313::aid-eat2260100307>3.0.co;2-0

ISSN

0276-3478