Trial reportAppetite2011
Impact of simulated ostracism on overweight and normal-weight youths' motivation to eat and food intake.
Trial report in Appetite, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
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22 citing papers in PubMed.
- Ostracism, cortisol reactivity, and motivation for high-calorie food in children and adolescents with obesity.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2025Trial
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- The Impact of Negative Social Feedback on Wanting and Liking of Food Pictures in Anorexia Nervosa.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2026Article
- Does Loneliness Hurt? Effect of Loneliness on Inflammator Biomarkers, Appetite Hormone Regulation, and Cognitive Function Among Typically Developing Adolescents.Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent · 2025Article
- Recruits' perception of factors influencing dietary intake during basic military training: A qualitative study.Journal of military, veteran and family health · 2025Article
- Contributions of subjective status to eating behaviors, obesity, and metabolic health across development.Appetite · 2025Review
- The effects of acute social ostracism on subsequent snacking behavior and future body mass index in children.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2024Article
- Psychosocial Determinants of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and the Mediating Role of Various Attitudes towards Science.Vaccines · 2023Article
- A public health framework for reducing stigma: the example of weight stigma.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2022Article
- The Cyberball task in people after obesity surgery: preliminary evaluation of cognitive effects of social inclusion and exclusion with a laboratory task.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Article
- Do Disadvantageous Social Contexts Influence Food Choice? Evidence From Three Laboratory Experiments.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Mere social knowledge impacts children's consumption and categorization of foods.Developmental science · 2018Article
- Shame, Blame, and Status Incongruity: Health and Stigma in Rural Brazil and the Urban United Arab Emirates.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2017Article
- Friends and social contexts as unshared environments: a discordant sibling analysis of obesity- and health-related behaviors in young adolescents.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2017Article
- Weight stigma and eating behaviors on a college campus: Are students immune to stigma's effects?Preventive medicine reports · 2016Article
- Perceived social isolation, evolutionary fitness and health outcomes: a lifespan approach.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2015Review
- Kin rejection: social signals, neural response and perceived distress during social exclusion.Developmental science · 2014Article
- Peers and Obesity during Childhood and Adolescence: A Review of the Empirical Research on Peers, Eating, and Physical Activity.Journal of obesity & weight loss therapy · 2014Article
- Primum non nocere: obesity stigma and public health.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2013Article
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Abstract
There is growing evidence that the experience of being ostracized can impair individuals' abilities to self-regulate, which in turn, leads to negative health behaviors, such as increased unhealthy eating. Research has focused on adults, but deficits in eating regulation in response to ostracism may be particularly detrimental for overweight or obese youth. This study examines the effects of a brief episode of ostracism on the motivation to eat and food intake of overweight and normal-weight young adolescents (M age=13.6 years). A computerized ball-tossing game (Cyberball) was used to induce ostracism or inclusion. Following the inclusion/ostracism manipulation, all participants completed an operant computer task to earn points exchangeable for portions of food or for time socializing with an unfamiliar peer. Participants' responses for food and their subsequent energy intake were recorded. As hypothesized, ostracized overweight participants responded more for food and had a greater energy intake than overweight participants in the inclusion/control condition; whereas this was not the case for normal-weight participants. These results are important as studies indicate that overweight and obese youth may be at risk of social isolation and peer difficulties. Social adversity, if left unchanged, may increase the difficulty of promoting long-term changes in overweight youths' health behaviors.
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